Health
Home for the holidays: Post-secondary students navigate vague guidelines, self-isolation
Whether donning a mask to venture out to meet her lone study buddy or rushing to grab food on a 15-minute break between...
Can mRNA vaccines alter your DNA? More of your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered
We’re answering your questions about the pandemic. Send them to COVID@cbc.ca, and we’ll answer as many as we can. We publish a selection...
Jail guards violated use-of-force policies in fatal restraint of Soleiman Faqiri, court documents suggest
Shackled, pepper-sprayed, and lying face down wearing a spit hood. Nearly four years to the day after Soleiman Faqiri died on the floor of a...
Ottawa granted 1,700 special quarantine exemptions to sports leagues and business travellers
A total of 1,790 people entering Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic have received special ministerial permission to skip quarantine — because their trip was...
In Ottawa’s rush to buy PPE, companies with little or no experience got some of the biggest contracts
This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal government handed out during...
2 dead in construction mishap in London, Ont., recovery effort underway for one body
Heavy equipment was brought in Saturday in an effort to recover the body of a worker trapped in the rubble of a partial...
Shamattawa First Nation in Manitoba receives more military support for COVID-19 battle
More help from the Canadian Armed Forces has arrived in Shamattawa following a desperate plea from the First Nation’s chief. The northern Manitoba fly-in...
Holiday charity work in Canada a challenge for fundraisers and donors during pandemic
When Victoria’s Santa Claus parade had to be cancelled due to COVID-19, the Greater Victoria Festival Society came up with a Plan B...
3-digit suicide prevention hotline gets green light from House of Commons
The House of Commons took a step closer to establishing a national three-digit suicide prevention hotline today. MPs voted unanimously in favour of a Conservative...
Ottawa to hike federal carbon tax to $170 a tonne by 2030
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today released the government’s strategy to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 — and its centrepiece is a...
2 dead, 4 in hospital after partial building collapse at London, Ont., construction site
Two people have died and four others remain in hospital after a building partially collapsed Friday in London, Ont. Doctors at the London Health...
Looking for COVID-19 trends: Academic experts and private forecasting company form pandemic partnership
Some of Canada’s top academic experts on pandemics are partnering with a company in the Greater Toronto Area to work on national and...
Canadians now owe $1.71 for every dollar they have to spend, StatsCan says
Canadian households owed an average of $1.71 for every dollar of disposable income in the third quarter, Statistics Canada said on Friday. In...
Can employers make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory? The law isn’t clear
As Canadians await the arrival of the first batch of vaccine doses, employers and provincial leaders are grappling with the question of whether to make...
The pandemic unexpectedly saved thousands from financial ruin. But there’s a reckoning on the horizon
This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal government handed out during...
Veterans Affairs was wrong to cancel child care support for prominent department critic, says ombudsman
One day after former veterans minister Seamus O’Regan publicly rebuked outspoken department critic Sean Bruyea in 2018, officials in his former department improperly...
