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Frustration is growing in China’s largest city of Shanghai, where residents are living under a sweeping COVID-19 lockdown. Cases are rising here in Canada as well, but as Heather Yourex-West shows us, the sixth wave here isn’t likely to see broad public health restrictions re-imposed.

Climbing COVID numbers are impacting our health system in BC. Health officials have been warning that confirmed cases would climb once health restrictions were relaxed.

The federal government will consider whether to include booster shots in the next version of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for its workers, the Treasury Board said as it reviews the rules.

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As the violence in Ukraine continues, more families are seeking safety in Edmonton. Sarah Reid spoke to a family that arrived in Alberta’s capital over the weekend.

A B.C. woman was hit with a $400 U.S. smoking fee from a car rental company even though she is a non-smoker. Consumer Matters reporter Anne Drewa has more.

As Canada heads towards a sixth wave of COVID-19 with rising cases and hospitalizations across the country, health experts are stressing the need to continue masking and boosting the population.

A B.C. woman who is a non-smoker is warning others after she was hit with a $400 USD smoking fee from Sixt Rent a Car.

Premier John Horgan announced in a tweet Monday morning that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is isolating and working from home until his symptoms resolve. Reporter Richard Zussman has more.

Global’s Keith Baldrey has more on Premier John Horgan announcing he’s tested positive for COVID-19, and a preview of what the province is expected to announce about COVID restrictions on Tuesday.

Concerns are rising among some health workers, as Canada reports another uptick in COVID-19 hospitalizations.

long-term care facility who recently worked 10 12-hour shifts in 13 days.That span only involves picking a few additional shifts, but it weighs on her after working through the pandemic for so long, especially in a rural area.“Quite often we were so short that we didn’t have a second nurse, so I had no (licensed practical nurse),” she said,“So I was the only (nurse) for 30 people.”She said the lack of staffing is especially bad because she works in a rural area — Cut Knife, Sask., a town of about 600 people roughly 50 km east of North Battleford.The entire medical staff at the facility consists of about seven people.That means one or two people from that team needing to isolate with COVID-19 puts everyone back in the overtime situation.Speaking to Global News a few days after the stretch of shifts, Sawatzky said she is feeling better.But she said she noticed an effect it had on her. COVID-19: 1,196 new cases in Saskatchewan, 20 deaths “I do know that my stamina and my energy levels are not much up to par.

It’s been a long time coming but today marks the first day of rehearsals for a theatrical production so big it’s taken over two major downtown Toronto theatres.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw maintains public health restrictions were necessary to protect the health-care system during the COVID-19 pandemic.She took the stand at a civil trial on Monday.Several churches and individuals in Alberta filed a constitutional challenge against the province in December 2020, accusing the government of violating Albertans’ rights by imposing public health orders and restrictions at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Montreal-based study estimates Quebec saw up to 32,000 new daily COVID-19 cases last week Other provinces have resisted calls to prolong or reimpose public health restrictions, even as cases have risen in some parts of the country.Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday that his province, which has seen a one-week, 30 per cent rise in hospitalizations, can manage what he described as a “little spike” in COVID-19. Ford said a combination of increased hospital capacity and the advent of antiviral drugs have left the province better prepared.“We expected a little spike,” Ford said.

Catherine McDonald was in the courtroom as CZ was taken into custody.

Canada is taking aim at “close associates” of the Russian and Belarusian governments with new sanctions amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations through the spring of 2022 due to increased transmission of BA.2 variant and relaxed public health measures.During a board of health meeting on Monday, the latest Scarsin forecasting is suggesting COVID-19 will continue to circulate in the city well into June and that residents will be more susceptible to infection with immunity waning.Current epidemiological data suggests the city is now on course with a so-called “resurgence scenario” — the worst of two forecasts presented to city councillors in March — that could produce 400 new COVID hospitalizations between now and the end of June. Ontario COVID update: 857 people in hospital, 168 in intensive care “New hospital admissions are likely to continue into the summer and may reach almost six per day,” Hamilton public heath epidemiologist Ruth Sanderson told councillors.The updated numbers suggest the impact of Omicron subvariant BA.2 represents around 45 per cent of all cases now sprouting up in Hamilton as of the end of March.It’s expected that overall COVID case numbers in the next few months will be half of the peak seen during the Omicron wave in mid-January with the latest wave expected to hit a high in early May of about 650 cases per week.Peak hospitalizations are also expected to be half of the 14 admitted per week in mid-January.Those aged between 60 and 79 are the demographic most likely to be impacted by potential hospitalization during the next wave.It’s estimated 16 COVID-related deaths are possible between now and the end of June.Hamilton’s medical officer of health Dr.

