Potential COVID-19 exposure reported on Air Canada flight from Montreal to Halifax

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.

As protesters dig in their heels at border crossings and the nation’s capital, many truck drivers continue hauling shipments across the province. Shallima Maharaj heard from some of them at a stop north of Toronto.

Many members of Edmonton city council don’t agree with the removal of the provincial Restriction Exemption Program. Friday they decided on how the city will be moving forward measures. Sarah Komadina has the details

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.

Wendy Williams is firing back at Wells Fargo over claims she's the victim of «financial exploitation,» saying «she is fine» and «she is of sound mind.»In a statement to ET, Williams' lawyer, LaShawn Thomas, said on Friday that «Wendy wants the world to know that she strenuously denies all allegations about her mental health and well-being.» Thomas also offered details as to why Williams is in a legal battle with Wells Fargo.«Wendy had to unfortunately bring this action because Wells Fargo has refused to honor her Power of Attorney, granting her son authority to make inquiries to the bank on Wendy's behalf,» the statement read.

COVID-19 vaccination clinics in districts where rates are well below the Quebec average.Officials are hoping to increase the inoculation levels against COVID-19 in areas like Saint-Léonard and Montréal-Nord, where the vaccination levels are below 75 per cent (according to the latest data) while on average, 82 per cent of the Quebec population is considered adequately vaccinated.The shuttle buses run free of charge and take people to clinics in Saint-Léonard, Montréal-Nord, Ville-Émard and LaSalle. Health-care officials are hoping people with limited mobility and those who may have other appointments will get their first, second or booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Tairāwhiti has reached two vaccination milestones today; their eligible population reached 90% fully vaccinated –the 18th DHB to do so – and it’s eligible Māori population reached 90% first doses.

Premier Doug Ford denounced the protests both in the nation’s capital and on the border in Windsor Friday. While putting measures in place in a bid to move them along, the premier also attracted unwanted attention after a snowmobile trip and a secret recording.

PHILADELPHIA - At The Saul High School traditional learning is only the beginning, students also have the opportunity to participate in real-life farming."This is a dairy science class at Saul High School, it’s an Animal Science Class. We’ve been doing this for 50 or 60 years where we produce our milk, and then it’s been shipped to Land O'Lakes," said Jane Arbasak, Farm Manager with Saul High School.Enejha Dozier is a Senior at Saul High School and said this unique program helped fuel her passion."Yes, it definitely did, for the better.

Police found a 36-year-old man shot inside a Jeep and drove him to the hospital in critical condition. PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police officers responding to reports of a shooting found a man badly wounded inside a car and rushed the victim to an area hospital. According to investigators, the shooting happened on the 1800 block of East Allegheny Avenue in Kensington around 6:30 p.m.

Legislative bureau chief Keith Baldrey has the daily COVID-19 update on Friday, February 11, and how B.C. officials could be setting the stage to remove restrictions on Tuesday.

Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ont.Chief Justice Geoffrey Morawetz says the injunction will take effect at 7 p.m.He has asked a lawyer representing the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, which applied for the injunction, to send him a draft of an order.

COVID-19 receiving care in hospital on Friday, with 127 of them in intensive care units.That’s compared to 1,586 in hospital on Thursday, with 126 people in the province’s ICUs. Reality check on Alberta politicians’ statements on schools, COVID-19 transmission and vaccines On Tuesday, Premier Jason Kenney announced his plan to relax COVID-19 measures.

PHILADELPHIA - The Transportation Security Administration at Philadelphia International Airport said it’s "highly concerned" about the number of firearms it took from passengers last year.Federal Security Director Gerardo Spero reports that the agency scanned around eight million passengers in 2021 and confiscated 39 weapons. That figure far outpaces the number of firearms the agency confiscated in the previous two years.Spero said he does not know what motivates people to carry guns to the airport, but he knows "guns and airports don’t mix."The TSA demonstrated for reporters Friday how a pistol can be safely transported by air.

