COVID-19

10 regions including Toronto will be held back

This post is going to be a smorgasbord of thoughts, some directed at government and policy makers, some directed at business, some directed at healthcare professionals, and some directed at the public. Away we go...

Health minister threatens to reveal salaries in response

Premier Francois Legault has announced mask-wearing will be mandatory in all indoor public places across Quebec starting Saturday, July 18—just in time for the province's annual construction holiday.

The federal government is extending its program to subsidize wages in companies hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic until December, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday. The program is the heart of the government's promise to help Canadians get back to work, even if has to be at a slower pace, as the pandemic wanes.

When Rick Thompson's doctor told him a surgical team was going ahead with his double-hand transplant in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, his first reaction was surprise. "We're targeting August, maybe early September,'' he said in a recent interview.

A group of Haida matriarchs say they plan to occupy two ancient villages on Haida Gwaii after two fishing lodges decided to reopen on the remote archipelago despite objections from the First Nation. The matriarchs, known as Gaandlee Guu Jaalang or "daughters of the river,'' say in a statement the Queen Charlotte Lodge and West Coast Fishing Club reopened as a local state of emergency remains in effect because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

16 weeks into the pandemic the situation at pharmacies across the country is continuing to change