The Liberals are projecting the deficit will soar to $343.2 billion in 2020-2021 due to pandemic relief programs.That is a historic level and 43-billion-dollars beyond even the highest private sector predictions.Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government expects nearly two-million Canadians will remain out of work this year as the COVID-19 pandemic drags down the economy.In the event of a second wave of infections, the government is forecasting a deeper and longer-lasting negative impact on the economy. The COVID-19 fiscal snapshot: By the numbersEstimated federal deficit for 2020-21:

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says if the Rideau Hall intruder had been a person of colour the outcome would have been different. Military reservist and Manitoba businessman Corey Hurren is in an Ottawa jail facing 22 charges for allegedly carrying weapons and making a threat against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Police say they arrested Hurren early on July 2, about 200 metres from Trudeau's front door, after he allegedly rammed his pickup truck through gates at Rideau Hall and then ran with a loaded gun through the grounds towards Trudeau's residence. Singh says systemic racism is at play when H

There are 106,167 confirmed cases in Canada. Quebec: 55,997 confirmed (including 5,590 deaths, 25,458 resolved) Ontario: 36,060 confirmed (including 2,691 deaths, 31,603 resolved) Alberta: 8,436 confirmed (including 157 deaths, 7,659 resolved) British Columbia: 2,990 confirmed (including 183 deaths, 2,645 resolved) Nova Scotia: 1,065 confirmed (including 63 deaths, 998 resolved) Saskatchewan: 806 confirmed (including 15 deaths, 737 resolved) Manitoba: 314 confirmed (including 7 deaths, 307 resolved), 11 presumptive Newfoundland and Labrador: 261 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 258 resolved) Ne

British Columbia health officials announced 12 new infections of COVID-19 on Tuesday as the government extended the provincial state of emergency for two more weeks. The government says the province has had 2,990 cases of COVID-19 in total. The province has 162 active cases and 2,645 people who tested positive have recovered from the illness. The statement says there have been no new COVID-19 related deaths and the number of people who have died stands at 183. One of the new cases announced on Tuesday is epidemiologically linked, which means public health investigations have shown that it mee

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer was spotted Tuesday in a Toronto airport lounge not wearing a mandatory mask.Two separate photos of the bare-faced party leader sitting comfortably in a waiting area circulated online but his office says he was wearing a mask for his trip.A spokesperson said the photos must have been taken after he doffed the covering to take a call but before he put it back on.Toronto's Pearson airport currently has a policy that masks must be worn at all times to curb the spread of COVID-19, with limited exceptions that include being at a food or beverage service location.Th

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for COVID-19 after months of downplaying the virus' severity. Bolsonaro confirmed the test results while wearing a mask and speaking to reporters in the capital of Brasilia. ``I'm well, normal. I even want to take a walk around here, but I can't due to medical recommendation,'' Bolsonaro said. After months of downplaying the virus' severity, Brazil's president says he has tested positive for COVID-19. Wearing a mask, Jair Bolsonaro told reporters he is already taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial medicine un-proven to treat

A motorcyclist from Whitehorse and a Manitoba woman travelling in Yukon have died in a multi-vehicle crash just south of Whitehorse. RCMP and the coroner say an eastbound vehicle tried to pass another but clipped it and veered into the path of the oncoming motorcyclist. 43 year old Travis Adams died at the scene along with 47 year old Nicole Sanderson of Winnipeg, who was a passenger in the vehicle. Police say the driver of the car carrying Sanderson and a passenger in the vehicle were seriously hurt but are expected to recover.

The BC Coroners Service is investigating the death of an inmate at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre in Greater Victoria. 26 year old David Gordon Ivany was found dead in his jail cell on June 21. He had been arrested by West Shore RCMP three days earlier on probation-related charges and was being held in custody while awaiting his next appearance in provincial court in Victoria. A statement from the Public Safety Ministry says BC Corrections is completing a review of the death while the coroners service will examine how, when and by what means Ivany died. The ministry has not

Two people have been found dead in a home in east Vancouver.A statement from Vancouver police says the two men had been shot.Officers were called to the home near Commercial Drive and East 11th Avenue just after midnight.They say the unnamed victims were deceased, but have released no further details.The slayings are Vancouver's sixth and seventh homicides of 2020.