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Metro Vancouver HandyDART workers could begin job action on July 3rd. The workers represented by ATU Local 1724 have voted 95 percent in favour of a strike mandate. Mark Beeching, President of ATU Local 1724, discusses the issues behind the labour dispute.

The uncertainty is unbearable for the families of hostages in Gaza, taken by Hamas seven weeks ago on Oct. 7, as they hope the promised humanitarian pause and release of hostages takes place this Friday. Until the pause begins, however, Israel’s retaliatory siege of Gaza continues for its seventh consecutive week. Over in the Netherlands,...

WATCH: A dispute between Saskatchewan Teachers Federation and the provincial government is ramping up. As Global’s Easton Hamm reports, the federation shared the results of their job sanctions vote.

A B.C. company is hoping to kick start competition for medical-grade Canadian-made face masks that are essential for health-care workers. Robin Gill reports on the race to create personal protective equipment.

RRC has put a new mask policy in place, where they’ll supply N95 or KN95 masks to students, staff, and visitors come January .

Demand for high-quality masks and rapid antigen tests has surged in Alberta amid the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Retail stores and pharmacies in Edmonton are getting many inquiries, but the answer is often the same. Dan Grummett has more.

Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said it was “unacceptable” for U.S. President Donald Trump to order the medical supply firm 3M to stop exporting N95 masks to Canada, but praised 3M for its efforts to highlight the impact such an order will have on Canada.

Canadian Minister of Public Services and Procurement Anita Anand said on Tuesday the government recently received new 9 cargo plane loads of PPE, bringing the total supply to 78 plane loads to date. She also said that 3M continues to provide federal health authorities with half a million N95 respirator masks on a monthly basis...

Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam and Minister of Indigenous Services Marc Miller explained the government’s decision to suspend a shipment of eight million N95 masks that did not meet federal standards. Miller said there were a number of issues raised including whether the straps were adequate and concerns over the quality of...

Many of the province’s health-care workers are battling COVID-19 and one of the largest unions representing those employees say those statistics can be attributed to a lack of N95 masks. As Morganne Campbell reports, there’s a suggestion on the table that could help alleviate those problems.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Tuesday that his government is providing $1.4 million for Cambridge-based Eclipse Innovations Inc. through the Ontario Together Fund program to produce N95 masks.

Health officials reported 33 new cases of novel coronavirus in Manitoba Thursday and said further public health restrictions — including mandatory mask use in indoor spaces — are being placed on the Prairie Mountain Health region in an effort to stem an ongoing outbreak in the area. Thursday’s new cases include 17 people in the...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that the medical supply for health care workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in the country is “in great shape,” and that the Department of Defense will also be sending 10 million N95 masks. He added that they have completed over 2 million virus tests, and are conducting approximately...

A Saskatoon lab has partnered with the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) to decontaminate and reuse N95 respiratory masks that are normally thrown out after each use.

You might be surprised that you can still purchase masks, like the N95, from reputable medical supply sites. But as Jordan Armstrong reports, the B.C. health minister says not all personal protective equipment is created equally.

University of Manitoba researchers are looking into ways to reuse N95 masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, Global’s Malika Karim reports.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland thanked 3M and U.S. partners on Tuesday for coming to a solution to allow the company to continue shipping N95 respiratory masks to Canada. She said they had continued to stress the relationship between the two countries and it was in the best interest to work together. The decision to...

At a daily briefing with the COVID-19 task force Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. has leveraged the Defense Production Act in an effort to stop the hoarding and price gouging of crucial medical supplies, taking custody of nearly 200,000 N95 respirators, 130,000 surgical masks, 600,000 gloves as well as bottles of disinfectant...

The union representing Manitoba nurses says a request from government for donations of N95 masks and gloves for healthcare workers has some nurses worried about the province’s supply, Global’s Marek Tkach reports.

Calgary’s Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre is planning to supply up to 300 families with N95 masks.