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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is leaving the door open to tighter travel restrictions, including a possible ban on outbound air travel as COVID-19 case counts climb across the country.

The Avling Kitchen and Brewery Max Meighen opened in Toronto's Leslieville neighbourhood back in July 2019 has spent more of its young life in COVID-19 lockdown than out of it, but is still making a decent income.

While no single Christian denomination has fallen entirely to conspiratorial thinking, those individuals who have often come from hardline conservative traditions, PressProgress reporter Alex Cosh writes.

Sarah Kim started thinking differently about food after starting a zero-waste vegan food delivery service — one that she said made her starkly aware of the inequalities that exist in the Lower Mainland.

From one end of Toronto’s usually bustling Queen Street to the other, the thousands of small businesses that populate local economic zones have, by and large, had a rough go of it throughout 2020 — but young entrepreneurs are adapting to the pandemic's changes more quickly, some business community leaders say.

Canada’s largest province laid out its plan Wednesday to administer the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in all nursing and high-risk retirement homes by the middle of next month as it works to boost its immunization capacity.

Employment and Social Development Canada has announced it will conduct a national count of homeless Canadians in March and April. However, policy experts don’t see it as the right move during a pandemic.

Reflecting on her first 100 days in office while navigating public health restrictions, Green Party leader guesses she has likely done 90 stakeholder meetings. “We really tried to do all the things that you would do," she said.

The year 2020 witnessed the intersection of the global pandemic, anti-Black racism and the climate crisis. How do we overcome the crisis? The Jewish faith tradition has some hopeful teachings that can help with the answers.

Canada has approved two vaccines and is currently scheduled to receive four million doses from Pfizer-BioNTech and another two million from Moderna before the end of March. That is the same delivery plan that has existed since November.

The pair couldn't earn enough to afford Ottawa's rental market, and unknowingly brought the virus from long-term care into the shelter, Dr. Jeff Turnbull told the commission on Dec. 16.

Young people are co-directing a range of innovative mental health initiatives since the COVID-19 pandemic forced help to move online, the head of a network of service providers says, while more young men are seeking support for mood and anxiety issues.

Tristan Jagger, founder of Vancouver Food Runners, can’t believe how fast the group — which uses volunteers and an app to get donations to charities — has grown.

When it comes to the Alberta government’s fondness for personal responsibility, one thing should be clear by now: They only think it applies to other people, not themselves, writes Max Fawcett.

A group of seniors at one of the first long-term care homes in Quebec to receive COVID-19 vaccines have threatened to sue the provincial government if they don’t receive their second doses in the coming days.