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The child's father was previously convicted of a 2017 assault against the child's mother when she was pregnant. The parents were also in court earlier this year over a disagreement about custody arrangements.

As of the end of June, more than 4.7 million Canadians between 12 and 39 years old had yet to get their first shot, about one-third of that entire population.

Vegreville-based biofuels company Future Fuel Ltd. will partner with Atco to develop the project. The facility, a first for the Calgary-based company, will be built north of Vegreville, Alta. and should be up and running by late 2022.

A cause of the blaze remains under investigation, although local Indigenous leaders say train movement during drought-like conditions made people anxious.

The unemployment rate fell to 7.8 per cent for the month compared with 8.2 per cent in May, which the statistics agency says was the lowest of the pandemic since the 7.5 per cent recorded in March.

As of July 5, Canadians who have received a double dose of an approved COVID-19 vaccine no longer have to quarantine for two weeks upon their return home.

“It all wraps around planning— You have to be able to take care of yourself until we arrive,” Vonk said.

Early studies, including one from New York University published July 2, suggest Lambda, the latest variant of interest, may be a bit resistant to antibodies produced by the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, but concluded it is not by enough "to cause a significant loss of protection against infection."

Critics are suggesting Leela Aheer, the member for Chestermere-Strathmore, was booted in the cabinet shuffle because of how she publicly criticized Kenney a month ago for breaking COVID-19 health rules by having a patio dinner outside his temporary penthouse office.

In both countries, infection rates are highest among people under 30. Canada opened up vaccines to people as young as 12 by the end of May. The U.K. only began booking people as young as 18 in mid-June and still hasn't started vaccinating teenagers.