New rules requiring air travellers to test negative for COVID-19 before entering Canada will kick in on Jan. 7, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said today. The new requirement, announced Wednesday, covers all air passengers five…
Ontario finance minister set to return today from…
Ontario's finance minister has returned to Canada from a controversial Caribbean vacation during strict provincewide lockdown measures that urged Ontarians to avoid non-essential travel. Rod Phillips said he deeply apologizes for his decision to travel abroad during this time…
Goodbye, 2020: New Years celebrations look different this…
This New Year's Eve is being celebrated like no other, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they'd prefer to forget. Australia will be among the first nations to…
Moms are welcoming the first wave of coronial…
Kennedy Amyotte's first-born child will open her eyes to the world and see her mother's face behind a mask. Due Jan. 13, she will experience many of her firsts amid the isolation and uncertainty of…
Dildo, N.L., was hoping to cash in on…
Sulagna Sanyal, left, and Rajesh Menon opened Yes B’y Indian Restaurant in the Newfoundland community of Dildo this past summer. (Chris O'Neill-Yates/CBC) When Sulagna Sanyal and Rajesh Menon drove into the eastern Newfoundland community of…
These are the most borrowed books across Ontario…
In a year dominated by a global pandemic and American politics, some might find it fitting that the library book most likely to be checked out across Ontario was a hopeful memoir written by the…
The dark side: 2020 was a boom year…
The meaning behind Netflix's The Platform is hard to miss: "an accidentally timely political allegory," the New York Times called it, "a brutal capitalist horror film," said Forbes. It arrived for streaming in 2020 alongside…
China gives conditional approval to homegrown Sinopharm coronavirus…
Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm. The two-dose vaccine is the first approved for general use in China. The go-ahead comes as…
B.C. mom describes surreal experience meeting new son…
A British Columbia mom who gave birth while in an induced coma because of COVID-19 says she was released from hospital just in time to spend Christmas at home with her family. Gillian McIntosh's new…