Ontario’s premier has called a state of emergency following days of blockades at the country’s largest border crossing. This move is applauded by federal officials who are asking protesters to go home as police forces expect demonstrations across the country to ramp up over the weekend.

COVID-19 exposure notifications for four locations on Dec. 23.The locations are located throughout the Halifax Regional Municipality and include multiple big box stores in Dartmouth and Bedford.

Nova Scotia reported three new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, some of which are connected to two Dartmouth schools. All new cases are in the central zone and are close contacts of previously reported cases. The province says one of the new COVID-19 cases was linked to Prince Andrew High School and another to Eric Graves Memorial Junior High in Dartmouth.“The schools are currently closed for the holiday break and will be cleaned again before staff return on Jan. 4,” the province said in a release.

Doctors Nova Scotia surprised program paying doctors to isolate after COVID-19 exposure cancelled Flanagan said Monday the workers were left out of a program funded by the federal government that would boost their monthly take-home pay by up to $500.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]She says their jobs start at $14.70 an hour, which she says is not easy to live on in New Brunswick.A spokesperson for the Department of Social Development said in an email the program ended earlier this month and employees of third-party contractors were not eligible.Flanagan says the workers should be paid retroactively and that they took the same risks working on the front lines in a pandemic as employees with

novel coronavirus on Tuesday.In Nova Scotia, there are 30 active reported infections. One new case is located in the central zone and linked to a close contact of a previously reported infection, and the other is in the northern zone, linked to travel outside Atlantic Canada.One person is currently in hospital with the disease.

Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Robert Strang reported two new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, and said there had been a total of 33 new cases since their last update on Dec.

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Since Oct. 1, Nova Scotia has completed 109,752 tests.

COVID-19 cases from Dec. 25 to 28 after the province took a pause in providing updates on the coronavirus pandemic during the holidays.According to the province, on Dec.

Coronavirus: New Brunswick reports 2 new COVID-19 cases, 6 recoveries Public health is now asking travellers on Air Canada flight 7480 from Montreal to St. John’s that arrived on Tuesday to schedule a COVID-19 test.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The second case is travel-related as well and involves a man in his 50s from the Western Health region who also returned from work in Alberta and is self-isolating.

COVID-19 at 10 locations in the central zone.Health officials are directing anyone who worked at or visited the locations on the specific date and time to immediately visit the province’s COVID-19 self-assessment page or call 811 to book a COVID-19 test.This should be done regardless of whether an individual has coronavirus symptoms. Nova Scotia reports 7 new coronavirus cases, including 1 long-term care employee in Dartmouth [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“If you have symptoms of COVID-19 you are required to self-isolate while you wait for your test result.

COVID-19 on Friday and said 36 active cases remain in the province.According to the province, six of the cases are in the central zone and one is in the western zone. Two of the cases in the central zone and the one in the western zone involve close contacts of previously reported cases.

coronavirus on Wednesday and said 35 cases remain active in the province.Two of the new cases reported are in the central zone, one is a close contact of a previous case and the other is under investigation.The other two cases are one in the western zone and one in the eastern zone, both close contacts of previously reported cases.Two cases reported Wednesday are close contacts of cases reported in other provinces and are not currently in Nova Scotia, “but since they are Nova Scotia residents, they are included in our cumulative provincial data.” Coronavirus testing continues through holiday season in N.S and N.B. The eastern zone case is not linked to the case in Eskasoni First Nation, the province said.

coronavirus will resume throughout the holiday season.In New Brunswick, assessment centres will remain open during the holidays, including Christmas Day, when hours may be reduced, according to N.B. Health.

coronavirus on Tuesday and said 40 cases remain active in the province.Three of the new cases are in the central zone and are travel-related. The other four cases are close contacts of previously reported cases, located in the northern zone.“COVID-19 is still here and wants us to let our guard down.

More doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Halifax this week. Phase one of the vaccine plan will continue to prioritize acute care and frontline healthcare workers in the Halifax region and long term care workers.

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coronavirus on Monday, for the third day in a row, bringing the total number of active cases to 38.One of the new cases is located in the central zone, and the other in the western zone. Both cases are close contacts of previously reported cases.Since Oct.

