“I, too, am going to just exercise my right to say how disappointed I am with this (decision). I think we have done our constituents over on Cortes Island a disservice," Strathcona Regional District chair Michele Babchuk, after three rural directors postponed public hearings in their areas until September, putting the funding application for a 20-unit affordable rental housing project at risk.

Three northern Alberta First Nations are asking to appeal the province's suspension of environmental monitoring in the oilpatch because it "fails to come close" to being a reasonable decision.

Canada's ban on non-essential crossings of the U.S.-Canada border is being loosened slightly to allow some families to reunite, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday, June 8, 2020, morning.

The province of Saskatchewan is lifting travel restrictions in the northwest region as the third stage of its reopening plan takes effect. 

The second stage of Ontario's reopen will start on June 12, allowing patios, hair salons and other services to reopen. But a stretch of southern Ontario that wraps around Lake Ontario — spanning from Durham to the Greater Toronto Area to Hamilton and Niagara — will have to wait a while longer, along with Chatham-Kent and Windsor-Essex.

Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19.

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. on June 8, 2020.

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces working inside long-term care homes could find themselves testifying about the state of those facilities in relation to lawsuits against the institutions.

Care aides at the Lynn Valley Care Centre are looking to unionize in the wake of a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at the North Vancouver facility, signalling workers’ appetites for better working conditions and compensation in the beleaguered sector.

Lawsuits involving seniors homes, airlines, universities and ticket providers affected by COVID-19 could tie up Canadian courts for years, says a litigation lawyer.

No longer able to meet face to face amid the ongoing pandemic, a men’s support and empowerment group is logging onto the next best thing to continue providing what has proven to be a crucial service.

New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Cote told Canada's National Observer that there appeared to be a “clear intent” from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that a portion of the new federal funding commitment would go toward municipal needs like transit.

Seven environmental and Indigenous groups have asked the Alberta government to restart oilpatch monitoring as soon as possible given that other activities are coming out of the COVID-19 shutdown.

A special one-time payment to millions of seniors will arrive in early July, a delay the Liberals say is the result of ensuring there isn't any fraud in the pandemic-related top-up.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to offer premiers billions in federal funding to help them safely reopen provincial and territorial economies without triggering an explosive second wave of COVID-19 cases.