Canada

Changes to emergency-relief program coming to expand eligibility, Trudeau says

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says 240,000 people successfully applied for emergency relief amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the first few hours after the federal government opened the process t...

Apr 06, 2020

Impressions of America, in a word: Trump, president, chaos, in that order

WASHINGTON - Canadians, it seems, had a number of choice words for the United States last year - and most of them revolved around President Donald Trump. The Washington-based Pew Research Center asked...

Apr 06, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 12:07 p.m. on April 6, 2020: There are 15,821 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 7,944 confirmed (inclu...

Apr 06, 2020

Gould, aid groups discuss helping world's poorest with $100M funding boost

OTTAWA - Days before Canada announced more than $100 million in new foreign aid to fight COVID-19, a federal minister and a leading aid advocate said the country can't afford to scrimp on its overseas...

Apr 06, 2020

The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 7 a.m. Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Canadian passengers on the Coral Princess cruise sh...

Apr 06, 2020

New federal aid and COVID-19 survival instinct; In The News for April 6

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of April 6 ... COVI...

Apr 06, 2020

As COVID-19 triggers survival instinct, unwise decisions can result

MONTREAL - When a Quebec couple recently travelled to the far reaches of Yukon in a bid to escape the novel coronavirus, only to be turned away, it seemed a textbook case of pandemic-generated pa...

Apr 06, 2020

Ferries, commercial vessels told to reduce passenger numbers to avoid COVID-19

OTTAWA - The federal government is bringing in further measures to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 on commercial passenger vessels and ferries. Transport Minister Marc Garneau announced that sta...

Apr 05, 2020

Actress-activist Shirley Douglas, daughter of medicare's Tommy Douglas, dies

TORONTO - Shirley Douglas, the impassioned Canadian activist and veteran actress who was mother to actor Kiefer Sutherland and daughter of medicare founder Tommy Douglas, has died....

Apr 05, 2020

Bars, cannabis sector eligible for $40B credit program from government bank

TORONTO - Devastated bars and lounges as well as the country's hard-hit cannabis sector will have access to $40 billion in new credit being made available via the government's business bank durin...

Apr 05, 2020