COVID-19 cases drop in Alberta as variant concern rises

Squire Barnes speaks with Toronto-born musician Paul Shaffer while in Vancouver to perform with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

It’s a case of buyer beware: read the fine print. An Edmonton man is sharing his experience trying to sell his SUV, hoping it will help others.

so-called “freedom convoy” that has snarled downtown Ottawa streets is widening its grip on the city, sprawling out in new, smaller encampments scattered around town.And while the police say they’ve negotiated movement of some trucks around the city, there are protesters in various encampments who continue to dig in their heels.“If trucks leave here, they’re going out on a convoy. They’re going to join the rest of the trucks,” said John Bancroft, a coordinator for the encampment site set up on Coventry Road — a short drive from downtown Ottawa.“No one’s leaving here until the mandates are lifted.” Trudeau calls on all parties to denounce ‘illegal’ trucker occupations, blockades But in the days since, that setup has shifted — and Global News has created a map of what the convoy protest’s encampments look like now.The original location of the convoy, Wellington Street, remains lined with trucks and regular vehicles.

Caught on video: A Burnaby business owner and his employee are pepper-sprayed by a man, the latest incident in what they say is an ongoing problem with crime in their neighbourhood. Rumina Daya reports.

Police could soon move in and end the Canada-U.S. border blockade in Windsor Ontario, after a court injunction was granted to remove protesters from the vital Ambassador Bridge crossing.

Covid-19 treatments have been prequalified by WHO, including the three presentations. A prequalification provides assurances to countries that they are purchasing quality health products.

One of Girvan’s most eagerly-anticipated events is set to make a comeback in 2022.

Beijing Winter Games on Saturday.The event made its Olympic debut in Beijing, with pairs of one man and one woman racing back-to-back for a spot on the medal podium.Grondin and O’Dine had already claimed the silver and bronze, respectively, in individual competition earlier in the week.As he was in his earlier event, Grondin was the fastest out of the gate in every round of mixed competition, creating big leads in the earlier rounds. Yet he was finally outpaced in the final and finished third behind American Nick Baumgartner and Italy’s Omar Visintin.That meant O’Dine lost the advantage she had in the quarterfinals and semifinals, as the women started staggered depending on the speed of their teammates.O’Dine battled for second position but fell halfway through her run after colliding with Italy’s Caterina Carpano, yet the Canadian still managed to cross in third position.Baumgartner’s teammate Lindsey Jacobellis brought home her second gold for the U.S.

Olympic officials on Saturday said they would welcome an anti-doping investigation into the Russian doctors, coaches and family members in the entourage of gold medal winning teenage skater Kamila Valieva.Valieva’s future at the Beijing Olympics hangs in the balance after the stunning revelation she had tested positive for a banned substance before winning the team event on Monday, but that the positive drug test report took more than six weeks to be made public.Fans of figure skating, athletes and anti-doping advocates have expressed outrage over a teenager being dragged into the center of an Olympic doping controversy with a positive test for an angina drug. Many have questioned the role of the adults around the 15-year-old skater.On Saturday, International Olympics Committee spokesman Mark Adams said: “Entourage has been overlooked in the past.” Beijing Olympics: Russian skater’s failed drug test confirmed, setting up fight with IOC The delay in Valieva receiving her positive drug test result also loomed large on Saturday as Olympic and anti-doping officials sought to reinstate her ban.Valieva was suspended by the Russian anti-doping body after the positive test report, but the suspension was lifted a day later after she appealed, allowing her to continue to compete.

Justin Trudeau says “everything” is on the table when it comes to ending the blockades paralyzing cross-border trade at multiple locations, and which remain encamped outside Parliament Hill.And he urged anyone still participating in the convoys, which are demanding an end to COVID-19 public health measures, to go home or face “severe” consequences.“Unfortunately, we are concerned about violence, so we’re taking every precaution,” he said.“It’s time to go home – especially if you have kids with you.”Make no mistake: The border cannot, and will not, remain closed. Every option is on the table.

pandemic will end this year, of course with one condition, the 70% vaccination (target is achieved) by mid this year around June, July".

NEWTOWN, Pa. - Council Rock North High School girls basketball team wanted its Senior Night to be special for everyone, including their team manager whose dream was to play in an actual game. The school got together with Academy Park High School on Friday to play a special Senior Night game to help turn Megan Bissol's dream into a reality."She’s definitely our biggest fan we always hear her the loudest on the bench. She comes to all the games home or away and everyone just adores her," Senior teammate Kristen Polinsky said. Bissol scored the first basket of her high school career on the very first shot she put up.

coronavirus cases are being recorded at less than one lakh for the last six consecutive days. The death toll has climbed to 5,07,981 with 804 daily fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The case fatality rate has been recorded at 1.19%. The active cases comprise 1.43% of the total infections, while the national recovery rate has further improved to 97.37%, the health ministry said.

