Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $9 billion in aid for students across Canada. The Canada Emergency Student Benefit will allow students to receive $1,250 a month from May to August, or up to $1,750 a month for a student who takes care of someone else or has a disability. Post-secondary students...
The order closes non-essential businesses and child-care centres until May 12. Premier Doug Ford says Ontario's schools will not re-open on May 4. All business except those deemed essential have been shut down. The province will allow curbside pick up and delivery of cannabis. All industrial construction except for essential projects, such as...
Canada’s death toll from the novel coronavirus jumped past 1,800 today as new cases increased by 1,590. The new numbers, which are tallied from updates from provincial health authorities across the country, also count at least 13,100 recoveries from the virus and over 598,000 tests. As of April 21, a total...
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 7:15 p.m. B.C. is reporting 52 new cases of COVID-19 since Saturday, including five more deaths. This brings the death total to 86 and the total number of cases to 1,699. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the testing strategy is...
Quebec reached a grim milestone on Tuesday, as the province reported an additional 102 COVID-19-related deaths. The province also reported an additional 807 cases, bringing the total number of cases in Quebec to 20,126. - Nova Scotia reports another COVID-19 death Sixteen new cases were identified in Nova Scotia on Tuesday,...
Health officials reported 551 more cases and 38 more deaths in Ontario on Tuesday. This brings the provincial total number of cases and deaths to 11,735 and 584 respectively. The majority of the cases identified in Ontario have been female (56.8 per cent) and people between the ages of 40...
Since Saturday, there have been five deaths in the province related to COVID-19, announced Dr. Bonnie Henry on Monday. The death toll in the province is now at 86. Fifty-two new cases were also identified, bringing the total number of cases in the province to 1,699. Henry stressed that social distancing...
Health officials in the province announced on Monday that four more people with COVID-19 had died, bringing Alberta’s death toll to 59. Two of the people were residents of a long-term care facility, one was a worker at the Cargill meat-processing plant in her 60s, and the fourth was an...
At least 18 people, including an RCMP officer and the suspect, have died after a shooting rampage in Nova Scotia over the weekend, marking the worst mass shooting in Canada’s history. On Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed that at least 18 individuals died in the shooting, providing his condolences...
The Vancouver Aquarium says it is facing bankruptcy and could be forced to close permanently if it can't arrange emergency funding. A statement from the facility says animal care and habitat costs for 70,000 animals exceed $1 million a month but revenues have dropped to almost zero since the COVID-19...