Ontario

Schools across Ontario will be shuttered for two weeks after next week's break, the provincial government said on Thursday, as it unveiled a string of fresh measures to deal with the novel coronavirus and reported its largest single-day spike in new cases.

Some 228 Canadians are beginning a two-week quarantine at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, in Ontario, after being repatriated from a cruise ship with a cluster of novel coronavirus cases.

Doug Ford’s Ontario government spent less than it budgeted for public transit, electricity rebates, school repairs and a range of other programs in the first nine months of this fiscal year, according to the province’s fiscal watchdog.

As tensions at rail blockades in Quebec and Ontario escalated on Wednesday, February 27, 2020, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair appeared to dismiss the notion that police will move completely out of the vast Wet'suwet'en territory in British Columbia.

Most of Calgary's city councillors had lunch at a restaurant in Chinatown this week to try to help reduce fears about the new coronavirus.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford kicked off his re-election campaign on Saturday, February 22, 2020, night, a move he makes more than two years ahead of the next provincial election and on the same day union activists vowed to fight his government ahead of that vote.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has no plans to order the RCMP to end the blockades of vital rail links across the country.

Ontario's Indigenous affairs minister said on Thursday, February 13, 2020, his federal counterpart must act quickly to resolve a rail blockade that has halted train traffic on a key provincial rail line for nearly a week.

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller has offered to meet with three Indigenous leaders, saying their protests against a pipeline in northern British Columbia are a volatile situation.

A second Canadian plane carrying evacuees from the quarantined region of Hubei, China, has landed at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in southern Ontario.

Princess Cruises says a Canadian is among an additional 66 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in the Japanese port city of Yokohama, just outside Tokyo.

Canada is standing by in case China asks for more help as it grapples with the novel coronavirus outbreak that originated there, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday, February 9, 2020, noting that the virus continues to pose little threat in this country.

A new analysis by Parliament's budget watchdog has found that most households in provinces where the federal carbon tax applies will receive more money back in rebates than they will pay through the scheme — just not as much as projected last year.

The number of people being tested for the novel coronavirus in Ontario seems to be dropping as more time passes since China imposed rigid travel restrictions, the province's chief medical officer of health said on Monday, February 3, 2020.

Canadian evacuees from the Chinese province afflicted with the novel coronavirus will be quarantined for two weeks upon their arrival at an Ontario military base, the government announced on Sunday, February 2, 2020, night.