BIS Bulletin No 8, April 2020. Information on local labour markets and Google searches can be used to construct a measure of the vulnerability of employment in different regions of the United States to the Covid-19 shock. Regional exposure to Covid-19 varies significantly, ranging from a low of 2% to a high of 98% of total local employment. We test for the usefulness of the Covid-19 exposure measure by showing that areas with higher exposure report more Google search queries related to the pandemic and unemployment benefits.

This paper reviews post-crisis financial regulatory reforms, examines how they fit together and identifies open issues. Specifically, it takes stock of the salient new features of bank and CCP international standards within a unified analytical framework.

Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with actor and author Neil Patrick Harris discussing "The Magic Misfits: The Minor Third." The event, part of the new year-long National Book Festival Presents series, took place in the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium. This post includes prompts for writing and thinking that young readers, families and teachers can use to explore the author and the author’s work—recommended for ages 8+.

Rural educator Frank Cyr had the vision and pull to force the nation to standardize the color of the ubiquitous vehicle

A new book explores the evolution of cartography throughout more than a century of commercial air travel

British product designer Lucy Hughes has invented a biodegradable plastic made from fish offcuts

Application deadline: 17 May 2020 | Banking Settlements Centre | Location: Basel, Switzerland

Press release about the Basel Committee publishing consultation paper on revisions to the credit valuation adjustment risk framework, 28 November 2019.

BIS Press Release - Easing trade tensions lift sentiment: BIS Quarterly Review, 8 December 2019

The BIS Board of Directors has decided to invite the central banks of Kuwait, Morocco and Vietnam to become members of the BIS. This is the first such expansion since 2011 and will take the number of members to 63.

No global real estate market despite higher price synchronisation and growing role of international investors, central banks find (Press release, 18 February 2020)

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today announced two key appointments to the BIS Innovation Hub, a new initiative designed to support central bank collaboration on new financial technology. (Press release, 19 February 2020)

Basel Committee Press release "Basel Committee meets to review vulnerabilities and emerging risks, advance supervisory initiatives and promote Basel III implementationl", 27 February 2020.

BIS Press Release - Shaping the future of payments: BIS Quarterly Review, 1 March 2020

BIS statement, 16 March 2020.

Press release "Basel Committee coordinates policy and supervisory response to Covid-19", 20 March 2020

Press release "Governors and Heads of Supervision announce deferral of Basel III implementation to increase operational capacity of banks and supervisors to respond to Covid-19", 27 March 2020

BCBS Press release "Basel III monitoring results based on end-June 2019 data published by the Basel Committee", 8 April 2020

CPMI Press release "Jurisdictions move towards full implementation of standards for financial market infrastructures", 8 April 2020.

Press release "Saudi G20 Presidency and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub invite global innovators to solve RegTech and SupTech challenges", 27 April 2020

BCBS Press release "Basel Committee issues progress report on banks' implementation of the 'Principles for effective risk data aggregation and reporting'", 29 April 2020

Tissue engineering has a unique set of tools and technologies for developing preventive strategies, diagnostics, and treatments that can play an important role during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

A protein shredder that occurs in cell membranes of brain cells apparently also indirectly regulates the fat metabolism.

When we find something particularly beautiful or impressive, we literally get big eyes: Our pupils dilate. The pupil controls how much light enters the eye and falls on the retina.

With a discovery that could rewrite the immunology textbooks, an international group of scientists, including the teams of Bart Lambrecht, Martin Guilliams, Hamida Hammad, and Charlotte Scott (all from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) identified a new type of antigen-presenting immune cell.

Will a nationalist president be undone by his underreaction to a foreign threat?

Holland America and Princess cruise lines issued notices this week cancelling the remainder of the season in Atlantic Canada, citing global health concerns, and that's taking a huge bite out of the Port of Sydney's budget.

Classified released a music video for his song, Good News, this week featuring a pack of kids hanging out with seniors at a continuing care home in Enfield, N.S. It was filmed before the COVID-19 outbreak in the province.

A Dalhousie University scientist and a NSCAD textile professor are teaming up to create a new fabric. It could be used to locally manufacture personal protective equipment like surgical masks. As the CBC's Colleen Jones reports, they have received a COVID-19 grant to study the idea.

People in Truro, N.S., are reeling after the disappearance of three-year-old Dylan Ehler as the community tries to come to grips with another potential tragedy in the area.

A number of fishing zones in the Gulf of St. Lawrence have been closed after North Atlantic right whales were sighted earlier this week.

Nova Scotia students and teachers will not be returning to the classroom this year. At-home learning will continue until June 5, when the province's school year will end.

A woman who lost her sister to COVID-19 at the start of the month is thanking the staff at Northwood who took "excellent" care of her in her final days. Jean Harrigan, 90, is being remembered for her caring and lively nature.

As Nova Scotians gazed up at the Canadian Forces Snowbirds soaring through the clouds last weekend, Matt MacKenzie was looking down and feeling the weight of successive tragedies that had enveloped his home province. 

Quebecers, like the rest of the world, are growing accustomed to the uncertainty that's accompanied the pandemic. But they may not appreciate their government adding to that already hefty burden.

We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday online, and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network.

A new breed of food establishment is attempting to do away with food waste entirely

Here’s some culinary inspiration as you wait out a global pandemic

Overcoming scorching heat and little rain, experimental vineyards teach winemakers to cope with climate change

The fifth installment in our weekly series spotlights titles that may have been lost in the news amid the COVID-19 crisis

Live professional baseball games could be televised in the United States as early next week, with South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reporting Monday that ESPN and the Korea Baseball Organization are nearing an agreement.

Major League Baseball owners will discuss a length for the amateur draft next week and are likely to start the selections on the original date of June 10, a person familiar with the deliberations told The Associated Press.

Everyone is rooting for Korean baseball to succeed right now because, if it fails, we're left with a pretty dark thought: If they can't pull this off, what hope do we have?

Smithsonian folklorist James Deutsch says the fast spread of stories and memes are cultural expressions that build cohesion and support

History’s census enumerators came back with the numbers and some very tall tales

The Best Museum Experience of All Things Washington, D.C. Experience the stories behind the people and events of the Nation's Capital.

A Winnipeg School Division trustee who was suspended from the school board earlier this week does not plan on fighting the decision, she told CBC News.