A Brampton councillor recently raised concerns about the city’s ongoing overcrowded housing problem and how it’s affecting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city — which was recently identified as a hot spot for the virus.
When coronavirus lockdowns sent Americans into a frenzy of panic buying, the bad news came almost as quickly as the good for online organic grocer Thrive Market.
OTTAWA—The Canadian Paediatric Society is calling on education ministries to allow safe, in-person graduations for students to help give them closure and support after a challenging end to the school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
An 18-year-old from Mississauga behind a crowdsourcing website that maps COVID-19 hot spots in Canada is now helping Somalia gather information about the virus.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday (this file will be updated throughout the day). Web links to longer stories if available.
As Canada works to flatten the coronavirus curve, the combination of anxiety, economic insecurity and isolation has mental health experts concerned that suicide rates in the country could be headed in the opposite direction.
COVID-19 infections in younger people are on the rise in certain hotspots across the GTA and Hamilton, according to provincial data, medical officers and researchers — especially in Toronto and Peel, both of which have seen a recent increase in reported cases among 20-somethings in recent weeks.
As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic reached Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University professor Janet McLaughlin knew it was just a matter of time before migrant farm workers would be hit by the coronavirus.