Business
B.C. tourism looks to COVID-19 rapid testing to begin recovery
Airports start programs to ease quarantine rules on travellers
Read more >
Firms with more robots also have more workers overall, Statistics Canada study says
Firms that invested in robots were also likely to cut the number of managers
Read more >
Canada crawling toward AI regulatory regime, but experts say reform is urgent
Clearview AI said in July it will no longer provide facial recognition services in Canada
Read more >
What’s the Deeleeo? Pandemic spurs resurgence in crowdsourced delivery apps
Even Walmart considered using customers to drop off U.S. orders, but abandoned the idea.
Read more >
Economic recovery threatened if some workers, households left behind, Macklem says
Low-wage workers are still about 20 per cent below their pre-pandemic levels of employment
Read more >
WorkSafeBC disallows majority of COVID-19 job injury claims
Health care, social services employees filing the most claims
Read more >
B.C. bus companies say they need help to survive COVID-19
Like airlines, motor coaches have lost most of their revenue
Read more >
B.C. still awaiting U.S. approval to eliminate daylight saving time
Clocks going back one hour Nov. 1 in Washington too
Read more >
Ho, ho, no: Experts advise preparing for a scaled-back COVID holiday season
Many of the holiday season’s highlights have already been scrapped or are unlikely to take place
Read more >
Suncor says end of Alberta oil quotas a ‘positive signal’ as it reports $302M loss
Suncor has been opposed to the Alberta oil quotas since they started in 2019
Read more >