Pandemic

Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a House Financial Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates by a quarter point Wednesday, a major step in reversing the…

A newly chilled-out White talks about his pandemic-era rebirth, making mysterious furniture, and feeling hopeful about rock’s future The musical Willy Wonka has mellowed out — 2022 Jack White giggles; 2022 Jack White hasn’t had sugar in two years; 2022 Jack White was transformed by the past two years. “There’s been a…

Chinese authorities reported more than 1,300 locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 across dozens of mainland cities. Photo / AP China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilised military reservists Monday as the fast-spreading "stealth Omicron" variant fuels the country's biggest outbreak since the start of the…

Ideas ANALYSIS | Unpacking parents’ reasons for not vaccinating their children: ... Childhood vaccination, whatever stance is taken, is a complex social process. By Sara Cooper, Alison Swartz, Bey-Marrié Schmidt, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Christopher J Colvin, Evanson Z Sambala and Natalie Leon Read More

Mirage News 14 Mar 2022 10:02 am AEDTDate Time The City of Sydney has warned against the return to a business as usual approach to tackling homelessness following the success of temporary accommodation measures introduced at the height of the pandemic in 2021. The City of Sydney’s latest summer street…

FILE: Kids wearing masks. Photo by INA FASSBENDER /AFP via Getty Images Ontario’s COVID-19 death toll grew by 20 cases Friday, for a total of 12,247 deaths since the pandemic began. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. This follows the province’s decision to…

Singing opera was the last thing on Vartan Gabrielian’s mind, growing up as an energetic Armenian kid in North York. He was a rowdy one, his parents keeping him in church to keep him in line. But little did he know destiny would find him there. “I was seven years…

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden on Friday continued to blame both the pandemic and Russian President Vladimir Putin for high gas prices and sought to blunt arguments about federal spending contributing to inflation. “ didn't spend money on leisure activities, so they wanted to spend it on other things, on…

The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Friday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available. 1:57 p.m. Health officials in New Brunswick are reporting a two-patient rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations, for a total of 103. The government's COVID-19 dashboard…

By Colleen Romaniuk, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterThe Sudbury Star Fri., March 11, 2022timer5 min. read A new labour market report reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic has “created a monumental shift” in the way employees in the Sudbury and Manitoulin districts see the world of work. Whereas work-life balance was once…