Wendy Williams has filed a temporary restraining order against Wells Fargo in order to access her cash. According to Williams' filings to the court, the bank's move reportedly came after Williams' former financial adviser alleged that Williams "was of unsound mind." On Friday, financial advisers at the bank told Fox News Digital that the company's only goal was to ensure the "Wendy Williams Show" host is able to make payments to entities she "regularly" has made them to, despite what her camp is stating on the record about her being "fine" in response to reportedly being labeled as an "incapacitated person."  "Wells Fargo’s priority is the financial well-being of Ms.

Police say a 31-year-old food delivery driver was making a delivery when he was shot multiple times. PHILADELPHIA - Police say a food delivery driver was caught in a hail of gunfire Friday night in Queen Village.According to investigators, the 31-year-old driver was making a delivery on the 900 block of North 5th Street just after 9 p.m.

Karnataka government had made the RT-PCR test compulsory for people entering its state to contain the virus transmission.

NE Phila Connected is offering free courses to teach responsible gun ownership and safety.  PHILADELPHIA - You don't have to scroll for long on a neighborhood Facebook page to find a post about a carjacking in Philadelphia.A non-profit in Northeast Philadelphia is tired of neighbors becoming victims or hurting themselves and others by trying to defend themselves.Roman Zhukov started NE Phila Connected because he saw his neighbors' frustration over the violence in the city and wanted to help."I have a child and it’s selfish to say, but I want him to grow up in a better environment," Zhukov said. "I want him to be okay walking himself to school, I want him to be okay to feel safe on the playground, I want him to go to school where there are no fights or guns involved."There’s been a rise in carjackings in his area and that prompted him to team up with Roman Kourinnoi, a certified concealed carry instructor, to offer free courses to educate people about gun ownership and how to handle them safely.MORE LOCAL HEADLINESThe first class is about having a plan and how to avoid situations."I won 100% of the fights I wasn’t involved in," Kourinnoi said.

Legislative bureau chief Keith Baldrey looks at some of the other COVID-19 indicators and what they reveal about the direction B.C. is hopefully heading.

The first blurry image captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA’s new space telescope has captured its first starlight and even taken a selfie of its giant, gold mirror.All 18 segments of the primary mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope seem to be working properly 1 1/2 months into the mission, officials said Friday.The telescope's first target was a bright star 258 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major."That was just a real wow moment," said Marshall Perrin of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.Over the next few months, the hexagonal mirror segments — each the size of a coffee table — will be aligned and focused as one, allowing science observations to begin by the end of June.NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched successfully early Christmas morning from French Guiana on South America’s northeastern coast, riding a European Ariane rocket into the sky.

FILE - A baby koala is seen at Wild Life Sydney Zoo on Oct. 14, 2021 in Sydney, Australia.

Paddy McGuinness has shared a positive health update as he continues to recover following knee surgery. The 48-year-old Top Gear presenter picked up the injury whilst playing in Soccer Aid 2021 in September, alongside stars such as Usain Bolt, Olly Murs, Chunkz and Jamie Redknapp.He was eventually forced to retire from the charity football competition, joking at the time that the knock was “not something that can be sorted with the magic sponge”.Just last week the father-of-three underwent a procedure on the dodgy knee, having waited a whopping six months before the surgery could take place, reports the Express.

There was a lot of information to digest this week when it comes to COVID-19 and plans to ease restrictions. The decisions are being backed with a lot of scientific claims.

COVID-19 wave, if necessary.Under questioning from opposition health critics during a hearing at the legislature, Dubé suggested the passport could be dropped in the coming weeks.“When I said the vaccine passport was there to stay, will public health recommend that we, I hope in a few weeks, suspend it because it is going better?” Dubé said about the COVID-19 situation in the province. “Could we restore it if we were ever caught with another wave? That’s what you have to think about.”Quebec was the first province to introduce a vaccine passport on Sept.

COVID-19 dashboard available only to Saskatchewan Health Authority leaders no longer includes the number of people who died from the disease.Global News obtained images of the dashboard on several occasions. The latest, from Feb.

The Canadian Armed Forces is now investigating Maj. Stephen Chledowski, after the actively serving army officer released a new video denouncing COVID-19 measures.

