Premier Doug Ford will make multiple public appearances at businesses today to thank Ontario workers for their service during the coronavirus pandemic.
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.
VANCOUVER—As she boarded a bus Monday after a morning of classes at a downtown Vancouver campus, Tina Hoang was pleased to see that most passengers were physically distancing.
Grade 9 math will be the first subject to be destreamed in Ontario, starting in 2021 — meaning no more applied-level math classes that, if taken, leave teens with almost no chance of going to university.
To those who don’t find their existence much different than what it was pre-COVID, well, you must be living in seemingly oblivious Florida. Which just happens to be where the stars of the NBA and Major League Soccer are sending their star players as they attempt to hold a competitive season amidst a global pandemic.
WASHINGTON—On the question of loosening restrictions on border crossings between Canada and the U.S., most Canadians have a simple answer, summed up in an email I received from Laura Teskey, who lives near Crystal Beach minutes from the border: “NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO… and NO!”
Health Minister Christine Elliott has promised to take action to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Toronto’s hard-hit northwest corner, after the chair of the city’s health board called on the province to do more to protect vulnerable residents in these neighbourhoods.