COVID-19

All indicators point to a growing mental health crisis among Canada's doctors–and to an urgent need to expand the country's capacity to help them.

The long-awaited milestone comes as U.S. cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all rising and health officials warn of a tsunami of new infections from the omicron variant that could overwhelm hospitals.

Premier Jason Kenney says large venues that seat more than 1,000 people, including sports arenas, will be capped at half capacity.

Starting at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, bars, nightclubs, gyms, fitness centres and dance studios will have to close, and all seated events will be reduced to 50% capacity.

Government and Consumer Services Minister Ross Romano says 900 "egregious'' complaints about rapid test resales have been referred to police forces.