Sep 25 2020 — The Canadian Press — WINNIPEG — Manitoba's chief provincial public health officer is making masks mandatory in indoor public spaces in Winnipeg, as cases of COVID-19 continue to surge in the capital city. Dr. Brent Roussin said Friday there are 54 new cases of the virus in the province — 44 of them are in the Winnipeg health region.In […]
Sep 25 2020 — The Canadian Press — The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): --- 2:43 p.m. Manitoba's chief provincial public health officer is making masks mandatory in indoor spaces in Winnipeg, as cases of COVID-19 continue to surge in the capital city. Dr. Brent Roussin says there are 54 new cases of the virus in the province […]
Sep 25 2020 — The Canadian Press — Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says he’s urging his MPs to be hypervigilant amid concerns they could bring COVID-19 back to their ridings from Ottawa. But he says he won’t bar them from using the same private clinic he did after being turned away from a public site after hours of waiting in line to be […]
Sep 25 2020 — Kathleen Harris — CBC — Canada has signed an agreement to secure another 20 million vaccine doses as the global race for a COVID-19 vaccine intensifies. During a news conference in Ottawa today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a deal with AstraZeneca on access to a vaccine prospect now being developed at Oxford University. As a result, the federal government […]
Sep 25 2020 — The Canadian Press — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join Canada’s top public health officers today for their daily update on the worsening COVID-19 health crisis. Trudeau is expected to have an announcement about his government’s ongoing efforts to protect Canadians and combat the potentially deadly novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. But he’s also expected to start joining chief […]
Sep 24 2020 — CTV News — The top health officials co-ordinating Canada’s COVID-19 response say the majority of public reaction to their work has been positive — but they’ve also received some abusive feedback that ranges from “well-thought-out insults” to “death threats.”
Sep 24 2020 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she understands the swelling attention being focused on rapid coronavirus tests as a way to reduce long wait times at many testing centres across the country. But she warned that any intervention by the federal government to help speed the approval process could result in some of the “dangerous […]
Sep 24 2020 — Kathleen Harris — CBC — The federal government tabled legislation today to provide what it’s calling a “safe bridge” for Canadians who are still experiencing lost income due to COVID-19. The proposed new suite of measures aims to transition people from the Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) to an employment insurance program with expanded eligibility, or to one of three […]
Sep 24 2020 — The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:14 p.m. EDT on Sept. 24, 2020: There are 149,094 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 69,670 confirmed (including 5,810 deaths, 59,943 resolved) _ Ontario: 48,496 confirmed (including 2,836 deaths, 41,886 resolved) _ Alberta: 17,190 confirmed (including 261 deaths, 15,467 resolved) _ British Columbia: […]
Sep 24 2020 — The Canadian Press — The value of weekly benefits for unemployed workers would rise to $500 a week under legislation the Liberals introduced today. The proposal still needs parliamentary approval, but would bring the value of payments to the same level as under the soon-to-disappear Canada Emergency Response Benefit. The same floor will be placed on employment insurance benefits […]
Sep 24 2020 — Mike Crawley — CBC — Ontario wants to avoid imposing lockdown-style measures to combat a second wave of COVID-19, but is prepared to take ‘targeted action” such as closing certain higher-risk businesses, CBC News has learned. CBC News obtained a copy of Ontario’s fall pandemic preparedness plan, still in draft form even as Premier Doug Ford’s government is in the […]
Sep 24 2020 — Brandie Weikle — CBC — Infectious disease experts say Canadian health authorities must tighten restrictions again or hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 will increase exponentially in the coming weeks. Echoing comments made Tuesday by Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam, who said Canada is at a crossroads in its pandemic battle, experts in public health are urging governments to […]
Sep 24 2020 — Holly McKenzie-Sutter, The Canadian Press — A county in southwestern Ontario has established COVID-19 assessment centres exclusively for school children to reduce the amount of time kids have to spend waiting for a test. Lambton County hopes the sites will help get students back into classrooms faster if they're dealing with mild seasonal illnesses but need to rule out the possibility of having the novel […]
Sep 23 2020 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — In a rare televised national address, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to the airwaves tonight to warn that Canada is at a “crossroads” as COVID-19 cases spike in some provinces, and with pandemic conditions in the fall expected to be worse than what the country endured when the crisis was just beginning. Canada entered an […]
Sep 22 2020 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — The latest federal modelling on the COVID-19 pandemic shows that in the short-term, Canada’s epidemic is set to keep growing, predicting up to 155,795 total cases and 9,300 deaths by Oct. 2, unless Canadians re-adopt the same degree of health precautions they took in the early months of the pandemic.