CanadaJun 05, 2020
Trudeau offers premiers $14 billion to help reopen the economy safely
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is offering $14 billion to the provincial and territorial governments for measures to keep COVID-19 at bay.He says it's part of the federal government's support for restoring economic activity across the country amid the pandemic. He says having the right plan and the resources to back it up will be critical to progress through the summer, fall and winter.How the money is distributed will depend on reaching what Trudeau calls a ``safe-restart agreement'' between the federal government and each province or territory. The money would hel
CanadaJun 05, 2020
Minister says reckoning on police violence against Indigenous people needed
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says he is outraged at police violence against Indigenous people in Canada.
Miller says Canada needs a reckoning because there is a pattern of police violence against First Nations, Metis and Inuit people that continues to repeat itself.
Miller says he ``watched in disgust'' a graphic video of an RCMP officer in Nunavut ramming the door of his car into an Inuk man walking along the road in Kinngait Monday evening.
And Miller says he does not understand how police sent to check on the well-being of 26-year-old Chantel Moore in Edmundston, N.B., Thursday
CanadaJun 05, 2020
National unemployment rate hits new record even as economy adds jobs
Statistics Canada reports a record high unemployment rate as the economy added 289,600 jobs in May, with businesses reopening amid easing public health restrictions.
The unemployment rate rose to 13.7 per cent, topping the previous high of 13.1 per cent set in December 1982 in more than four decades of comparable data.
The increase in the unemployment rate came as more people started looking for work.
The average economist estimate was for a loss of 500,000 jobs in May and for the unemployment rate to rise to 15.0 per cent, according to financial markets data firm Refinitiv.
The increase in t
CanadaJun 05, 2020
644 COVID-19 cases and 139 deaths reported in Canada
There are 93,726 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. Quebec: 52,143 confirmed (including 4,885 deaths, 17,098 resolved) Ontario: 29,403 confirmed (including 2,357 deaths, 23,208 resolved) Alberta: 7,091 confirmed (including 146 deaths, 6,611 resolved) British Columbia: 2,632 confirmed (including 166 deaths, 2,265 resolved) Nova Scotia: 1,058 confirmed (including 61 deaths, 995 resolved) Saskatchewan: 648 confirmed (including 11 deaths, 608 resolved) Manitoba: 287 confirmed (including 7 deaths, 284 resolved), 11 presumptive Newfoundland and Labrador: 261 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 2
CanadaJun 04, 2020
New Brunswick police ask for independent review after officer shoots, kills B.C. woman
A 26 year old woman from British Columbia has been shot and killed by police in northwestern New Brunswick. The Edmundston Police Force says it received a request to check on a woman's well-being at an apartment building early Thursday morning. The force says the officer who responded to the call encountered a ``woman holding a knife who made threats.'' It says the officer fired a weapon and attempted to resuscitate the woman, who was from Port Alberni, B.C., but she was pronounced dead at the scene. The force says it's asking for an independent review of the incident, and New Brunswick RCMP
CanadaJun 04, 2020
Dr. Theresa Tam warns about relaxing public health restrictions too quickly
Dr. Theresa Tam is warning that relaxing public health restrictions too quickly or too soon could lead to a rampant resurgence of COVID-19. The chief public health officer delivered a new report today that shows most of the country has seen the spread of the disease diminish substantially. But Tam is pointing out hot spots of community transmission in Toronto and Montreal that she says are concerning. New short-term projections say as many as 1,857 more Canadians could die of COVID-19 in the next 11 days. Chief Public Health Officer says by mid-month there could be as many as 107,500 cases of
CanadaJun 04, 2020
Special payments to seniors to arrive in early July, Liberals say
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a special one-time payment for seniors will go out the week of July 6.
The COVID-19-related aid will come in the form of $300 payments to the more than six million people who receive old-age security benefits, and an additional $200 for the 2.2 million who also receive the guaranteed income supplement.
Seniors who already receive benefits won't have to apply for the special payment.
Those who reside in the country can expect to receive payment by direct deposits or cheques that week.
Anyone living outside the country should expect delays if they receive cheq
CanadaJun 03, 2020
Jagmeet Singh calls PM Trudeau's response, irresponsible and hypocritical
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is coming under fire for refusing to outright condemn US President Donald Trump's handling of the escalating anti-racism protests across the U-S. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet says Trudeau's more than 20 second pause when asked about Trump's actions, followed by a response on the need to battle racism in Canada, was irresponsible and hypocritical. But former Green Party leader Elizabeth May says she understands Trudeau is in a difficult position because of the need to maintain trade relations with the US.
CanadaJun 03, 2020
People planning to attend anti-racism rallies should make sure of taking care not to catch COVID-19: Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland wants anyone planning to attend upcoming anti-racism rallies to make sure they are taking care not to catch COVID-19. Events are planned in Ottawa and Toronto and several other cities across the country. Her comments come as George Floyd's family demanded the arrest of all four police officers involved in his death. The Floyd family visited a makeshift shrine this morning at the Minneapolis street corner where Floyd died on May 25th. A white police officer pressed a knee on the black man's neck as he pleaded for air.
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