COVID19

The two university students behind Young Ontarians United want to arm various young communities with the data and research tools to advocate for the policies and programs they need.

Procurement Minister Anita Anand says after talking to provinces, it was determined these COVID-19 doses were excess supply, as demand for this vaccine had been met. 

RCMP said Maxime Bernier was charged with exceeding public gathering limits and violating Manitoba's requirement to self-isolate upon entering the province.

The Canada Revenue Agency estimates that about 30,000 people won't have to refund their CERB payments, representing about $240 million in benefits, or about $8,000 on average.

Like so many Americans, Jake Tapper’s “love” of Canada reflects the combination of indifference and ignorance that has always characterized their cross-border relationship with us, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

A group of young Asian Canadian women, seeing few role models who looked like them in politics or academia, met online at this year’s virtual Daughter of the Vote event and have since joined forces to raise their voices.

Health Minister Patty Hajdu defended accepting the doses even though they were going to be stored for now, saying there's no indication yet provinces won't use them for second doses.

Sam Demma was going to be a soccer star, until serious injuries ended that dream. He has since gone from creating a trash cleanup movement in Pickering to giving virtual motivational keynotes and running workshops on how to create positive change.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the mothers of young children especially hard, research conducted for the Mental Health Commission of Canada shows, as they often seek to balance paid and unpaid work from home.

On Day 2 of the Nobel Prize Summit, the celebrated immunologist, who received death threats last year after he corrected Donald Trump’s pandemic lies, had a warning for scientists seduced by the proximity to power.

Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre has been bursting at the seams for years, while most of its staff work in rental space across the street from the heritage-listed theatre. So they bought that building and will spend the ongoing pandemic downtime to renovate both spaces while also fundraising the second half of the $10.5-million project.

Last spring, Shirlene Coté was hit with surging demand for an unusual product: Boxes filled to the brim with her farm’s produce, delivered weekly during the growing season to customers who paid a lump sum in advance. Demand hasn’t let up since.

The province has continued to redefine who an essential worker is. Ian Tostenson of the BC Restaurant and Foodservices Association hopes his industry will soon be part of the equation.

More than 9,000 temporary foreign workers come to B.C. each year from countries such as Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. Without them, the agriculture industry would struggle to function.

They’ve been closed or reduced to serving the odd overpriced takeout beer for most of 2020, but bar owners are still paying liability insurance as though drunken patrons are stumbling downstairs to the bathrooms, if they can retain coverage at all.