A small-but-growing body of research suggests the highly-contagious delta variant raises your risk of serious illness, but it’s tough to know for sure if it’s the root cause of more severe COVID-19, both researchers and outside experts say.
Day: August 27, 2021
As campaigning federal politicians fan out across the country for traditional meet-and-greet events, Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives are focusing on ‘virtual’ town hall events. The party’s national campaign director says it’s how most election campaigns will operate in the future.
The group representing more than 2,000 municipalities is asking for billions of dollars from the federal government to help cities and towns protect themselves from climate-related events as wildfires, floods, heat waves and droughts increase in intensity.
Ontario’s transport ministry was warned about visibility issues while the Ford government was testing its now-discontinued blue licence plates and given clear recommendations to improve the readability that weren’t acted on, documents obtained by CBC News show.
Sanjar Sohail of Vancouver, the publisher of a daily newspaper in Afghanistan until the Taliban took control of the country on Aug. 15, travelled to Germany on Aug. 19 to try to secure emergency visas for his staff after he says his requests for help from the Canadian government were ignored.