Andrei Doroshin PHILADELPHIA - A graduate student in psychology whose COVID-19 vaccine operation got shut down by Philadelphia last year has settled with the state attorney general's office and agreed to destroy all personal health information his start-up gathered.The agreement was filed Friday in Commonwealth Court and requires a judge's approval to take effect.Central to the accusations against Andrei Doroshin, who had almost no public health experience when the city gave him the task, was that he had intended to profit from the vaccine operation run by his start-up, called Philly Fighting COVID.Mayor Jim Kenney says Philly Fighting COVID was a mistake after the Inspector General found no malice, no ill-intent, and no one seeking personal gain.Doroshin denied the allegations by the attorney general's office, including violating the state's nonprofit corporation law.Under the agreement, Doroshin and his associates are barred from managing charitable assets or soliciting charitable donations in Pennsylvania for 10 years.Doroshin also must destroy the personal health information gathered through the vaccine pre-registration service and is barred from receiving any financial benefit from the information or the vaccine.Doroshin must also dissolve Philly Fighting COVID.City officials said they gave him the job because he and his friends had organized one of the community groups that set up COVID-19 testing sites throughout the city in 2020.But they shut the vaccine operation down once they learned that Doroshin had switched his privacy notice to potentially sell patient data.

Inspiration4 mission commander Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive officer of Shift4 Payments, stands for a portrait in front of the recovered first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket at Space Exploration Technologies Corp. The charitable sector should hope that billionaire Jared Isaacman keeps seeking new adventures.Isaacman, who turned a payments-processing firm he started as a teenager into a multibillion-dollar company, periodically indulges his passion for aviation with head-turning flights.

LOS ANGELES - It’s time to meet the domino-toppling trios competing in the first-ever season of "Domino Masters." Hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor Eric Stonestreet ("Modern Family"), the series will feature teams of domino enthusiasts facing off in an unbelievable chain reaction tournament. DOMINO MASTERS: The all-new competition series DOMINO MASTERS premieres Wednesday, March 9 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. © 2022 FOX Media LLC. CR: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.

Disproportionate number of COVID-19 cases in NE Calgary has doctors calling for more resources The group has come up with a simple solution to help combine masks and turbans. They are handing out 3D-printed clips that connect mask strings behind the neck instead of behind the ears.They’ve been a hit among many seniors at the northeast Calgary gurdwara, who are now trading in their scarves and bandanas for three-layered masks.“Unless they have the three-layer mask, you won’t get full protection… and once they get the special clip, it’s helping them a lot and they’re loving it,” said Amanpreet Singh Gill, president of the Dashmesh Culture Centre.

that has previously broken COVID-19 rules opened its doors Sunday and held a full service in support of the Edmonton pastor who remains in custody after refusing to follow the restrictions.Pastor Tim Stephens of Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary told Global News that he is prepared to face the legal consequences.“James (Coates) is a good friend of mine and it’s sad what’s happened to him,” Stephens said. “I’m prepared if that’s the same consequence for myself.

COVID-19 cases and seven more deaths from the disease in the province on Saturday.Alberta now has 4,803 active cases, 124,114 recoveries and 1,818 deaths.As of Saturday, the Calgary zone has 1,704 active cases, the Edmonton zone has 1,192, the North zone has 818, the Central zone has 758 and the South zone has 324. There are seven cases in unknown zones.There are 336 people in hospital with 51 of them in the ICU, Alberta Health said.The 380 new cases came from 8,380 tests, which means a provincial positivity rate of 4.6 per cent, according to Alberta Health spokesperson Tom McMillan.The province said 165,527 vaccine doses were administered as of Feb.

Edmonton’s mayor has spoken out against a protest Saturday relating to COVID-19 restrictions that will see a “freedom convoy” travel from Lethbridge, through Calgary, and finish at the Alberta legislature.Mayor Don Iveson released a statement Saturday morning ahead of the convoy, saying “COVID-19 is not a joke nor a hoax.”“We are in the middle of a global public health crisis,” Iveson said. “Wearing a mask and following other public health measures keeps people safe and saves lives.”Iveson added that he is “encouraged” that the majority of Edmontonians follow the rules, and that he “won’t give a second thought to the falsehoods spread by this group and its allies.”The protest was organized by the “Walk for Freedom Alberta” group.

Nenshi offers advice to those running for mayor: ‘Be driven by your mission’ “If I was to take a look at our current approach, obviously, that would mean that voters would be wearing masks in the voting stations, they would be required to distance, to use hand sanitizer,” Andrew Brouwer, deputy city clerk with Elections Calgary, said Wednesday.“We would also be looking at ensuring that the voting stations themselves are regularly sanitized.”Elections Calgary is planning to limit the number of people at a voting station, increase the number of voting stations and increase the amount of space a voting station takes up.

