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Border closures, including an extraordinary measure implemented by Australia’s government at the start of the pandemic, meant that Lani Singer’s three-week trip to visit her parents in Melbourne in March of 2020 would turn into a six month stay.
about 3 years ago
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There were nearly 1,400 domestic flights in Canada with a confirmed case of
COVID-19 last year. This year, there have already been more than 800 flights as
of April 4.
about 3 years ago
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The appointments, which will be available for two weeks, can be made through the
province’s online booking system or directly through your local public health
unit.
almost 3 years ago
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With the beginning of the school year only weeks away, numerous testing sites
remain closed, after a provincial scale back that started in the spring.
over 2 years ago
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Colleges can now offer four-year nursing degrees. But, in many cases, everyone
is still competing for the same number of program seats.
over 2 years ago
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Thousands of IENs arrive here only to find out that they don’t have the
necessary credentials to get licensed. A new initiative aims to change that.
about 2 years ago
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Dan McTeague, who runs the price tracking site GasWizard.ca, says there’s no
cause for alarm as the shortage was just panic buying, or people looking to take
advantage.
about 2 years ago
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The scholarships could ensure recipients finish their degrees and become registered nurses, giving them an opportunity to advance in their field.
about 2 years ago
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He wanted to do something constructive during the pandemic. So he founded the Jamaica Curling Federation with a goal of one day reaching the Olympics.
almost 2 years ago
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Investigators allege that more than 1,200 packages containing deadly sodium nitrite have been sent to people in more than 40 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Italy, Australia and New Zealand.
8 months ago
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The Denmark company says one of the mostly highly recycled plastics won’t be used as a substitute for the petroleum-based virgin plastic currently used to make its brightly-coloured bricks.
7 months ago
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The move is meant to relieve Ontario taxpayers of the costs of recycling, and promote use of materials that are more recyclable. Skeptics say it might do neither.
7 months ago
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Two Canadian brothers’ call on government to help their families visiting what became a war zone.
6 months ago
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“A person who’s done so much for others … what goes through someone’s mind when you face this cruelty?” friend asks about victim of Hamas attacks.
5 months ago
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Environmental groups are urging the Canadian government to appeal a federal-court decision that struck down the government’s designation of plastic as toxic, which jeopardizes the federal ban on some single-use plastics.
5 months ago
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These grassroots boot camps on climate change have swept Europe and are now being introduced in North America. I wanted to find out why.
4 months ago
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is set to allow the state of Florida to import prescription drugs from Canada, breaking a years-long logjam in a U.S. quest to access
4 months ago
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By joining the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s youth council, “I was able to actually put that interest and turn it into tangible action.”
3 months ago
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The storage of health data is at the centre of a lawsuit between Ontario Health and a U.S. company.
about 1 month ago
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Across Canada, new cases of HIV, which can lead to life-threatening AIDS, went up nearly 25 per cent in 2022 compared to a year earlier.
22 days ago
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Not much is known about how animals respond to a solar eclipse, so Monday visitors are asked to document the behaviour they see.
21 days ago
