Canadian data suggests people who are pregnant face significantly higher risks of serious COVID-19 requiring hospitalization, ICU admission, or life support — a particular concern because pregnant people tend to have lower rates of vaccination.

A surge in summer travel across the country has forced Canada’s two biggest airlines to ask staff to help volunteer at airports to overcome staffing challenges, a move that is creating pushback from unions.

A proposed class-action lawsuit by Black federal workers against the federal government alleging years of discrimination and seeking some $2.5 billion in damages is now one step closer to going ahead. It will be up to the new government to work with those behind the lawsuit or challenge it.

The right to vote is enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But the spread of COVID-19 could force many Canadian voters to isolate at home on election day.

From new wealth taxes to a more robust CRA, the main federal parties have their own ideas of how to revamp Canada’s tax system.

A new “pocket community” in Kentville is designed to help people with disabilities live in homes, not in institutions.

It’s not something that happens often in an election campaign. All four major parties running candidates in the North agree on an issue. They want to support an Indigenous-led program that could benefit Northern communities.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is not ruling out working with a minority government led by Erin O’Toole, marking a break with his commitment in the 2019 federal election not to work with a minority Conservative government.

Candidates and party leaders are criss-crossing their ridings and Canada seeking every last vote in the final days of election campaigning. In the 10 federal ridings that make up northern Ontario, First Nations community members are an important demographic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened Canada’s already critical nursing shortage, and experts say it’s going to take strategic planning, incentives and a lot of effort to make work life more sustainable for nurses to build a bigger workforce.