E-Learning begins for students across Ontario as COVID-19 closures continue
TORONTO — Students across Ontario began online learning Monday, more than three weeks after COVID-19 shuttered schools in the name of physical distancing.
Teachers will...
Trudeau cites U.S. as culprit in PPE problems, insists deliveries will...
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is acknowledging that Canada has been having problems with incomplete or non-existent deliveries of critical supplies for its fight...
Ford says Ontario has enough health-care protective gear for one more...
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says recent restrictions on shipments at the United States border have left the province with just one more...
Non-medical masks can keep people with COVID-19 from spreading it, Tam...
OTTAWA — Canada's top public-health doctor says wearing masks is a way for people who might have COVID-19 without realizing it to keep from...
Changes to emergency-relief program coming to expand eligibility, Trudeau says
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says 240,000 people successfully applied for emergency relief amid the COVID−19 pandemic in the first few hours after the...
Application process for emergency benefits for workers begins this morning
OTTAWA — Applications open today for the new federal emergency aid benefit for Canadians who lost their income because of COVID-19.
The Canada Revenue Agency...
How safe is grocery shopping?
By: James Burrows
Shopping trips are extra stressful these days as epidemiologists and governments try to grapple with how the spread of COVID-19 occurs. It’s...
Long-term care home in Oshawa, Ont., reports six COVID-19 deaths: health...
OSHAWA, Ont. — Public health officials say six COVID-19 patients at a long-term care home in Oshawa, Ont., have died.
Glendene Collins of the Durham...
Ontario COVID-19 deaths jump past 100; caseload more than 4,000
TORONTO — Another 25 people in Ontario have succumbed to COVID-19, bringing the provincial death toll for those who have tested positive for the virus to...
Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in...
TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week:
Business outlook
The Bank of Canada will release its business...
Parents, teachers say transition to e-learning will be a learning process
TORONTO — As children in elementary schools prepare for online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers and parents say it’ll be an imperfect process as they figure...
Pandemic has shunted aside an array of Liberal initiatives, at least...
OTTAWA — 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.
Then...
Ontario strikes deal with educational workers; urges two others to talk
TORONTO — Educational workers have reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement with the Ontario government.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced the proposed deal in a...
The inexact science involved in predicting the likely path of COVID-19
TORONTO — 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...
Ontario sees 27 more COVID deaths as cases jump; 94 now...
TORONTO — Another 27 people with COVID-19 have died in Ontario, where the total number of cases surged to at least 3,630 as another provincewide...
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