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Chadwick Boseman earns 2 nominations for NAACP Image Awards
LOS ANGELES - With his final two performances, the late Chadwick Boseman earned two NAACP Image Awards nominations Tuesday, while "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" could make its presence felt at next month'...
Feb 03, 2021
China not convinced by Canada's Wu-Tang Clan explanation
BEIJING - A ruckus brought by China over Canadian T-shirts bearing an altered logo of the New York hip-hop group Wu-Tang clan continued Wednesday, with China's Foreign Ministry saying it didn't buy Ca...
Feb 03, 2021
4 hurt in explosion at Los Angeles-area industrial park
LOS ANGELES - An explosion at an industrial park near Los Angeles on Tuesday injured four people, three of them critically, authorities said. The blast was reported at 4:45 p.m. in a neighbourhood of ...
Feb 03, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Auto insurance rebates will bring us closer to affordability
KAMLOOPS - I WAS BETTING on a $101 rebate on my auto insurance - it just seemed like the kind of thing politicians might do - but Premier John Horgan fooled me, announcing rebates yesterday averaging ...
Feb 03, 2021
Bidens bring an unexpected piece of furniture to White House
WASHINGTON - There's a crib in President Joe Biden's White House. Upstairs in the family residence, the bed is set for the president's youngest grandchild, Beau Biden Jr. The baby was born last year t...
Feb 03, 2021
China to send 10 million coronavirus vaccine doses abroad
BEIJING - China on Wednesday announced a plan to provide 10 million coronavirus vaccine doses to developing nations through the global COVAX initiative. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said ...
Feb 03, 2021
UK: New study vindicates delaying 2nd virus vaccine dose
LONDON - Britain's health chief says a new study showing that a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca provides a high level of protection for 12 weeks supp...
Feb 03, 2021
Vaccines for homeless and WHO team visits Wuhan research lab: In The News for Feb. 3
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 3 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Feb 03, 2021
Canada to get up to 1.1 million more doses by March through global vaccine alliance
OTTAWA - Canada could get more than one million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of March through a global vaccine sharing initiative known as COVAX. But as with most things COVID-19, v...
Feb 03, 2021
'Raising the alarm:' Priority vaccines urged for homeless population, shelter staff
CALGARY - Advocates say homeless people should get priority to COVID-19 vaccines given how at risk they are to the virus and how much more likely they are to get severely ill if infected. "We as a soc...
Feb 03, 2021
