Wendy Paradis remembers Canada’s travel and tourism industry was at its height in 2019, enjoying unprecedented growth. Then the pandemic hit, and for the past 16 months, Paradis says revenue has been down by more than 90 per cent across the sector.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Monday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
They told Lola Saliko she had to have the baby, and despite the fevered fog of COVID-19, she remembers that. The doctors told her she was not safe, and the baby was not safe, and they’d be putting her to sleep. She didn’t know she would be intubated the next day, or that her COVID-afflicted husband couldn’t care for the baby, or what would happen next. Nobody did, at the time. At the time, she was just another COVID patient who might die.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Sunday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Olympic stadiums and venues – built at crippling cost in the name of fleeting global glory — usually become ghosts after the games have ended and the athletes and flag-waving fans have gone home.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
It’s inspiring to read the latest good news stories about front-line doctors who coax unvaccinated patients to get the shot when they come face to face in a hospital or clinic.
Waterdown’s Chelsea Henricks was on her way to work on July 8, when she stopped at Petro-Canada at Clappison’s Corners and filled up the tank of her Mercedes with $75 of premium gasoline.
WASHINGTON—This was a big week for many Canadians who live in the U.S., because for the first time in about 16 months they were able to visit home without quarantining for two weeks. My wife Rebecca made the trip from D.C. to Toronto on the second day the new border rules were introduced, fully vaccinated and tested. She wasn’t alone: incoming travel to Canada was up 25 per cent this week, and expected to spike further this weekend.