Ottawa’s plan to lower early learning and child-care costs was a centrepiece of last week’s federal budget, but Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland warns that such a system won’t quickly repair the economic damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canada’s chief public health officer says the health-care system is under increasing strain with a more than 20 per cent increase in COVID-19-related hospitalizations and intensive care unit patients over a one-week stretch.
The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is now the only major junior league in the country that is still trying to complete its playoffs for this season. The effort continues despite rising cases of COVID-19 in Quebec and continuing outbreaks of the disease in New Brunswick.