pandemic

To the atmosphere, this year’s “return to nature” — a silver lining for some amid a deadly virus — was virtually meaningless.

A survey by energy labour market organization PetroLMI shows that more than two-thirds of the employers in Canada's oil and gas sector imposed labour cost reduction measures in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, including 37 per cent who enacted permanent layoffs.

Regions across Canada braced for a host of new public health restrictions on Sunday, November 22, 2020, as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sent case counts soaring from coast to coast.

Businesses struggling to pay the bills because of the COVID-19 pandemic will be able to start applying today, November 23, 2020, for a long-awaited new commercial rent-relief program offered by the federal government.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and union officials are calling on the federal government to put a stop to its role in for-profit long-term care homes, where deadly COVID-19 outbreaks are worsening as the second wave of the pandemic takes hold.

About 30 per cent of Canadians have bought groceries online in the past six months, and online food sales have surged since the pandemic started, according to a new study by researchers at Dalhousie University.

For the first time since 2014, the Quebec government expects to run a budget deficit.

COVID-19 continued its record-setting rise across parts of Canada on Wednesday, November 11, 2020, as Ontario reached another new high for daily infections and Manitoba recorded its deadliest day since the pandemic began.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the more generous benefits being provided to out-of-work Canadians during the pandemic shouldn't be seen as permanent changes to the social safety net.

Rising COVID-19 case count bodes ill for prison inmates, many of whom remain under partial lockdown without adequate health care, says the head of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies.

Across B.C.’s Kootenay region, slow internet has left many farmers struggling after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed everything from sales to school online.

COVID-19 cases surged across Canada as several provinces smashed daily infection records and the nationwide tally crested 4,000 on Sunday, November 8, 2020.

We must dismantle the bomb that is factory farming in all its forms, whether that means returning to small herds and flocks raised outdoors on family farms or moving away from animal products altogether, Zack Metcalfe writes.

The Ontario government is expected to lay out the next phase of its COVID-19 response as it presents its first budget since the start of the pandemic on Thursday, November 5, 2020.

The country’s top doctor unveiled new recommendations Tuesday for non-medical masks, saying they should be made of at least three layers and stressing their importance as the country heads indoors for winter amid a surging COVID-19 case count.