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CEOs at Canada’s largest companies saw 23-per-cent pay increase in 2021
Philip Fayer, the Chief Executive Officer of Montreal payments-processing company Nuvei Corp. Handout
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Emergency department at Perth hospital closing for a week due to COVID-19 outbreak
Positive, left, and negative COVID-19 antigen rapid tests are picture in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. The emergency department at the Perth, Ont., hospital will temporarily close after a COVID-19 outbreak impacting staff. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Misinformation causes real harm and potentially kills, Canada’s top doc says
Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa arrives to hold a press conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Markets are falling, but my dividends keep going up
John Heinzl
life
Britain’s COVID cases up by more than 30% in the last week
FILE - People wear face masks as they walk, in Regent Street, in London, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021. The number of new coronavirus cases across Britain has surged by more than 30% in the last week, with cases largely driven by the super infectious omicron variants. Data released by Britain’s Office for National Statistics on Friday, July 1, 2022 showed that more than 3 million people in the U.K. had COVID-19 last week, although there has not been an equivalent spike in hospitalizations. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
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About 10 per cent of U.S. National Guard members will be in violation of federal vaccine mandate on Friday
A man lies on the ground after being asked to sit as he argued with officers as he and other migrants are apprehended by US Border Patrol and National Guard troops in Eagle Pass, Texas, near the border with Mexico on June 30, 2022. - Every year, tens of thousands of migrants fleeing violence or poverty in Central and South America attempt to cross the border into the United States in pursuit of the American dream. Many never make it. On June 27, around 53 migrants were found dead in and around a truck abandoned in sweltering heat near the Texas city of San Antonio, in one of the worst disasters on the illegal migrant trail. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Canada’s Taylor Pendrith out of John Deere Classic after testing positive for COVID-19
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North Korea blames ‘alien things’ near border with South Korea for COVID-19 outbreak
FILE PHOTO: North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un listens to U.S. President Donald Trump as they meet in a one-on-one bilateral session at the start of their summit at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore June 12, 2018. Picture taken June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
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Coronavirus Update: Health officials warn of another COVID-19 wave, urge Canadians to get boosted
FILE - A health worker administers a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic in Norristown, Pa. on Dec. 7, 2021. In a reversal for President Joe Biden, a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Monday, June 27, 2022, agreed to reconsider its own April ruling that allowed the administration to require federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FDA asks for COVID-19 boosters to fight Omicron’s BA.4, BA.5 subvariants
FILE - A health worker administers a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pa., on Dec. 15, 2021. Government advisers are debating Tuesday, June 28, 2022, if Americans should get a modified COVID-19 booster shot this fall — one that better matches more recent virus variants. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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Calgary Stampede receives more than $10-million from Ottawa to aid recovery from COVID-19 pandemic
People enjoy the midway at the Calgary Stampede on July 10, 2021. Leah Hennel / Globe and Mail
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Quebec professor’s suspension for anti-vaccine comments violates academic freedom, union says
A jar full of empty COVID-19 vaccine vials is shown at the Junction Chemist pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on April 6, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Health officials urge Canadians to catch up on COVID-19 vaccinations, prepare for fall boosters
A person draws out Moderna vaccine during a drive through COVID-19 vaccine clinic at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario, on Sunday January 2, 2022. American vaccine maker Moderna will announce Friday it intends to build its promised Canadian production facility in the Montreal area.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
energy and resources
OPEC+ sticks to oil output policy, avoids debate on September plans
FILE - The logo of the Organization of the Petroleoum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is seen outside of OPEC's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Oil prices are high, and drivers are paying more at the pump. But the OPEC oil cartel and allied producing nations may not be much help at their meeting Thursday, June 30. The OPEC+ alliance, which includes Russia. is having trouble meeting its announced production quotas. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner, file)
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COVID-19 restrictions ease in Shanghai as case numbers drop
Visitors line up outside the Disney Resort theme park, Thursday, June 30, 2022, in Shanghai. Shanghai is moving to allow in-person dining and reopening its Disney Resort theme park as domestically transmitted cases of COVID-19 in China's largest city remain at zero following a more than two-month lockdown. (AP Photo/Chen Si)
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NACI recommends fall COVID-19 booster shot in advance of possible future wave
*one time use only. must download again* NEW WESTMINSTER (CANADA), June 18, 2021 People line up outside a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, on June 18, 2021. Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recommends Canadians who received a first shot of AstraZeneca vaccine should get Pfizer or Moderna vaccine for their second shot. On June 1, NACI said AstraZeneca recipients could choose whether to get a second dose of the same vaccine, or an mRNA vaccine. But in new guidance released Thursday, NACI said Pfizer or Moderna are now ''preferred'' as the second dose. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua) (Credit Image: © Liang Sen/Xinhua via ZUMA Press)
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Canada to extend COVID-19 border measures until Sept. 30
FILE PHOTO: Two closed Canadian border checkpoints are seen after it was announced that the border would close to "non-essential traffic" to combat the spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the U.S.-Canada border crossing at the Thousand Islands Bridge in Lansdowne, Ontario, Canada March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Alex Filipe//File Photo
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Wave of unionization of Starbucks stores in the U.S. shows signs of making its way to Canada
Starbucks employees bring in umbrellas before closing their store early for training in Vancouver, British Columbia on June 11, 2018. (BEN NELMS for The Globe and Mail)
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‘A little pinch, but it was OK‘: Elmo, 3, joins youngest Americans in getting COVID-19 vaccine
FILE - This Jan. 24, 2011, photo shows "Sesame Street" muppet Elmo posing for a portrait with the assistance of puppeteer Kevin Clash in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival to promote the documentary "Being Elmo" in Park City, Utah. Elmo got a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, June 28, 2022, according to Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind “Sesame Street." (AP Photo/Victoria Will, File)
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Coronavirus Update: Should masks be required in Canada again? This is what experts say
A man wears a face mask as he cycles by a mural defaced by graffiti objecting to mask usage as a measure to protect against the spread of COVID-19, in Montreal, Sunday, Aug 30, 2020, as the pandemic continues in Canada and around the world. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
world
BioNTech, Pfizer to start testing universal vaccine for coronaviruses
FILE PHOTO: Test tubes are seen in front of a displayed Biontech logo in this illustration taken, May 21, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
opinion
Canada’s COVID-19 death rate was much lower than in most other countries. What did we get right?
