Students and teachers in Ontario will get their March Break in April as Canada’s largest province is seeking ways to limit community transmissions of COVID-19 and its new more contagious variants. The week-long break, which was originally scheduled for March… »
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Environment & Animal Life, Society
Backyard bird count starts in Canada and world
The COVID-19 pandemic may be a particularly good time for people in Canada and around the world to take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count. The 24th edition of this activity takes place between February 12 to 15, 2021.… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Society
Help for audiovisual productions dealing with COVID-19
The government of Canada is extending and increasing compensation to audiovisual companies that have had to halt production because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Another $50 million has been added to a fund launched towards the end of 2020 to support… »
Determined Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul is finally released from prison
Loujain al-Hathloul, whose fight for human rights–especially women’s rights–touched hearts around the world, appears to have emerged triumphant–for now– from a Saudi prison after a long battle with authorities who kept her behind bars but never managed to break her… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Doctors urge permanent implementation of virtual care
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s publicly-funded healthcare care system did not usually pay doctors for other than in-person consultations with patients. With a view to changing that, three associations representing Canada’s doctors had set up a task force to study… »
Poll paints a bleak picture of how much the pandemic is stressing Canadians
It will come as little surprise to anyone with a heartbeat that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on the mental health of Canadians. We now have some new data about just how that stress, ahem, breaks down–courtesy of… »
Bombardier lays off 1,600 workers, halts making iconic Learjets
Embattled Canadian aerospace company Bombardier says it will cut another 1,600 jobs this year and stop making Learjets, the iconic family of business jets that’s been around since the 1960s. The Quebec-based company announced the moves in posting its quarterly… »
Health, International, Politics
India ‘will do its best’ to help Canada with vaccines, PM Modi promises Trudeau
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured his Canadian counterpart on Wednesday that India “will do its best” to help Canada with its lagging COVID-19 vaccination efforts “just as it had done for many other countries already.” Modi tweeted that he… »
As a Black woman from B.C.’s past is honoured, some say it’s not enough
A prominent figure in British Columbia’s Black history will have a street named in her honour in Vancouver–the first ever named after a Black woman in the city’s history. Vancouver City Council made the announcement Wednesday, “Nora Hendrix Way” will… »
Feds give $2M for Indigenous program fighting racism in healthcare
The federal government is allocating $2 million to two Indigenous organizations in Quebec to help them in their fight against systemic racism faced by First Nation communities in the provincial health system, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller announced Wednesday. The… »
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