Ontario reported 1,575 cases Thursday, the third day in a row the province has broken its own record for number of cases and the seventh straight day it has counted more than 1,000 cases.
The province now has a total of 89,784 cases.
Ontario also reported 18 more deaths, the largest increase since the beginning of October. Its death toll now stands at 3,293.
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There are currently 11,271 active cases in the province, with 431 people in hospital — 98 of them in intensive care and 62 on a ventilator. Hospitalizations have steadily increased over the last few weeks.
Quebec reported slightly fewer cases than Ontario Thursday with 1,365 new cases, to bring its total to 119,894.
The province also reported 42 more deaths, nine of which occurred in the last 24 hours. There have now been 6,557 deaths in the province.
B.C. now has more hospitalizations related to the coronavirus than it has before, with 155 people currently in hospital, 44 of which are in intensive care.
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The province also recorded four new deaths to bring its total to 288.
In Alberta, 860 new cases were reported Thursday, along with 10 new deaths to bring its total to 393.
The province currently has 8,305 active cases and 225 people in hospital, with 51 of them in intensive care.
Saskatchewan added 111 new cases to bring its total to 4,437 and set a new record of hospitalizations for the fourth day in a row with 49 currently in hospital, 13 of which are in intensive care.
Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the rest of the territories reported no new cases or deaths.
There have been 52,629,906 confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University, and 1,291,837 deaths.
REGINA – Elections Saskatchewan has finished counting all the returns from the Oct. 28 general election, with the results showing higher voter turnout than last time.
The elections management body says more than 56 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots, which is higher than the 52 per cent who voted in 2020.
Elections Saskatchewan counted the majority of the ballots last week.
On Saturday, as required by legislation 12 days after the last day of voting, the remaining mail-in ballots and those cast at hospitals and remand centres were counted.
All 61 returning offices also verified on Saturday that their results were entered correctly on election night.
The results show the Saskatchewan Party won 34 of the 61 ridings to form a majority government, while the NDP won 27 ridings to form the Official Opposition, and no third parties won a seat.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 9, 2024.
HAMILTON – Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating what it calls a “police-involved shooting” that left a man in his 30s with life-threatening injuries and a police officer with less serious wounds.
The Special Investigations Unit says Hamilton Police Service officers responded Saturday afternoon to a call from a resident of an apartment building in the Ainslie Wood West neighbourhood about a man “acting in a threatening manner” who was allegedly armed with a firearm.
In a news release, the watchdog says officers made their way to the fifth floor of the building and got involved in an altercation with the man.
The release Saturday says police exchanged gunfire with the man, which left him and an officer wounded.
In a social media post Saturday evening, the Hamilton Police Service says the man and the officer were taken to hospital, and the man’s injuries were potentially fatal.
The police watchdog says six investigators and two forensic investigators are assigned to the case.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 10, 2024.
