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VANCOUVER — Canada's first death from the novel coronavirus has highlighted the urgent and often ignored need for better staffing at long-term care facilities where elderly residents are especially vulnerable to the disease, says the head of the Cana

“Every single day in Sarnia sex trafficking occurs,” says the Coordinator for the local Anti-Human Trafficking Project The recent conviction in Sarnia of a man on nine charges relating to the exploitation of two women through sex trafficking — includ

It is an eye-opening reminder that sex trafficking happens everywhere, including small towns in Ontario. A Sarnia jury took just two hours to find a Toronto-area man guilty of exploiting two women for selling their sexual services.

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada: — Ontario: 37 confirmed — British Columbia: 39 confirmed, including 1 death — Quebec: 4 confirmed; 1 presumptive — Alberta: 14 confirmed — Total: 95 This report by The Canadian

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to announce federal funding to help provincial health-care systems cope with the increasing numbers of Canadians infected with the new coronavirus and to help workers who are forced to isolate themselves.

The latest news on the novel coronavirus and the illness dubbed COVID-19 (all times Eastern): 11:25 p.m. Health officials in northern Ontario have confirmed the first case of the novel coronavirus in the Sudbury area.

OTTAWA — The Public Health Agency of Canada has posted guidelines aimed at helping event planners figure out whether to cancel mass gatherings of people as the federal government works to quell the potential spread of the novel coronavirus.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Judicial Council is worried that judicial independence will be compromised if the federal government passes a law requiring new judges to commit to taking training in sexual assault law. J.

This year’s Lulu Series: Art in the City speakers have been announced. Barbara Cole, Joseph Fry, and Rebecca Belmore will speak at the three events. Started in 2003, the annual series explores the relationship between art and urban environments.

Another inmate has died at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary. On March 9, Curtis McKenzie died while in custody.