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Ontario closing more businesses effective today

The sacrifices Ontarians have made recently have saved thousands from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Premier Doug Ford said on Friday, March 3, 2020, even as he announced more stringent measures in a bid to avert what new projections suggest could be a dire outcome.

Canada's top doctor asking hospitals to reuse masks

Canadian hospitals should not throw out used face masks and other protective equipment because public health officials are investigating whether it will be possible to disinfect and reuse them, Canada's public health chief said on Sunday, April 5, 2020.

Trudeau to talk to Trump about masks for Canada

Faced with a White House-ordered ban on exports of key COVID-19 medical supplies to Canada and abroad, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is trying a more diplomatic approach with U.S. President Donald Trump, hoping to convince him such a ban will harm Americans and Canadians alike.

Should you take COVID-19 death predictions literally?

Data experts are cautioning already on-edge Canadians against taking Ontario's dire predictions about COVID-19 deaths literally, even as the revelation of stark data coincided with more physical distancing measures and impassioned pleas by government and health officials to stay home.

Bars, cannabis business eligible for $40B gov't credit program

Devastated bars and lounges as well as the country's hard-hit cannabis sector will have access to $40 billion in new credit being made available via the government's business bank during the COVID-19 crisis, its CEO said on Sunday, April 5, 2020.

Pandemic thwarting some key Trudeau government initiatives

As a new year dawned, the government's throne-speech commitments, unfurled just weeks earlier, were grabbing headlines and galvanizing the attention of federal policy-makers.

Ferries, commercial vessels to reduce passenger numbers to avoid COVID-19

The federal government is bringing in further measures to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 on commercial passenger vessels and ferries.

Now experts say you can give COVID-19 to pets

14 migrant workers at a Kelowna, B.C. nursery tested positive for COVID-19

The federal and provincial governments are facing a "potential disaster" if more protections and social-distancing guidelines aren't extended to migrant agricultural workers, advocates say.

New policy means drug cost increases

A new policy that has pharmacists restricting patients to a 30-day supply of their medications means some people are having to pay dispensing fees two or three times over.