Ottawa is converting Employment Insurance payments into emergency pandemic support for Amanda Demerse, a North Bay woman who lost her part-time job to COVID-19 in March and is struggling to pay rent and buy food on her meagre provincial disability benefits.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the NHL plans to use private labs to process the COVID-19 tests of players and staff should the league resume play this summer.
A 17-year-old male faces a number of charges after the Cadillac he was driving ended up in the Welland River behind Welland city hall and the courthouse Tuesday.At about 5:20 p.m., Niagara Regional Police responded to the area of Cross Street near
OTTAWA – A new joint Canada-U.S. scientific study of hydroxychloroquine says the drug that U.S. President Donald Trump promotes as a preventive medication does not protect people who’ve been exposed to the coronavirus from developing the COVID-19 disease.
AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. said its ability to stay in business is in jeopardy if it can’t raise enough cash to fund operations during the prolonged closure of its theatres due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Stocks are opening higher again on Wall Street, extending the market’s gains into a fourth day. The S&P 500 rose 0.9 per cent in the first few minutes of trading Wednesday. Banks, industrial and energy companies led the way higher. Those sectors have been the most badly bruised this year and would also be among those that would stand to benefit the most from a recovering economy.
NBA leaders will vote on an elaborate return-to-play proposal that includes 22 teams, a truncated resumption of the suspended regular season and a full round of playoffs to crown a champion sometime in October, according to reports.
An employee at a Hamilton Mountain FreshCo store tested positive for COVID-19, according to an online tracker established by the store’s parent company, Sobeys Inc.
What’s going on with contact tracing? This has been a running — and increasingly urgent — question throughout Ontario’s COVID-19 epidemic. But this piece of the public health response has remained a black box to outsiders, including doctors who are sounding the alarm over what they describe as unacceptable delays.
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