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Why the federal government lets Canadians travel abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic
News reports that many snowbirds are heading south this winter — despite the COVID-19 pandemic — have angered some fellow Canadians who feel they shouldn’t be...
What Canada’s hardest-hit provinces can learn from those that handled COVID-19 best
When epidemiologist Susan Kirkland opened a Halifax newspaper on Saturday, she was stunned. “Three protest rallies planned,” the Chronicle Herald headline read, in part....
Small retailers push back against lockdown policy that favours big-box stores
Small businesses in Toronto and Peel Region say it’s not fair that they should be closed for in-person shopping while big-box stores can sell all...
Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives are not immune from the struggles of pandemic-rattled premiers
Alberta is now one of Canada’s worst COVID-19 hotspots and Premier Jason Kenney’s handling of the pandemic in his province is getting low...
Nav Canada looking at cutting air traffic controller jobs at 7 towers across Canada
NAV Canada, hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, is considering cutting air traffic controller jobs at seven towers across Canada in an effort to...
Landlords say poor tenants who received CERB can’t make rent after losing social assistance
Landlords in Saskatchewan say they are in a “morally tough spot,” forced to choose between evicting tenants whose social assistance payments have been...
Indigenous services minister overrules senior bureaucrat on Neskantaga water probe
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller has overruled a senior departmental official over the framing of an investigation into Neskantaga First Nation’s 25-year-long water crisis, CBC...
Despite 30,000 pandemic-related price-gouging complaints, there have been few repercussions
Within weeks of the coronavirus pandemic being declared, one premier after another made tough promises to stop price gouging on essential products. Yet,...
Pandemic is making life even more perilous for the 420 million children in conflict zones
This column is an opinion by Bill Chambers, the president and CEO of Save the Children in Canada. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please...
Liberals to give road map to a net-zero emissions Canada today
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson will show Canadians his path to net zero today, when he tables climate legislation in the House of Commons....
Saskatchewan staved off bankruptcy in the ’90s. Is there hope for N.L., too?
Roy Romanow says he still loses sleep over decisions he made 27 years ago. The former NDP premier of Saskatchewan came to power amid...
Pandemic ‘pressure cooker’ is driving more couples to seek advice about separation, divorce
Tara Mandarano found herself stressed and frustrated during the COVID-19 lockdown last spring. Like millions of Canadians, she was struggling to work from...
Meng Wanzhou back in court as observers ponder influence of Biden presidency
A supervisor who oversaw Canada Border Services Agency officers at Vancouver’s airport on the day Meng Wanzhou was arrested will resume testimony at...
Unable to say final goodbye, wife of late Oiler Colby Cave urges Canadians to respect COVID-19 regulations
Emily Cave didn’t expect her Instagram post about taking COVID-19 regulations seriously to go viral. The wife of Edmonton Oilers’ centre Colby Cave,...
How long can interest rates stay low once a vaccine arrives?
Jubilation over the good news about a vaccine has taken markets by storm. Shortly after the news broke on Monday that the U.S....
Calls to Kids Help Phone have surged. Now some counsellors are making a distress call of their own
Kids Help Phone, the charity that offers 24/7 counselling services to young Canadians in distress, needs to listen to the concerns of its stressed staff if...
