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'Invasion of privacy': Watchdogs concerned about apps tracking COVID-19 patients
VANCOUVER - Privacy watchdogs are voicing concerns over proposals across the country to implement smartphone apps to help track COVID-19. New Brunswick, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Saskat...
May 02, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:42 p.m. on May 2, 2020: There are 56,714 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 29,656 confirmed (includi...
May 02, 2020
A look at how provinces plan to emerge from COVID-19 shutdown
Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far: ...
May 02, 2020
Officials say efforts by Canadians to flatten the curve of COVID-19 are working
Canada's top public health official struck an optimistic tone about the COVID-19 pandemic on Saturday, saying that efforts to flatten the curve are working as provinces across the country reported mor...
May 02, 2020
Union trying to stop Alberta meat plant with COVID-19 outbreak from reopening
CALGARY - A union is trying to halt the planned reopening of an Alberta beef-packing plant that has been the site of a major COVID-19 outbreak. There have been 921 cases of the virus at th...
May 01, 2020
Not mandatory: Alberta launches COVID-19 mobile contact-tracing app
EDMONTON - Alberta is launching a voluntary mobile app to expand contact tracing for COVID-19 to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. It's believed to be the first of its kind in Nort...
May 01, 2020
COVID-19 outbreaks in 23 First Nations prompting concerns
OTTAWA - Federal officials say the next two weeks will be crucial in trying to determine the scope and severity of the spread of COVID-19 in First Nations communities. Cases of the virus have begun to...
May 01, 2020
Public transit prepping for new normal as cities and provinces start to reopen
The gradual reopening of Canada's economy will not mean business as usual for the country's public transit agencies. Despite the fact that a slowly growing number of workers will make their way b...
May 01, 2020
As world waits for COVID-19 therapy, U.S. warily eyes Canada's drug-price plans
WASHINGTON - The United States is keeping Canada and its plans to overhaul its drug-pricing system on a "watch list" of countries deemed a peril to American intellectual property rights...
May 01, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 7:12 p.m. Royal assent has been given to legislation authorizing $9 billion worth of emergency benefits for students who ...
May 01, 2020
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Sarah Mills: Floor crossing should be a choice between sitting as an independent or running in a byelection
Sarah Mills says floor crossing from any party in the House of Commons just one year into a mandate shouldn't be allowed...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, April 10
8:30 - After another conservative MP crossed the floor to the Liberals earlier this week, we wanted to get thoughts from...
