Bike lanes installed on urgent basis across Canada during COVID-19 pandemic
Been meaning for years to bicycle to work, as a way to improve your fitness and save money on gas and parking?Now is your chance. Municipal governments…
Canadian military, Supporters say space spending is justified despite the pandemic: Don Pittis
This week's reports by the Canadian military of appalling conditions in long-term care homes during the pandemic illustrates a perennial challenge for those who insist that governments…
Housing market will feel effect of COVID-19 until 2022, CMHC says
Canada's national housing agency says the number of new homes being built and sold will remain below the levels they were at before COVID-19 until 2022 at…
COVID-19 may be the catalyst — not the cause — of a painful but useful economic transformation: Don Pittis
COVID-19, As people are thrown out of work, as businesses fail and as the oil and housing sectors weaken, there is a branch of economics that insists…
With overnight camp cancelled in Ontario, the industry fears day camps could be next
Who would have imagined "10 for two," the unspoken summer camp bargain between parents and children, would be broken by Premier Doug Ford, the guy who brought…
COVID-19 pushed Canadian retail sales to their biggest ever plunge in March
Widespread lockdowns due to COVID-19 across the country pushed Canadian retail sales down by 10 per cent in March, the biggest plunge on record.Statistics Canada reported Friday…
Shops are reopening after COVID-19, and some are adding a new line to your bill to pay for it
As businesses take their first cautious steps toward reopening, Canadians should brace themselves for the possibility of seeing a new fee tacked on to their bill: a…
We spend a lot of time online – so how do we make data centres greener?
Hello, Earthlings! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable world. (Sign…
Canada is reopening without knowing where Canadians are getting COVID-19
Canada is emerging from months of lockdown, but key questions remain unanswered about where Canadians are getting infected with COVID-19 and why case levels remain high in…
Epidemiologists brace for 2nd wave of COVID-19 — and it may come in September
It may seem like things are returning to normal as the unprecedented rules and restrictions that have governed our lives over the past two months are slowly…
Who was called to help and who was not: The police resources behind the Nova Scotia shooting
In the midst of dealing with a complicated active shooter investigation, Nova Scotia RCMP looked to New Brunswick for help, but not to the closest municipal police…