Month: May 2020

Célébrée le 7 avril, la Journée mondiale de la Santé, qui commémore la fondation de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé, est l’occasion de mettre chaque année l’accent sur une question qui revêt une importance majeure pour la santé publique. Cette année, cette journée sera consacrée à la nécessité de protéger la santé des effets néfastes…

Charlize Theron devrait tenir le rôle principal du remake du thriller d’épouvante hollandais «Two Eyes Staring». La société Summit Entertainment vient d’acheter les droits de remake du thriller d’épouvante hollandais Two Eyes Staring mis en scène par Elbert Van Strien. Charlize Theron tiendra le rôle principal de cette nouvelle version mise en scène par Scott…

The McLaren Group is considering mortgaging its Woking headquarters as well as its historic cars collection to keep itself afloat amid the coronavirus crisis. The group which includes McLaren automotive business as well as its Formula 1 team is seeking to raise up to £275 million with its advisor, Wall Street financial institution JP Morgan,…

Brussels launched a major effort Wednesday designed to reassure the travel industry and tourists that the holiday season can be saved. The main takeaway? Don’t start packing your suitcase. The package on tourism and transport included more than 70 pages of guidance and two hours of press conferences held by five of the bloc’s commissioners laying out…

The May long weekend is here, and this year Canadians are certainly going to be celebrating differently. Due to social distancing requirements and closures from the COVID-19 pandemic, many familiar activities like group camping or big fireworks displays won’t be happening for Victoria Day this year. Canadians are being advised to stay closer to home…

TORONTO — Ontario issued a new emergency order on Wednesday that will allow it to temporarily replace the management of some long-term care homes struggling to contain outbreaks of COVID-19, but the province’s health minister said there are no immediate plans to use it. Health Minister Christine Elliott said the new measure is meant to strengthen…

VANCOUVER — The elected leadership of several First Nations split over a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia are calling for the immediate resignation of Crown–Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett. In a statement released Monday, four elected Wet’suwet’en chiefs say the process by which the province, the federal government and the nation’s hereditary leaders…

MONTREAL — Some Quebec children will be back in class Monday for the first time since March as the province reopens elementary schools and daycares outside the Montreal area. While the province is the first in Canada to reopen following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, school officials say it will be far from business…

SAN FRANCISCO ― Uber Technologies Inc. will require drivers, couriers and passengers to wear masks starting next Monday as part of a new set of measures aimed at containing the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The San Francisco-based technology giant says drivers won’t be able to pick up customers until they have verified they are wearing…

Canadian consumer debt was already near record levels before COVID-19 hit, but the economic shock from the shutdowns will push it to its highest levels ever, a new TD Bank report says. The warning came the same day as the Bank of Canada’s latest financial system review, which said the longer the pandemic’s economic shock…