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.
Urbanites are fleeing locked-down cities. Office towers are deserted, with the highest vacancy rates since the financial crisis. Downtown-condo investors face plunging rents and property values. None of this worries Michael Cooper, CEO of Dream Office REIT, the developer behind the Distillery District and numerous downtown office towers.
As Toronto and Peel Region students prepare to return to bricks-and-mortar classrooms Tuesday, some parents may wonder if any new measures are being taken to keep their kids virus-free.
Microsoft is taking the side of news publishers who are locked in a battle with Google and Facebook, stating on Thursday that the company would support a Canadian effort to make big tech pay for news.
Another 27 regional health units in Ontario are moving to lower levels of COVID-19 restrictions — including Durham Region, Halton Region and Hamilton — as Toronto, Peel Region and York Region remain under stay-at-home orders until at least Feb. 22.
OTTAWA—Canada is now on pace to get all of the approved COVID-19 vaccines it has purchased — 84 million doses — over the next seven months, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday, bolstering his claim that everyone in this country who wants a shot will be able to get one by the end of September.