Canada finance minister: Pandemic an opportunity to bring in national childcare
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The COVID-19 pandemic and its damaging impact on women has underlined the need for a national childcare plan, which would [...]
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A Traffic Jam at the Suez Canal
A massive cargo ship turned sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal, blocking traffic in a crucial East-West waterway for global shipping. Traffic on the [...]
Air Transat lays off more than 50 per cent of remaining flight attendants as pandemic continues
The Canadian Union of Public Employees says 128 Air Transat flight attendants — more than half the current workforce of attendants — were [...]
New UBC documentary takes us into the heart of the PPE crisis in the U.S.
From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world have been scrambling to obtain enough personal protective equipment for front-line [...]
Former Canada PM Turner, who was in office for just 11 weeks, dies aged 91
OTTAWA – Former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner, who was in office for just 11 weeks and led his Liberal Party to a [...]
‘Impossible routes’: Hundreds of migrants dying while crossing treacherous Atlantic
The only person who wasn’t crying on the boat was 2-year-old Noura. Noura’s mother, Hawa Diabate, was fleeing her native Ivory Coast to [...]
Travel restrictions to be extended at U.S. land borders, DHS says
WASHINGTON/OTTAWA (Reuters) – The United States will extend to a ban on non-essential travel at land borders with Canada and Mexico for another [...]
U.S., Canada set to extend ban on non-essential travel: sources
WASHINGTON/OTTAWA (Reuters) – The United States and Canada are set to approve another extension to a ban on non-essential travel as several major [...]
Canada and U.S. likely to extend ban on non-essential travel ban – sources
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada and the United States are set to extend a ban on non-essential travel that was imposed to fight the [...]
Canada and U.S. still talking about future of non-essential travel ban, Trudeau says
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada and the United States are still in talks on the future of a ban on non-essential travel between the [...]