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Canadian special forces will deploy to Afghanistan where staff in Canada's embassy in Kabul will be evacuated before it closes, a source familiar with the plan told The Associated Press. The moves highlight the stunning speed of a Taliban takeover of much of the country, including their capture on Thursday of Kandahar. The Taliban, who […]
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Fox News Flash top headlines for February 16 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tuesday called for sweeping measures, amendments to an existing gun control law, that would permit municipalities to ban handguns and institute a new federal buy-back program. “You can’t fight gun violence or […]
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Facebook is temporarily reducing the amount of political content on News Feed for a small percentage of users in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia. The company said it will take similar steps in the U.S. "in the coming weeks." Facebook announced Wednesday that it will temporarily reduce the amount of political content on News Feed for […]
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Vacancy rates jumped across Canada in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic brought disproportionate job losses to those most likely to rent their homes while also spurring a migration of people to smaller communities from the country’s major metros. The average vacancy rate for rental units across the country climbed to 3.2% from 2% last year, […]
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Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said the nation’s economy is flush enough with stimulus to survive the current downturn and doesn’t need additional help from monetary policy. In an interview with Bloomberg News after a rate decision on Wednesday, Macklem said policy makers considered whether more measures were needed to spur growth — including […]
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Right next door, in Quebec, where three in five of Canada’s virus deaths have hit, rage over new lockdowns is palpable. In Ontario, ICUs are filling up. Out west, caseloads are hitting records, not to mention the exploding disaster across the U.S., which is shutting down yet again. But in four eastern Canadian provinces, group […]
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Sign up here for our daily coronavirus newsletter on what you need to know, and subscribe to our Covid-19 podcast for the latest news and analysis. The united front Canada showed in the early days of the pandemic has frayed, putting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a bind. A second wave of the coronavirus is […]
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The Canadian government is buying 7.6 million rapid Covid-19 tests from diagnostics maker Becton Dickinson and Co., the company said on Tuesday. Becton Dickinson’s test, which was cleared by regulator Health Canada last month, runs on the company’s cell-phone-sized Veritor Plus System and can return results in 15 minutes. Canada is also buying up to […]
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Canada’s stock market is on pace for its first monthly loss since the coronavirus pandemic rocked global markets in March, signaling investors should brace for a wild ride ahead. The problem today, as it was in the spring, is the spread of Covid-19. Virus cases are rising rapidly in parts of the world that seemed […]
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Consumer confidence in Canada continued its march higher as it quickly approaches pre-pandemic levels. The Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Confidence Index, a composite measure of financial health and economic expectations, ticked up to 52.8 last week, from 51.7 a week earlier. The index is at the highest since mid-March, and has made up more than four-fifths […]
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