COVID-19 cases spreading at their schools after a change in protocol, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) says.In a tweet Monday, the board said notification letters will now be shared with the entire school community and “include all impacted classes in the school.”The TDSB said the move would provide a “more comprehensive picture” of the pandemic in schools and will continue until the end of this school year.Moving forward, COVID-19 notification letters will now be shared with the entire school community and include all impacted classes in the school. This updated process will provide a more comprehensive picture and continue until the end of this school year.— Toronto District School Board (@tdsb) April 4, 2022Students at TDSB schools have faced a turbulent few pandemic months.In March, a request from the board to delay the end of mask mandates in classrooms was rejected by Queen’s Park.

Ontario works to deal with sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Dr. Eileen de Villa made the comments during an announcement in Toronto on Monday, regarding third doses of COVID-19 vaccines.The province-wide mask mandate was lifted earlier this month in most public spaces except in “high-risk” areas including medical facilities, long-term care homes and other congregate living situations and on public transit.The mandate for the remaining public spaces is set to be lifted later this month.

Waterloo Region District School Board says they have now opened high school gymnasiums to the public for rental as part of their plan to safely reopen from the COVID-19 pandemic.The board says it is taking a phased approach and although the gymnasiums at the schools opened over weekends, they will not allow for spectators. Waterloo schools will again open when weather forces bus cancellations Gyms in elementary schools will open on weekends as Phase 2 of the board’s four-phased approach, but again, the stands will remain empty.Phase 3 of the plan will see gyms at all schools be available for community use on weekdays beginning on May 2.

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It was music’s biggest and hottest night. Style expert Susie Wall has a recap of all the standout red carpet styles.

Three people have been left dead after a shooting at a beachside restaurant in the resort town of Acapulco, in Mexico’s Guerrero state.

Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, who made headlines for a controversial extradition law in 2019 that sparked massive months-long protests, said Monday she would not seek a second term in office.

Doug Ford says the province is in the midst of “a little spike” of COVID-19 but that it is manageable.The COVID-19 hospitalizations reported today in Ontario are up roughly 30 per cent compared to a week ago.The province is reporting 857 people in hospital with the virus today, compared with 655 last Monday. Ontario COVID update: 857 people in hospital, 168 in intensive care There is also a small increase in the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care — to 168 from 158 a week ago.When asked about the situation today at an unrelated announcement, Ford said the “little spike” was expected and that he will continue to follow the advice of the chief medical officer of health.He says the province has added more acute care beds and now has antiviral pills available, so it is well prepared.“We’ve also built up hospital capacity — 3,100 acute care beds, we’re better prepared,” he said.

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Ukraine, including evidence of bound bodies shot at close range and a mass grave found in areas retaken from Russian troops, as fighting raged on in the country’s south and east.Taras Shapravskyi, deputy mayor of Bucha, a town around 40 kilometres northwest of Kyiv city, said 50 of some 300 bodies found after Kremlin forces withdrew late last week were the victims of extra-judicial killings carried out by Russian troops. Ukraine demands new sanctions on Russia over ‘massacre’ in Bucha Ukrainian authorities said they were investigating possible war crimes there, a description also used by French President Emmanuel Macron.

COVID-19 on Monday. There are 168 people in intensive care with or due to the virus.That marks an increase of 94 hospitalizations and two people in intensive care since Sunday’s report.However, not all hospitals report updated figures on weekends, meaning the reported numbers may be an underestimation.Last Monday, there were 655 people reported to be in hospital with COVID-19, with 158 in intensive care.

Multiple people were shot early Sunday morning in Sacramento, Calif. The Sacramento Police Department said six people are dead and at least twelve others were injured in the shooting.

World leaders say it’s evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity: civilians were seemingly found bound and executed. Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister calls it a deliberate massacre, saying that Russia is trying to “eliminate as many Ukrainians as they can.” The horrific scene is drawing broad worldwide condemnation.

