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While Canadian businesses wait for Parliament to approve a $73-billion wage subsidy program, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to highlight today, April 10, 2020, another measure that will tide some companies over in the meantime.

A privacy expert says Alberta's plan to use smartphone technology to enforce quarantines should come with a clear end date and detailed explanation of how data would be handled.

Premier Jason Kenney says forecast models for the COVID-19 crisis in Alberta predict anywhere from 400 to 6,600 deaths in the months to come.

When the mayor of a village in southern Alberta stares across the border, he sees family and friends who just happen to call Montana home.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will confer today, March 26, 2020, with leaders of the world's biggest economies about the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rapid shutdown of public life in Canada has had an immediate economic impact. Secondary effects will play out over months and years, economists warn.

The federal government rolled out a $1-billion package on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, to help the country's health-care system and economy cope with the novel coronavirus outbreak as the number of cases in Canada grew, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned that the situation could get worse, and the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.

Some 228 Canadians are beginning a two-week quarantine at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, in Ontario, after being repatriated from a cruise ship with a cluster of novel coronavirus cases.

The federal Conservatives are calling for spending cuts and waste reduction in the coming budget to unleash the economy and create jobs.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on industries, citizens, and Indigenous groups to help shape the future of Canada's climate policy.

A new economic report says the next decade in Canada will increasingly be shaped by the twin forces of climate change and demographic disruption from an aging population.

Canada's economy contracted slightly in October, with real gross domestic product down 0.1 per cent from September — the first month-to-month decline since February, Statistics Canada reported on Monday, December 23, 2019.

The Trudeau government is digging for intelligence on the role Canada's mining sector could play in providing the United States and other key trading partners with crucial minerals and metals — from cobalt to tellurium — considered building blocks of the new economy.

Parliament's budget watchdog warns that rougher economic waters will mean a deeper federal deficit, with no certainty on how much deeper.