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Coronavirus is here but we're just not ready for it
The world is not ready for the global spread of the novel coronavirus, according to the renowned Canadian epidemiologist who led a team of experts to China to study the virus on behalf of the World Health Organization.
Rail line cleared, 3 arrests made after protest in Toronto's west end
Blockade threatened to delay morning commutes west of the city, but police say the rail line has been cleared.
NDP table bill to create universal pharmacare program, seek Liberal backing
The NDP have tabled a new bill that calls for a universal pharmacare plan in Canada.
Risk to Canada goes up as coronavirus virus spreads to more countries
Canada's border measures to guard the country against incoming cases of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, will likely become less effective as the virus spreads, the country's chief medical officer Dr. Theresa Tam said on Monday, February 24, 2020.
A look at carbon prices across the country
As of Jan. 1, 2020, every Canadian and all Canadian businesses are paying a price on carbon.
Protests spring up, even after Trudeau orders blockades torn down
More protests in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs sprung up on Saturday, February 21, 2020, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pivoted to take a sterner tone with Indigenous leaders he blames for halting train service across much of Canada.
Teck Resources will take $1.13B charge if feds nix oilsands mine proposal
Teck Resources Ltd. says it will take an impairment charge of about $1.13 billion if the federal government decides not to approve its Frontier oilsands mining project.
Joint investigation launched into Clearview AI's facial-recognition technology
The federal privacy watchdog and three of his provincial counterparts will jointly investigate Canadian use of facial-recognition technology supplied by U.S. firm Clearview AI.
Blair says RCMP are meeting Wet'suwet'en conditions
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says the RCMP in British Columbia has offered to move its officers to a town away from the area where traditional leaders of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation have been opposing a pipeline project on their territory.
Canadians aboard coronavirus-ridden cruise ship arrive back tonight
Healthy Canadians from the Diamond Princess cruise ship will shortly be heading home, according to Canada's foreign affairs minister, after weeks under quarantine for the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19.