This column is an opinion by Tony Keene, a veteran reporter with daily and weekly newspapers and national wire services. He served for more than four decades as a military reservist and…
As countries around the world close their borders to contain the spread of COVID-19, Amnesty International is calling on Canada to set an example of humane treatment of refugees and open…
Sean Speer was working for a different prime minister when a different recession forced Canada to run what was then the largest federal deficit in history. Speer was a policy adviser to…
A House of Commons committee has made a number of recommendations it says are required to improve its work during the pandemic including becoming fully virtual, improving cyber security…
Canada's grounded airline industry Two months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's airlines remain largely grounded. Now, Air Canada says the crisis has forced the company to slash its…
Emergency rooms are seeing concerning numbers of patients who have waited dangerously long to seek medical care amid the COVID-19 pandemic, says an Edmonton physician. Dr. Shazma…
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of eclectic and under-the-radar health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you haven't…
The phone call goes straight to voicemail. A good sign, says Julie Frederick, who is trying to reach a London, Ont., man with a positive COVID-19 test result. She expects he's on the…
Almost three million Americans filed for government jobless benefits last week, bringing the eight-week total during the coronavirus pandemic to more than 30 million people. The U.S.…
FILE PHOTO: A medical specialist, wearing a protective suit amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, assists an elderly woman to cross a road in Moscow, Russia May 14, 2020.…