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The latest national influenza data released Friday accounts for the period of Jan. 4 to Jan. 10 and shows the number of new flu cases is on the decline.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones said she believed flu cases had already peaked for the season, accepting they had strained the province's health-care system.

Dr. Vivien Suttorp says hospitalizations for respiratory viruses peaked on Dec. 31, when there were 700 influenza patients — a number that has since dropped to 513.

Children are among those being hit hard this flu season, with most infections being detected in people under 19, according to Health Canada.

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Calls for urgent health-care system measures have intensified since the death last month of a man who waited nearly eight hours in an Edmonton emergency department.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said around one in three (32.9 per cent) of influenza tests came back positive for the week ending Dec. 27, 2025.

Health workers say the crisis facing Alberta hospitals, including inadequate staff and funding, not enough infrastructure and a failure to plan, has been years in the making.

Flu season has arrived early, with CHEO reporting eight times more cases than last year as hospitals warn of rising infections among children and seniors.

The Montreal Canadiens lost 4-2 to San Jose on Saturday, proving that the Sharks new phenom, Macklin Celebrini, is an unstoppable force on the ice.

In the week ending Dec. 20, one in four (25.6 per cent) of every influenza test conducted in the U.S. came back positive, the U.S. CDC said.

Alberta's Opposition NDP says instead of directing resources towards fixing long emergency department wait times, "it feels like the UCP is still on vacation mode.”

Physicians are using increasingly concerning language, saying they have never seen Alberta’s emergency departments as overwhelmed as they have been this winter.

Manitoba's top doctor says more than 30 cases of measles, with more expected to be documented, have been linked to a large agriculture event last month.

The prime minister will not fly home with the Canadian delegation that is scheduled to come back to Canada from Carney’s trip to Yellowknife, Norway and London on March 16.

Martin St. Louis may have tough decisions ahead.

Ryan Nembhard's had many great influences in his basketball career. His father Claude is the chief executive officer of the Ontario Basketball Association, his brother Andrew is the starting point guard for the Indiana Pacers, he grew up around Toronto Raptors star RJ Barrett.

After a 5-4 loss to the Flint Firebirds, the fate of the London Knights in the OHL standings comes down to Sunday's game between the Windsor Spitfires and the Soo Greyhounds.

Toronto is just putting the finishing touches on a terrible season, while Montreal is getting ready for a stay at the top of the standings. Brian Wilde has more.

The departures of Nazem Kadri and MacKenzie Weegar has created opportunity in Calgary and embracing it on Saturday were Joel Farabee and newly acquired Ryan Strome.