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'I felt I should do something': Canadians working to send supplies to India as COVID-19 crisis grows dire
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Canada to start receiving U.S. shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine next week
The United States is relaxing restrictions on vaccine shipments across the border, allowing the products produced in Kalamazoo, Mich., to enter Canada.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsAt least 15 COVID-19 patients killed in India hospital fire
Police say at least 15 COVID-19 patients have died after a fire broke out in a hospital in western India.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsOntario had no plan to address pandemic or protect residents in long-term care, final commission report says
Ontario was not prepared to address a pandemic and had no plan to protect residents in long-term care thanks to years of neglect, according to a final report from an independent commission released Friday evening.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsHuman smuggling operation suspected after police find more than 90 people in Texas home
More than 90 people were found in a house in southwestern Houston that investigators suspect was part of a human smuggling operation, police said Friday.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsHospitalizations linked to COVID-19 down by 31 in Quebec as 1,041 new cases added
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Supreme Court of Canada sides with Crown over immunity of prosecutors
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Ontario reports more than 3,800 new COVID-19 cases for second straight day
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N.S. reports 67 new COVID-19 cases Friday, marking three days of a downward trend
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Ontario calls for mandatory three-day hotel quarantine for travellers crossing land borders
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N.S. premier says aggressive lockdown measures now will allow for summer with fewer restrictions
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'He loved Nunavut:' Polar bear biologist who died in helicopter crash remembered
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GDP numbers show Canada's economy is bouncing back, even as COVID-19 maintains its iron grip
Canada's economy expanded at a 6.5 per cent pace in the first three months of 2021, as the service sector is showing signs of coming out of the COVID-19 doldrums even as large parts of goods-producing industries are still lagging.
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Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data they say would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again on Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a humanitarian crisis.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsThe National On Demand: External military sexual misconduct review | April 29, 2021
Canada’s military will face another review over sexual misconduct as victims wait for change. Plus, preparing for a surge in vaccine supply.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsRare COVID-19 vaccine blood clots explained
With the news that a woman in Quebec died of a rare blood clot after receiving the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, some people may feel concerned about the vaccine. Epidemiologist Maria Sundaram unpacks what you need to know about these extremely rare blood clots and the COVID-19 vaccines.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsCrime victims need help through gruelling, traumatic parole process: advocates
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Death due to COVID-19 parties could lead to manslaughter charges: experts
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These rescuers want to save refugees fleeing Libya by sea. But they're trapped on shore by red tape
Italian authorities say the inspections ensure naval safety. But humanitarian rescuers say the constant checks and bureaucratic delays are just the latest tactic Italy is using to keep such humanitarian boats from bringing migrants to a Europe that doesn't want them.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsYour free speech is at risk with Ottawa's push to regulate online content, experts warn. Here's why.
The federal government is facing an uproar over controversial changes to a bill that would bring videos and other content posted to social media sites like YouTube under the purview of the country's broadcasting regulator. So what is it proposing?
via CBC | Top Stories NewsAs Russia's confrontation with the West escalates so has its crackdown on dissent at home
As Russia’s confrontation with the West deepens, domestic critics of President Vladimir Putin say they’re paying a heavy price. Activists with pro-Western leanings are being arrested and jailed and journalists say they are facing intimidation.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsCan Canada reach its emissions targets while still producing so much oil and gas?
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the disconnect between Canada's new emissions targets and the continued support of the oil and gas sector, and how some European jurisdictions are banning short-haul flights.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsNational security threats are changing, but Canada is mired in conventional thinking
We have entered an era in which national security is not just about protecting the state against adversaries, but also against dangers that have a direct impact on the daily lives of people, write Aaron Shull and Wesley Wark.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsPanic season: Canadians scramble to meet tax-filing deadline in the middle of a pandemic
In one of the most complex tax seasons in living memory — in the middle of a global pandemic and widespread lockdowns — many Canadians and the tax professionals who help them are scrambling to make today's filing deadline.
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Metro Vancouver family urges people to take COVID-19 seriously after healthy father dies
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Dozens injured in stampede at religious gathering in Israel
More than 100 people were injured, dozens critically, in a stampede at a Jewish religious gathering in northern Israel attended by tens of thousands of people, Israel's main rescue service said early Friday.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsLaurentian created a 'manufactured crisis' to cut ties with 3 schools for $10M loan, court told
Laurentian University's attempts to cut ties with three federated schools, on the road to getting a $10-million loan to help it continue with restructuring for survival, was met with heated opposition and accusations in Ontario Superior Court on Thursday.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsCommunity rallies to support 13-year-old Mississauga, Ont., boy orphaned after mother dies with COVID-19
Mazen Kamel, 13, and his mother, Dalia Aly, made it through some tough times together. But after COVID-19 took Aly at just 46 years of age, Kamel will have to learn to live without either one of his parents — and community members are banding together to help.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsChina launches key module of new space station
China launched an unmanned module on Thursday containing what will become living quarters for three crew on a permanent space station that it plans to complete by the end of 2022, state media reported.
via CBC | Top Stories NewsN.S. reports 70 new COVID-19 cases Thursday; active infections increase to 548
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Supreme Court ruling could help Indigenous people on Maine border
A Supreme Court of Canada ruling extending Aboriginal rights to some non-Canadian Indigenous people could have wide-ranging implications for the Peskotomuhkati living on both sides of the Maine-New Brunswick border.
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