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An Alaskan Airlines plane experienced a mid-flight cabin panel blowout, leading to an emergency landing of a brand-new Boeing 737 MAX-9 jetliner. All passengers and crew on board returned to the airport safely, but U.S. federal officials have ordered the immediate grounding of all Boeing 737 MAX-9 jetliners — raising safety concerns. A powerful winter...

At the request of provincial emergency officials, the City of Calgary has opened a reception centre for wildfire evacuees at Stampede Park. As Adam MacVicar reports, the fire department is also sending resources north to help fight the wildfires.

Respiratory illness seasons continues to put pressure on B.C.’s health-care system. Hospital beds are near capacity and emergency departments are overcrowded. As Kylie Stanton reports, the province will try to ease the strain by reactivating emergency operation centres.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announced on Thursday that the province is pivoting it’s COVID-19 response strategy. He said the government is enhancing the provincial Emergency Operations Centre and it will become a unified command centre with the Ministry of Health and the Saskatchewan Health Association.

As COVID-19 remains a delicate situation in Saskatchewan, despite a dip in case numbers, the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre (PEOC) remains on high alert. Taz Dhaliwal has more on where the province currently stands and what residents can expect for the holiday season to come.

Saskatchewan opens its emergency operations centre to deal with the province’s fourth wave, as business owners across Canada await the fate of soon-to-expire federal subsidies. Why Canadians energy bills are expected to climb, and how Britain’s labour force is struggling in the wake of Brexit. Plus, a Crown corporation gives its stamp of approval to...

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announced on Thursday a new financial support program for small businesses affected by the spread of COVID-19 in the province, called the Saskatchewan Small Business Emergency Payment. The program provides a one-time payment for businesses based on 15 per cent of their monthly sales revenue, to a maximum of 5,000 dollars....

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister announced Monday afternoon that the province has hired a local company to help small businesses access federal subsidy programs amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 24-7 In Touch will operate a small call centre to reach out to local businesses and help them access the 75 per cent wage subsidy and Canada...

Alberta Emergency Management Agency managing director Shane Schreiber said the creation of a dedicated pandemic response team will allow the provincial operation centre to focus on preparing for summer natural disasters such as wildfires, tornadoes, and floods.

Ontario Deputy Premier and Health Minister Christine Elliott announced Tuesday the province would invest more than $1 billion on the expansion of Toronto’s St. Joseph’s Health Centre. She said the funding would result in more than 100 new beds, new spaces for operating rooms and critical care and an expanded emergency department.

While schools are now closed across the province as Quebec grapples with the growing coronavirus pandemic, a select number of daycare centres have remained open to look after the children of front-line healthcare workers battling the virus. Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports from St. Monica Elementary in NDG.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority’s chief of its emergency operation centre Derek Miller on Thursday said the province would be creating space for up to 250 COVID-19 patients by mid-December and creating enough space for up to 64 additional COVID-19 patients in intensive care units. He said this was due to modelling information showing the potential...

Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Robert Strang on Sunday announced that the province will be working with the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) and Emergency Health Services (EHS) to open temporary COVID-19 assessment centres, EHS assessment units and a mobile assessment centre in communities that see higher increases in novel coronavirus cases....

Premier John Horgan announces at his weekly COVID-19 briefing that the province will extend its state of emergency for an additional two weeks, making this “the longest period in B.C. history where emergency orders have been in place.” Horgan also announces the return to Victoria for MLA’s in the B.C. legislature and a new urgent...

The COVID situation in the province remains critical with the Canadian Armed Forces now being called in to help Saskatchewan’s healthcare system. The Provincial Emergency Operations Centre (PEOC) has been in talks with the military trying to figure out what resources would provide the best relief.

BC Emergency Health Services is releasing some alarming call volume rates for non-fatal overdoses amid the pandemic. The final tally for 911 calls from someone suffering a potential overdose was more than 27,000 province-wide, up 12 per cent over 2019. Penticton appears to be the hardest hit community in the Okanagan, and as Shelby Thom...

The Ontario government announced on Sunday that it will be opening select child care centres across the province to help frontline workers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The plan is to exempt certain centres from the order the provincial government gave to close all licensed child care centres under the state of emergency...

There are several evacuation centres open across the province, and thousands of people are taking shelter in the town of Lac La Biche. Global’s Sarah Offin reports live on how people forced south by the growing wildfire have been showing up all night, and how the Fort McMurray Emergency Operations Centre also forced to move...

Penticton is the latest Okanagan community to receive an urgent and primary care centre. It’s a B.C. initiative that’s seen pressure taken off emergency room and walk-in clinics around the province. As Shelby Thom reports, work is already underway in the South Okanagan community towards opening the facility by the end of March.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority’s chief of its emergency operation centre Derek Miller on Thursday outlined the different services that may see impacts in the coming weeks as the province redeploys 600 health-care workers to help with the surging level of COVID-19 cases. He said this would include some elective surgeries in urban centres.