For more than 100 years, a black Palmer piano has been part of Alicia Doucette’s family history. Her grandmother tinkled its ivories, her mother grew up playing it, and Doucette and her siblings had their early musical training on the instrument.
The latest novel coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday (this file will be updated throughout the day). Web links to longer stories if available.
VANCOUVER—It wasn’t the death that caused the upheaval — working in long-term care, no matter where you are or what the circumstances, death is expected.
Canadian pediatricians have been issued a “Be On the Lookout” advisory for an acute inflammatory disease similar to Kawasaki disease that has been observed affecting children during the coronavirus pandemic.
At least 28,100 residents and workers have died from the coronavirus at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities for older adults in the United States, according to a New York Times database. The virus so far has infected more than 153,000 at some 7,700 facilities.
Canadians separated from their foreign spouses due to border closings have launched a petition urging Ottawa to reunite them during the coronavirus pandemic.
Ontarians testing positive for COVID-19 are more likely to live in neighbourhoods characterized by precarious housing, lower income status and a greater concentration of immigrants and visible minorities.
Coronavirus-stricken Broadway actor Nick Cordero has awoken from the medically induced coma he entered in late March, his wife, Amanda Kloots, announced Tuesday.
Frankly, Canada has enough COVID-19 problems. We have a clutch of flat-earth no-vaccine wackos blocking the ambulance bay in a Vancouver hospital, and sprinklings of similar protesters at Queen’s Park, lonely and lost. Quebec is reopening schools amid unsettled science, and Ontario’s premier had two daughters visit for Mother’s Day, then fumbled the public health recommendation for everyone else. Oh, and Bryan Adams stepped in it. And by it, we mean xenophobia.
As provincial governments loosen red tape on everything from alcohol sales to medical appointments amid COVID-19, some Canadians are giving the new normal standing ovations.
The federal government’s long-anticipated plan to backstop the country’s biggest, most-troubled companies had a whiff of generals fighting the last war when Finance Minister Bill Morneau rolled it out this week — and with good reason.
The TTC is facing a budget shortfall from the COVID-19 crisis that could grow to more than half a billion dollars by Labour Day, and the agency will be unable to continue providing vital transit service unless it gets financial help from the provincial and federal governments, according to a new report.
COVID-19 has devastated economies, destroyed “normal” life and taxed health-care systems all around the world, but in Canada its brutal ability to kill has been heavily concentrated in long-term-care homes.
Ontario will remain on coronavirus lockdown until June 2, but Premier Doug Ford is set to announce the next stage of businesses and services allowed to reopen.