Global News published this video item, entitled “Global National: Sep 19, 2020 | Ontario adds new restrictions amid COVID-19 case surge” – below is their description.
If we have learned anything from the first wave of the pandemic, its that COVID-19 can be partially controlled through aggressive measures. In Ontario, officials are so concerned about the rise in cases that the government has extended restrictions to gatherings for the entire province. Premier Doug Ford is essentially popping the balloon on large gatherings. Indoor gatherings will be limited to 10 people while outdoor gatherings will be limited to 25 people.
Two federal leaders – Erin O’Toole and Yves-Francois Blanchet – have both tested positive for COVID-19. Neither will now be allowed to attend next week’s throne speech. Their positive tests have some people questioning whether there should be changes to the way politicians do business during the pandemic. Mike Le Couteur has more.
Parliament will resume on Wednesday with a Throne Speech focused on the COVID-19 pandemic. More than six months since the pandemic was declared, is the government prepared for a second wave? Mercedes Stephenson puts that question to Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc on this week’s edition of the West Block.
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has already become a political issue. The Republican controlled Senate is determined to move ahead with whoever Donald Trump wants to be in that job before the November election. RBG was only one of four liberals on the nine seat bench and if the Republican’s get their vote through, the balance of power will be a big shift towards the conservatives. As Jennifer Johnson reports, the Democrats have a huge fight on their hands.
John Turner has died at the age of 91. He was this country’s 17th prime minister, serving for just 79 days in 1984. But his career in politics was long, serving in cabinets of Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau. During Turner’s time in Trudeau’s government he was finance minister and he and his boss didn’t always get along. Ross Lord takes a look back at Turner’s path to politics.
It has become clear that so-called “super-spreader” incidents have played a huge role in the transmission of the virus. Mike Drolet shows us how a single event can have widespread and deadly consequences.
Few people can say they’ve changed the world. One of them is B.C. doctor Julio Montaner. During the AIDS epidemic he revolutionized the way HIV was treated globally. Now he’s making his mark on a new Canada Post stamp. Linda Aylesworth reports.
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Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
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