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Canada’s hospitals deploy artificial lungs, scramble for staff as COVID-19 hits younger patients

Younger Canadians are bearing the brunt of the nation’s latest COVID-19 surge, creating growing demand for artificial lungs and a struggle to maintain staffing in critical care units as hospitals…

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Canada surpasses one million Covid-19 cases

Canada has crossed the threshold of one million coronavirus cases as the country faces a third wave of infections, forcing several provinces to tighten restrictions in recent days. With 2,000…

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Canada pauses AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine use for those under 55, wants new risk analysis

Canadian health officials said on Monday they would stop offering AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to people under age 55 and require a new analysis of the shot's benefits and risks based on…

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Moderna delays shipment of about 600,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Canada

Moderna Inc has delayed the shipment of 590,400 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine that were due to arrive in Canada this weekend, the federal procurement minister said. Moderna informed Canadian…

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Health Canada follows European regulators in backing AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine

Canada's health department joined its European counterparts in backing AstraZeneca Plc's COVID-19 vaccine, saying the shots were not associated with an overall increase in blood clots. "Health Canada confirms that…

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Australia and Canada to continue using AstraZeneca vaccine, say no evidence of blood clots

Australia said on Friday it will continue to roll-out AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as there was no evidence of a link to blood clots, despite some European countries suspending its use.…

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Biden, Trudeau in warm first “meeting”

U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought on Tuesday to turn the page on the Trump era, stressing the countries' deep ties and pledging to work…

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U.S. President Biden, Canada’s Trudeau to meet virtually next week

WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday will hold his first bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, an event the neighboring countries said would…

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Canada vows to be next country to go after Facebook to pay for news

Canada vowed to make Facebook Inc pay for news content, seeking allies in the media battle with tech giants and pledging not to back down if the social media platform…

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Air Canada posts biggest annual loss in nearly two decades

Air Canada on Friday reported its biggest annual loss in at least 19 years as the coronavirus crisis hit bookings, with no breakthrough in talks with the government over further…

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Bombardier to lay off 1,600, halt Learjet production

Bombardier Inc said it would halt Learjet aircraft production and slash about 1,600 jobs this year as it becomes a pure-play business jet maker, after reporting an adjusted loss before…

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Canada loses 212,800 jobs in January, jobless rate jumps to 9.4%

Canada's economy lost a net 212,800 jobs in January and the unemployment rate rose to 9.4%, reflecting the economic harm done by new restrictions to fight the coronavirus, Statistics Canada…

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Canada to receive fewer Pfizer vaccine doses than expected in first quarter: media report

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will receive only 3.5 million doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in the first quarter of 2021, not the 4 million the country had expected, a reporter…

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Canada’s Trudeau hints at travel crackdown

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Pfizer had reassured him it would meet Canada’s vaccine order in full by end-March as, with a Pfizer, which is retooling a European manufacturing…

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Queen’s representative in Canada resigns after harassment allegations

Canadian Governor General Julie Payette, the representative of the country’s head of state, Queen Elizabeth, quit amid allegations of workplace harassment in an embarrassment for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The…

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Canada to lift Boeing 737 MAX flight ban on January 20

Canada said on Monday it will lift a near two year flight ban on Boeing Co's 737 MAX on Jan. 20, joining other countries like the United States that have brought the aircraft back following two fatal crashes involving the model. Regulator…

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Canada’s Couche-Tard drops $20 billion Carrefour takeover plan after French opposition

Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard has dropped its 16.2 billion euro ($19.6 billion) bid to acquire European retailer Carrefour SA after the takeover plan ran into stiff opposition from the French government,…

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Air Canada to cut jobs amid COVID-19 restrictions, aid talks stalled

Air Canada announced it would cut first-quarter capacity by an additional 25% as measures to combat COVID-19 hit bookings, while two well-placed sources said talks over a federal aid package…

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Canada orders 20 million more doses of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, PM says

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has ordered an additional 20 million doses of Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday after provinces complained about inadequate supplies. Trudeau…

