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Bye-bye bears: Calgary Zoo returning pandas to China due to bamboo barriers

Bye-bye bears: Calgary Zoo returning pandas to China due to bamboo barriers

CALGARY — The Calgary Zoo will be returning two giant pandas on loan from China because a scarcity of flights due to COVID-19 has caused problems with getting enough bamboo to feed them.
Better Business Bureau warns online puppy scams surging during COVID-19 pandemic

Better Business Bureau warns online puppy scams surging during COVID-19 pandemic

VANCOUVER — The Better Business Bureau says puppy scams are the latest way fraudsters are taking advantage of lonely, isolated people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Clean your cash carefully if concerned over COVID: Bank of Canada

Clean your cash carefully if concerned over COVID: Bank of Canada

If you must launder your money, do it carefully, advises the Bank of Canada. The bank says it has tested the notes for durability against common household products.
Canada gives $790M to help vaccinate in more vulnerable countries

Canada gives $790M to help vaccinate in more vulnerable countries

OTTAWA — Canada will put $790 million toward vaccinating the world's more vulnerable populations and distributing a COVID-19 vaccine around the world, if an effective one is discovered, International Development Minister Karina Gould announced Tuesda
Reopening plans and Canadians' anxiety on leaving home; In The News for May 12

Reopening plans and Canadians' anxiety on leaving home; In The News for May 12

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 12 ... --- COVID-19 in Canada ... .
Archaic paper records submitted by fax hold up real-time COVID-19 data

Archaic paper records submitted by fax hold up real-time COVID-19 data

OTTAWA — The old-fashioned way Canada records deaths means the country could be missing out on data important to addressing the COVID-19 crisis.
A look at how provinces plan to emerge from COVID-19 shutdown

A look at how provinces plan to emerge from COVID-19 shutdown

Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19.
A look at some of the Canadians who have lost their lives to COVID 19

A look at some of the Canadians who have lost their lives to COVID 19

COVID-19 has sickened tens of thousands of Canadians from coast to coast and killed thousands. "While we can start to become numb to these numbers as time goes on, each one of these individuals had a life that mattered and people who loved them," Dr.
Being out in public is stressful in pandemic era, new survey suggests

Being out in public is stressful in pandemic era, new survey suggests

OTTAWA — As restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 persist, a new survey suggests more than half of Canadians find it stressful to venture out in public.
Wet'suwet'en elected chiefs call on Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister to resign

Wet'suwet'en elected chiefs call on Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister to resign

VANCOUVER — The elected leadership of several First Nations split over a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia are calling for the immediate resignation of Crown–Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett.
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