Cenovus Energy Inc. is temporarily suspending its dividend and cutting its capital spending plan by an additional $150 million on top of a reduction announced last month. The company says the additional steps are in response to the low global oil price environment that it expects to continue for an unknown period. It had paid…

More than 6.6 million Americans filed for new jobless claims in the week that ended March 28, doubling the record amount seen the previous week, when the COVID-19 crisis was beginning to wallop the U.S. economy. The 3.3 million Americans who had filed for jobless benefits the previous week was already a record, shattering the…

If necessity really is the mother of invention, the coronavirus lockdown may thrust us into the mother of all socioeconomic transformations. And while many commentators have weighed in on whether things like working from home are a boon or a curse, people caught up in the economic experiment tell me the world will not be…

Long waits for COVID-19 test results are due in part to a shortage of medical laboratory professionals in Canada, according to lab workers’ associations and job vacancy data. Laboratory logjams that were already the norm have been exacerbated by the pandemic along with a pipeline problem, with more leaving the profession than joining. Christine Nielson,…

The United States government and Florida were working on a plan on Wednesday to allow thousands of cruise ship passengers exposed to an on-board coronavirus outbreak to disembark, a day after President Donald Trump said the state needed to “do what’s right.” Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said he was not opposed to them docking in…

The United States government and Florida were working on a plan on Wednesday to allow thousands of cruise ship passengers exposed to an on-board coronavirus outbreak to disembark, a day after President Donald Trump said the state needed to “do what’s right.” Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said he was not opposed to them docking in…