As of StatCan's last count, 1.1 million Canadian workers had either lost their job or were working on reduced hours — and Canada's labour market will likely get worse.

There seems to be a sense of inevitability that Ontario is headed for some version of another COVID-19 lockdown, Bill Kelly says.

Ontario's chief medical officer of health said earlier this week that the data will indicate whether lockdowns in Toronto and Peel Region that started two weeks ago are working.

Many scientists expect the biggest annual fall in carbon emissions in generations this year as a result of coronavirus measures globally.

More than 70,000 Americans were hospitalized for treatment of COVID-19 as of Monday, the most ever at any time since the pandemic began.

The debate over a short-term national lockdown has hit Biden's own coronavirus task force as nearly every state experiences record surges in infections and hospitalizations.

The governors of Oregon and New Mexico ordered near-lockdowns Friday, but many other states show little appetite for reimposing the hard-line restrictions of last spring.

WHO’s European regional director Dr. Hans Kluge said “hospitalizations have risen to levels unseen since the spring” and deaths have sharply risen by more than 30 per cent.

A school board in northwestern Ontario grappling with a string of anonymous threats has started posting school work online so students won't fall behind as a result of the disruption.

The high school was briefly put under hold and secure on Wednesday, but police say this was a precautionary measure to deal with an incident unrelated to last week's lockdowns.