COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2). The outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January, and a pandemic on 11 March.

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Fraser Institute · 18 July 2024 English

The federal government has set a GHG emissions reduction target of at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, equivalent to 38.5% below 2022 levels. This report examines proposed policies …

big drop (about 10%) coincided with the 2020 COVID-19 recession without which they might have ended has slowed down, but it blames these things on COVID-19-related supply chain disruptions and the war The reduction in emissions in 2020 due to the COVID-19 recession and lockdowns is shown.14 Emissions


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 17 July 2024 English

IISD provides insights on aspects of World Trade Organization (WTO) members' plastics that have created friction with trading partners and suggests recommendations for the adoption of such policies in the …

Canada to China over the timeline for removing COVID-19 SPS measures related to its import prohibition or delays were experienced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.21,22 Figure 5. Types of TPR questions


Fraser Institute · 16 July 2024 English

Poor government policy has led to a significant deterioration in Canada’s federal finances over the last decade. The introduction of new and expanded government programs has caused federal spending to …

forward than in the years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (Beaudry, 2023). Consequently, governments


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …

global populations but also those separated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aubin insists that watch parties such


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

digitising key documents for us to review during the covid-19 pan- demic: thank you! We must further thank the work was made significantly more complex by the covid-19 pandemic that began in March 2020. As authors


Fraser Institute · 27 June 2024 English

Over the past 15 months, Canada'€™s previously tight labour market has softened considerably. The slowdown in the youth labour market has been particularly significant. From January 2023 to May 2024, …

aside from what occurred during the unusual COVID- 19 pandemic and recession—when large sectors of This decade has been severely affected by the COVID-19 reces- sion as well as the softening of the youth downturns of the early 1990s, 2008–2009, and the COVID-19 reces- sion all led to significantly sharper downturns economic developments were dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest gap occurred in 1997 at


Fraser Institute · 25 June 2024 English

Affordable housing in cities is a major public-policy issue in Canada. Zoning and related restrictions on increased construction of multi-family housing in urban centres have been identified by the federal …

US cities in recent years. Specifically, the COVID-19 pandemic began to affect population growth in pattern of telecommuting that took hold dur- ing the COVID-19 pandemic may make a return to the city less likely


NSP: New Society Publishers · 25 June 2024 English

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge …

Russia was on the brink of invading Ukraine. COVID-19 was killing approximately 2,500 people every day


CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 24 June 2024 English

How big is Ontario's credit mills problem

inspection of curriculum material. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the inspections were conducted


Fraser Institute · 21 June 2024 English

In its 2023 Emission Reduction Plan, the Government of Canada has committed to a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to at least 40 per cent below 2005 levels by …

trended up at about 0.4% per year, then during the COVID- 19 recession they dropped by 10% but are slowly


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