| | | | | | | | | FIVE THINGS TO KNOW | | | | | | Crisis in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, families in a network of safe houses are running out of time as funds meant to support them are dwindling. |
| | | | | | Vaccine mandate
Treasury Board President Mona Fortier says 95.3 per cent of federal public servants have indicated they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. |
| | | | | | Health care spending
Canada is expected to spend a record $308 billion on health care amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, a new report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information says. |
| | | | | | First Nations
The chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is calling on the prime minister to do more to work with First Nations on the question of when to raise flags lowered earlier this year, acknowledging the unmarked graves at former residential schools. |
| | | | | | Labour market
Canadian employers are firing or putting on unpaid leave thousands of workers who refused to get COVID-19 shots, squeezing an already tight labour market and raising prospects of potentially disruptive legal challenges. |
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| | | | | | | Western Australia Police shared video showing part of the rescue of Cleo Smith, a four-year-old girl who was missing in a remote part of the country for 18 days. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | 'Jetpack man' | | | | After more than a year, a Los Angeles mystery is closer to being solved after a new piece of evidence released by the FBI suggests that it may have been a balloon all along. |
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