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https://ift.tt/35ll9fd Finance Minister Bill Morneau is poised to announce the next governor of the Bank of Canada, changing the leadership of the country's central bank as it navigates the uncertainty of a pandemic-driven recession. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3f8dQvZ

https://ift.tt/2KOFmRl The First Nation hereditary chiefs who earlier this year were at the centre of protests over a natural gas pipeline in northwestern B.C. say they are ready to begin talks about rights and title over their traditional lands. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2yVcjsC

https://ift.tt/3aRFjPh Hundreds of protesters, some armed, gathered at Michigan's state capitol in Lansing on Thursday objecting to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's request to extend emergency powers to combat COVID-19, an appeal Republican lawmakers ignored. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3fabug3

https://ift.tt/3cJUFXw Thursday marks 100 days since B.C. health officials issued their first warning on COVID-19, and in that time, the province's total has risen to 2,112 confirmed cases. from CBC | Health News https://ift.tt/2VSATmR

https://ift.tt/3bUMXcY Today CBC News is launching a project called Lives Remembered, our commitment to honouring and understanding more about the Canadians who have lost their lives to COVID-19. from CBC | Health News https://ift.tt/35jj9Eq

https://ift.tt/3aQvgtN A massive ice jam in the Athabasca River that triggered devastating flooding in and around Fort McMurray, Alta., is shrinking. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3d6xfvD

https://ift.tt/2zER2DO As millions of Canadians eye the imminent arrival of better weather and feel the impact of six weeks stuck largely at home, some are wondering whether spending more time outdoors is a risk worth taking amid the COVID-19 pandemic. from CBC | Health News https://ift.tt/2YhaGQu

https://ift.tt/35no7jp The top U.S. infectious disease official says concerns over leaks compelled him to reveal data on Gilead Sciences Inc.'s experimental drug remdesivir, the first in a scientifically rigorous clinical trial to show benefit in treating COVID-19. from CBC | Health News https://ift.tt/2zNvWU5

https://ift.tt/2Kck5k2 Parliament's budget watchdog says that it's likely the federal deficit for the year will hit $252.1 billion as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3aRkzav

https://ift.tt/2zER2DO As millions of Canadians eye the imminent arrival of better weather and feel the impact of six weeks stuck largely at home, some are wondering whether spending more time outdoors is a risk worth taking amid the COVID-19 pandemic. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2YhaGQu

https://ift.tt/2zKGXp3 Canada's economy was slowing down even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, new data from Statistics Canada suggests. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/35gpr7Q

https://ift.tt/2s03lnQ A Canadian military helicopter serving with a NATO naval task force has crashed in international waters while operating between Greece and Italy, NATO said on Thursday. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3f4LO4p

https://ift.tt/3988oFE CBC News has confirmed the identity of one of the victims of the Canadian military helicopter that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea Wednesday. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3cYHfXJ

https://ift.tt/35gnR5V Some people challenging credit card insurance they never signed up for are getting big refunds. Thirteen people have contacted CBC in the past three months to report they've been refunded a combined total of more than $50,000. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3aRrLDt

https://ift.tt/2WeYMUy The world's economic pain was on full display Thursday as Europe and the United States were releasing more figures showing the devastating impact on jobs and companies of lockdown measures designed to battle the coronavirus pandemic. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2xktAuL

https://ift.tt/3aS3jSa Gillian Campbell lost her friend, Ray, to COVID-19 on March 26. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2zK5BWS

https://ift.tt/2Sjqb6Y May Mikhail lost her mother, Isabelle, to COVID-19 on March 18. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3bTVxsk

https://ift.tt/2VPCUR1 Many Canadian restaurant owners have been either forced out of business or continue to struggle to make ends meet due to the coronavirus pandemic. And it has some predicting an immediate future that's bleak but also raising questions about how the industry may have to change. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3aQsu7C

https://ift.tt/2VQgD5e A memo sent to California police chiefs says Gov. Gavin Newsom will order all beaches and state parks closed starting Friday to curb the spread of the coronavirus from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2z0Cvlt

https://ift.tt/2yTrrGU The World Health Organization has come under fire for its response to the global coronavirus pandemic, but experts say it's only as powerful as its weakest link. from CBC | Health News https://ift.tt/3d1QdDo

https://ift.tt/2yTrrGU The World Health Organization has come under fire for its response to the global coronavirus pandemic, but experts say it's only as powerful as its weakest link. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3d1QdDo

https://ift.tt/2jtu3Sk Financial results in the oilpatch were expected to be grim, yet the figures announced so far this week are still alarming, as the bloodletting of company balance sheets begins. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2yVBprg

https://ift.tt/3aTttEe It took decades to build the world's rules-based trading system, but a frantic few days have compounded the historic strains on it. A pandemic, a trade-skeptical U.S. president, and simmering frustration with China have collided to test the durability of the system. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2YqbDGa

https://ift.tt/2xkxjbM Amid the coronavirus pandemic, as many parents juggle working from home with helping their kids continue school assignments, some in Ontario are choosing to opt out, saying the remote-learning framework just doesn't work for them. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2WbElYP

https://ift.tt/3etnkS4 We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday online, and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2VPNHdW

https://ift.tt/2Jd7hcV The Conservative leadership race, paused by the COVID-19 outbreak, is now back on with a plan to choose a new leader in August by mail-in ballot. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2xpAcIw

