Gyms, museums, art galleries and libraries will have to close and indoor religious services will be prohibited. Barbers, hair salons and estheticians will have to shut their doors.
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Economy lost 207,000 jobs in April, unemployment rate rises, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA — Canada’s labour market lost 207,000 jobs last month as a spike in COVID-19 variant cases led to renewed public health restrictions and raised concerns about longer-term economic consequences from the pandemic. The unemployment rate rose to 8.1 per cent from 7.5 per cent in March, Statistics Canada reported. It would have been 10.5...
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CRA watchdog finds agency taking weeks to process some claims for recovery benefits
With the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB), the government pushed that verification to the front of the application process, including asking for payslips or records of employment if the agency couldn’t easily confirm that someone met the earnings threshold.
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Manitoba, Nova Scotia cracking down amid surge in COVID-19 cases
Starting Monday, May 10 at 8 a.m., the province’s boundaries will be closed to all non-essential travel. That includes anyone intending to move to the province or parents from outside Nova Scotia hoping to pick up or drop off students.
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COVID-19 modelling shows B.C. bending the curve of variant cases
VANCOUVER — Efforts by British Columbia health officials and residents are managing to suppress infections that have been driven by COVID-19 variants, a group of modelling experts says. The group of researchers from the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences says projections show a 30 to...
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Hospitalizations, ICU admissions growing for younger Canadians in third wave
The third wave is outpacing anything Canada has seen before is clear.
The average daily case loads of COVID-19 in January peaked at around 8,100 cases, while in April it appears to have peaked at around 8700 cases.
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COVID-19: Montreal newspaper blasted for front-page photo of Trudeau in India
Dany Doucet, editor-in-chief of the newspaper, said the photo was chosen to illustrate Trudeau’s attachment to India and the difficult choice he faces regarding flights from that country.
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Retaking language test unfair during COVID-19: applicants to new residency pathway
OTTAWA — International graduates and essential workers eligible to apply for permanent residency under a new program say requiring them to retake language proficiency tests is unreasonable, especially during a global pandemic. Akshay Aman, a law clerk graduate currently working as a security officer in Toronto, said international students have already passed language tests and...
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Variants surge: Leaders urge Ottawa to beef up restrictions for travellers to Canada
Dr. Howard Njoo, Canada’s deputy chief public health officer, said no matter the restrictions in place, “now is not the time to be travelling abroad.”
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Hate crimes jumped 51 per cent in part spurred by pandemic, Toronto police report
While the most common offences related to vandalism and criminal harassment, members of the Asian/Chinese and South Asian/Indian communities were frequently assaulted.