Bloomberg Canada’s capital city declared a state of emergency as police struggled to rein in protests against vaccine mandates and Covid-19 restrictions. Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, who declared the emergency, said that increasingly rowdy demonstrations posed a “serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents.” Hundreds of trucks continue to occupy the downtown area near Canada’s ...

  Bloomberg South African President Cyril Ramaphosa may impose limits on the types of jobs that foreigners can apply for, Business Day reported, without saying where it got the information. The South African cabinet is considering the proposal that was discussed at recent talks between the ruling African National Congress and its alliance partners, the South African Communist Party and ...

  Bloomberg Canada’s labour market suffered a larger-than-expected setback last month after the nation was hit with fresh lockdowns meant to contain the Omicron variant of Covid-19. The country shed 200,100 jobs in January, Statistics Canada reported from Ottawa, ending a seven-month streak of gains. Economists in a Bloomberg survey were expecting a drop of 110,000. The unemployment rate rise ...