Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has opened a major United Nations conference today aimed at developing a co-ordinated global response to mitigate the devastating social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Millions more Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week to bring the 2 1/2-month total during the coronavirus pandemic to above 40 million, signaling economic pain is deepening despite a gradual reopening of business across the country.
Dentists, optometrists and massage therapists are part of a list of health-care providers that the Ontario government says can gradually reopen following a months-long shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canada’s status as one of the fastest growing Group-of-Seven economies is coming to an end.
At least 49 million people across the world are expected to plunge into “extreme poverty” — those living on less than US$1.90 per day — as a direct result of the pandemic’s economic destruction and India leads that projection.
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