On Saturday, Air Canada cut the deal value to buy Transat by nearly 75% to about $188.7 million, down from $720 million, as COVID-19 weighs on travel demand.
With the pandemic grounding flights globally, Air Canada had faced shareholder pressure to renegotiate the deal which is still pending approval from European and Canadian regulators.
“I think trick-or-treating outside with the right distancing, prepackaging your treats so that people are not rummaging in a bowl of their bonbons, candies, is actually important,” said Tam. So is “having hand sanitizers for your kids, wearing a mask,” she said.
The number of Ottawa residents in hospital for COVID-19 treatment is rapidly approaching its highest point of the pandemic.
Ten more patients are in hospital Tuesday for a total of 48. Ten are currently in intensive care.
Energy bills for the typical Ontario home are going up by about two per cent with fixed pricing coming to an end on Nov. 1, the Ontario Energy Board says
“This can happen at any gym.... This is not about how well the gym was run; this is about how COVID spreads. If you let people hangout together, without masks, sharing air, in the same space for a prolonged period of time… this was going to happen."
800 front line clinical staff positions would be lost through attrition over the next three years. The bulk of AHS jobs lost — about 9,700 positions — will come from outsourcing jobs in laboratories, housekeeping, food services, and laundry.
The report underscores a yawning chasm between Canadians who are losing ground and those whose financial situation has improved during the pandemic or hasn’t changed.
The plan also includes making a cap on rent increases permanent, NDP Leader John Horgan says.
Under the rebate plan, households that earn up to $80,000 a year will be entitled to $400 a year
About 10,000 coveted spots will be selected randomly through a lottery. Those 10,000 applicants will then be allowed to formally apply – a process that has been widely panned for leaving family reunification to the luck of the draw.
The patient, a 25-year-old Nevada man, was infected with two distinct variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, within a 48-day time frame.
The second infection was more severe than the first, resulting in the patient being hospitalised with oxygen support.
A technical glitch at a voting supersite, hours-long lines, and a last-minute court ruling marked the start of in-person early voting in Georgia, a presidential battleground for the first time in decades that will also play a huge role in deciding which party controls the Senate.
A steady erosion of scientific capacity and a chronic shortage of resources over the past decade have left the agency unable to do its job properly, public-health experts Perry Kendall and Paul Gully told The Globe and Mail.
“A lot of the tools that the Public Health Agency had for influencing policy and programs were removed and budgets were cut."