Colin Perkel
Reporter with The Canadian Press
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Trudeau rejects invoking mandatory federal stay-at-home order
An already grim employment toll looked set to worsen on Thursday, April 2, 2020, as authorities pondered further tightening restrictions on people and businesses to slow the spread of COVID-19 and keep the pandemic from suffocating the health-care system.
COVID-19 cases, deaths climb despite restrictions; experts warn of 'cures'
The unrelenting climb in COVID-19 cases in Canada continued on Thursday, March 26, 2020, amid tightening restrictions aimed at curbing the pandemic as experts warned against prescribing or using unproven cures for the disease that has killed 39 people and infected close to 4,000 others.
Anxious Canadians await economic aid as COVID-19 cases soar
Canadians struggling to make ends meet amid the COVID-19 pandemic wait for help as the countrywide case toll soared through the 3,000 mark and authorities began going after people violating public health orders.
Crisis calls increase as COVID-19 sparks anxiety
Crisis lines and mental health professionals are seeing a jump in calls as Canadians come to grips with the unprecedented disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the increasingly drastic measures aimed at containing the novel coronavirus.
PM's wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, tests positive for COVID-19
The prime minister's wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and will remain in isolation, his office said on Thursday, March 12, 2020.
Subway ordered to pay CBC $500,000 for failed defamation lawsuit
Subway has been ordered to pay the CBC $500,000 in legal costs following its failed bid to sue the public broadcaster for defamation.
Canadians come home from Wuhan
Family members looked forward to reuniting with loved ones after two groups of weary Canadian citizens finally returned home on Friday, February 7, 2020, from the centre of a novel coronavirus outbreak in China.
Indigenous community rejects nuclear waste bunker near Lake Huron
An Indigenous community has overwhelmingly rejected a proposed underground storage facility for nuclear waste near Lake Huron, likely spelling the end for a multibillion-dollar, politically fraught project years in the making.
Obama slams Trump's latest climate change misstep
Efforts by the Trump administration to undo fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles are a setback to the battle against climate change, former U.S. president Barack Obama said on Thursday, January 23, 2020.
Lawyers' victims get payout after probe found gap in compensation system
A man who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars because of a negligent lawyer has finally received partial compensation years after winning a court judgment that has proven unenforceable.