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MONTREAL — Quebec has placed an additional five private long-term care homes under watch amid concerns that they're not able to properly respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, Premier Francois Legault said Monday.

YELLOWKNIFE — Northern miners have told the federal government that the wage subsidy program brought in to get the country through the COVID-19 pandemic leaves them out in the cold.

OTTAWA — The number of deaths in long-term care facilities is expected to keep rising, even as the growth of overall COVID-19 cases begins to slow, Canada's top public health official warned Monday. Dr.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory.

Federal officials are due to provide an update on measures for seniors, home care and temporary foreign workers during the COVID-19 crisis today.

OTTAWA — It was last on a list of eight threat scenarios, but the danger of a global pandemic made the cut when the Liberal government issued a national security policy in 2004.

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 6:45 p.m. Alberta is reporting four new deaths from COVID-19.

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:42 p.m. on April 12, 2020: There are 24,383 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

A look at some of the top quotes from Sunday on COVID-19 in Canada: "This is the challenge of our generation, and each and every one of us has a role to play.