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A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Feb. 8, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday Feb. 8, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 11,885 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,076,130 do...
Feb 08, 2021
Canada's sluggish COVID-19 vaccination program won't get better this week
OTTAWA - Canada's languid vaccination efforts have no chance of improvement this week with just 70,200 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine scheduled to start arriving. Provinces and territories have ...
Feb 08, 2021
Mandatory hotel quarantines could harm lower-income Canadians: Lawyer
OTTAWA - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is questioning Ottawa's move to require hotel quarantines for international travellers, saying it may harm lower-income Canadians and infringe on citi...
Feb 08, 2021
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Feb. 7, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Sunday Feb. 7, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 11,885 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,076,130 do...
Feb 07, 2021
Quebec passes 10,000 COVID-19 deaths as Ontario reports case of Brazil variant
Canada hit more unwanted firsts in its battle against the COVID-19 pandemic on Sunday, as Quebec became the first province to surpass 10,000 deaths and Toronto reported Ontario's first case of a varia...
Feb 07, 2021
MPs demand relocation of 2022 Olympics due to China's abuse of Uighurs
More than a dozen federal lawmakers from all parties are calling for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be moved outside China, citing a "genocidal campaign" by the state against Uighurs and other Muslim min...
Feb 07, 2021
Longtime Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz dies at 100
WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and...
Feb 07, 2021
Federal funding to help former GGs set up charitable foundations is discretionary
OTTAWA - The federal government has allocated $30 million over the past 15 years to sustain charitable foundations created by governors general once they leave office. But Prime Minister Justin Trudea...
Feb 07, 2021
UK vaccine gambles paid off, while EU caution slowed it down
SAINT-HERBLAIN, France - French pharmaceutical startup Valneva had big news in September: a government contract for 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate. The buyer? The United Kingdom...
Feb 07, 2021
Internet access restored as Myanmar coup protests grow
YANGON, Myanmar - As enthusiastic crowds of tens of thousands marched through the streets of Myanmar's biggest city on Sunday to protest last week's coup ousting Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government,...
Feb 07, 2021
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Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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8:30 - Canada's industrial carbon tax is set to rise again, and it's sparking a lot of debate about what that means for ...