Caroline Orr
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Analysis
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March 13th 2020
On one side of the world, countries like China and Iran were punishing doctors and journalists for sharing unfavourable information about the virus. On the other side of the world, the Trump administration was waging its own war on truth by undermining those who spoke against it.
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Canada's top public health officer raised the risk level associated with the growing COVID-19 pandemic on Sunday, March 15, 2020, even as retailers and top politicians reassured Canadian that any restrictive measures would not result in shortages of food or other basics.
Michelle McQuigge
News, Politics
| March 16th 2020
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The growing number of COVID-19 cases in Canada prompted a wave of restrictions aimed at protecting seniors on Saturday, March 14, 2020, as officials made more insistent calls for travellers to return home without delay.
Michelle McQuigge
News, Politics
| March 15th 2020
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Quebec's premier issued an order on Sunday, March 15, 2020, urging a number of public gathering places such as bars, theatres, gyms and cinemas to close their doors for two weeks in a bid to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Morgan Lowrie
News, Politics
| March 16th 2020
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The federal government is retooling messaging for travellers arriving in Canada amid criticism that it's not doing enough to ensure thousands of people entering the country don't drive a national spike in COVID-19 cases.
Stephanie Levitz
News, Politics
| March 16th 2020
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Canadians working or travelling in Europe are rushing to book flights back home as more countries announce plans to close their borders and suspend international air travel in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Salmaan Farooqui
News, Politics
| March 15th 2020
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The federal Liberal government imposed its own limits on incoming flights from overseas on Friday, March 13, 2020, — nothing as severe as Donald Trump's ban on foreign nationals arriving from Europe, but enough to signal to the United States that it need not erect a viral firewall along the Canada-U.S. border.
Mike Blanchfield, James McCarten
News, US News, Politics
| March 14th 2020
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Canada's central bank cut another half-point off its key interest rate in an emergency move that comes ahead of what the federal Liberals say will be a "significant" stimulus plan to cushion the economic blow from COVID-19.
Jordan Press, Craig Wong
News, Politics
| March 14th 2020
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British Columbia's call for recently retired doctors to return to work if the COVID-19 pandemic worsens is spurring other provinces to make similar emergency preparations, says the registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia.
Camille Bains
News, Politics
| March 15th 2020
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Ottawa's plans to respond to possible COVID-19 outbreaks in remote, fly-in and already vulnerable Indigenous communities are getting a failing grade from opposition politicians who say they display a troubling misunderstanding of the needs and conditions in these areas.
Teresa Wright
News, Politics
| March 15th 2020
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Many of the hundreds of people descending on one of Canada's first dedicated COVID-19 assessment centre went home without being tested on Saturday, March 14, 2020, as they fell short of the criteria requiring them to be screened for the virus.
The Canadian Press
News, Politics
| March 15th 2020
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For a Halifax father and daughter dedicated to taking on global infectious diseases, the novel coronavirus has led to their latest, exhausting push to create tests and vaccines to save lives.
Michael Tutton
News, Politics
| March 15th 2020
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