Category Archives: Lifestyle
Bad news overload: pandemic blurs line between informing public and feeding anxiety
TORONTO, S.D. — Scrolling through social media for COVID-19 updates has become a precarious activity for some Canadians, with news of the worsening pandemic becoming harder to escape. More than a year into the COVID-19 crisis, many are wondering: How m...
Regulator suspends Ontario restaurant’s liquor licence after anti-mask event
Ontario's alcohol and gaming regulator says it has suspended the liquor licence of a Kemptville, Ont., restaurant after an anti-mask event was held on the premises during the province's third COVID-19 lockdown. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ont...
Teens need coping skills to deal with anger during pandemic: doctor
Pandemic-fuelled frustration has some teens expressing anger in unhealthy ways after a year of missed social connections that would typically help them mature and regulate their emotions, says a psychiatrist calling for more education on coping skills ...
Children less likely than adults to transmit COVID-19 virus: Canadian study
Canadian researchers say children may be less infectious than adults with the COVID-19 virus, suggesting daycares, schools and extracurricular activities could continue with appropriate precautions in place. Lead investigator Dr. Jared Bullard, an asso...
Biden’s ambitious expansion of long-term care sparks debate
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is proposing a major expansion of the government’s role in long-term care, but questions are being raised over his using the low-income Medicaid program and piggybacking the whole idea on an infrastructure bill. The Whi...
Visitors tiptoe through the tulips in Dutch virus test
LISSE, Netherlands — Finally, after bleak winter months of a coronavirus lockdown, springtime shoots of hope emerged Friday as restrictions were relaxed at a Dutch flower garden and other public venues. Under a government-approved pilot scheme, the wor...
Hackers, glitches mar France’s mass return to online school
PARIS — French children, parents and teachers are battling with internet connection problems across the country after an abrupt nationwide switch to online learning saturated networks and embarrassed the government. Paris prosecutors opened an investig...
Vaccine passports are latest flash point in COVID politics
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars, with Republicans portr...
Italy may be in Easter lockdown, but the party’s on at sea
Italy may be in a strict coronavirus lockdown this Easter with travel restricted between regions and new quarantines imposed. But a few miles offshore, guests aboard the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship are shimmying to Latin music on deck and sipping
The Dutch went first in 2001; who has same-sex marriage now?
AMSTERDAM — Twenty years ago, just after the stroke of midnight on April 1, the mayor of Amsterdam married four couples in City Hall as the Netherlands became the first country in the world with legalized same-sex marriages. "There are two
