| | | | | | | | | FIVE THINGS TO KNOW | | | | | | Federal deficit
The federal government is unveiling a new round of financial supports to respond to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, as the latest projections show the national deficit is headed for a new high: at least $381 billion. |
| | | | | | Child care
The federal government is proposing millions of dollars in new spending as a down payment on a planned national child-care system that the Liberals say will be outlined in next spring's budget. |
| | | | | | Vaccine rollout
Just one-in-six Canadians are confident in the federal government's rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine once one becomes available, according to the latest data from Nanos Research. |
| | | | | | Neurological effects
According to a new study from Berlin, the most common path for the novel coronavirus to invade the brain is through the nose. |
| | | | | | Monolith mystery
David Surber, with nothing but co-ordinates found by sleuths on Reddit, drove over six hours into the Utah desert in search of the metal monolith, making him one of the few people who saw it in person before it vanished this weekend. |
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| | | | | | | First it was toilet paper, then home exercise equipment, and now it appears that the COVID-19 pandemic is behind yet another shortage: Christmas trees. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | A thousand words | | | | A Houston doctor who has worked for more than 250 days straight was seen comforting an elderly man wanting to be with his wife in a photograph that captured the emotional toll of COVID-19 on patients and the resiliency and compassion of health-care workers. |
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