Coronavirus (COVID-19) National News

Dr. David Williams said while students are to be kept in strict cohorts that limit contact with other children, there may be scenarios where public health officials opt for broader, more proactive testing in schools

The CERB will be extended another four weeks, and a new benefit that pays $400 a week for up to 26 weeks will replace it for those ineligible for employment insurance

Masks, gloves will be carried into the ocean and could be washed up on distant shores

Home insurance policies typically have an exclusion stating that there is no business operating out of the home. And the definition of “business” could include working from home even as an employee

The survey also found strong support among respondents with children for requiring certain protections to be taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at schools

Ontario Education Workers United, an organization made up of high school teachers, is the latest to sound the alarm over the Ontario government's back-to-school plan

Twenty-nine percent of voters say that they prefer provincial governments over the federal government

A recent study found that even among people who lived in the same house, there was only a one-in-five chance that another member of the household would catch it

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs pull the plug Monday on his minority Conservative government, becoming the first jurisdiction in Canada to send voters to the polls in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic

Data showed that Ontario police services conducted over 95,000 searches of the database while it was active