Beyond Local

It is estimated that the Omicron variant made up about 88 per cent of cases as of Tuesday in Ontario.

NDP Leader Rachel Notley said she believes the investigation is related to anecdotal reports that surfaced in September about Albertans being able to get access to the private health information of others through glitches on the province’s COVID-19 website.

Changes to restrictions exemption program to take effect Dec. 24.

“Overall calls to shelter went down as COVID-19 cases went up. For each wave as the number of cases increased the calls and admissions went down,” said Jan Reimer, director of the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters.

Projects will be announced in 2022, but due to global supply-chain issues and the ability for the industry to take on projects, communities might not get connected until 2023 or 2024.

There were 1,045 Omicron infections in the province on Monday, up from 173 reported on Friday, and more than half the cases reported to date have been in the Calgary zone.

"[The HSAA] has no doubt immediate care was rendered by trained health-care professionals – care in which our fallen colleague would have participated, had he not become the patient," the statement read. "There was no Airdrie ambulance crew available to respond. The fact that they had been pulled away from their community when this happened will be a hardship for our members who lost one of their own."

Check your medicine cabinets!

Plastic stir sticks, cutlery, six-pack rings, bags, and Styrofoam takeout containers will be eliminated entirely.

The Conservatives are now reviewing their "next steps" to pull the wraps off what they call a Liberal coverup.