Canada

Securing medical supplies and TV doctors offering help; In The News for March 20

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 March 20 ... COV...

Mar 20, 2020

Air Canada lays off more than 5,000 flight attendants amid COVID-19 pandemic

MONTREAL - A union official says Air Canada is laying off more than 5,000 flight attendants as the country's largest airline cuts routes and parks planes due to COVID-19. Wesley Lesosky, who heads the...

Mar 19, 2020

Don't wait for Parliament, start processing applications for financial aid now: Singh

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is urging the federal government to immediately begin accepting applications for emergency financial aid from Canadians struggling during the COVID-19 crisis. In...

Mar 19, 2020

Head of Saskatchewan medical group says he got COVID-19 at doctors' bonspiel in Edmonton

REGINA - An investigation is underway in at least two provinces after a Saskatchewan doctor who attended a curling bonspiel in Edmonton tested positive for COVID-19. Dr. Allan Woo, president of the Sa...

Mar 19, 2020

NewsAlert: Alberta records 1st COVID-19 death; man in 60s with other conditions

EDMONTON - Alberta has recorded its first death from COVID-19. Chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw says the man who died was in his 60s and had underlying health conditions. She says it appears he...

Mar 19, 2020 Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw. (Government of Alberta)

Health systems ramping up to deal with potential influx of COVID-19 cases

OTTAWA - While Canadians stay home in an effort to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, officials are working behind the scenes to try to increase the health care system's capacity to fight...

Mar 19, 2020

Social distancing: what to do and what not to do to curb spread of COVID-19

OTTAWA - Social distancing is one of the most effective ways to contain the spread of COVID-19. While specific restrictions on what Canadians can do vary from province to province, here are the basic ...

Mar 19, 2020

Ottawa to take charge of housing asylum seekers for 14-day isolation period

ST-BERNARD-DE-LACOLLE, Que. - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says that as of tomorrow all asylum seekers entering Quebec from the United States at Roxham Road will be temporarily ho...

Mar 19, 2020

Families of Canadians in Peru look for answers in face of flight cancellations

Parents in Canada whose children are stuck in Peru following border closures are anxiously waiting for any concrete information on how to get their kids home. Amit Konorty's son, Jacob, 24, ...

Mar 19, 2020

Canadians in Hong Kong settle in to new life under the cloud of the coronavirus

OTTAWA - Karen Grepin's family arrived in Hong Kong six months ago to start a grand adventure in a new country after she took a job as a professor of public health at the University of Hong Kong. They...

Mar 19, 2020