Wednesday, March 25, 2020

25 March - Pale Moon START Page - MSM Canada

  • Does the economy need a helicopter rescue to escape COVID-19 disaster?: Don Pittis 2 days ago  –  What's known in economics circles as helicopter money, a theoretical way of injecting spending power directly to ordinary citizens, is getting serious attention as a cure for an economy badly sickened by COVID-19.
  • How to talk to family and friends who ignore social distancing appeals
  • What you need to know about the new COVID-19 benefits program
  • More than half of reported COVID-19 cases in Canada now from community spread a day ago  –  More than half of Canada's COVID-19 cases are caused by spread in the community from an unknown source, and experts say that signals there could be a silent epidemic happening across the country.
  • NHL extending isolation period for players and staff
  • Business owners call for direct wage subsidies to prevent a cascade of layoffs, bankruptcies
  • Flu-like cases spike on stranded cruise ship carrying 247 Canadian passengers
  • No way home in sight for Canadians stranded in India amid COVID-19 lockdown
    a day ago  –  Canadians stranded in India are growing increasingly desperate to return home as the South Asian country enforces a nationwide lockdown and closure of its airspace because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • International students feeling isolated and financially strapped as they wait out pandemic
  • Trudeau leaves door open to using smartphone data to track Canadians' compliance with pandemic rules
  • All-volunteer cyber civil defence brigade assembles to fight COVID-19 hackers
  • 'An extreme last resort': Police reluctant to ticket, arrest COVID-19 rule-breakers
  • B.C. dentist who attended Vancouver conference dies of suspected COVID-19 complications
  • Battered stock markets post best day in years as governments fight coronav
  • Get informed on the top stories of the day in one quick scan 13 hours ago  –  In today's Morning Brief, we look at sick air travellers who are hiding their symptoms so they can get through airport screening. We also look at how the system is going to cope after nearly one million Canadians filed for EI, and how to convince someone to change their behaviour if they aren't p...
  • Is there a generational divide in attitudes to pandemic measures? It's complicated
  • Parliament passes Ottawa's $107 billion COVID-19 aid package
  • U.S. Senate, White House reach deal on $2T coronavirus rescue package
  • How sick Canadian travellers are masking COVID-19 symptoms to get through airport screening
  • How a lab in Sask. that focuses on animals became Canada's $23M hope for a COVID-19 vaccine
     16 hours ago  –  In the global race to find a COVID-19 vaccine, the federal government announced Monday it is pumping $23 million into an academic research lab in Saskatoon. Here is a look at how the facility that started out as a modest veterinary lab in 1975 became Canada's best hope for a vaccine. 
  • 'I've never been so stressed': Health-care workers in COVID-19 battle face PTSD, mental health issues
  • How do you process a million EI claims? Don't try to make it perfect, say experts
  • Why Canada's COVID-19 'war-time' response could be derailed by a swab on a stick
  • 'Go home and stay home.' But also exercise. How do we do that?
  • No, the new coronavirus wasn't created in a lab, scientists say
  • New Zealand mosque shooter pleads guilty in surprise move 21 minutes ago  –  One year after killing 51 worshipers at two Christchurch mosques, an Australian white supremacist accused of the slaughter on Thursday changed his plea to guilty.
  • The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for Wednesday, March 25
  • An update on local services and all the ways to access COVID-19 information on CBC News
  • When it comes to ventilators per capita, Ontario's near the bottom
  • When Canadians needed their MPs to act like adults, they delivered
    When Canadians needed their MPs to act like adults, they delivered 4 hours ago  –  Last night's gathering of the House of Commons to pass pandemic response legislation was remarkable for what it didn't feature: heckling, applause and personal attacks. It also proved that Canada's parliamentary system is perfectly capable of putting knee-jerk partisanship into cold storage in an...
  • The riskiest surfaces for coronavirus and how to clean them
  • Bauer offers to make protective medical gear instead of hockey equipment
  • What you need to know about the new COVID-19 benefits program
  • Coronavirus impact spreads across U.S., with much of the population under stay-at-home orders
  • Leon's and The Brick to close 72 stores and lay off 3,900 workers because of COVID-19
  • COVID-19 already having an impact on Canadians' financial health, survey s
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