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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.

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

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.

It's flu season in Canada, and as the number of infections and hospitalizations start to rise, medical experts are urging Canadians to get their flu shots.

Forget colorful leaves. Any caregiver knows that the real signs of fall are kids with coughs, sneezes and sniffles.

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.

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.

Three children in Ontario have died from influenza A-related complications since the start of December, health officials said Monday.

The province is asking Quebecers who are sick to contact the 811 health hotline to seek advice before heading to the emergency room.

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.

In the Kamloops Fire Centre, which includes the Okanagan, 90 per cent of the wildfires were suppressed at five hectares or less.

An influenza infection brings with it an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association says.  

The rate of flu hospitalization in Canada has nearly doubled compared to the previous week of available data, with infections now up almost 30 per cent, Health Canada data shows.

Before the pandemic, about 20 per cent of people in the province were getting vaccinated against influenza. That number increased to 23 per cent by 2024.

In the first week of December, there was a 70 per cent jump in the number of lab-confirmed influenza cases in Alberta, along with 300 more hospitalizations and six more deaths.

During the week of Christmas, Health Canada said the percentage of positive tests for influenza reached a three-year high of 33.3 per cent.

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Ski season is off to a later-than-expected start in Jasper, thanks to a warm pre-winter season. But locals are confident the snow will fly soon enough.

'The state of the acute-care system in the Edmonton zone is an absolute crisis. I have never seen it this bad,' said a Royal Alexandra Hospital emergency department physician.