Gov. Gavin Newsom announced California will become the first U.S. state to require all teachers and school staff must be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing amid growing concerns about the highly contagious delta variant.Gov. Gavin Newsom talks with student Dina Kassan during a visit to Carl B. Munck Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., on…
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Texas is looking for out-of-state health workers to help fight its third wave of COVID-19 infections.A worker on Monday sets up tents that will be used for an overflow of COVID-19 patients outside Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston, Texas. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle/The Associated Press)The latest: Moderna to sign agreement to build mRNA production…
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What’s it like to watch your goalkeeper partner play for Olympic gold? Surprisingly calm, then exhilarating
by Sue JonesBleary-eyed fans across the country watched nervously as the Canadian women’s soccer team took the field against Sweden in a closely contested Olympic gold-medal match early Friday morning, but Georgia Simmerling was remarkably calm.Olympic track cyclist Georgia Simmerling, partner of Olympic soccer goalkeeper Stephanie Labbé, watched the women’s soccer gold-medal game along with Canadian fans at…
Chinese authorities have announced mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan as an unusually wide series of COVID-19 outbreaks reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019.A health worker performs a COVID-19 test in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on Tuesday as part of an initiative to test the city’s entire population.…
Florida’s largest hospital systems are expanding their coronavirus units, limiting visitors and fearing staffing shortages as they deal with a statewide surge that is breaking records set last year for both cases and hospitalizations.A person is administered a COVID-19 vaccine shot in in Wilmington, Calif., on Thursday. The U.S. on Monday finally reached President Joe…
Samsung’s next Galaxy Unpacked event is just around the corner. It is scheduled for August 11th at 10am ET/7am PT and will…
As is the case every month, several shows and movies are leaving Netflix and Crave in August. It’s worth noting that the…
A new update is rolling out to Spotify that makes it easier to see if your favourite artists have released new music…
There’s Netflix, Crave, Prime Video, Disney+, Out TV, Britbox, Apple TV+, CBC Gem, Britbox, and plenty of other streaming services in Canada,…
As many Asian countries battle their worst surge of COVID-19 infections, the slow flow of vaccine doses from around the world is finally picking up speed, giving hope that low inoculation rates can increase and help blunt the effect of the rapidly spreading delta variant.Residents queue up to get oxygen tanks refilled at a refilling…