Canada

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 12:49 p.m. ET on April 4, 2020: There are 12,954 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 6,101 confirme...

Apr 04, 2020

'Always new expenses:' Lawsuits filed as anniversary of Broncos bus crash nears

It's been almost two years since the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan and with the solemn anniversary comes a closing legal window that has seen several lawsuits filed in court.Sixtee...

Apr 04, 2020 (The Canadian Press)

The inexact science involved in predicting the likely path of COVID-19

socsocTORONTO - Data experts are cautioning already on-edge Canadians against taking Ontario's dire predictions about COVID-19 deaths literally, even as the revelation of stark data coincided with mor...

Apr 04, 2020

Pandemic has shunted aside an array of Liberal initiatives, at least for now

OTTAWA - As a new year dawned, the government's throne-speech commitments unfurled just weeks earlier were grabbing headlines and galvanizing the attention of federal policy-makers. Then came the...

Apr 04, 2020

Oil industry pleads for help but feds still mum on when that will come

OTTAWA - Canada's oil producers are growing frustrated that they have yet to see a promised federal aid package to help bail out their industry from an unprecedented drop in demand. Canadian Asso...

Apr 04, 2020

B.C. temporarily lifts data residency requirement in response to COVID-19

VANCOUVER - British Columbia has temporarily modified its access to information and privacy act in response to COVID-19, lifting a requirement that personal data must be stored in ...

Apr 04, 2020

PM expected to unveil more help for most vulnerable to weather pandemic

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce today more financial support aimed at helping the most vulnerable Canadians survive the COVID-19 pandemic. The new announcement follows F...

Apr 04, 2020

Delta police say they stopped sale of medical equipment at inflated prices

DELTA, B.C. - Police in Delta, B.C., say it was "troubling" to catch two people this week allegedly reselling boxes of respirators and surgical masks at highly inflated prices. The police departm...

Apr 03, 2020

GST credit payments to low-income earners to arrive one month earlier

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will deliver more aid to low-income Canadians through the GST credit a month sooner than planned. The government initially announced the mone...

Apr 03, 2020

Patients paying higher dispensing fees as pharmacists limit prescription amounts

OTTAWA - A new policy that has pharmacists restricting patients to a 30-day supply of their medications means some people are having to pay dispensing fees two or three times over. The policy was...

Apr 03, 2020