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OTTAWA -- New national modelling on the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada shows that “hotspots” remain in Ontario and Quebec, and the percentage of younger people contracting the virus has increased in proportion to a decrease in older patients in the last month. Federal health officials are projecting that as of July 12 the country could see between 103,940 and 108,130 cases, and between…

Tania Klyne is trained to administer Narcan — a life saving drug that can reverse an opioid overdose — and though she says she never expected to use that knowledge, she did so last Monday. Klyne is a volunteer with Queen City Patrol, a group that bills itself as a clean-up crew that removes drug paraphernalia and donates clothing, soup and coffee to people on…

A saliva test to see if you have COVID-19 is being developed here in Saskatchewan. The province's two universities received $1.5 million in federal funding to create a test that detects SARS-CoV-2 peptides, or proteins, in a person's saliva along with a prototype testing device. The research is part of a broader University of Regina led project. Dr. Walter Siqueira of the University…

Saskatchewan's government will continue reporting COVID-19 numbers using six "huge" location zones, despite the province's chief medical health officer saying weeks ago that it would start releasing data in a more detailed map.  On June 2 Dr. Saqib Shahab said that, when sharing details of where in the province COVID-19 cases were found, the government would…

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadian companies are now producing so much personal protective equipment needed in the fight against COVID-19 that Canada is almost at the point of being self-sufficient. He underscored that contention today with a visit to a Kanata, Ont., brewery that has retooled to make hand sanitizer during the pandemic. The visit to Big Rig Brewery, which has…