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Tue, 2 Mar 2021 01:15:03 -0800
Promoting Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and too many bananas: In The News for March 2
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 March 2 ...What we are watching in Canada ...VANCOUVER — Experts say a national vaccine panel'...

Tue, 2 Mar 2021 01:00:21 -0800
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 needs better promotion: experts
VANCOUVER — Essential workers who are more likely to contract and transmit COVID-19 should be prioritized for immunization with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine now that a national panel is not recommending it for seniors, two experts say.Caroline Co...

Tue, 2 Mar 2021 01:00:17 -0800
Churches continue legal fight against British Columbia's COVID-19 rules
VANCOUVER — A lawyer for a group of British Columbia churches that are challenging the province's COVID-19 rules is scheduled to resume his arguments today that the restrictions violate his clients' charter rights.Paul Jaffe told the B.C. Supreme C...

Tue, 2 Mar 2021 01:00:12 -0800
International air travel a fraction of pre-pandemic times
OTTAWA — Canada's new testing and quarantine rules for international air travellers appear to have convinced even more Canadians to stay put in recent weeks.Most Canadians had been heeding the government's plea not to travel outside the country, wi...

Tue, 2 Mar 2021 01:00:09 -0800
Most Canadians confident federal vaccine rollout is back on track: poll
OTTAWA — A majority of Canadians believe Ottawa will follow through on its plan to provide enough COVID-19 vaccine doses for everyone who wants a shot by the fall, a new poll suggests.Fifty-six per cent of respondents are confident the federal gove...

Tue, 2 Mar 2021 01:00:06 -0800
'Racism is a real problem:' Muslim women fearful following attacks in Edmonton
EDMONTON — Asmaa Ali says slurs about her hijab and the colour of her skin have become so frequent she doesn't report them to police anymore.Whether she's running errands or on her way to work as anurse at an Edmonton hospital, the 23-year-old Soma...

Tue, 2 Mar 2021 00:12:30 -0800
Hong Kong resumes court hearing for 47 democracy activists
HONG KONG — A court hearing for 47 democracy activists charged under Hong Kong's national security law resumed Tuesday, following a marathon session that was adjourned well past midnight after one defendant appeared to collapse and was taken away i...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 23:39:32 -0800
COVID-19 pandemic fuels attacks on health workers globally
Two Nigerian nurses were attacked by the family of a deceased COVID-19 patient. One nurse had her hair ripped out and suffered a fracture. The second was beaten into a coma.Following the assaults, nurses at Federal Medical Centre in the Southwestern ...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 23:38:25 -0800
EXPLAINER: Japan to try US men accused of helping Ghosn flee
TOKYO — Two Americans suspected of helping former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn skip bail and escape to Lebanon in December 2019 have been extradited to Japan.Michael Taylor and his son Peter had been held in a suburban Boston jail since May. They w...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 23:37:07 -0800
Nashville music club owners recall night the music died
NASHVILLE — When frantic messages started trickling in that a tornado had hit a beloved music venue in Nashville, Mike Grimes told himself it couldn't possibly be that bad.Could Basement East really be destroyed? Just hours before, the club Grimes ...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 23:36:16 -0800
Critics: Cuomo apology 'tone-deaf,' ignores power imbalance
PHILADELPHIA — When she first arrived in Albany to work as a legislative aide in 2013, New York Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou had lawmakers grab her buttocks, suggest she and her boss were "a hot duo" who should have sex, and peer into her office t...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 23:35:18 -0800
Senate vetting Biden's choice for SEC head amid stock drama
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission is coming before a Senate panel for his confirmation hearing at a moment when a roiling stock-trading drama has spurred clamour for tighter regulation of Wal...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 22:52:42 -0800
Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed
GUSAU, Nigeria — Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state’s governor said Tuesday.Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls ha...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 21:27:43 -0800
Cuomo allegations leave Democrats grappling with response
NEW YORK — Democrats across the country celebrated New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the face of governing competence as President Donald Trump fumbled his administration's response to the exploding pandemic last year.Now, the Democratic governor is st...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 21:27:26 -0800
FBI chief to face questions on extremism, Capitol riot
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Chris Wray is set to testify for the first time since the deadly Jan. 6 deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, with lawmakers likely to press him on whether the bureau adequately communicated with other law enforcement agencies ...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 21:26:26 -0800
In Peru, sterilization case against Fujimori goes to court
LIMA, Peru — Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is on trial for his role in a 1990s government program in which many Indigenous women in poor communities say they were forcibly sterilized, and some died or suffered serious injuries because ...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 21:25:44 -0800
CNN's Chris Cuomo says he 'obviously' can't cover brother
NEW YORK — CNN host Chris Cuomo told viewers Monday that he "obviously" couldn't cover the stories surrounding his older brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been accused of sexual harassment by three women.The prime time host addressed the...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 21:25:16 -0800
Philippine president fires ambassador seen assaulting staff
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president has dismissed his former ambassador to Brazil after she was seen on video physically abusing a Filipino member of her household staff.President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday night he had approved a recom...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 21:19:58 -0800
Harassment, bullying claims dog Cuomo, once a pandemic star
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose televised coronavirus briefings won plaudits last spring, is now fighting for his political life amid accusations of sexual harassment, bullying and undercounting virus deaths connected to the state's nursing homes.H...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021 21:19:39 -0800
Minimum wage hike all but dead in big COVID relief bill
WASHINGTON — Democrats' hopes of including a minimum wage increase in their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill seemed all but dead Monday as the Senate prepared to debate its own version of the House-passed aid package.Four days after the chamberâ€...



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