Airport COVID-19 testing to be paused in light of delays

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With airport delays a prominent feature across Canada as a result of added travel measures from the pandemic, the Canadian government announced measures on Friday that may change that. From June 11 to June 30, Canada will temporarily stop the random COVID-19 tests at airports for international travellers entering the country. Unvaccinated travellers will still need to be tested on site. Matthew Bingley has more on the changes.

On the jobs front, the unemployment rate has dipped to a new low as Canada has been creating more jobs— including more opportunities for women, who face higher job losses in the pandemic. As Eric Sorensen explains, even with this trend, businesses are still having trouble filling roles.

For two hours on primetime television on Thursday, the first of six public hearings into what happened on Jan. 6 in the U.S. Capitol began. As Jackson Proskow reports, it could implicate sitting members of Congress in the alleged plot to overthrow American democracy.

The Summit of the Americas is wrapping up its final day in Los Angeles. And with it, a new agreement to address one of the western hemisphere’s most pressing issues: irregular migration. U.S. President Joe Biden has announced an agreement dubbed the “Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection.” David Akin takes a look.

To address harmful methane released from livestock into the atmosphere, New Zealand is taxing livestock for these emissions in a world-first. With the average cow emitting a whopping 220 pounds of methane gas per day, Mike Drolet reports on the impact this move could have.