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Liberals pledge financial aid to sectors of economy hit hard by COVID-19
OTTAWA — The federal government is rolling out billions of dollars in new financial help targeting hard-hit sectors of the economy, acknowledging that some companies need more support and others are slipping through the safety net of emergency aid me
Apr 17, 2020 2:48 PM
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Doctors don't know when masks are coming, despite deliveries arriving in Canada
OTTAWA — Even as planeloads of supplies to protect Canada's medical workers arrive, many primary-care physicians say they are in the dark about when they're going to get what they need to keep helping patients.
Apr 17, 2020 2:31 PM
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'A free-for-all:' Union wants grocery trips curtailed to slow COVID-19 spread
CALGARY — Western Canada's largest private-sector union is proposing that people be limited to one trip to the grocery store each week to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among customers and workers.
Apr 17, 2020 2:23 PM
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Two Montreal lawyers file application to trademark the term COVID-19
Two Montreal lawyers have applied to trademark COVID-19, a filing that some experts said it is unlikely to succeed.
Apr 17, 2020 2:12 PM
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Son remembers 'tough lady' who died from COVID-19 in Calgary care home
CALGARY — Rita Owen died in a Calgary care home three weeks shy of her 92nd birthday never knowing she'd contracted COVID-19.
Apr 17, 2020 2:07 PM
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COVID-19 exploits systemic cracks in nursing homes to devastating effect
TORONTO — The brutal assault of the novel coronavirus on long-term care facilities in Ontario has exposed long-standing, systemic problems in a sector that otherwise seldom receives top-of-mind public attention.
Apr 17, 2020 12:23 PM
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Ontario could be headed for primary-care crisis: medical association
OTTAWA — Nearly half the primary-care clinics in Ontario are at risk of closing their doors if the provincial government can't immediately pay doctors for virtual visits, according to a survey by the Ontario Medical Association.
Apr 17, 2020 12:06 PM
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As millions of workers apply for help, mothers-to-be say they can't get CERB
OTTAWA — Nearly one month ago, Effie Poole was laid off from her job as a server when the restaurant she worked at in Burlington, Ont., closed due to COVID-19.
Apr 17, 2020 10:41 AM
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Freeze carbon tax, delay new climate regs during virus crisis, oil lobby asks
OTTAWA — Canada's oil and gas producers have asked the federal government to freeze the carbon tax and delay new climate change regulations while the industry weathers the storm of COVID-19.
Apr 17, 2020 10:02 AM
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The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 9:15 p.m. B.C. is reporting two new outbreaks of COVID-19 — one at a long-term care facility in Cranbrook and one at an acute care unit at the Ridge Meadows Hospital in Maple Ridge.
Apr 17, 2020 9:00 AM
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