Category Archives: COVID-19 Coronavirus

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 11 ... Wha...

TORONTO - Cindy Perry was all set for a March break trip to California with her wife and their two children, but the novel coronavirus outbreak that is sweeping the globe made her reconsider...

OTTAWA - The federal government unveiled a $1 billion response package to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on the Canadian health-care system, the economy, and workers. Here is the breakdown of the sp...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney flew to Ottawa on Wednesday with a list of demands and a key message for the prime minister to focus on the economy. Kenney and his fellow premier...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced changes to Canada's sick-leave benefits under employment insurance Wednesday, to respond to concerns about COVID-19. Here is a quick overview of how th...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals will deliver the first budget of their minority mandate at the end of the month. Finance Minister Bill Morneau told the House of Commons on Wednesday that the federal Lib...

CALGARY - Amnesty International says it's not enough for political leaders to condemn a sexually suggestive decal appearing to show teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and they should do more to...

MONTREAL - Doris Hamelin and her husband Rejean Vallee said the restaurants in Rome shut down at 6 p.m. Tuesday and the only place they could find food was the grocery store. In a bid t...

WASHINGTON - The glad-handing, confetti-and-skimmer-hat spirit of North American retail politics is on a collision course with the realities of life in a pandemic. In both Canada and th...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of March 11, 2020: - Ontario: 42 confirmed - British Columbia: 46 confirmed, including 1 death - Alberta: 19 ...