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China rings in Lunar New Year with most COVID-19 rules lifted
People aim to burst balloons with toy guns at a stall along the Yangtze River in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on January 22, 2023. - Residents in Wuhan are marking three years since a once-mysterious virus plunged them into a terrifying lockdown, with their city becoming the epicentre of the Covid-19 epidemic that became global. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)
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‘Zoom fatigue’: New study suggests human brains need in-person interaction
A Zoom call is televised in Flint, Mich., Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Flint, Mich. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jake May-The Flint Journal via AP
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Trust essential in work-from-home era after ‘time theft’ ruling, say experts
This June 19, 2017 file photo shows a person working on a laptop in Massachusetts. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Elise Amendola
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Girl Guides of Canada pick ‘Embers’ to replace ‘Brownies’ name for group ages seven and eight
Girl Guides of Canada (GGC) announced a new branch name for girls ages 7 and 8 following a nationwide selection process involving current girl and adult members. Changing this name means creating a more inclusive space where all girls in Canada can feel welcome and proud to belong in Girl Guides. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Girl Guides of Canada **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Hopes high in B.C. as China lifts border rules, but tourism recovery may take months
A young boy who arrived on a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong wears a face mask and face shield at Vancouver International Airport, in Richmond, B.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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What is the metaverse and how will it work?
An attendee stands between cameras used to live broadcast into the metaverse during a Sony news conference before the start of the CES tech show Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Kids prescribed antibiotics but not fed breast milk at triple risk of asthma: study
Mothers breastfeed their babies during a worldwide breastfeeding event Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007 in suburban Taguig City, south of Manila, Philippines. A Canadian study suggests children who were not breastfed while receiving antibiotics in the first year of life had triple the risk of developing asthma because they lacked specific protective sugars found in human milk. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Pat Roque
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Delta Air Lines to offer free WiFi on most U.S. flights
A tug is used to haul baggage to a waiting Delta Air Lines jetliner at Denver International Airport after a winter storm swept over the country packing snow combined with Arctic cold, which created chaos for people trying to reach their destinations before the Christmas holiday, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022, in Denver. Forecasters predict that warmer weather will be on tap for the week ahead. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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The TV shows, movies on celebrities’ own winter watchlists
FILE - Lucien Laviscount attends a screening of "Emily in Paris" during PaleyFest on Sunday, April 10, 2022, at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. During interviews in recent weeks, The Associated Press asked celebrities promoting their own projects in Europe what they planned to watch this winter season. Laviscount, who plays Emily's love interest Alfie in "Emily in Paris", chases said he was into “anything inspiration, inspiring stuff.” (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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Ontario pharmacists can now prescribe treatments for 13 common ailments
A Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy is shown in Bowmanville, Ontario on Wednesday January 12, 2022. Starting today, Ontarians with 13 common ailments can skip the doctor's office and head straight to the pharmacist to get a prescription. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Doug Ives
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Veganuary among resolutions for some Canadians are switching to a plant-based diet in the new year
Veganuary co-founders Jane Land and Matthew Glover are shown in a handout photo. Despite its British origin, Veganuary is now a worldwide movement with participants from nearly every single country, and out of those, Canada has the 18th most participants. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Veganuary **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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New York opens its first legal recreational cannabis dispensary
New York City Council Member Carlina Rivera bags her purchase of cannabis gummies at Housing Works, New York's first legal cannabis dispensary, during a press conference to kick-off its opening, Thursday Dec. 29, 2022, in New York. Housing Works, a minority-controlled nonprofit serving people with HIV and AIDS, as well as homeless and formerly incarcerated people, will be the first of 36 recently licensed dispensaries to begin selling cannabis to the general public. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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U.S. will require COVID-19 testing for travellers from China
FILE - Passengers wearing masks walk through the Capital airport terminal in Beijing on Dec. 13, 2022. On Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, the U.S. announced new COVID-19 testing requirements for all travelers from China, joining other nations imposing restrictions because of a surge of infections. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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Trudeau says Canada is fortunate to be a ‘country of peace’ in Christmas message
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poses in his office in Ottawa on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. Trudeau is asking Canadians to remind themselves how fortunate they are "to live in a country of peace." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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New York robbery crews drug unsuspecting men, some fatally, investigators say
This photo provided by Linda Clary shows her son John Umberger at a rooftop bar in New York, on May 27, 2022. Multiple people, including Umberger, have been fatally poisoned with narcotics in what investigators say were schemes by criminal crews to incapacitate and rob people at New York City bars and nightclubs. (Doug Davenport/Courtesy of Linda Clary via AP)
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Flu vaccination rates not high enough, doctors say, as pediatric hospitals fill up
FILE - A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. On Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that 7.5% of outpatient medical visits the previous week were due to flu-like illnesses. That's as high as the peak of the 2017-18 flu season and higher than any season since. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
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More than half of Canadians facing food budget constraints: Salvation Army poll
A woman shops for produce at the Granville Island Market in Vancouver, on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Food prices in Canada will continue to escalate in the new year, with grocery costs forecasted to rise up to seven per cent in 2023, new research predicts.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Flu starting to hit adults as hospitalization rates of seniors climb, doctors say
People walk past a sign for flu shots in Toronto on Jan. 9, 2018. A top doctor at the children's hospital in Winnipeg says the facility has seen three times the normal number of children with the seasonal flu this year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Doug Ives
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Doctors urge parents to get routine vaccines for kids following pandemic disruptions
Taika Loo, 16 months, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Ottawa, on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Preventable diseases like measles could spread quickly in Canada like elsewhere in the world due to a drop in routine vaccinations during the pandemic, say pediatricians who are urging parents to ensure their kids are fully immunized.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Is inflation affecting travel points and miles?
