As overdose deaths keep surging in Canada, the movement to decriminalize illicit drugs is gaining steam, with one of the country’s largest mental health facilities joining national advocates and several major cities in pressuring Ottawa to act.
Day: September 29, 2021
The labour shortage is widespread across the country in several different sectors of the economy, despite a national unemployment rate above seven per cent. Fifty-five per cent of small and medium-sized businesses are struggling to hire the workers they need, the Business Development Bank of Canada found.
The World Health Organization reported that the global number of new coronavirus cases and deaths continued to fall in the past week, with an estimated 3.3 million new infections and about 55,000 deaths, marking a 10 per cent drop in both.
Ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath had long wanted to join the ranks of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison in the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame. But this May, nearly three years after her death, she will be inducted for achievements in eye surgery.
New research from the University of Alberta reveals the Canadian Rockies may be losing one of their most iconic features — those brilliant turquoise alpine lakes.