An ongoing shortage of microchips that has eaten into the supply of everything from cars to toys is finally starting to hit the supply of iPhones.

Your sweatpant size isn’t the only thing that might be ballooning in this pandemic — the number of stores selling them is expanding like an elasticated waistband.

Facebook has recently taken a harsher tone toward whistleblower Frances Haugen, suggesting that the social network giant could be considering legal action after Haugen went public with internal research that she copied before leaving her job earlier this year.

Canada’s economy added 157,000 new jobs last month, Statistics Canada says, enough to put employment back above where it was before the pandemic started.

Canada is facing a potential wave of terminations tied to mandatory workplace vaccine policies as a growing number of employers require workers to be fully inoculated against COVID-19 — or risk losing their jobs, legal experts say.

For most of the billions of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram users around the world, Monday’s outage was annoying. But for businesses that rely exclusively on those platforms to find new customers and sell to them, it was a cold reminder of just how vulnerable they are.

The union representing flight attendants at Canada’s major airlines says reducing on-board food and drink service might help combat a rise in unruly passenger behaviour.

YouTube is moving to block and remove all content that spreads misinformation about vaccines against COVID-19 and other illnesses, such as measles and chicken pox.

The labour shortage is widespread across the country in several different sectors of the economy, despite a national unemployment rate above seven per cent. Fifty-five per cent of small and medium-sized businesses are struggling to hire the workers they need, the Business Development Bank of Canada found.