One of Oceans Fresh Food Market’s Brampton locations has been charged by the city for allegedly violating COVID-19 mitigation regulations in place since March.
MONTREAL—Three years ago, Warda Lacoste was at the centre of a fight against Quebec’s attempt to ban religious face coverings for people who were giving or receiving public services.
On the fateful day in March that the COVID-19 virus officially became an international pandemic, Canada’s immigration minister, Marco Mendicino, was paying tribute to employers who hire newcomers to this country.
The latest novel coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Friday (this file will be updated throughout the day). Web links to longer stories if available.
The latest novel coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Friday (this file will be updated throughout the day). Web links to longer stories if available.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Christine Hill relied heavily on the services of personal support workers for the care of her four children, all born with a maternally inherited congenital neuromuscular disease. But she knew that continuing with PSW services would pose a significant risk. Exposing her vulnerable children to the coronavirus would be “like a death sentence.”
As much of Europe slowly gets back to its feet and reopens, Britain’s Boris Johnson presides over a country still reeling from his own government’s sluggish response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
You don’t need experts to see that any business serving the public is in trouble. By the end of 2019, many retail analysts and consultants were already speculating which retailers would fail next, especially given their already weakened positions from growing shifts in consumer behaviour favouring e-commerce for greater selection, convenience and pricing.
With earnings season in full swing, one notable phenomenon in the stock market these days is that many firms have withdrawn financial guidance — a forward-looking statement to investors which includes revenue estimates and projected earnings — for the remainder of the year. Based on an analysis by IR magazine, since mid-March, 779 companies have withdrawn annual guidance and 69 companies have withdrawn quarterly guidance.
Three of the largest for-profit nursing home operators in Ontario, which have had disproportionately high numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths, have together paid out more than $1.5 billion in dividends to shareholders over the last decade, the Star has found.
For months, the COVID-19 lockdown has removed choice from personal equations: We couldn’t go out, couldn’t travel, couldn’t eat at restaurants, couldn’t spend time with friends.
One of Oceans Fresh Food Market’s Brampton locations has been charged by the city for allegedly violating COVID-19 mitigation regulations in place since March.
WHITEHORSE—More households will be allowed to mingle together, but Yukon’s border will remain closed as the government issued its plan Friday to gradually loosen COVID-19 related restrictions.
VANCOUVER—City councillor Pete Fry was walking his dog in Vancouver’s Chinatown when he saw a man yelling racial slurs and obscenities at a group of elderly Chinese-Canadian women who had been practising tai chi in the park.
Imagine if some doctors refused to conduct virtual (but essential) medical consultations online — or if OHIP refused to pay for it — unless every patient in the province had a computer with broadband access.
Imagine if some doctors refused to conduct virtual (but essential) medical consultations online — or if OHIP refused to pay for it — unless every patient in the province had a computer with broadband access.
Ontario’s chief medical officer is promising an answer in the “near future” on the fate of overnight summer camps, but industry sources say it’s probably light’s out because of COVID-19.
With all due respect to medical illustrators, the singular symbol of the COVID-19 pandemic will not be the digital rendering of a red virus spore that floats in the background of newscasts like a nightmare balloon. No, the definitive visual of the pandemic is the face mask. It’s on the cover of Vogue Spain and on the faces of a papparazzi-ed Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas strolling through L.A. Like your keys, it’s the thing you don’t leave your house without. Home sewers the world over are making masks from spare cloth and evoking a wartime effort of pitching in. Many of us are wearing our masks dutifully — and complaining about fogged-up glasses and pinched ears in the process. Life Science Intelligence, a medical tech analysis firm, puts mask sales at 305 per cent higher than pre-pandemic estimates.