OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join Canada’s top public health officers on Friday for their daily update on the worsening COVID-19 health crisis.
In late May, as spring turned to summer, Premier Doug Ford told every Ontarian who wanted a COVID-19 test to go get one — even if they didn’t have symptoms. “Just show up,” he said.
VICTORIA—British Columbia’s top doctor is thanking supporters after revealing she has faced abuse and death threats related to her public health orders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
OTTAWA — The federal government says it will not pressure Health Canada to rush approval of rapid tests for COVID-19, insisting the process must be independent of political influence.
It’s not that the province doesn’t have a plan. You might have worried about that over the last few weeks, as COVID-19 case counts rose and worried experts yelped and Ontario didn’t do … much of anything. The province paused reopening, and eventually lowered some gathering limits. Nothing else, though.
Daycare was hands-down the big winner from this week’s throne speech, and that’s a victory for parents, kids, pandemic-stricken workplaces and the labour force of the future.
Lawyers for former national security adviser John Bolton told a judge Thursday they want to interview White House officials following new allegations that a pre-publication review of his tell-all book was politicized in an effort to block its release.