Canada clawed back 289,600 jobs in May as provincial governments began easing public health restrictions and businesses reopened, Statistics Canada said Friday. Still, the unemployment rate in May rose to 13.7 per cent, the highest level in more than four decades of comparable data.
Home sales in the Greater Vancouver area continued their steep year-over-year drop last month amid confinement measures and physical distancing requirements related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Donald Trump adds fuel to the fire with his tweets with George Floyd's death at the hands of police officers in Minnesota. There are violent demonstrations all over the US and around the world in relation to race and police brutality.
Some Facebook employees critical of CEO Mark Zuckerberg protested his decision not to do anything about incendiary posts that President Trump had placed on the giant social media platform over the past week.
An autopsy on George Floyd's body commissioned by his family determined that "asphyxiation from sustained pressure was the cause" of Floyd's death in an incident that has sparked tense protests and violence across the nation.
A Canadian legal activist is warning the federal government to grant asylum to democracy activists in Hong Kong and expanded settlement to those with links to Canada before China prevents them from leaving.
Transit police in Metro Vancouver are asking for help as they try to identify a woman suspected of ridiculing and then punching a teenage girl in an apparent hate crime last month.