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COVID-19 hospitalizations in Quebec rise as new subvariants gaining ground
An ambulance is shown outside a hospital in Montreal, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
world
British committee makes initial call for evidence as part of probe into whether Johnson misled parliament
FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Britain May 26, 2022. REUTERS/John Sibley/File Photo
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Easing COVID-19 rules, growth focus aid China bulls’ cautious return
(FILES) This file picture taken on March 23, 2018 shows a man monitoring stock price movements at a securities company in Beijing. - Shanghai is the world's worst-performing stock market in 2018 despite broadly robust corporate earnings, a disconnect which is feeding growing talk that Chinese equities have become a screaming buy. But not so fast, say brokers and analysts, who warn that shares have yet further to fall due to Sino-US trade squabbling, a drip-feed of negative Chinese economic data, and a government debt crackdown that is restraining liquidity. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: China-stocks-economy, FOCUS Kelly WANG and Dan MARTINNICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images
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Western Canada: B.C. Premier John Horgan says he plans to step down in the fall
B.C. Premier John Horgan pauses while announcing he will not run in the next provincial election during a news conference in Vancouver, on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
world
China’s easing of COVID-19 restrictions sparks travel inquiry surge – and caution
FILE PHOTO: A Cathay Pacific aircraft takes off at the airport, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Hong Kong, China, March 31, 2022. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo
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South Korea approves its first domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine
South Korean Minister of Food and Drug Safety Oh Yu-Kyoung speaks during a briefing at the ministry of Food and Drug Safety in Cheongju, South Korea, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. Health officials in South Korea on Wednesday approved the country's first domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 years or older, adding another public health tool in the fight against a prolonged pandemic. (Chun Kyung-hwan/Yonhap via AP)
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Memorial service held for RCMP officer who was among those killed in 2020 Nova Scotia shooting
RCMP members escort the hearse at a regimental memorial service for Const. Heidi Stevenson, killed in the line of duty during the April 2020 mass murders in rural Nova Scotia in April 2020, in Dartmouth on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. Gabriel Wortman, dressed as an RCMP officer and driving a replica police cruiser, murdered 22 people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Fears of a COVID-19 summer surge prompt experts to call for a return to masking
A woman wears a mask while riding the Bloor line subway on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Most remaining mandatory mask rules in Ontario, including those requiring that people wear masks when riding public transit or visiting hospitals, will expire on Saturday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Carlos Osorio
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Coronavirus Update: U.S. FDA will decide on redesigned COVID-19 vaccines by early July
FILE - A vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is displayed on a counter at a pharmacy in Portland, Ore. on Dec. 27, 2021. U.S. health authorities are facing a critical decision: whether to offer COVID-19 booster shots this fall that better match the omicron variant even though the coronavirus already has spawned still more mutants. Moderna and Pfizer are testing updated booster candidates, and advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will debate Tuesday, June 28, 2022, if it’s time for a switch, setting the stage for similar moves by other countries. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
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Canada’s summer job market for students is booming as positions top prepandemic levels
Zachary Fortier, news editor at The Link, in the newsroom on Concordia University campus on June 28, 2022. Karene-Isabelle Jean-Baptiste/The Globe and Mail
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Facility able to manufacture 40 million COVID-19 vaccine doses a year opens in Saskatoon
FILE - A health worker administers a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pa., on Dec. 15, 2021. Government advisers are debating Tuesday, June 28, 2022, if Americans should get a modified COVID-19 booster shot this fall — one that better matches more recent virus variants. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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U.S. FDA will decide on redesigned COVID-19 vaccines by early July
FILE - A vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is displayed on a counter at a pharmacy in Portland, Ore. on Dec. 27, 2021. U.S. health authorities are facing a critical decision: whether to offer COVID-19 booster shots this fall that better match the omicron variant even though the coronavirus already has spawned still more mutants. Moderna and Pfizer are testing updated booster candidates, and advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will debate Tuesday, June 28, 2022, if it’s time for a switch, setting the stage for similar moves by other countries. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
market news
Canadian dollar outperforms G10 peers as oil prices climb
A loonie is pictured in Toronto on Jan. 23, 2015.
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EU countries approve extending use of COVID-19 certificates amid rising cases
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo