Month: January 2021

MONTREAL — A growing COVID-19 outbreak in the first Quebec long-term care to receive Pfizer’s vaccine is not a reason to question the shot’s efficacy, an infectious diseases expert said Wednesday. As of Tuesday, there were 123 active cases of COVID-19 at the CHSLD Saint-Antoinein Quebec City, up from 98 cases two days earlier. The […]

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(Reuters) ― Tesla chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk surpassed Amazon.com’s top boss Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest man, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. Including Thursday’s gains in Tesla shares, Musk, 49, had a net worth of more than US$188.5 billion (C$239.77 billion), $1.5 billion more than Bezos, the report said. Musk’s personal wealth has been boosted […]

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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called the security breach at the U.S. Capitol an “act of domestic terrorism,” and warned Canada is not immune to the same kind of hate paraded by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump. Singh’s initial statement Wednesday, released shortly after rioters stormed the halls of Congress, blamed Trump by name for […]

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