COVID-19

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is willing to send money to provinces that want to provide salary top-ups to workers deemed essential.

Both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer fended off criticism on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, that they're asking Canadians to do more to stop the spread of COVID-19 than they're willing to do themselves.

Vicki Kap's family thought she had a cold but less than two days after arriving in hospital she was placed on a ventilator and died of COVID-19.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada want to see farmers hire unemployed Canadians to fill jobs that migrant workers usually take. But the reality is that most Canadians don’t want to work in orchards, says the BC Fruit Growers' Association.

Nearly 5.4 million Canadians are receiving emergency federal aid, with hundreds of thousands more claims waiting to be processed, the federal government said on Monday, April 13, 2020, providing another snapshot of the economic fallout from COVID-19.

Employers bringing thousands of agricultural labourers into Canada in the coming weeks will be required to quarantine them before they can work, and the federal government is promising to offset some of the costs.

For earthquake scientists, having hundreds of millions of people off the streets and out of the skies is providing a bonanza of data about the planet.

The number of deaths in long-term care facilities is expected to keep rising, even as the growth of overall COVID-19 cases begins to slow, Canada's top public health official warned on Monday, April 13, 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many people to work from home. But are you keeping yourself and your work cybersecure?

Courtenay-Alberni MP Gord Johns and New Westminster-Burnaby MP Peter Julian have written a letter to Ottawa asking for “rent abatement programs” for small businesses. “It is not enough to appeal to the good-will of landlords to do the right thing," they wrote.

The COVID-19 pandemic takes a particularly heavy toll on Canadians with disabilities and more efforts are needed to ensure they're included in national efforts to respond to the crisis, the minister overseeing accessibility issues said on Friday, April 10, 2020, as she appointed an advisory group to take on the task.

When 40 Canadian Rangers swung into action in northern Quebec this week to set up heated tents for COVID-19 screening and conduct other tasks in their local communities due to the pandemic, they formed the most visible military response to the crisis to date.

It was last on a list of eight threat scenarios, but the danger of a global pandemic made the cut when the Liberal government issued a national security policy in 2004.

In war, as the saying goes, truth is the first casualty. In a global pandemic, it seems trust doesn't fare too well either.

Premier Jason Kenney says Alberta has more than enough protective masks, gloves and ventilators for its own COVID-19 needs, so it's sharing some of its surplus with provinces in more dire need.