In April, Canada’s big banks announced mortgage deferral programs that would allow borrowers to skip some payments on their mortgages. Nearly 19 per cent of Alberta mortgage holders continue to defer their insured mortgage payments, according to CMHC’s latest figures.
"In response to a Request for Assistance from the Ontario Minister of Health and Minister of Long-term Care, the Government of Canada is supporting the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) to deploy resources into seven long-term care facilities in the Ottawa-Champlain region," a ministry spokesperson said.
Hydro-Québec has poured US$8.3-million into a campaign to influence a referendum in Maine on a controversial new electricity transmission corridor, raising accusations of foreign election interference.
While being held at the Irwin immigration detention center in Georgia, one Mexican woman was reportedly subject to gynecological surgery without her approval and without receiving post-operative care, the ministry said in a weekend statement.
The demand for subsidized housing units in Manitoba is rising — and so is the number of those units sitting empty, which has some advocates worrying the province is planning to rid itself of more affordable housing stock.
There is speculation the move to replace D’Amours was made in response to the public uproar surrounding the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman who died under troubling circumstances at the Joliette hospital north of Montreal on Sept. 28.
A social media post alleges the man, Jonathan Achneepineskum, was “beaten with 2 baseball bats by 4 white looking guys that jumped out of a white looking truck, enduring 5 days in and out of consciousness.”
Children First Canada and Abacus Data found that 13 per cent of parents in Canada have had a child sent home from school, leaving them to struggle with adjusting schedules while waiting for COVID-19 test results.
Applications for the new benefit, which will pay $500 per week for up to 26 weeks, can be made through the Canada Revenue Agency. The benefit is open to those who don't qualify for EI because they never paid into it or don't have enough hours.
On Monday morning, some people reported having trouble applying through the Government of Canada website.
Meili argued the late emergence of cases in Saskatchewan coupled with its lower population density gave it an advantage in containing the virus in the spring. He says government should have taken a stronger position on the use of face masks and invested more money into reducing class sizes in schools and improving staffing in health care, both central NDP platform points.
Facebook Inc. said it would begin removing Holocaust denials or distortions from its social-media platforms, a move that follows years of complaints from civil-rights groups that the company tolerated hate speech and enabled the spread of misinformation.
"We witnessed how the Arctic ocean is dying," Rex said. "We saw this process right outside our windows, or when we walked on the brittle ice."
"At the North Pole itself, we found badly eroded, melted, thin and brittle ice."