5 things to know on CTVNews.ca for Thursday, November 4, 2021: Crisis in Afghanistan, vaccine mandate, health care spending

TORONTO —
Households are trapped in protected homes in Afghanistan, the overwhelming majority of federal employees are vaccinated, and the FBI could have solved the ‘jetpack man’ thriller. Right here’s what it’s good to know to start out your day.

1. Disaster in Afghanistan: In Afghanistan, households in a community of protected homes are working out of time, as funds meant to assist them are dwindling. 

2. Vaccine mandate: Treasury Board President Mona Fortier says 95.3 per cent of federal public servants have indicated they’re totally vaccinated towards COVID-19. 

3. Well being care spending: Canada is anticipated to spend a report $308 billion on well being care amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, a brand new report from the Canadian Institute for Well being Data says. 

4. First Nations: The chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is asking on the prime minister to do extra to work with First Nations on the query of when to lift flags lowered earlier this 12 months, acknowledging the unmarked graves at former residential colleges. 

5. Labour market: Canadian employers are firing or placing on unpaid go away hundreds of employees who refused to get COVID-19 photographs, squeezing an already tight labour market and elevating prospects of doubtless disruptive authorized challenges. 

Yet another factor…

‘Jetpack man’: After greater than a 12 months, a Los Angeles thriller is nearer to being solved after a brand new piece of proof launched by the FBI means that it could have been a balloon all alongside.