News Feed

FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY

  1. Canada pulls military trainers out of Iraq as pandemic spreads

    Erbil air base

    A significant number of Canadian military trainers have been redeployed out of Iraq to Kuwait as the federal government temporarily shrinks the size of its overseas missions in response to the pandemic, a senior defence source told CBC News.

  2. The lessons Italy has learned about its COVID-19 outbreak could help the rest of the world

    APTOPIX Italy Virus Outbreak

    Only epidemiological studies will bring to light exactly how and why COVID-19 took off in northern Italy with such speed. But experts say there are already lessons to be gleaned from Italy's fatal errors.

  3. 'Wartime president' Trump isn't calling all the shots in U.S. battle against COVID-19

    USA-ECONOMY/

    Donald Trump likes to say he feels like a "wartime president" battling an "invisible enemy," as though he were in command of the fight against COVID-19 in the U.S. However, as Keith Boag explains, it's often the governors and Congress making key decisions that could decide the outcome of the crisis.

  4. Record 6.6M Americans filed for jobless benefits last week

    JOBLESS CLAIMS

    More than 6.6 million Americans filed for new jobless claims last week, doubling the record amount seen the previous week, when the COVID-19 crisis was beginning to wallop the U.S. economy.

  5. Georgia governor slammed for not knowing asymptomatic people could transmit virus

    Virus Outbreak Georgia

    Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced a shelter-in-place order on Wednesday and ordered public schools closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. He said he didn't know until this week that the asymptomatic "could have been infecting people before they ever felt bad."