Tag: Pandemic
over 3 years ago
thestar.com

‘There’s no profit’: Businesses fear the worst as federal subsidies set to wind down

Both the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and Restaurants Canada have been advocating for the government t...

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over 3 years ago
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How social distancing, schools, travel and NHS will look when pandemic becomes endemic

From jabs to jobs, the shape of the post-Covid world - and the changes that remain - is becoming clearer

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over 3 years ago
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From TIFF to the Calgary Stampede — feds talk details of $700-million funding to help arts, cultu...

Ottawa earmarked $200 million for major events and festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival to hel...

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over 3 years ago
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Booze to go, groceries, meal kits: What to look forward to from restaurants post-pandemic

Many Toronto restaurant owners switched up their business models to survive the pandemic. This is how some will keep ...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | The Matt Hancock affair is more than just a tawdry breach of COVID-19 protocol. It is a...

The British Health Minister was felled by a surveillance camera that also might have captured sensitive government bu...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | An exorcism in the lumber aisle at Home Depot is a spooky sign of what’s to come when l...

As the world starts to open, months of lockdown appear to have triggered an outbreak of bad manners that ranges from ...

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over 3 years ago
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Get your haircuts booked and karaoke favourites picked out — here’s what can reopen in Toronto as...

Increased gathering sizes, larger in-store capacity and salon reopenings are allowed starting next week under the nex...

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over 3 years ago
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‘We are the forgotten Canadians’: Delayed citizenship processing during COVID-19 is affecting job...

Recent research has shown a year can make a difference. The study found wage gaps between immigrants who were made, b...

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over 3 years ago
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Covid may be helping some couples to shoulder their relationship difficulties

Study finds the pandemic could be absorbing other issues in relationship by acting as a scapegoat

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over 3 years ago
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The hospitality and tourism industry says it’s suffering a labour shortage. Is it a shortage of t...

While many laid-off employees can’t wait to return, many others have found work elsewhere due in part to the unreliab...

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over 3 years ago
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Struggling coffee shop owner finally gets grant money — but only with a reporter’s help. Many sma...

The Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade acknowleges the implementation challenges and has made i...

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over 3 years ago
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UK petrol prices have soared to their highest level in nearly two years

The cost of filling up a typical 55 litre petrol family car has since risen by around £13, PA has revealed, with petr...

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over 3 years ago
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It's too early to conclude lockdown is about to end because of the low Covid death numbers

Unanswered questions about the transmissibility of the Indian strain and the effectiveness of vaccines against it lea...

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over 3 years ago
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Advice | My husband has been secretly texting with an old girlfriend behind my back. Ask Ellie

Tell your husband that you haven’t changed, but that his secret texting with an old girlfriend is both hurtful and di...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | COVID-19 shows how far the U.S. has sunk. Do enough Americans even notice?

Author Michael Lewis sees a once-organized America now in a state of disrepair. The question is whether Americans hav...

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over 3 years ago
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Oxford University launches dedicated centre to prepare the world for future deadly pandemics

A key aim will be to translate research into real-world solutions, such as new testing technologies, treatments and v...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | Hey Canada, where are my free doughnuts or lottery tickets? It’s time to inject some in...

Americans are getting free beer, free oil changes, free baseball tickets, even Vax Cash and Vax-a-Million lotteries a...

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over 3 years ago
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After a year of anxiety and with my jab booked, I can now envisage an end to the pandemic | The I...

I HAVE an appointment with my doctor in two days’ time to receive my vaccine. My partner, my pa...

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over 3 years ago
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The key points of Covid report which says Government failed in pandemic planning

The National Audit Office says the virus 'laid bare existing fault lines within society, such as the risk of widening...

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over 3 years ago
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‘To be successful, we have to work together:’ Business leaders ask Trudeau for a nationwide reope...

Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said the government is working closely with public health officials to ensu...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | Unlocking the lost pleasures of lockdown

They say humans can get used to anything. If lockdown lasted another year, would I even remember these things at all?

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over 3 years ago
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Unemployment among ethnic minority workers rises three times as fast as in white households

Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show one in 11 ethnic minority workers in the UK are now unemp...

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over 3 years ago
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Doug Ford’s summer-camp vow ‘just too late for us,’ say some camp operators

Planning a summer camp requires time, both to hire staff and prepare the property, say camp operators, who suggest th...

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over 3 years ago
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In Your Corner: Is now a good time to buy cannabis stocks?

Cannabis is still a risky bet. But if you can’t stay away invest in an ETF instead of individual stocks, and only inv...

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over 3 years ago
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The pandemic was only part of the problem in ‘tumultuous’ Raptors season

The Raptors started with a hole in the middle of the roster and the cracks grew as they gave away games they should h...

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over 3 years ago
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Don’t deport me until I get my second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, health worker asks Canada

Carlo Escario, who omitted his wife and child in his permanent-residence application, is scheduled for the second dos...

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over 3 years ago
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Employee laid off early in the pandemic was terminated and can sue for constructive dismissal, ju...

An Ontario Superior Court judge found that the infectious disease emergency leave did not affect the employee’s right...

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over 3 years ago
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This migrant farm worker says Canada’s new immigration program is excluding people like him

More than 45 per cent of the migrant workers and 34.5 per cent of international graduates in the survey said they are...

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over 3 years ago
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Justin Trudeau urges Canadians to get COVID-19 vaccinations as soon as possible, despite expert p...

The prime minister said the “bottom line” is that all vaccines approved by Health Canada are “safe and effective,” an...

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over 3 years ago
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Applicants to Canada’s special, one-time immigration program are being forced to navigate the sys...

Ottawa will launch a new portal to process permanent residence applications submitted under the highly-anticipated im...

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over 3 years ago
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Ontario’s summer camps lost millions last year — if they can’t open this summer, some say they wi...

‘We’ve already lost a ton of camps,’ says the executive director of Youth Leadership Camps Canada. ‘If we do not open...

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over 3 years ago
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Will Toronto open for May long weekend? Businesses demand clarity on provincial plans

Doug Ford’s current stay-at-home order for Ontario is set to end right before the May long weekend at the end of the ...

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over 3 years ago
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‘I think that she was failed.’ After the death of 13-year-old Emily Viegas, a ripple of grief and...

‘There are so many front-line, essential workers here putting their lives at risk ... and in return they can be hit w...

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over 3 years ago
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Old Age Security recipients ages 75 and up will get an extra $500 in August — and that’s just the...

The biggest item on the menu is $12 billion over five years to increase the amount paid out through Old Age Security,...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | How George Floyd’s murder and Ontario’s botched plans to police the pandemic shine a li...

The murder of George Floyd sparked an awakening of protests over police violence against Black people. It also saw pr...

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over 3 years ago
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Dianne Weatherby is breaking barriers, building tennis courts and trying to change communities

The Ontario Tennis Association’s second female chair hopes to get tennis courts open again during COVID-19.

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | Doug Ford won’t resign, but he’s heading for huge defeat in 2022 election

But the chaos, flip-flops and incoherency displayed by Premier Doug Ford in the past week on the pandemic file has ca...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, wants to cut my hair

Amazon Salon is a one-off? Give me a break. It’s a test pilot for how Bezos plans to storm bricks-and-mortar while al...

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over 3 years ago
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Under pressure, Ontario government scrambles to launch a provincial sick leave program

Ontario is signalling it’s ready to bring in a paid sick day program after months of pressure from public health expe...

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