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Tue, 11 Jan 2022 04:00:00 EST
Symptomatic Ottawa hospital workers with COVID-19 may be asked to work in staffing crisis
Ottawa's largest hospitals say they may call in symptomatic health-care workers with COVID-19 to work should their staffing crisis get dire — a policy move that hospitals across the continent are...

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 04:00:00 EST
Omicron's swift spread may boost our collective immunity to COVID-19. But at what cost?
The Omicron variant wave will help boost our collective immunity to COVID-19, but that comes at a high cost, multiple experts warn — from surging short-term hospitalizations to longer-term health im...

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 04:00:00 EST
High gas prices, oilpatch labour crunch, pipeline friction: The year ahead in energy
Talk of energy these days is rooted in two worlds — the demands of today and the transition ahead — as decarbonization efforts come into even sharper focus with climate change.

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 04:00:00 EST
Doug Ford government's polling shows shifting views of Ontario's COVID-19 response
Newly revealed polling conducted by Premier Doug Ford’s government showed growing public dissatisfaction with its handling of COVID-19 last year as successive waves of the pandemic hit Ontario. ...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:45:50 EST
Ontario schools to reopen for in-person learning on Monday: sources
Schools across Ontario will reopen for in-person learning on Monday, Jan. 17, sources with knowledge of the decision say.

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:29:06 EST
B.C. Supreme Court rules Amanda Todd's name can be reported during upcoming trial of accused
A mandatory publication ban that exists on any case involving a victim of child pornography has been struck down in B.C. Supreme Court after a successful constitutional challenge, allowing media to re...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:17:38 EST
Extreme cold warnings in place Monday night for parts of Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick
Environment Canada has extreme cold warnings in place for all of eastern Ontario, southern Quebec and western New Brunswick Monday night.

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:37:54 EST
Students left in lurch after Quebec private colleges, recruiting firm file for creditor protection
Three Quebec colleges and a connected recruiting firm have filed for creditor protection, adding to the uncertainty of hundreds of international students who had already been seeking tuition refunds.Â...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:00:31 EST
'More work for no pay': Travel agents say they're in trouble after slew of trip cancellations
After two lean years, Ottawa-area travel agencies say a combination of holiday trip cancellations, new government travel rules and a lack of financial support is putting them in jeopardy — just as t...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:51:07 EST
Americans advised to avoid travel to Canada due to rising COVID-19 caseload
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising against travel to Canada because of rising numbers of COVID-19 cases.

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:00:00 EST
3 Ontario nurses disciplined for social media posts related to pandemic launch $1M libel suit
Three Ontario nurses who have faced discipline for their stances on the pandemic are suing the Canadian Nurses Association and a media outlet in British Columbia, with the libel suit seeking $1 millio...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:38:23 EST
From snails to snow: Why homeowners aren't liable for slips on icy sidewalks
A Burnaby man went all the way to B.C.'s Court of Appeal with a lawsuit against a couple he blamed for his slip on the pavement out front of their house — only to have the province's top court is...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:30:00 EST
As N.L. warns of COVID-19's inevitability, immunocompromised people fear they've been forgotten
N.L. health officials have said it's likely that most people will at some point contract COVID-19. But for some people with compromised immune systems and other chronic conditions, getting the virus i...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:16:55 EST
Yellowknife family braves -35 C cold, skiing all day to honour young skier's life
The Whelers, a family of four, braved -35 C cold to ski from sunrise to sundown on Jan. 2 to honour the life of Ole Heie, an avid skier with Olympic aspirations from Camrose, Alta., who died last summ...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 08:39:32 EST
Students in B.C. and Alberta return to classrooms today
Students in Alberta and British Columbia returned to classrooms for in-person instruction on Monday after an extended holiday break.

Sun, 9 Jan 2022 12:52:37 EST
Survey finds oilsands environmental monitoring ineffective after 10 years
Alberta doesn't have a good grasp of the overall environmental impacts of the oilsands a decade after implementing monitoring that was supposed to provide it, internal government documents suggest. ...

Sun, 9 Jan 2022 21:15:22 EST
Flood warnings for Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island with heavy rain, rising temperatures in forecast
The agency that monitors British Columbia's waterways is warning of "minor to significant flooding'" on B.C.'s Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island as warming temperatures and persistent rain melt ...

Sun, 9 Jan 2022 14:35:38 EST
First Nation says Alberta is preventing it from taking control of child welfare
A First Nation in Alberta says it's been nearly three months since it was supposed to take legal control of its own child welfare but the provincial government won't recognize the arrangement made pos...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:00:39 EST
When it comes to long COVID, the treatment playbook is constantly evolving
There are more than 170,000 long-COVID patients across Canada facing everything from fatigue and shortness of breath, to tinnitus, brain fog and muscle and joint pain. At the moment, there's no known ...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:00:00 EST
I survived a war as a child, but life doesn't owe me anything
I survived a war as a child and now I face this pandemic. Here is how I'm learning to better narrate my life through catastrophe, writes Nadja Halilbegovich.



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