Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is unveiling a $9 billion emergency program aimed at students. It includes a Canada Emergency Student Benefit worth at least $1250 a month from May to August. The benefit can be accessed by those in post-secondary school now, headed to post secondary school in September or anyone who graduated after December 2019.The government is also creating 76,000 job placements for young people in sectors currently dealing with labour shortages.

There are 38,422 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. Quebec: 20,126 confirmed (including 1,041 deaths, 4,048 resolved) Ontario: 11,735 confirmed (including 622 deaths, 5,806 resolved) Alberta: 3,095 confirmed (including 61 deaths, 1,273 resolved) British Columbia: 1,724 confirmed (including 87 deaths, 1,041 resolved) Nova Scotia: 737 confirmed (including 10 deaths, 286 resolved) Saskatchewan: 320 confirmed (including 4 deaths, 252 resolved) Newfoundland and Labrador: 257 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 194 resolved) Manitoba: 246 confirmed (including 6 deaths, 150 resolved), 9 presumpti

A Halifax area man impersonating an RCMP officer killed 22 people, including a 17 year old, with bodies found in five Nova Scotia communities. RCMP confirm the murders began in Portapique. They say when police arrived they discovered several casualties inside and outside of a home. Police say they are working at 16 specific locations to gather evidence and learn more about what happened. The violence began Saturday night and ended at around noon on Sunday when police shot and killed 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman.

The federal government says it hopes to process 90 per cent of applications for wage subsidies from employers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic by May 5. Jean-Yves Duclos, the vice-chair of the cabinet committee on COVID-19, offered the timeline after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced this morning that applications for wage support will be open next Monday. However, neither Trudeau nor Duclos could say when money would actually start to flow to employers. Employers whose bottom lines have been hit by the pandemic will be able to apply for the federal government to cover up to 75 per cen

Canada's chief medical officer Dr. Theresa Tam says she and her provincial counterparts are considering ways to ease restrictions around COVID-19. But she says the fight against the pandemic remains a ``marathon'' and there are lots of unknowns at play. Tam is urging individual sectors to start thinking about innovative ways of reopening while preventing the illness from spreading, as immunity against COVID-19 across the country is ``not high.''

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says two airplanes that were supposed to pick up protective equipment for frontline medical workers in China were forced to leave that country empty because of delays on the ground. Trudeau says the equipment was supposed to deliver equipment ordered by the federal government and one province, which he declined to identify. Trudeau says planes are only allowed to remain in China for short periods of time while checkpoints and other challenges make movement on the ground difficult.

Nova Scotia is reporting another death related to COVID-19, bringing the province's total to 10. The death occurred at the Northwood long-term care home in Halifax Regional Municipality. Nova Scotia is reporting 16 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 737 confirmed cases. Two hundred and eighty-six individuals have now recovered in Nova Scotia and their cases of COVID-19 are considered resolved. As of yesterday, there are 10 licensed long-term care homes and unlicensed seniors' facilities in Nova Scotia with cases of COVID-19, involving 128 residents and 62 staff.

Ontario is reporting 551 new COVID-19 cases today, and 38 new deaths. The new provincial total of 11,735 cases is a 4.9 per cent increase over Monday's total, which is the lowest growth rate in weeks. The total includes 622 deaths and 5,806 resolved cases which is nearly half.

Quebec is announcing it has broken through a grim milestone after recording more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19. Premier Francois Legault said today 102 people died compared with yesterday, for a total of 1,041 deaths out of 20,126 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. The province currently has 201 patients in intensive care, an increase of three people compared with yesterday. Legault says the infection rate in long-term care homes and senior residences continues to be a major challenge, adding there are 80 such facilities where he says the virus is not under control.