The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Friday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
As laid-off Canadians receive their last payments from the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), many are wondering whether the government’s promised changes to the Employment Insurance (EI) program will be enough to keep them afloat.
Toronto Public Health’s recommendations that the Toronto District School Board reduce class sizes below provincial guidelines is the latest knock against Premier Doug Ford’s schools reopening plan.
SURREY, B.C.—Sending British Columbia’s students back to class in September will be “an unprecedented challenge” during a pandemic, but Premier John Horgan said he’s confident children will be safe.
A Richmond Hill woman who celebrated drunk driving in social media posts before killing a cyclist with her car in 2015 has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to new charges of impaired driving — her third such conviction in five years.
There are more than a few signs that the people of Ontario are not bursting with pride when it comes to their government’s plan for school reopening in September.
Over 80 per cent of Canada’s COVID-related deaths are associated with nursing homes, with the majority of them being older persons living with dementia.
What began as a shout-out to personal support workers at his mother-in-law’s nursing home ended up as a promise from Premier Doug Ford to give PSWs a raise.