Global News has learned school closures are one of several planned measures to take effect under a provincewide lockdown the Ontario government has planned, which will begin Christmas Eve. This comes after calls from stakeholders and meetings with hospital officials across the province. Much of the province will see a 28-day lockdown, with the northern part of Ontario subject to a two-week lockdown. Morganne Campbell reports on the details involved.
Thousands of indigenous children in Canada were forcibly removed from their families between the 1950s and 1980s, in what is known as the “Sixties Scoop”.
Residents of Neskantaga First Nation in northern Ontario were able to return over the weekend after a two-month evacuation. Although the water is cleaner, it’s still not safe to drink.
CNN’s Brian Stelter explains how the country faces radicalization as some right-wing media outlets flood the airwaves with conspiracy theories and disinformation.
A closer looks at this year’s election and past races show why the Electoral College/popular vote divide is increasingly worrying in a nation with a sharply divided political scene.
With a new strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern England, several EU countries have stopped travel to and from the U.K.
CTV Question Period host Evan Solomon sits down with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss Canada’s battle with COVID-19 in 2020.
Falcon 9 carried the spy satellite into space for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on a classified national security mission. The launch had been originally scheduled for Thursday, but was aborted due to irregular pressure readings. SpaceX did not show the satellite’s positioning, but it did broadcast the separation and landing of Falcon 9.
President Trump took to twitter to comment for the first time on a cyber hack that attacked the U.S. government, saying the hack is “in the Fake News Media than in actuality.” The president implicates China is responsible, contradicting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who says Russia is behind it.
Countries across Europe are introducing a new round of coronavirus restrictions. They’re coming either just before Christmas or soon after. Italy is the latest country to announce new measures. Shops, bars and restaurants there will close, and travel between different regions will be banned. Similar precautions are being taken across the continent. Germany is seeing shuttered shops and empty streets, as the country goes into its first weekend of hard lockdown this winter. Austria will follow suit just after Christmas. Non-essential businesses will close on December 26. Austria’s coronavirus infection rate is lower than many of its neighbors, but there are fears that could change. Sweden’s infection rate, on the other hand, has been surging for two months. The Nordic country never imposed a full lockdown, relying instead on voluntary social distancing. But with case numbers going up, non-essential public facilities like pools and libraries will close, and – for the first time – the government is recommending residents wear masks on public transport. Yet the measures remain lax compared to Germany and Austria. Switzerland, too, is headed for lockdown as restaurants are set to close next week. The Swiss government has urged people to stay inside. But it has left at least one decision to local authorities: whether to open ski lifts. This year, skiers will have to add COVID-19 to the long list of alpine hazards. German health departments reported 31,300 new cases on Friday and 702 fatalities related to COVID-19. Over 25-thousand people have now died of the disease in Germany. In France the toll has passed sixty thousand. President Emmanuel Macron is asking people to remain vigilant after he tested positive for COVID-19.