Manitoba's health minister says navigating the pandemic in 2020 has been unlike anything he has experienced in political life ... or life in general. In a year-end interview, Cameron Friesen says governments around the world have spent most of this year scrambling to try and understand what they were up...
As McCartney said, Harrison “has entered” the very tree he gave to Paul as a gift years ago. Famous English singer and songwriter Paul McCartney has revealed that he continues to maintain a connection of sorts to a late fellow Beatles bandmate of his, George Harrison. During an interview on NPR's...
The World Health Organization has granted emergency validation to BioNTech-Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, the WHO announced in a statement on Thursday. The decision should allow countries to quickly approve the import and distribution of the vaccine. The BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine is the first to receive such approval from the global body. "This is...
The night sky will feature its version of fireworks to kick off the 2021 as the first weekend of the new year brings the peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower. Although winter has just begun for the Northern Hemisphere, the Quadrantids is the season's final meteor shower before there is...
Mariah Carey suffered a festive fail on New Year's Eve when she attempted to ring in 2021 with a rendition of Auld Lang Syne and forgot the words. The 50-year-old superstar took to her social media accounts to share a clip of her belting out the famed tune a cappella. But...
As Canadians wait for their turn at the COVID-19 vaccine, individual provinces are developing their own priority lists for the precious few doses that are being distributed. Here in New Brunswick, residents of long-term care facilities over the age of 85 are the top priority for the latest batch...
During a public health emergency, repurposing existing medicines is considered to be a fast route to potential cures, so several companies and academic groups have spent much of the last year looking for COVID-19 remedies in already marketed drugs. Now, a research team from China has identified an approved...
Health officials have begun to administer the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to long-term care residents in Ontario on Thursday. The vaccine was delivered around 9:30 a.m. to Chester Village, a long-term care home in Toronto’s Danforth neighbourhood that has yet to experience a serious outbreak of COVID-19...
Microsoft, in an internal solorigate investigation update, said it found no evidence of access to production services or customer data and that there were no indications that the company's systems were used to attack others. The ongoing investigation discovered that one account was used to view source code in...
Scientists have discovered one of the best-preserved Ice Age woolly rhinos from the melting permafrost in Russia’s extreme northern region. The extinct species that likely roamed in the country’s diamond-producing region of Yakutia some 20,000 to 50,000 years ago has many of its internal organs still intact. The carcass was found...