The COVID-19 recession means earlier death, depression and lower lifetime wages for youth joining the workforce, an International Monetary Fund report suggests.
Day: February 4, 2021
With air travel accounting for between three and five per cent of global CO2 emissions, one of the big issues facing the world’s climate change efforts is how to reduce emissions from international travel.
Quebec’s decision to loosen restrictions is being greeted with trepidation by some public health experts, who worry the threat of more transmissible variants of the coronavirus could once again put hospitals at risk of being overwhelmed.
A CBC News analysis shows that private for-profit care homes in B.C. have been disproportionately hit with more deadly and widespread COVID-19 outbreaks during the pandemic, compared to non-profit or government-run facilities.
A member of Canada’s elite JTF-2 counterterrorism unit was injured last fall after his brand new handgun fired by itself. The incident has prompted special forces to pull the SIG Sauer P320 out of service. The military is facing question about the choice of weapon in light of lawsuits filed against the manufacturer in the U.S.