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Alberta Cancels All Classes Until Further Notice
Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw announced that effective immediately, all child care centres will be closed, classes at public schools and post-secondary classes… Read more »
Coronavirus: Lululemon Temporarily Closing All Stores in North America & Europe
Following the heels of multiple retailers across North America, Lululemon is temporarily closing all stores across North America and Europe due to Coronavirus from March 16th to… Read more »
City of Edmonton Closes Recreation Centres, Arenas, Attractions and Libraries
Following the direction of Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, the City of Edmonton is closing its recreation centres, arenas, city managed attractions with immediate effect until… Read more »
10 New Coronavirus Cases in Alberta with 2 in Intensive Care; Total Now 39
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Chief Medical Officer of Health reported 6 new cases in Calgary zone and 4 in the Edmonton zone taking the total cases in Alberta… Read more »
Strathcona County Closes Facilities Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Strathcona County has announced that the county is closing indoor recreation centres and some city facilities as a proactive action to reduce the rate of spread of… Read more »
St. Albert Closes Facilities Due to Coronavirus Concerns
The City of St. Albert has announced that the city is closing indoor recreation facilities as a proactive action to reduce the rate of spread of COVID-19… Read more »
Do I Have Coronavirus: How to Self Assess Using Alberta Health Tool
With every sniffle and cough leading you to wonder whether you have coronavirus and causing you to call Public Health Lines, only to be put on hold… Read more »
Albertans to Get 14 days of Paid Job-Protected Leave
Alberta Government has announced that they are amending Employment Standards Code by implementing paid job-protected leave as a measure to help Albertans through COVID-19 outbreak. Albertans will… Read more »
Saskatchewan Researchers Testing Vaccine for Coronavirus
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) is racing the clock to find a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. VIDO-InterVac has announced… Read more »
University of Alberta On-Campus Classes on March 13th Suspended
Yesterday, Dr. Deena Hinshaw announced that Alberta is adopting aggressive new public health measures including asking organisers to cancel all large gatherings with more than 250 attendees… Read more »
Northern & Southern Jubilee Auditoriums Closing Temporarily Due to COVID-19
On March 12th, Dr. Deena Hinshaw announced that Alberta is adopting aggressive new public health measures including asking organisers to cancel all events with more than 250… Read more »
Alberta Cancels All Events With More Than 250 Attendees; Total Coronavirus Cases Now 23
Dr. Deena Hinshaw announced that Alberta is adopting aggressive new public health measures including asking organisers to cancel all events with more than 250 attendees to help… Read more »
National Lacrosse League Suspends Season Due to COVID-19
National Lacrosse League has suspended all games in its 2020 season until further notice. NLL said, ” We will continue to evaluate this situation and remain in constant… Read more »
5 More Novel Coronavirus Cases in Alberta, Total Now 19
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health has announced five new cases of novel coronavirus – all are travel related. Of these 5 cases, 1… Read more »
Justin Trudeau Announces $1 Billion to Combat COVID-19 in Canada
Justin Trudeau outlined Canada’s whole-of-government response to COVID-19, by establishing a more than $1 billion COVID-19 Response Fund, which includes already announced measures as well as new… Read more »
How to Avoid Subscription Traps: “No-Strings Attached” Trial Offers – Competition Bureau of Canada
Competition Bureau of Canada is reminding Canadians to not get trapped into the “No-Strings Attached” trial offers. These so-called free, no-obligation trial products like a free trial… Read more »
WHO Declares COVID-19 a Pandemic
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation’s director-general has declared COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) a pandemic. Globally there are more than 11300 cases of COVID-19 across 114 countries with… Read more »
Play Tim Hortons’ Roll Up The Rim Contest Digitally and at the Restaurants
The 35th annual Roll Up The Rim To Win® starts from March 11 and runs for four weeks – until April 7. Tim Hortons’ annual Roll Up… Read more »
DIY Hand Sanitiser – How to Make Hand Sanitiser Based on WHO Recommended Hand Rub Formula
With the recent COVID-19 (coronavirus) scare, many of us are running to the local store to stock up on hand sanitisers. This has caused the cost of… Read more »
Edmonton’s Soundtrack Music Festival Announce 2020 Lineup
Kinsmen Club of Edmonton’s Soundtrack Music Festival has announced 2020 edition lineup. The 3rd annual festival has been expanded to two days at Kinsmen Park. The multi-genre… Read more »
There Are Now 7 Confirmed Coronavirus Cases in Alberta
On Monday, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health confirmed 3 new cases of COVID-19 in Alberta, bringing total cases in the province to 7…. Read more »
2 More Novel Coronavirus Cases Reported in Alberta
Alberta Health has announced 2 more presumptive cases of COVID-19 in the province. Both cases are travel related. The third presumed case of COVID-19 is a man… Read more »
Alberta’s 2nd Coronavirus Case Reported in Edmonton
Alberta Health has announced the second presumptive case of COVID-19 in the province in a male in his forties who lives in the Edmonton area. He recently… Read more »
Presumptive Coronavirus Case Reported in Alberta
Alberta Health has announced the first presumptive case of COVID-19 in the province. The announcement comes on the heels of British Columbia announcing 8 new cases with… Read more »