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President Joe Biden’s first bilateral meeting with Canada’s Justin Trudeau since taking office was high on policy, low on pomp and featured a very large swipe at Biden’s predecessor

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China has complained to Canada over T-shirts ordered an embassy worker that allegedly mocked China’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, in an apparent mix-up between the city of Wuhan and the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.

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Canada has administered its first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine

Fourteen sites across the country will receive 30,000 doses this week.

The first deliveries of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Canada on Sunday night. Vaccinations could begin as early as Monday. 

The People’s Vaccine Alliance said wealthy nations had bought up enough doses to vaccinate their entire populations nearly three times over by the end of 2021.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his country will receive 249,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in the month of December and the first set of shipments will arrive next week.

The U.S. has spoken to lawyers for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in recent weeks about a so-called “deferred prosecution agreement,” the Wall Street Journal reported.

Researchers in New England and Canada are teaming up to learn more about the great white sharks appearing in the Northeast’s waters in greater numbers each summer.

Investment bank Goldman Sachs has forecast that more than 70% of people in developed markets will be vaccinated against the coronavirus by fall 2021. 

Toronto police say they have identified a person of interest in the killing of Canadian drug company billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife nearly three years ago.

Analysis by Citi Research showed that the economic benefits of vaccination may not kick in until late 2021, when “herd immunity” is expected to start forming.

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