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First shipments of COVID-19 vaccine arriving today, with more en route Monday
MONTREAL - The first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine are slated to arrive in Canada later today.The Public Health Agency of Canada says some of the 30,000 initial doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccin...
Dec 13, 2020
Search taking place west of Nordegg for overdue hiker
locateUPDATE - 1:45 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 13A hiker not heard from since embarking on a day trip Saturday in the Nordegg area has been located.Rocky Mountain House RCMP say Keith Morris, who is 45, is ...
Dec 13, 2020
Shock win for No. 41 starter Cater in World Cup downhill
VAL D'ISERE, France - Long after most broadcasters had switched to other programs, unheralded No. 41 starter Martin Cater won the first downhill of the World Cup season on Sunday. The television netwo...
Dec 13, 2020
Chinese capsule with moon rocks begins return to Earth
BEIJING - A Chinese space capsule bringing back the first moon rocks in more than four decades has begun its return to Earth. The Chang'e 5 lunar probe left the moon's orbit on Sunday morning by activ...
Dec 13, 2020
Some older Canadians opt to take their chances, winter in Florida despite pandemic
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Now that they're safely back in Florida, Rose and Perry Cohen are looking forward to one of the joys of retirement: an extended lunch with friends. Extended, at least, in the 2020 s...
Dec 13, 2020
Some older Canadians opt to take their chances, winter in Florida despite pandemic
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Now that they're safely back in Florida, Rose and Perry Cohen are looking forward to one of the joys of retirement: an extended lunch with friends. Extended, at least, in the 2020 s...
Dec 13, 2020
Twenty-five years after Rwanda, where is Canada on peacekeeping?
OTTAWA - When now-retired major-general Guy Tousignant handed over command of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda 1995, Canada had been involved in virtually every UN mission over the pr...
Dec 13, 2020
Silent nights: Germany tightens lockdown over festive period
BERLIN - Most stores shut, tight limits on social contacts, no singing in church and a ban on fireworks sales: Germany is ratcheting up its pandemic restrictions in an effort to cut the stubbornly hig...
Dec 13, 2020
Sudan's PM visits Ethiopia, as Tigray refugees top 50,000
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Sunday arrived in Ethiopia, his office said, amid a growing refugee crisis that has seen more than 50,000 Ethiopians flee conflict in the Tigray region into n...
Dec 13, 2020
Officials: Bomb and gun attacks in Afghan capital kill 3
KABUL - Separate bomb and gun attacks on Sunday left at least three dead in Afghanistan's capital, local police said, a day after a barrage of mortar shells shook the city. A sticky bomb attached to a...
Dec 13, 2020