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COVID-era school design takes lessons from Indigenous educators
A Saskatoon-based architect is already applying lessons learnt from the pandemic to the schools he is designing, and said the First Nations clients...
In face of deadly pandemic, Ontario long-term care homes continue breaking COVID-19 safety rules
Ten months into the COVID-19 pandemic, inspectors were still catching Ontario long-term care homes violating crucial infection prevention and control measures. A CBC...
Ontario changing child-welfare system to stop teens from aging out of care unprepared
Unlike many teenagers, Abdoulaye Diakhaby was petrified to turn 18. He had spent the previous four years in the child-welfare system living first in...
Pandemic’s tough job market could hurt new graduates for life, says report
With Friday’s jobs data expected to indicate a pandemic employment shortage extending into a second year, new research shows that a protracted dearth of...
As COVID-19 exposes long-term care crisis, efforts grow to keep more seniors at home
Lucy Fernandez volunteered in a long-term care home for 20 years. Although she saw first-hand how much of an effort staff and her...
After the gold rush: Why Neil Young and other aging rockers are cashing in on song publishing
In Neil Young’s 1979 song Hey Hey, My My the Canadian musician sang that rock could never die, adding: “Out of the blue...
The trillion-dollar question is how federal spending will position the economy for post-pandemic success
This column is an opinion by Robert Asselin, senior vice-president of policy at the Business Council of Canada, where he leads the development of strategies...
These nursing home chains have the highest COVID-19 death rates in Ontario, data analysis finds
Not all for-profit long-term care homes in Ontario are equal when it comes to containing COVID-19, an analysis of provincial data by CBC’s...
COVID-19 has made reading next year’s real estate market harder than ever
Canadians are about to get an update on the state of the housing market and the latest resurgence of COVID-19 has only added...
Most of the used fighter jets bought by Canada are still not in service, MPs hear
Only three of seven F-18 fighter jets purchased from Australia by the Canadian government have been integrated into the air force so far, and the Department of National...
Winter is already a trying time for some seniors. COVID-19 will make it worse
Georgiana Del Casino has spent most of the past eight months alone inside her one-bedroom apartment in New Westminster, B.C., but the 82-year-old...
Sophia Loren reveals the secret to aging gracefully
Rather than suggesting a series of skincare products to help keep the skin radiant and youthful, Sophia Loren has a more holistic approach...
James Bond actor Sean Connery dead at age 90
Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as suave, fearless secret agent James Bond and then abandoned the role...
Federal government to announce new immigration targets today
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino will unveil a three-year immigration plan today that will set targets for bringing skilled workers, family members and refugees...
5 green infrastructure projects engineers recommend to boost COVID-19 economic recovery
With at least two million jobs lost across Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy officially in recession, more stimulus is expected...
Military report reveals what sector has long known: Ontario’s nursing homes are in trouble
Jacqueline Mitchell hasn’t been able to hug her 94-old-mother since March, and now, in the face of a shocking Canadian Armed Forces (CAF)...