COVID-19 tests performed in Alberta has been on a downward trend, and concern is being raised that it could result in fewer cases being found.On Feb. 3, more than 13,000 tests were performed but that soon fell to roughly 6,200 by Feb.7.

Alberta RCMP furthering investigation because GraceLife Church is still breaking COVID-19 rules But Dr.

Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) last year.An analysis of federal data by The Canadian Press shows that the city had on average 166,593 recipients during each four-week pay period for the pandemic aid.

COVID-19 cases and five more deaths from the disease on Sunday.The province now has 5,215 active cases, 121,829 recoveries and 1,780 deaths.As of Sunday, the Calgary zone has 2,022 active cases, the Edmonton zone has 1,453, the North zone has 735, the Central zone has 678 and the South zone has 321. There are six active cases in an unknown zone.There are currently 351 people in hospital, with 60 of them in intensive care.The 284 new cases resulted from 7,972 tests, meaning a provincial positivity rate of 3.7 per cent, according to Dr.

COVID-19 rules yet again.

COVID-19 deaths Saturday as active cases and hospitalizations continued on a downward trend.The province added 305 new cases of the disease but also recorded 425 new recoveries. Active cases now sit at 5,271, down by a net of 136 since Friday.The positive cases came from 8,070 tests, Dr.

COVID-19: Kids back at practice as in-person dining and gyms open in Alberta on Monday Plexiglass shields were installed for an extra layer of virus protection.“We had to get rid of four tables so that’s pretty much the biggest difference but we’re making do,” said manager Francis Catolos.He said Monki has a normal capacity of 36 but it is down to 18 now.“Luckily, I have been around for the entire time. But for myself personally, the fact that I don’t have to talk to myself anymore is pretty cool,” laughed Catolos.

variant case of COVID-19 was detected in Alberta in mid-December.Developmental biologist Dr. Malgorzata Gasperowicz says based on the preliminary data she’s seen so far, her independent analysis shows the U.K.

Kentucky man faces $750K fine for breaking quarantine rules in Alberta Rockies John Pennington was given a $1,200 ticket on June 25 after staff at a Banff hotel called the RCMP saying they believed a U.S. citizen was violating the Alberta Public Health Act during the COVID-19 pandemic.At the time, Americans had been able to use a loophole allowing them to travel through Canada on the way to and from Alaska.

COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total number of positive cases to 128,235 since the pandemic began.There were 371 people in hospital, with 66 of those people in the ICU.Alberta Health reported an additional 16 deaths on Friday. Close contacts for positive COVID-19 cases falling in Alberta Of those, 11 were reported from the Edmonton zone with nine of those linked to outbreaks.A woman in her 80s linked to the Hardisty Care Centre outbreak, two women in their 80s who were linked to the outbreak at St.

Deena Hinshaw is scheduled to provide another COVID-19 update for Albertans on Thursday afternoon.The chief medical officer of health is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. Her news conference will be streamed live in this post.On Wednesday, Hinshaw announced the first suspected in-school transmission of a COVID-19 variant.

Ottawa, Alberta to distribute 1-time $1,200 payment to COVID-19 front-line workers He challenged those who oppose any restrictions to come up with an alternative plan.“What is their risk tolerance in terms of lives lost? In terms of the overwhelming of the health-care system? In terms of surgeries cancelled?”Kenney said those who are against any restrictions rarely provide him with another suggestion.The issue of opposing views on public health measures came up because two members of his caucus are challenging some of the province’s COVID-19 restrictions and have joined a national coalition pushing against lockdowns.Drew Barnes, the United Conservative legislature member for Cypress-Medicine Hat, and Angela Pitt, the deputy speaker of the

COVID-19 in long-term care facilities.The majority of deaths in the province since the start of the pandemic have been long-term care residents.Dr. Xiaoli Pang, a virologist at Alberta Precision Labs and professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Alberta, said the research will look at wastewater samples from 10 long-term care facilities in Edmonton.Those infected with COVID-19 shed the virus in their fecal matter.

COVID-19 situation in Alberta Wednesday afternoon.Dr. Deena Hinshaw will speak at her usual time of 3:30 p.m.

COVID-19 in a group predominantly made up of healthcare professionals in Alberta was published Tuesday, shining a spotlight on the role socializing may have played in the spread of the virus.The outbreak at the Annual Western Canadian Medical Bonspiel in Edmonton in 2020 took place in the early days of the pandemic and was one of the first large-scale outbreaks in the province.