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Insights – COVID-19 fuelling education’s tech disruption, deepening digital divide

TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic deepened inequities in accessing and benefiting from education but the future of learning could be a more equal one, participants told Reuters Next…

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Canada PM shuffles top Cabinet players ahead of possible election – UPDATE

UPDATE - OTTAWA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named a new foreign minister on Tuesday and shuffled other top players in his Cabinet ahead of an…

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Canada’s Ontario weighs keeping schools closed as 1 in 5 children test positive for COVID-19

TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario, Canada's most populous province, is weighing an extension of school closures, as some 20% of the region's children under the age of 13 currently tested positive…

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Two cases of new Covid-19 variant confirmed in Canada

Health officials in Ontario said on Saturday that two confirmed cases of the new coronavirus variant first detected in the United Kingdom have appeared in the Canadian province. Scientists say…

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Air Canada Boeing 737-8 MAX suffers engine issue

An Air Canada Boeing Co 737-8 Max en route between Arizona and Montreal with three crew members on board suffered an engine issue that forced the crew to divert the…

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Moderna COVID-19 vaccine distribution started in Canada by FedEX, Innomar Strategies

Dec 24 (Reuters) - FedEx Corp's Canadian subsidiary and Innomar Strategies, a Canada-based unit of U.S. drug distributor AmerisourceBergen Corp said on Thursday they have started to distribute Moderna Inc's…

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Canada, Britain very close to deal to avoid post-Brexit tariffs

Canada and Britain are on the verge of a deal to ensure that free trade between the two, post-Brexit, can continue until the Canadian Parliament approves a new bilateral agreement,…

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Canada laments Iran’s probe into downing of airliner has major flaws

Iran is not conducting its investigation into the downing of a civilian airliner in January properly and many questions remain unanswered, an independent Canadian report into the tragedy sai. The…

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Aphria, Tilray in deal to become world’s biggest cannabis company

Canadian pot producer Aphria and rival Tilray Inc have agreed to combine their operations, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. The all-stock deal will create a new company with an equity…

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Canada expects first Pfizer/BioNTEch COVID-19 vaccines to arrive Sunday

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The first doses of COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Canada later on Sunday, with more of the initial batch of 30,000 coming on Monday, the official in…

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Canada approves Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine

Health Canada on Wednesday approved the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE , clearing the way for shots to be delivered and administered across the country. The nation's…

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Canada doubles Moderna vaccine order, daily COVID-19 cases could top 10,000 by January

Canada has doubled the number of doses of Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine it has on firm order, Procurement Minister Anita Anand said, while the country’s top doctor warned that daily…

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Canada PM Trudeau indicates U.S. border restrictions to last a long time

Canada will not agree to lifting a ban on non-essential travel with the United States until the coronavirus outbreak is significantly under control around the world, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…

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Canadian cannabis producers to scale back investments in Europe

Canadian cannabis producers are likely to scale back their investments in Europe as they come under pressure to cut costs and deliver profit, according to a joint report by two…

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Canada bans mass exports of prescription drugs

Canada blocked bulk exports of prescription drugs if they would create a shortage at home, in response to outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to allow imports from Canada to…

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Britain and Canada agree post-Brexit rollover trade deal

Britain and Canada struck a rollover trade deal on Saturday to protect the flow of $27 billion-worth of goods and services between them after Brexit, and vowed to start talks…

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Canada seeing a massive spike in COVID cases, hospitals could be swamped – PM Trudeau

Canada is seeing a massive spike in COVID-19 cases which could overwhelm the hospital system, an emotional Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, imploring Canadians to stay home as…

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Canada names China, Russia as main cyber-crime threats; sees risk to power supply

Canada identified state-sponsored programs in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as major cyber crime threats for the first time, and said it feared foreign actors could try to disrupt…

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Canada in talks to donate extra COVID-19 vaccine shots to poorer countries

Canada, which has reserved enough doses to vaccinate residents against COVID-19 several times over, is in talks with other governments about a plan to donate shots to lower-income countries, according…

