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CANADA: Non-medical masks can keep people with COVID-19 from spreading it, Tam says

CANADA: Non-medical masks can keep people with COVID-19 from spreading it, Tam says

This is a change from previous advice
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COVID-19: Trudeau says talks with U.S. ongoing, confident PPE shipments will continue

COVID-19: Trudeau says talks with U.S. ongoing, confident PPE shipments will continue

Premier Doug Ford said that a shipment of masks that was to enter the province was instead turned around at the Canada-U.S. border
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LIVE: Premier Doug Ford provides latest COVID-19 update around 1 p.m.

LIVE: Premier Doug Ford provides latest COVID-19 update around 1 p.m.

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COVID-19: Changes to emergency-relief program coming to expand eligibility, Trudeau says

COVID-19: Changes to emergency-relief program coming to expand eligibility, Trudeau says

Trudeau announced changes soon to come at this morning's press conference
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LIVE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau provides COVID-19 update

LIVE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau provides COVID-19 update

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COVID-19: Application process for emergency benefits for workers begins this morning

COVID-19: Application process for emergency benefits for workers begins this morning

More than two million Canadians lost their jobs in the last half of March as businesses across the country were forced to close or reduce their operations to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus
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WORLD: How the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics could help heal us, post-coronavirus

WORLD: How the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics could help heal us, post-coronavirus

Ex-chair of the Olympic Academy of Canada says we should rebuild our societies in a humanitarian way
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LIVE: Federal government to roll out application process for emergency benefits Monday

LIVE: Federal government to roll out application process for emergency benefits Monday

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he'll speak with U.S. President Donald Trump in coming days about Trump's order to stop the export of N95 masks; Health Canada looking for case trackers, data collectors and people for surge capacity during COVID-19 pandemic
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CANADA: The coronavirus is changing how we work — possibly permanently

CANADA: The coronavirus is changing how we work — possibly permanently

Many of the tasks employees are doing now were not imagined even weeks ago. People are becoming crisis managers, sanitation monitors and work-from-home co-ordinators
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Inside officials’ struggle to trace the contacts, movements of COVID-19 patients

Inside officials’ struggle to trace the contacts, movements of COVID-19 patients

Contact tracing is easier said than done, according to Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health
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