Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government will provide $500 million in support to the arts, culture and sports sectors through Heritage Canada. The move comes as part of broader efforts to support creative industries impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Trudeau says those industries ``continue to make us dream, particularly in dark times.'' More details on the financial support are expected to be outlined today by Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is sending military assistance to Quebec. He says 125 members of the Canadian Armed Forces with medical expertise will travel to the province. It is to support the province's long-term care facilities.

Ontario is reporting 564 new COVID-19 cases today, with 55 new deaths. It's the largest single-day increase of cases, though the growth rate is still holding steady at around six per cent. Ontario has now seen 9,525 cases, with nearly half now resolved, and including 478 deaths. The number of patients in hospital with COVID-19 grew from 807 to 829, but the numbers of people in intensive care and on ventilators remained steady.

Quebec is reporting a total of 16,798 cases and 58 more COVID-19 related deaths, bringing the provincial toll to 688. Premier Francois Legault says while 1,076 people are hospitalized, with 207 of those in intensive care, the COVID-19 situation in Quebec is largely stable outside the Montreal area. Legault said he's been considering what he could have done since becoming premier to have avoided the situation in the province's hard-hit long-term care homes that are dealing with a severe lack of staffing. He says if he could do it again, he would have raised the salaries of orderlies more quick

Ottawa is going to spend $1.7 billion to help clean up orphaned wells.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says dealing with abandoned oil and gas wells is good for the environment, landowners and for the thousands of workers needed to do the job.He's also announced the government is creating a $700 fund to cut methane emissions.In addition, $962 million in funding is in the works for regional development agencies to help more businesses.

Transat A.T. Inc. plans to use the federal emergency wage subsidy to rehire 4,000 employees it had temporarily laid off after halting all flights due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Transat says the employees, the vast majority of whom are flight attendants, will not be required to work as part of their recall.The returning staff will receive 75 percent of their baseline pay up to a maximum of $847 per week, as defined in federal legislation passed last week.Transat CEO Jean-Marc Eustache says laying of 80 per cent of his employees was a ``necessary but heartbreaking decision,'' adding that he hopes

There are 30,106 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. Quebec: 15,857 confirmed (including 630 deaths, 2,841 resolved) Ontario: 8,961 confirmed (including 423 deaths, 4,194 resolved) Alberta: 2,158 confirmed (including 50 deaths, 914 resolved) British Columbia: 1,575 confirmed (including 77 deaths, 983 resolved) Nova Scotia: 579 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 176 resolved) Saskatchewan: 305 confirmed (including 4 deaths, 219 resolved) Newfoundland and Labrador: 252 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 170 resolved) Manitoba: 239 confirmed (including 5 deaths, 121 resolved), 11 presumptive New

Alberta has 162 new cases of COVID-19, the highest single day report to date, and two more residents in long term care homes have died. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, the province's chief medical officer of health, says one of the victims was a resident in the Manoir du Lac retirement home in northern Alberta and the other was in a care centre in High River. 50 people in Alberta have died so far from the novel coronavirus, and the total number of cases has reached 2,158. The deaths include 32 residents in care centres, and officials have been tracking outbreaks in 22 of these facilities. Officials are al

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke this morning to other G7 leaders to discuss the ongoing global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Trudeau says they are committed to working together to find a vaccine, develop new treatments and expand testing, as well as helping developing nations respond better to the crisis.