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    • Recovery from pandemic must include ‘ambitious’ climate change plan: Trudeau Global News Logo Global News
    • Iran executes dissident journalist, accusing him of inciting CNN Logo CNN
    • Police investigate tampering to four railway crossings in Nova Scotia in past week The Canadian Press Logo The Canadian Press
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  • Shadowy Ethiopian massacre could be 'tip of the iceberg'

    UMM RAKOUBA, Sudan — The only thing the survivors can agree on is that hundreds of people were slaughtered in a single Ethiopian town. Witnesses say security forces and their allies attacked civilians in Mai-Kadra with machetes and knives or strangled them with ropes. The stench of bodies lingered for days during the early chaos of the Ethiopian government’s offensive in the defiant Tigray region last month. Several mass graves have been...

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  • COMMENTARY: Training exercise kerfuffle shows how badly Canada’s China policy needs fixing

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  • FDA chief assures Americans of Covid vaccine safety after Pfizer authorization

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, Stephen Hahn, marked the historic first US authorization of a Covid-19 vaccine – on one of the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic – by assuring the American public of the vaccine’s safety. A vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech was authorized Friday evening for emergency distribution, in a landmark development in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. Hahn said the FDA is “to be...

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  • COVID infection rate low in Alberta pilot project for international travellers

    CALGARY — The number of positive COVID-19 tests in a pilot project for international travellers at the Calgary airport and a United States border crossing in southern Alberta has been reasonably low after its first six weeks. The program offers Canadians the option of getting a test when they arrive. They must then self-isolate for 24 to 48 hours while they wait for the results. If the results are negative, they can leave quarantine, but must...

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  • Iran executes exiled journalist who encouraged 2017 protests

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran on Saturday executed an exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, a little more than a year after authorities tricked him into travelling to Iraq where he was abducted. Ruhollah Zam, 47, was one of several opposition figures successfully seized by Iranian intelligence operatives abroad in recent months as Tehran struggles under the weight of U.S. sanctions....

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  • Canadian actor-brothers launch The Black Academy to spotlight Black Canadian talent

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  • Austrian police seize haul of weapons intended for German extremists

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  • Emotional aftermath: families of victims in Nova Scotia shooting struggle to heal

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  • Islamic State group hits Afghan capital, airport; 1 dead

    KABUL — The Islamic State group on Saturday attacked the Afghan capital with a barrage of mortar shells, killing at least one civilian and wounding a second, according to the Interior Ministry, amid a countrywide spike in violence. The extremist group claimed responsibility on its affiliated Amaq News site, saying it fired 10 Katyusha rockets toward Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport. Three shells hit the airport early in the morning,...

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  • Liberals 'completely unwilling' to hold political parties to account on privacy

    OTTAWA — A leading expert on personal-information law says the Trudeau government is unwilling to hold political parties to the same level of accountability it is demanding of other organizations in its current revamp of the federal privacy regime. Teresa Scassa, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, says the Liberals are imposing significant new obligations on many organizations but "they're simply not willing to hold themselves" and...

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  • Biden's Homeland Security pick faces questions on 2015 probe

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Alejandro Mayorkas faced Senate confirmation, not a single Republican voted for him because there was an open investigation into his management of the U.S. immigration agency under President Barack Obama. Now, seven years later, Mayorkas is President-elect Joe Biden’s groundbreaking nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, and that since-completed investigation has emerged as a potential stumbling...

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  • Uncertain future looms for refugees seeking a pandemic-era fresh start in Canada

    OTTAWA — Ali Mansour spent his first two weeks in Canada watching through a window as winter give way to spring and squirrels ran across the lawn. As one of the last refugees to arrive in Canada before the border closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it still felt like freedom. "It felt like I was in a movie," he said via an interpreter in an interview with The Canadian Press from his home in Waterloo, Ont. For Mansour and thousands of refugees...

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  • U.S. FDA approves Pfizer coronavirus vaccine

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  • Canada finally has a plan to meet its climate target — and maybe now there can be a real debate

    The fact that the federal government finally has a clear strategy to hit its emissions targets might seem like an accomplishment to many. But shouldn't governments be expected to come up with plans to do what they promise to do?

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  • US coronavirus: FDA's Covid-19 vaccine authorization is a 'monumental moment,' expert says. It came on the deadliest day of the pandemic

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  • Crucial ocean research disrupted by pandemic has both immediate and long-term impact

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  • Virgin Galactic unexpectedly aborts test flight of its space tourism plane

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  • Across Canada, polls suggest it's (mostly) better to be in power during a pandemic

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  • FDA Commissioner Hahn denies reports he was threatened with firing

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  • Pandemic gloom has more Canadians turning to greeting card joy this holiday season

    Canadians are turning to holiday cards to spread some much needed joy this year. In some cases the personal touch of handmade cards is even helping to bridge the physical distance keeping so many people apart because of COVID-19.

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