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Ottawa

Trudeau's daily update: 'We can't pretend that racism doesn't exist' in Canada (Full transcript)

World

The conflict Trump always seemed to want reaches his doorstep

Health

Coronavirus in Canada: These charts show how our fight to 'flatten the curve' is going

News

A heat map of coronavirus cases in Canada

Trudeau appears at a news conference outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on May 29, 2020 (Adrian Wyld/CP)

Trudeau appears at a news conference outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on May 29, 2020 (Adrian Wyld/CP)

Health

How Canada has bungled the COVID-19 endgame

Amir Attaran: Canada is mismanaging its most significant peacetime crisis in a century and the seeds of our failure are everywhere. Here are four things that must change.

Latest on Coronavirus

A woman wears a face mask as she walks along Sainte-Catherine street in Montreal, Sunday May 24, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada and around the world. Stores with a street entrance are allowed to reopen in Montreal on May 25th. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

A woman wears a face mask as she walks along Sainte-Catherine street in Montreal, Sunday May 24, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada and around the world. Stores with a street entrance are allowed to reopen in Montreal on May 25th. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Canada

Coronavirus in Canada: Reopening plans province-by-province

Trudeau appears at a news conference outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on May 29, 2020 (Adrian Wyld/CP)

Trudeau appears at a news conference outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on May 29, 2020 (Adrian Wyld/CP)

Health

How Canada has bungled the COVID-19 endgame

Flowers sit on a bench in front of Orchard Villa care home in Pickering, Ont. on Apr. 27, 2020. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called in operational support from the Canadian Armed Forces for Orchard Villa and five other long-term care homes in Ontario (Frank Gunn/CP)

Flowers sit on a bench in front of Orchard Villa care home in Pickering, Ont. on Apr. 27, 2020. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called in operational support from the Canadian Armed Forces for Orchard Villa and five other long-term care homes in Ontario (Frank Gunn/CP)

Opinion

In 2007, Howard Hampton went on a tirade about long-term care. We all moved on.

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Society

Oh, how we’ve changed: Coronavirus ups and downs by the numbers

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LATEST ON POLITICS

Minister of Foreign Affairs François-Philippe Champagne in his Shawinigan, QC, office. (Photograph by Sylvie Li)

Minister of Foreign Affairs François-Philippe Champagne in his Shawinigan, QC, office. (Photograph by Sylvie Li)

Ottawa

The smiley, friendly, cunning François-Philippe Champagne

The foreign minister has a deep Rolodex and ambition to match. Now does he have what it will take to guide Canada through a period of unprecedented global change?

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BUSINESS & ECONOMY

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Real Estate

Coronavirus is shaking up Canada's housing market, but don't expect a crash

AG Hair's Coquitlam facility has pivoted to making hand sanitizer. (Photograph by Alana Paterson)

AG Hair's Coquitlam facility has pivoted to making hand sanitizer. (Photograph by Alana Paterson)

Business

How a hair-care company went from salon supplier to sanitizer powerhouse

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Economy

Furloughed workers with COVID-19 fears can't just stay home and collect CERB

Good, owner of the now-closed Chainsaw Bar in Waterloo, Ont. (Photograph by Erik Putz)

Good, owner of the now-closed Chainsaw Bar in Waterloo, Ont. (Photograph by Erik Putz)

Economy

Canada's economy may never return to what it once was

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MUST READS

Patients infected with COVID-19 wait to be transferred from Wuhan No. 5 Hospital to the newly-built Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan, China on March 3, 2020 (AFP/Getty Images)

Patients infected with COVID-19 wait to be transferred from Wuhan No. 5 Hospital to the newly-built Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan, China on March 3, 2020 (AFP/Getty Images)

Health

Footprints of the coronavirus: How it came to Canada and went around the world

George W. Bush (Mark Wilson/Getty Images), Donald Trump (Tasos Katopodis/UPI/Bloomberg/Getty Images), and Trudeau (Courtesy of Adam Scotti/PMO)

George W. Bush (Mark Wilson/Getty Images), Donald Trump (Tasos Katopodis/UPI/Bloomberg/Getty Images), and Trudeau (Courtesy of Adam Scotti/PMO)

World

The doomed 30-year battle to stop a pandemic

Monitors display the S&P AND TSX composite index in the financial district as the number of novel coronavirus cases continues to grow in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 16, 2020. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters)

Monitors display the S&P AND TSX composite index in the financial district as the number of novel coronavirus cases continues to grow in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 16, 2020. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters)

Economic analysis

Coronavirus plunges Canada's economy into the abyss

"Stay Home" is displayed on a sign over an empty road in Toronto, on March 25, 2020. (Cole Burston/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

"Stay Home" is displayed on a sign over an empty road in Toronto, on March 25, 2020. (Cole Burston/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Society

Quarantine nation: Inside the lockdown that will change Canada forever