Apr 5 2020 — CTV News — The Queen will present a rare broadcast to the Commonwealth on Sunday as coronavirus cases surge past 1.2 million globally. Buckingham Palace confirmed the address on Friday through its social media accounts, adding that viewers can tune in on television, radio or online at 3 p.m. EDT. Tune in to watch the Queen’s public address […]
Apr 5 2020 — The Canadian Press — The end of the COVID-19 pandemic may be a long way off, but analysts are already looking ahead to how Canada could hasten its recovery and position itself for a low-carbon economy. “The main thing we need to be doing right now is protecting Canadians’ health and well-being,” said Josha MacNab of the Pembina Institute. […]
Apr 4 2020 — Katie Simpson — CBC — The Trudeau government is looking to the relationships it established during NAFTA negotiations to resolve the urgent dispute over personal protective equipment with the United States. According to senior sources with direct knowledge of the situation, Canadian politicians at different levels, and of different political stripes, will and have been reaching out to contacts in […]
Apr 5 2020 — CBC — Family members in Canada who have criticized Iran’s government after losing their loved ones in the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 say they’re being targeted with threats and intimidation — and they blame Tehran. Global Affairs is aware of “reports” of victims’ families “being approached in Canada in situations which have caused them […]
Apr 4 2020 — Global News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is not looking at retaliatory measures after U.S. President Donald Trump told a manufacturer of medical masks not to export them to Canada. Trudeau said he would be speaking with Trump in the coming days and looking for a positive solution on the issue. He made the remarks in […]
Apr 4 2020 — CP24 — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his efforts to secure new respirator masks for frontline healthcare workers are being stifled both inside and outside the country, blaming U.S. President Donald Trump and federal regulators who are holding up plans to produce them in the province. Ford said that speaking with 3M Canada on Saturday; it appears […]
Apr 4 2020 — Global News — Canada is set to receive “millions” of medical masks from China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Saturday. Trudeau made the comments from Rideau Cottage, where he is currently self-isolating.
Apr 4 2020 — London Free Press — Caught in the crossfire of a trade row between Canada and America, London-based 3M Canada is “looking at every possible way” to meet domestic demand for medical masks after President Donald Trump forced the company’s American factories to stop exporting the in-demand product. As the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic continues to escalate, Trump on […]
Apr 4 2020 — CTV News — In the wake of the U.S. Centre for Disease Control recommending that all Americans start wearing homemade cloth face masks outside due to COVID-19, many Canadian doctors and officials are saying cloth masks are recommended in certain situations, though Canada’s top doctor has stopped short of officially calling for facial coverings. Chief public health officer […]
Apr 4 2020 — CTV News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will not impose retaliatory measures against the U.S. after the White House asked the manufacturing company 3M to stop exporting N95 face masks to Canada. On Saturday morning, the prime minister said he would speak with U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days about the flow of […]
Apr 4 2020 — NTV — “Yesterday, Ms. Sherry Gambin-Walsh contacted me and informed me that she was served with a General Warrant,” Ball said in a statement. “It was at that point that I immediately took the necessary steps to remove her from Cabinet and her Cabinet responsibilities.” Gambin-Walsh will continue in her role as MHA for Placentia – St. […]
Apr 4 2020 — CTV News — Ontario public health has confirmed 27 more deaths related to COVID-19, as 375 new cases of the virus were announced by the province on Saturday morning. There are currently 3,630 confirmed cases in Ontario, including 1,219 patients who have recovered, up 196 from the 1,023 recovered patients reported on Friday. According to the province, at […]
Apr 4 2020 — Global News — Millions in funding will be going towards programs for vulnerable Canadians like sexual assault and homeless shelters amid the COVID-19 crisis, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Saturday. Trudeau, who spoke to reporters at a press conference in Ottawa, said $40 million will be slated for women’s shelters and sexual assault centres across the country, […]
Apr 4 2020 — The Canadian Press — Canada’s oil producers could only sit and watch as the price of their product plummeted last month to less than what it costs to buy a litre of soda, hit by the double whammy of a COVID-19-induced drop in global demand and a production war between Russia and Saudi Arabia that flooded the market with […]
Apr 4 2020 — Aaron Wherry — CBC — A half-hour into his presentation, Dr. Peter Donnelly reached slide 13. “I want to turn now to perhaps what might be the most disturbing slide in this deck,” the president of Public Health Ontario said, speaking evenly. “I think it’s important that we all are robustly realistic about the scale of the challenge that we […]