Your weekly COVID-19 update Every Tuesday, the Maclean's daily newsletter will catch you up on what you need to know about Canada's fight against the coronavirus. This week, Patricia Treble focuses on one story worth watching, and you can get a sneak peek here. You'll also get the same mix of Maclean's stories you expect every day if you scroll down below. The West continues to drive the national rise in COVID-19 cases. In the past three days, British Columbia added 2,354 cases, its highest rate of increase of the entire pandemic. The province, which doesn’t release data on weekends, increased its cumulative caseload by 131 per cent in November. Alberta experienced a 110 per cent increase in the same month, while Saskatchewan increased 172 per cent and Manitoba’s cumulative tally grew by 194 per cent. Glimmers of good news can be found in the East and North. The second wave in Atlantic Canada seems to have stabilized in recent days. Since Saturday, the four provinces reported 73 cases, down one case from the previous three days, and well below the 93 reported in the three days before that. As well, the wave of new cases that hit the North in the past two weeks appears to be receding: on Monday, Nunavut reported just four cases while Yukon reported one and the Northwest Territories hasn’t reported a new case since Nov. 13. For virtually all of the pandemic, B.C. boasted a rate of new cases that was lower than the national average. No longer. On Sunday, the province was adding 151.2 new cases per million population, a smidge over the national rate of 150.6 per million, on a seven-day rolling average. The next day, that lead had grown, with B.C. at 163 vs. a Canadian average of 154.6 cases per million population. As well, B.C. recently surpassed the rates of two perennial frontrunners: Ontario and Quebec. READ MORE >> | 