Coronavirus (COVID-19) National News

Many workplaces have dramatically changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Performance assessments and compensation should reflect the new way of working

Pregnant women are routinely excluded from clinical trials for drugs and vaccines, bioethics prof says

Sewage testing can be used for early detection of disease

With more health resources devoted to COVID-19, non-COVID patients may have unmet health-care needs, which predict poorer health in the future

Instead of progress towards decency in labour and environmental standards, we find ourselves in a continuing maelstrom of corporate social irresponsibility, poli sci prof says

During four-hour question period, Freeland failed to provide numbers about the size of this year's deficit, overall federal debt, saying projections will come in a fiscal update later this fall

The province has said the budget will lay out the details of the next stage of its COVID-19 response

Proposed wealth tax, tax on excess profits would 'give the government new revenue to invest in social programs that will help Canada recover,' he says

Worst effects of the second wave could be upcoming, she said, after Quebec and Ontario reported a total of 49 deaths between them on Wednesday

The Royal Society of Canada's COVID-19 task force report says scientists, public health officials, governments and journalists all must do better