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RCMP to boost social media mining for threats ranging from disease to shootings

OTTAWA — Canada's national police force wants a digital tool to harvest data from a sweeping variety of online sources, including the darkest reaches of the internet, to provide early information on threats such as disease outbreaks and mass shooting

Apr 28, 2020 4:10 AM Read more >

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on April 28, 2020: There are 48,500 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

Apr 28, 2020 4:00 AM Read more >

Local restaurants feel squeezed by delivery apps' commission fees

VANCOUVER — Restaurants struggling to survive during the COVID-19 crisis have turned to take-out and delivery, but the fees charged by food-delivery companies are eating away their bottom line, some operators say.

Apr 28, 2020 4:00 AM Read more >

Plans underway for so-called salmon cannon to aid return at B.C. landslide: DFO

VANCOUVER — Plans are underway for a pneumatic fish pump, also known as a salmon cannon, to be used to help fish migrate past a landslide on British Columbia's Fraser River, officials with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans said Monday.

Apr 27, 2020 8:33 PM Read more >

Learning to live with COVID-19 requires permanent fixes to vulnerable settings

OTTAWA — Canada's chief public health officer warned Monday there is still a lot we don't know about the virus that causes COVID-19, but said stopping this pandemic or preventing a future one will require more than just physical distancing and handwa

Apr 27, 2020 7:18 PM Read more >

Flooding in Fort McMurray leads to request for military assistance from Ottawa

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Provincial and federal governments say they are ready to help with flooding in northern Alberta as the number of evacuations in Fort McMurray continued to increase Monday.

Apr 27, 2020 6:55 PM Read more >

The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 6:40 p.m. B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says there's clear evidence that measures being taken to fight the spread of COVID-19 are working.

Apr 27, 2020 6:46 PM Read more >

Conservatives gear up to grill government in modified return of House of Commons

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer laid out Monday the numerous lines of inquiry his party intends to follow this week as a modified version of a House of Commons sitting gets underway.

Apr 27, 2020 5:46 PM Read more >

Nearly 10,000 businesses apply for wage subsidy in first hours, Trudeau says

OTTAWA — Thousands of businesses have applied for the federal government's $73-billion wage subsidy program, joining a COVID-19 emergency economic plan that industry groups warn is becoming more complicated the longer businesses stay closed and worke

Apr 27, 2020 5:27 PM Read more >

Ontario, Quebec offer different plans for reopening; Trudeau will not dictate

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that Ottawa will help guide, but not dictate, how provinces and territories should start easing COVID-19 restrictions as Canada's two hardest-hit regions offered up starkly different plans for loosening the r

Apr 27, 2020 4:46 PM Read more >