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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
Heavy snowstorm pounds Germany, upends travel
BERLIN - A snowstorm and strong winds pounded northern and western Germany on Sunday, forcing trains to cancel trips and leading to hundreds of vehicle crashes. Police said 28 people were injured on i...
Feb 07, 2021
Grief persists for spouses of first responders, soldiers killed in line of duty
OTTAWA - Angela Gevaudan recalls the first year after her RCMP-officer husband was killed on duty as a whirlwind of responsibility and emotion that offered her little time to process her grief and los...
Feb 07, 2021
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Feb. 7, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Sunday Feb. 7, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 21,469 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,064,245 do...
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