Montreal’s Osheaga Music and Arts Festival has announced headliners for next summer’s event, saying while times are uncertain, organizers need to plan for the future. A media release says the festival will run July 30 through Aug. 1 at Parc Jean-Drapeau with live performances from the Foo Fighters, Cardi B,...
A retired British shop clerk received the first shot in the country’s COVID-19 vaccination program Tuesday, signaling the start of a global immunization effort intended to offer a route out of a pandemic that has killed 1.5 million. Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week, got the shot at 6:31...
Twenty-twenty has already brought several firsts for much of the world, but as the year comes to a close, a once-in-a-lifetime sight will appear in the night sky just in time for the holidays. It's called the "Great Conjunction," or the moment when Jupiter and Saturn appear at their closest...
New Brunswick is reporting two new coronavirus cases as the Fredericton and Moncton regions moved back to the yellow phase of the COVID-19 recovery program on Monday. The two new cases are located in the Fredericton region and the Edmundston region. The case in the Edmundston area involves an individual between...
One of China’s biggest generic drug makers is investing around $500 million to fund research and production of a frontrunner coronavirus vaccine candidate from Sinovac Biotech Ltd. that could be weeks away from being administered across the world. Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd. will purchase a 15% stake in a Sinovac unit...
The Government of Nunavut announced five new cases of COVID-19 in the territory on Thursday. All of them are in Arviat, the territory’s hardest-hit community, which now counts 68 active cases of the virus. But the GN also delivered some good news: all the COVID-19 cases in Rankin Inlet have recovered. Whale...
The BC Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC) has revealed a new online dashboard that presents the results of the province’s Your Story, Our Future population health survey from May 2020. According to the BC CDC, 395,000 British Columbians participated in the survey, making it the largest population health survey...
Rebel Wilson is in the best shape of her life thanks to her ‘Year Of Health,’ and lucky for us, she’s totally willing to share all the lessons she’s learned about eating and exercise. Last week, the 40-year-old actress went live on Instagram to reveal she’d reached her goal weight...
Newly released footage shows the dramatic final moments of the Arecibo Observatory – the second-largest radio telescope on Earth – which collapsed earlier this week, in yet another major loss for humanity in 2020. On Tuesday morning at 7.54 am local time, the 900-ton platform at the Arecibo Observatory, which...
Nunavut is looking to get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine once it is available in Canada. The territory’s chief public health officer, Dr. Michael Patterson, says Moderna’s vaccine is preferred because the Pfizer one requires cold storage and shipping would be too difficult in Nunavut. On Thursday, Canada’s senior military and public...