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Ontario close to cancelling non-essential surgeries again as coronavirus cases spike

Canada’s most populous province Ontario may have to begin suspending non-essential surgeries again starting in two weeks as surging coronavirus cases fill hospital intensive care units, according to modeling released…

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Canada’s PM’s wife pays tribute to Kamala Harris

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, paid tribute to Kamala Harris on her election as Vice President. In a Facebook post, Trudeau wrote "The hardest thing to do in any society is to…

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Canadian PM Trudeau congratulates Joe Biden

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday congratulated Democrat Joe Biden on winning the U.S. Presidential election, saying he looked forward to tackling "the world's greatest challenges" with the new…

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Astronomers discover most inhospitable planet ever

Astronomers have discovered the most inhospitable planet ever that rains rocks, with 60 mile deep lava seas and winds of more than 3,000 mph. The Earth size planet has winds…

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Quebec stabbings leave at least two dead, five injured

At least two people died and five were injured after being stabbed by a man wearing medieval clothes, armed with a bladed weapon near the Parliament Hill area of Quebec…

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Canada says stronger response needed to fight coronavirus, PM hopes to avoid major shutdown

Canadians need to do more to tackle a second wave of the coronavirus by slashing the number of personal contacts they have with others, health authorities said on Friday. Prime…

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Canada border agent says he received unusual FBI phone call in Huawei CFO U.S. extradition case

A Canadian border official testified on Friday he received an "out of the ordinary" request from the FBI for the phone number of the supervisor on duty the next day…

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Canada’s Trudeau predicts ‘tough winter,’ deaths top 10,000

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau predicted a “tough winter” in the face of a second wave of COVID-19 infections engulfing much of the country, and called it a horrific national…

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Canada’s Atlantic region closed out world to beat COVID-19, and the economy has done OK

Chef Emily Wells was unsure what to expect as she opened the doors of her seasonal restaurant in rural Prince Edward Island the same day Canada's four Atlantic provinces bubbled…

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COVID-19 antibodies last at least three months

People infected with COVID-19 develop antibodies targeting the new coronavirus that last for at least three months, according to two reports published in Science Immunology. The two studies, together involving…

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Canada at a tipping point in fight against coronavirus

Canada is at a tipping point in the fight against a second wave of the novel coronavirus and health care workers are increasingly swamped, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in…

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Ontario projects surge of COVID-19 cases akin to that of hard-hit Australian state

Ontario could reach 1,000 new COVID-19 cases a day in the first half of October, projections released on Wednesday showed, putting Canada’s most-populous province on a trajectory similar to that…

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Canada to impose new restrictions as Covid-19 cases flare up

Quebec, the Canadian province hardest hit by the novel coronavirus, reported another sharp increase in daily infections on Monday, and media reports said Premier Francois Legault would announce new restrictions…

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Canada’s biggest provinces seek clampdown on social gatherings as coronavirus cases top 150,000

Canada’s two most populous provinces moved to clamp down further on social gatherings in a bid to slow a second wave of coronavirus infections that since the start of the…

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Canada is in second wave of pandemic, Trudeau urges renewed caution

Canada has entered a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, warning that the country was on the brink of a surge if people did not…

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Top Canadian medical expert says smaller classes needed as COVID-19 cases accelerate

Classes in Canada’s high risk schools should ideally have 20 or fewer students so children can maintain safe distance from each other, a top doctor who advised the government of…

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Drop in foreign students’ bad omen for Canada’s labour market

Travel restrictions and a shift to online learning has dramatically cut the number of international students expected to attend Canadian universities and colleges this fall, and the decline will ripple…

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Canada not ruling out lockdown amid COVID-19 surge

Canada’s health minister said she could not rule out another full lockdown if needed amid a surge in new COVID-19 cases, but added Ottawa was significantly more prepared to manage…

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Canada to unveil retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods – PM Trudeau

Canada will unveil retaliatory tariffs on a range of U.S. goods on Tuesday after Washington moved to impose punitive measures on Canadian aluminum imports, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Deputy…

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