COVID-19 over the holiday period have entered into effect across Nova Scotia.Starting today and until Jan. 10, in-person dining at restaurants in the Halifax area will remain closed, while restaurants and licensed establishments in the rest of the province will have to stop service by 10 p.m.

Richard Martell has achieved a small measure of celebrity due to his recent and persistent presence as the sign language interpreter for Nova Scotia’s COVID-19 briefings. Elizabeth McSheffrey reports.

Chief William Saulis off Nova Scotia’s southwest coast.As of Sunday at 4 p.m. local time, crewman Michael Drake is the only one of the six people on board whose body has been recovered by search teams.

COVID-19 on Sunday.One of the cases is located in the northern zone and is related to travel outside of Atlantic Canada. That individual is self-isolating.The second case of the virus is located in the central zone and the source remains under investigation.

coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the number of total active cases in the province to 46.One of the new cases is in the western zone while the other is in the eastern zone. The province says both cases are related to travel outside of Atlantic Canada and are self-isolating.The case in the eastern zone was an individual from Eskasoni First Nation.“Public health continues to work closely with Chief (Leroy) Denny to manage the case.

coronavirus in its community on Friday afternoon.Chief Leroy Denny took to Facebook to say the case is related to “travel outside of the eastern zone” and that the individual is self-isolating. Nova Scotia reports 7 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, extends asymptomatic testing In a live video, Denny said the Eskasoni health centre is working with Public Health and that contact tracing has been completed.“If community members are concerned that they may have been exposed, we would encourage you to self-isolate and monitor for symptoms,” he said.

coronavirus on Friday, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to 48.All the new cases are in the central zone, five of which are close contacts of previously reported cases and two are travel-related.“As we head into the last weekend before Christmas, let’s remember that we must stay vigilant to contain the virus,” Premier Stephen McNeil said in a news release.“Following public health guidelines has allowed us to slow the spread, and we need to keep up that good work because we know the virus wants us to let our guard down.” Nova Scotia pandemic budget projects $778.8-million deficit for 2020-21 fiscal year Since the start of the second wave, Oct.

COVID-19 update Wednesday in her Barrington Street cocktail lounge and dessert bar The Middle Spoon with two employees, anticipating they could re-open its dining room again.The restrictions, however, were extended.“We came into work early so we could all watch it together and then we all just kind of sunk in disbelief,” said Doherty.COVID-19 restrictions in the Halifax Regional Municipality and Hants County have been extended further into the new year, meaning no in-person dining until at least Jan. 11 for bars and restaurants.

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The province imposed what it called a “circuit-breaker” lockdown on Dec. 7 to smother an outbreak of COVID-19, the source of which authorities couldn’t identify.Morrison said the province reported six COVID-19 infections during the lockdown period, all of which she said were travel related.

Karen Casey is forecasting a $778.8-million deficit for the 2020-21 fiscal year.

COVID-19 on Thursday and said 50 active cases of the virus remain in the province.According to the province, three of the new coronavirus cases are in the central zone. One case is a close contact of a previously reported case.

Restrictions are being extended until early next week in the Halifax area. As Jesse Thomas reports, Nova Scotia has revised its gathering limits in time for the holidays.

The first COVID-19 vaccines were given to health care workers in Nova Scotia on Wednesday. Over the next several days nearly 2,000 people will get the shot. Alicia Draus has more.

With 55 active COVID-19 cases in Nova Scotia as of Dec. 16, Premier Stephen McNeil said Wednesday marked a “major step in fighting the virus head-on,” as the first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine were administered earlier in the day to health-care workers on the front lines of the pandemic.

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The first vaccinations were given to around 350 frontline health workers in Halifax at a clinic near where the initial shipment of the vaccine is stored on the campus of Dalhousie University.A registered nurse with the COVID-19 unit at the QEII, Danielle Sheaves, was the first person in the province to receive the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, the province said.Since Oct. 1, Nova Scotia said it has completed 91,747 tests.