Quebec

More grim numbers have emerged at a long-term care facility in suburban Montreal as the Canadian Armed Forces prepared to fan out to nursing homes across a city that has become Canada's COVID-19 epicentre.

The sweep of COVID-19 throughout Canada's nursing homes is proving more devastating than expected, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, April 16, 2020, as he warned that reopening the economy too early would be "absolutely disastrous."

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COVID-19's grim march through many of the country's nursing homes left more residents dead on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, as the facilities fought desperately to stem the lethal spread of a virus that has prompted crushing restrictions on normal personal and commercial activity.

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.

Quebec has placed an additional five private long-term care homes under watch amid concerns that they're not able to properly respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, Premier Francois Legault said on Monday, April 13, 2020.

Rapid COVID-19 testing devices are on the way to remote and Indigenous communities where access and timely results have been hindered by distance and limited resources, officials said on Monday, April 13, 2020, after a new test kit was approved over the weekend.

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.

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.

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.

Amid crippling job losses across the country due to COVID-19, the federal government on Thursday, April 9, 2020, warned the number of Canadians killed by the novel coronavirus would likely double over the next week and could reach thousands over the course of the pandemic.

A health-care union in Quebec says workers dealing with at-risk patients are going without protective equipment in some cases, sparking criticism of the national emergency stockpile.

Premier Francois Legault hails Quebec health-care workers as "guardian angels," but some say they are being denied services at banks and pharmacies when they reveal their occupations.

Canadians will get a double-barrelled blast of grim news today, April 9, 2020: the first jobless numbers since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered businesses from coast to coast as well as the first national picture of how bad the crisis could get and how long it could last.

Canada's confirmed cases of COVID-19 surged past 19,000 on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, with more than 500 deaths ascribed to the raging global pandemic as Quebec became the province with the most fatalities attributed to the disease.