https://ift.tt/3f4MOFS A Conservative MP and leadership candidate who has come under fire from his own caucus colleagues over a verbal attack on Canada's chief public health officer issued a statement today that stopped short of an apology. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2ybGlZ8

https://ift.tt/2WaOW69 Alberta doctors working in some rural and remote areas say they could lose thousands of dollars a year from government changes to their pay. from CBC | Health News https://ift.tt/3cVVlcg

https://ift.tt/3cZVI5K A small group of MPs will meet in person in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Wednesday to debate legislation that would provide $9 billion in financial aid to post-secondary students taking a financial hit because of the global pandemic. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2y1sLYp

https://ift.tt/3bP65Jc Despite six weeks of workplace closures, physical distancing and stay-at-home messages, people are still contracting COVID-19 in the community, and public health officials don't have a firm handle on why or how it's happening.   from CBC | Health News https://ift.tt/3aTd17b

https://ift.tt/2hk5PJH Canada's Cenovus Energy swung to a quarterly loss on Wednesday, hurt by a significant decline in global demand for crude oil caused by the coronavirus outbreak and a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2YilyOa

https://ift.tt/35e5NcF British Airways plans to cut more than a quarter of its jobs because of the coronavirus crisis, parent company IAG said on Tuesday, forecasting that passenger numbers will take years to recover. Meanwhile, Boeing and Airbus reported expected losses on Wednesday and outlined some of their future plans amid the pandemic. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3bNURov

https://ift.tt/2Ymvqql The Epoch Times, a controversial newspaper founded by Falun Gong members, is coming under fire from Canadians who have received unsolicited copies in their mailboxes, and from a postal carrier who doesn't want to deliver it. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/35hfGGd

https://ift.tt/2KxVRku U.S. President Donald Trump ordered meat-processing plants to stay open on Tuesday to protect the food supply in the United States, despite concerns about coronavirus outbreaks, drawing a backlash from unions that said at-risk workers required more protection. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3cZedXX

https://ift.tt/2y80TS8 Irrfan Khan, an Indian actor who brought versatility and style to recent hit films and had roles in Hollywood movies such as Life of Pi and The Namesake, died on Wednesday at age 53. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3fbOZrk

https://ift.tt/3bN1bg5 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's fiancée, Carrie Symonds, gave birth to a baby boy on Wednesday at a London hospital, slightly earlier than had been expected. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3f7IUw7

https://ift.tt/3f0LkfN The way in which COVID-19 has affected long-term care homes reflects how they have responded to the pandemic and the impact of early actions, say advocates for residents and leaders of the unions representing workers at the homes. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2zJ3YsB

https://ift.tt/2KIqHXJ We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday online, and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2ScDupF

https://ift.tt/3cYwvZc Veterans of the Second World War find similarities between the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenging times in history. They offer up lessons from their past, and words of encouragement to Canadians. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2xhaRjK

https://ift.tt/2Yf54GD Some drivers are questioning why they aren't seeing a significant reduction in insurance rates given the lockdown's eerily empty roads, especially in light of the insurance industry promising rebates and relief in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3bNZrD5

https://ift.tt/3a8yhFZ Some doctors say the pandemic is making it harder to provide medically assisted deaths to patients who request them, due to shortages of protective masks and gowns and last-minute scrambles to find places to perform the procedure. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2y8Kqx9

https://ift.tt/2y99Omu COVID-19 is not hitting children in Canada or other countries as hard as adults, but doctors who care for children are on the lookout for unusual symptoms, including "COVID toes." from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2xmk7TU

https://ift.tt/3cX94zt With the country's focus on the Trudeau government's handling of COVID-19 and the Conservative leadership race on hold, Andrew Scheer's party has been dropping in the polls. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2yRL2HC

https://ift.tt/3f123zK Some simple math reveals a sobering reality about the current state of COVID-19 in Canada, and indicates continued action to contain the virus is necessary. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2Se9720

https://ift.tt/2FXWLEx Some of the largest outbreaks in Canada have taken place in industrial workplaces, such as the hundreds of confirmed cases linked to meat-processing facilities. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2YdV7cs

https://ift.tt/3bZ83Xu Canadian troops started deploying to Ontario nursing homes last week — mostly in the Greater Toronto area — and the military has finalized plans to be in as many as 20 long-term care centres in Quebec as part of a pandemic mission their commander says he never anticipated. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2y7hwgM

https://ift.tt/2y99Omu COVID-19 is not hitting children in Canada or other countries as hard as adults, but doctors who care for children are on the lookout for unusual symptoms, including "COVID toes." from CBC | Health News https://ift.tt/2xmk7TU

https://ift.tt/3f0LkfN The way in which COVID-19 has affected long-term care homes reflects how they have responded to the pandemic and the impact of early actions, say advocates for residents and leaders of the unions representing workers at the homes. from CBC | Health News https://ift.tt/2zJ3YsB

https://ift.tt/3aM1PZJ A Canadian senator says the federal government has betrayed the country's dairy processors by allowing the U.S. to activate the new North American trade deal on July 1 — a month earlier than expected. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/2VKBCGC

https://ift.tt/2VL9ALd The Canadian Football League is asking the federal government for up to $150 million in financial assistance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. from CBC | Top Stories News https://ift.tt/3cWcu5z