Region of Waterloo reports 51 new cases of COVID-19, active cases drop
There are 51 new cases of COVID-19 in Waterloo Region, as the number of active cases has dropped for the first time in over a week.

There are 51 new cases of COVID-19 in Waterloo Region, as the number of active cases has dropped for the first time in over a week.
There will soon be 64 new pharmacies that residents of Waterloo Region and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph can go to for their COVID-19 vaccination.
COVID-19 hot spot in Kitchener, a stay-at-home order in effect, and a controversial plan for a warehouse in Cambridge round out the top stories of the week.
A few Guelph businesses are trying to stay opening during the provincial stay-at-home order, while the city’s mayor is asking for doors to stay shut and everyone to be patient.
Someone dropped off 25 rats at the Guelph Humane Society on Tuesday.
Guelph police have charged a woman, who was already in their custody for trying to run an online puppy scam, for breaking into an elderly woman’s apartment.
At least 20,000 people were forced to evacuate the island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines following a volcanic eruption.
Jill Macyshon has the story on the flood of social media selfies from people getting their COVID-19 vaccinations.
The Grammy-nominated performer, whose real name was Earl Simmons, died on April 9 one week after going into 'catastrophic cardiac arrest.'
Emergency crews were called to a Saanich shopping centre on Friday after a car crashed into a Walmart, trapping people inside.
A B.C. distillery is being taken to court for offering up a product that is allegedly a little too close to the original.
Doctors have successfully performed the first double lung transplant in Canada on a 61-year-old COVID-19 patient to replace organs damaged by the disease.
Rioters smashed windows and set fires in Old Montreal during a large protest that took place in violation of Quebec's curfew on Sunday evening.
Daily new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Canada have skyrocketed amid the third wave of the pandemic and have now outpaced the United States per capita.
In an update to travel advice for Canadians visiting China, the government has added more detail regarding the Xinjiang region, warning that Canadians with ethnic ties to the region could be 'at risk of arbitrary detention.'
Many throughout the Commonwealth will join the Queen in sadness and will have nothing but the deepest sympathy for the loss of Prince Philip, writes royal commentator Richard Berthelsen in a column on CTVNews.ca
Police say they were called to assist paramedics around 8 p.m. on Saturday night at the North Vancouver ski slope.
Hundreds of people were seen singing hymns, chanting, and gathering outside the fenced-off GraceLife Church west of Edmonton on Sunday.
Hideki Matsuyama has made history as the first male golfer from Japan to win a major championship.
It was supposed to be a unifying weekend for a Republican Party at war with itself over former U.S. President Donald Trump's divisive leadership. But Trump himself shattered two days of relative peace in his closing remarks to the GOP's top donors when he insulted the party's Senate leader and his wife.
An eight-day period of national mourning for the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, begins in the U.K.