Miss something this week? Don’t panic. CBC’s Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need. Want this in your inbox? Get the Marketplace newsletter every Friday. It’s a special edition of your Marketplace In light of the COVID-19 crisis, the Marketplace team released a pandemic special, looking into how other countries are tackling the pandemic and more. Last…
A Canadian company says it can crank up production within days of potential life-saving ventilators, once it gets final instructions from the federal government. Countries are scrambling to avoid the nightmarish scenario unfolding in Italy, where doctors are grappling with which patients to save because there aren’t enough breathing machines to serve all the critically…
Hotels across the country are already closing and laying off thousands of workers due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business, according to the industry’s association. “The hotel industry virtually crashed over the last 10 days. In a period of 48 hours last week, occupancy dropped by 50 per cent across the industry,”…
Michelin will temporarily shut down its tire production facilities in the U.S. and Canada due to the “broad effects of COVID-19.” In a news release on Friday, the company said the “phased suspension” of some manufacturing will begin immediately and will last at least two weeks. Michelin operates facilities in Nova Scotia in Granton, Waterville…
“Bring us home.” That’s Shirley Mancino’s message to Justin Trudeau after the prime minister pleaded earlier this week for Canadians abroad to return to Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mancino, 74, and husband, Michael Clement, 75, left their home in Westport, Ont., in January to spend the winter in Cuenca, Ecuador. They were set to fly home on April 8,…
Instead of helping their clients plan a long awaited trip or a vacation of a lifetime, these days travel agents are working overtime trying to sort through a mirage of cancellations and closures, while trying to find ways home for overseas travellers. When COVID-19 began to spread, Lesley Keyter created a folder to keep track of the…