FILE - This Aug. 11, 2019 file photo shows credit cards in New Orleans. Inflation has made the cash prices of flights and hotel stays skyrocket this year, but it’s having a surprising effect on a different currency — your airline miles and hotel points. Across the board, your airline miles and hotel points are actually worth more than last year, which is unusual because points and miles generally devalue over time. However, this year’s increased value of points and miles isn’t enough to keep pace with inflated cash prices for hotel stays and flights. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, file)
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Balenciaga fashion house reportedly cuts ties with Kanye West
FILE - Kanye West arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 9, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif. West’s Twitter and Instagram accounts have been locked because of posts by the rapper, now known legally as Ye, that were widely deemed antisemitic, according to reports, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
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Astros starters rock hair extensions for postseason ‘dos
Houston Astros pitcher Luis Garcia looks at video presentation on the scoreboard before Game 1 of an American League Division Series baseball game against the Seattle Mariners in Houston, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Garcia and teammate Framber Valdez got hair extensions this season and will show off their unique locks this postseason as Houston tries to reach the World Series for the fourth time in six years. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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Next year’s Met Gala will celebrate the late Karl Lagerfeld
FILE - German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld acknowledges the applause of his models at the end of the show he designed for the French fashion house Chanel, for the 1993-94 Fall-Winter haute couture collection in Paris, July 20, 1993. US Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour convened a huddle of top Paris Fashion Week insiders Friday to announce that the theme of next year's annual Met Gala will be the work of the late Karl Lagerfeld. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
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Tea drinkers enjoy possible health benefits, study suggests
This photo shows a cup of black tea with a spoon and tea leaves pictured in London, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. According to a large study of British tea drinkers published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine, scientists found two or more cups daily was tied with a modest benefit: a 9% to 13% lower risk of death from any cause. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Roland Mesnier, beloved pastry chef for five presidents, dies at 78
FILE - White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier, right, displays a mango coconut lei, the dessert for the dinner hosted by President George W. Bush for Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, in the State Dining Room in the White House in Washington, May 19, 2003. Mesnier, a White House executive chef and who served five presidential administrations for roughly 25 years, died Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Some universities across Canada requiring masks despite provincial health orders
A student walks towards the Western University campus in London, Ont., on Sept. 15, 2021. Despite the lifting of provincial and territorial mask requirements, some post-secondary institutions have decided to keep them for the safety of staff and students. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne
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U.K. to use lower dose of monkeypox vaccine to stretch supply
People queue up to receive monkeypox vaccinations during a pop-up clinic at Guy's Hospital in central London, Britain, July 30, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/Files
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‘Kind of a small miracle’: Winnipeg-born actor at the helm of art auction for Ukraine
Winnipeg-born Michael Rubenfeld (right) and California native James Arellano work with FestivALT, a Krakow-based Jewish Arts and Activism organization. The organization is overseeing a global art auction to raise funds for groups helping with war efforts in Ukraine. Artwork included in the auction comes from prominent Ukrainian artists. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Hemsworth Communications
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A look at COVID-19 bivalent vaccines as fall surge looms
A jar full of empty COVID-19 vaccine vials is shown at the Junction Chemist pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. As the U.K. has kicked off the global race to greenlight an updated version of the COVID-19 vaccine, anticipation is mounting for Canada to follow suit as fall threatens to usher in a new wave of infections. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Some children’s pain relievers in short supply, say two Ontario hospitals
The exterior of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, is photographed on Jan 21 2021.
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Polio detected in NYC’s sewage, suggesting virus circulating
This 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle. On Thursday, July 21, 2022, New York health officials reported a polio case, the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade. (Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC via AP)
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CDC drops quarantine, distancing recommendations for COVID-19
FILE - A sign asks those getting vaccinated to keep 6 feet apart during the vaccination event, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, Calif. The CDC has again revised its COVID guidelines, further relaxing quarantine recommendations and dropping the recommendation that people stay at least 6 feet away from each other. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP, File)
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Ukrainian risks her life to rescue wild animals from war
Natalia Popova, 50, pets a tiger at her animal shelter in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Popova, in cooperation with the animal protection organisation UA Animals, has already saved more than 300 animals from the war, 200 of them were sent abroad, and 100 found a home in most western regions of Ukraine, which are considered to be safer. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Up in the Bavarian Alps, rugged trails with German cheer
At 1,703-meters, at the border between Germany and Austria, Carl von Stahl Haus, bottom left, shown in this June 27, 2022 photo, is one of the more popular huts in the Berchtesgaden National Park, with bed space for 102 hikers, in both shared bunkrooms or semi-private rooms. (AP Photo/Mike Eckel)
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First humans arrived in Alberta’s oil sands region at least 11,000 years ago
Reid Graham (left to right) of the Manitoba Historic Resources Management Branch, Todd Kristensen of the Archaeological Survey of Alberta and Robin Woywitka of MacEwan University excavate an archeological dig in the Fort McMurray, Alta., area in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Brittany Romano **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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‘Happiness’: Jewish volunteers bond with Ukrainian kids at summer camp in Poland
Ukrainian refugee children walk along the backyard of the Lauder Morasha Jewish school in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 28, 2022. A special summer camp run by Jewish organizations has brought Jewish volunteers from the former Soviet Union to Warsaw to help Ukrainian children. The camp, which ran for most of July and ended Friday, was organized to bring some joy to traumatized children, help prepare them for the school year ahead in Polish schools and give their mothers some time to themselves. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)