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Health Canada authorizes Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine
OTTAWA - Health Canada says the COVID-19 vaccine from U.S. biotech firm Moderna is safe for use in Canada. The vaccine is the second to be greenlit in Canada, following the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine on ...
Dec 23, 2020
Unusual world junior men's hockey championship set to open in Edmonton
A world junior men's hockey championship like no other opens Friday in Edmonton with zero spectators and teams walled off from the general public because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The world under-20 t...
Dec 23, 2020
World junior men's hockey championship team capsules
A capsule look at the 10 countries competing in the 2021 world junior men's hockey championship Dec. 25 to Jan. 5 in Edmonton (ranked in order of 2020 finish). CANADA Half a dozen players return from ...
Dec 23, 2020
Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods up 0.9% in November
WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticketed manufactured goods rose a moderate 0.9% in November with a key category that tracks business investment plans showing a gain. The November gain i...
Dec 23, 2020
Supreme Court declines to hear bid for injunction in flight refund case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada won't hear a case about air passenger refunds for flights cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Air Passenger Rights organization wanted to challenge a Feder...
Dec 23, 2020
Goodbye 2020: A look at lessons learned, communities forged in a year like no other
There's little doubt that the momentous events of 2020 will leave indelible marks on many Canadians. The arrival of COVID-19 and its rapid spread touched practically every aspect of our lives, from pe...
Dec 23, 2020
Consumer spending drops 0.4%, first decline since April
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer spending fell 0.4% in November, the first decline since April, as Americans confronted a newly resurgent virus. The November decline followed a 0.3% gain in October and even...
Dec 23, 2020
Atletico's Trippier banned for 10 weeks for betting breaches
LONDON - Atletico Madrid defender Kieran Trippier was banned from football for 10 weeks on Wednesday for breaching betting rules in a punishment from The English Football Association that applies worl...
Dec 23, 2020
Novelist Yu Miri: Olympics not helping Fukushima rebuilding
TOKYO - Yu Miri, who won this year's National Book Award for translated literature, says Tokyo's Ueno Park, where a homeless man kills himself in her award-winning story, looks very clean ahead of nex...
Dec 23, 2020
US layoffs remain elevated as 803,000 seek jobless aid
WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 89,000 last week to a still-elevated 803,000, evidence that the job market remains under stress nine months after the coronav...
Dec 23, 2020