VICTORIA—Down the winding walkway leading to the exclusive Deep Cove Chalet restaurant and winery is fixed a strongly worded sign: Do not come in without a reservation, even just to “look around.”
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Teachers, parents and health workers will push for a permanent increase to the minimum amount of sick leave Canadian workers are entitled to at a rally in Toronto on Saturday, warning that without it, lower-income parents and education workers may not take time off.
CALGARY—The union representing workers at the Sofina Foods/Lilydale poultry processing plant in Calgary is calling for the immediate closure of the plant following a COVID-19 outbreak.
The Ontario government plans to introduce legislation this fall to prevent rent increases for most tenant households in 2021, Housing Minister, Steve Clark, said on Friday afternoon.
WINNIPEG—The Manitoba government is reporting 32 new COVID-19 cases, and says the percentage of people testing positive has started to drop from a recent spike.
MONTREAL—A private high school on Montreal’s south shore sent an entire Grade 7 class home this week after a parent of one of the students called in to say he had tested positive for COVID-19.
Ontario is back above 1,100 cases of COVID-19 for the first time in three weeks as the number of new infections continued to climb, hospitalizations rose 27 per cent and six new deaths were reported Friday, the highest since early July.