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TORONTO -- Ontario's health-care workers say the government has abandoned them in their desperate, anxiety-ridden struggle to cope with COVID-19. A small-scale study by two researchers released today suggests the workers are burned out and frightened. Source

Democrat Joe Biden has been certified as the winner of the U.S. presidential election in Pennsylvania, culminating three weeks of vote counting and a string of failed legal challenges by President Donald Trump, state officials said Tuesday. Source

TORONTO -- Canada Post is bracing for an “all-out” effort this holiday season on the heels of an already record-breaking year. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the postal service says shipping demands have leap frogged to levels not anticipated for at least another three years, turning Canada Post’s business on a dime. Source

MONTREAL -- Quebec health authorities reported 1,124 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the province since the start of the pandemic to 134,330. Of them, 10,819 are active. Source

HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia Health is asking anyone who works in a licensed establishment or went to a bar or restaurant in the Halifax Regional Municipality after 10 p.m. in the last two weeks to book a COVID-19 test, even if they don’t have symptoms. Source

CALGARY -- Campers looking to secure a spot in a national park during the height of the 2021 season will need to wait a little longer as Parks Canada has pushed back the opening of reservations. Source

BEIJING -- China on Tuesday reported two new coronavirus cases in the cities of Shanghai and Tianjin as it seeks to prevent small outbreaks from becoming larger ones. The National Health Commission said there were two new locally spread cases in the previous 24-hour period, one in each city. Source

WINDSOR, ONT. -- Windsor’s mayor acknowledged breaking COVID-19 restrictions for dining and said he is making a $750 donation for the error. Mayor Drew Dilkens issued a statement at the end of Monday’s council meeting after a picture surfaced on social media showing him and seven other people sitting together at a local restaurant on Wednesday, when the limit of people at a table is six in the Orange-Restrict category. Source

An eco-resort that claims to be on the brink of opening, and whose owners have raised over $60,000 on that promise, consists of little more than a raw piece of land in the B.C. Interior and a converted bus parked in a backyard in Langley. Source

LONDON -- The parents of a British teen who was killed in a car crash lost a court battle with the U.K. government Tuesday over whether their son's alleged killer, an American woman, had diplomatic immunity. Source