cat again.While living in Edmonton, their Siamese cat Kiki got out and never came home.“She’s always been such a great cat. She just wants you to pet her, anyone whose met her knows that you don’t want to lose this cat,” Antev said.For months, after the eight-year-old cat escaped, Antev said she and her and her family worked hard to try and find her.They put up signs, door-knocked, and handed out posters in their neighbourhood with zero success.“We put out food for her, we put out a trap, but we never caught anything — not her or anything else.”Almost a year after Kiki went missing, Antev and her family moved to Ontario.“We kind of almost gave up hope that we would find her at that point, we also had a lot of coyotes that lived in the neighborhood and we were really scared about that.”After the move, Antev said her husband tried to get her to change her phone number to an Ontario area code.Since it was the number listed on Kiki’s microchip however, she refused — holding out hope that one day Kiki would be found.Meanwhile, the missing cat had made her way to Hana Kadri’s home in Rapperswill — a new neighbourhood in the Castledowns area of northwest Edmonton, that’s less than a 10-minute drive away from where she went missing.After she saw the small cat on her backyard cameras, Kadri started leaving out food.“I was home so I would see her come eat, and she would come three times a day for food, so I posted on a local Facebook page to see if she belonged to anyone,” said Kadri.With the help of a neighbour, Kadri trapped Kiki and she was taken to the vet — where her microchip was scanned, and Antev was called.“Five years later I got a call from the vet saying ‘we have Kiki,’” she said.“I just started sobbing.

Grammys.The 64th Grammy Awards saw A-list musicians from a wide range of genres and countries hit the red carpet at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday.From classic black-tie attire to bold statement pieces and unusual designs, many Hollywood celebrities caught the eyes of viewers, though not always for the right reasons.This year, the colour pink was everywhere on the carpet. From massive, frilly ballgowns to structured pantsuits, hot pink was the colour of choice for both men and women.Shiny and sheer fabrics reigned supreme as well, featured in designs from slip dresses to pastel-coloured men’s suits, elevating the 2022 Grammy’s fashion to the next, modern level.

As his troops face stiff resistance in Ukraine, new intelligence suggests Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misinformed about the invasion, because his advisers are scared to tell him the truth.

The talks with the Pontiff concluded with an apology for the harms caused by church-run residential schools and a commitment to come to Canada. One of the delegates had hoped to highlight the problem of violence against missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two spirit people.

Throughout the war, the Ukrainian military has been supported by the Territorial Defence Forces. More than 100,000 Ukrainian civilians who have volunteered to help with the fight In the Ukrainian capital have been busy digging trenches to help defend against the Russian advance.

Bucha show an approximately 45-foot-long trench dug into the grounds of a church where a mass grave has been identified, a private U.S. company said on Sunday.

Ukraine on Sunday demanded crippling new sanctions on Russia from major Western powers over a “massacre” in a town near Kyiv as anger grew in Western capitals and Germany said that those responsible for war crimes should pay.Ukraine said on Saturday that its forces had retaken all areas around Kyiv. The mayor of Bucha, a liberated town 37 km (23 miles) northwest of the capital, said that 300 of its residents had been killed by the Russian army.Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called for international war crimes investigators to visit the area to collect evidence and said Kyiv believed the killing of civilians was deliberate.

Ukrainian troops are finding brutalized bodies and widespread destruction in suburbs of the capital as Russian soldiers withdraw and Moscow focuses its attacks elsewhere, including missile strikes Sunday that targeted fuel and ammunition supplies in southern and eastern Ukraine.

COVID-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves.The man from the eastern Germany city of Magdeburg, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, is said to have received up to 90 shots against COVID-19 at vaccination centers in the eastern state of Saxony for months until criminal police caught him earlier this month, the German news agency dpa reported Sunday. N.Y.

Following weeks of constant bombardment, the outskirts of Kyiv have gone quiet as Ukrainian forces retake territory around the country’s capital. What’s left, though, is utter devastation.

Missiles struck near Ukraine‘s southern port of Odesa on Sunday with Russia saying it had destroyed an oil refinery used by the Ukrainian military, while attempts to evacuate people from the devastated city of Mariupol were due to continue.

Ukraine says it’s run out of the initial rounds of ammunition Canada sent the country in February and needs more. The Canadian government is considering the request, but it will come at a cost to our military. Mercedes Stephenson has more.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russian soldiers of mining areas in northern Ukraine as they withdraw or were pushed out by Ukrainian forces. “They are mining houses, mining equipment, even the bodies of people who were killed,” Zelenskyy said.

The province’s first cruise season in three years appears to be getting off to a bumpy start after the first vessel scheduled to dock in B.C. since the beginning of the pandemic was delayed as U.S.

Okanagan fruit growers are happy the B.C. Government has lifted its temporary foreign worker quarantine program.

Calgary animal rescue groups have seen a recent surge in the number of dogs being surrendered by their owners. As Lauren Pullen reports, the Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society says it has seen two main reasons why.