Coronavirus (COVID-19) National News

NHL hockey returns today after a months-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced a new COVID-19 community outbreak at Fraser Valley Packing, an Abbotsford-area blueberry packing plant. Since the investigation started Thursday, there have been 15 positive cases.

Paisley Nahanee is longing for those exhilarating club nights, the ones where bumping into a few old friends on the dance floor wasn't considered a health risk.

REGINA — Saskatchewan's premier is urging people to wear masks when they can't physically distance to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but he is stopping short of mandating their use indoors.

OTTAWA — Anyone who owes the federal government taxes will now have until the end of September to pay. The Canada Revenue Agency says the payment deadline has been moved to Sept.

WASHINGTON — The federal government appears to have relaxed restrictions at the Canada-U.S. border that would have made it impossible for first-year university students from the United States to enter the country.

The biggest test yet of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine got underway Monday with the first of some 30,000 Americans rolling up their sleeves to receive shots created by the U.S. government as part of the all-out global race to stop the pandemic.

NEW YORK — The NHL is reporting that no player tested positive for COVID-19 over the final week of training camps.

OTTAWA — The law extending the federal government's emergency wage subsidy for employers hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown made it through the Senate Monday.

OTTAWA — An Alberta senator is urging Ottawa to fund a Canadian company so it can develop a domestic COVID-19 vaccine to lessen the risk Canadians will have wait in a line on a foreign-made pandemic cure.