As the volume of travellers entering Canada through the U.S. has increased in recent weeks, public health officials are being placed at land borders to bolster screening for COVID-19.The Canadian border is pictured at the Peace Arch Canada border crossing in Surrey, B.C., in March. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)As the volume of travellers entering Canada…
Canada’s economy added almost a million jobs last month, as businesses reopened after COVID-19 shutdowns.Canada has added more than one million jobs in the past two months but employment is still well below where it was before COVID-19. (Shutterstock)Canada’s economy added almost a million jobs last month, as businesses reopened after COVID-19 shutdowns. Statistics Canada reported…
Canadian employment rose by a record-setting 953,000 people in June as COVID-19 lockdown restrictions eased across the country. Combined with May’s gain of nearly 290,000 workers, the labour market has recovered about 40 per cent of the three million jobs that were lost during the pandemic, Statistics Canada said Friday. The unemployment rate fell to…
Canada recorded 1,070 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday, including 60 more deaths.The new numbers bring Canada’s total confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths to 78,061 and 5,842, respectively.More than 50 per cent of Canada’s coronavirus cases have recovered as well, with 39, 251 people declared virus-free as of May 18.Both Quebec and Ontario…
Health Canada says it has authorized the first COVID-19 serological test for use in the country to detect antibodies specific to the virus.Provincial health workers perform COVID-19 tests on residents of the remote First Nations community of Gull Bay, Ont. Health Canada has approved a serological test to detect antibodies specific to the virus. (David…
TORONTO — While much of the country is consumed with the ongoing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, several communities are starting to grapple with another looming danger: natural disaster. As western Canada prepares for the onset of wildfire season, and spring weather threatens regions of central and eastern Canada with flooding, those in affected regions…
There are now calls from politicians in both Canada and the U.S. for investigations into global entertainment giant Live Nation over its refusal to immediately refund all ticket-holders for thousands of concerts and live events disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.The COVID-19 pandemic has left the world’s largest entertainment company scrambling to deal with angry fans…
When Cargojet flight 1392 touched down in Hamilton on Saturday it brought with it millions of badly needed N95 respirator masks to help in the fight against COVID-19.A Cargojet flight bearing tens of thousands of kilos of personal protective equipment landed in Hamilton on Saturday as part of a made-for-Canada plan to deliver to medical…
Health Canada says a rapid blood test for COVID-19 that’s being manufactured in Canada and shipped to the United States is not ready for use here.A scientist presents an antibody test for coronavirus in a laboratory in Jena, Germany. BTNX Inc., a Canadian company that makes the same kind of rapid-response blood test to detect…
Shoppers lineup outside a Loblaws grocery store in Toronto on March 20, 2020. On Monday, the Public Health Agency of Canada reported that 44 per cent of all COVID-19 cases in the country are the result of community transmission. Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail Nearly half of Canada’s COVID-19 cases are now being acquired through…
