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Mexico might allow private firms to buy, distribute vaccines
MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador said Monday he is not opposed to private companies buying coronavirus vaccines to distribute to patients who want to pay for the shots. But he...
Dec 28, 2020
House approves Trump's $2K checks, sending to GOP-led Senate
WASHINGTON - The House voted overwhelmingly Monday to increase COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting President Donald Trump's demand for bigger payments and sending the bill to the GOP-controlled ...
Dec 28, 2020
National daycare system will need funding to lower fees, expand spaces, Hussen says
OTTAWA - The federal minister in charge of the government's push on child care says bringing down fees parents pay is a key ingredient in the Liberals' design for a national system. Social Development...
Dec 28, 2020
'This is a deadly disease;' Canada surpasses 15,000 deaths related to COVID-19
Canada surpassed 15,000 COVID-19 deaths on Monday, and at least one infectious disease expert says the somber milestone should be a wake-up call to anyone who thinks the dangers of the disease are ove...
Dec 28, 2020
What's at stake for the main political parties as an election looms in 2021
OTTAWA - For all the bluster among federal political leaders about not wanting an election any time soon, the political truth is as cold as a winter's wind: the potential for one is a reality in 2021....
Dec 28, 2020
UK warns of 'bumpy' post-Brexit transition despite deal
LONDON - First came the Brexit trade deal. Now comes the red tape and the institutional nitty gritty. Four days after sealing a free trade agreement with the European Union, the British government war...
Dec 28, 2020
Azerbaijan reports attack on its troops in Nagorno-Karabakh
MOSCOW - Azerbaijan's Defence Ministry said Monday its army units have been attacked by "an illegal Armenian armed group" in Nagorno-Karabakh, killing one Azerbaijani serviceman and wounding another. ...
Dec 28, 2020
Gibraltar’s border with Spain still in doubt after Brexit
BARCELONA, Spain - While corks may have popped in London and Brussels over the end to a four-year saga known as Brexit, there is one rocky speck of British soil still left in limbo. Gibraltar, a Briti...
Dec 28, 2020
More cases of U.K. COVID-19 variant found in Canada
OTTAWA - A contagious new strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 has infiltrated two more regions of Canada, health officials said Sunday, a day after announcing the country's first cases of the var...
Dec 27, 2020
2021: Alberta eyes post-COVID economic rebound but faces big budget questions
EDMONTON - Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews says the goal in 2021 is to get vaccines out and put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rear-view mirror, then work to fix a battered and beleaguered economy...
Dec 27, 2020
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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 ...