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Animated 'Demon Slayer' strikes chord with pandemic Japan
TOKYO - The demons are everywhere, sometimes spreading like purple slime, lurking, killing. The terrifying plight depicted in the swashbuckling animated film, "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie...
Mar 04, 2021

Hospitalized Prince Philip has successful heart procedure
LONDON - Prince Philip has had a successful heart procedure at a London hospital and is expected to remain for several days of "rest and recuperation," Buckingham Palace said Thursday. The palace said...
Mar 04, 2021

EU regulator starts a review of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine
MOSCOW - The European Medicines Agency said it has started a rolling review of Sputnik V, many months after the vaccine was first approved for use in Russia and after dozens of countries around the wo...
Mar 04, 2021

Pornhub investigation urged and vaccinating for variants: In The News for March 4
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 March 4 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Mar 04, 2021

Survivors, NGOs call for criminal investigation into porn giant MindGeek
OTTAWA - More than 100 survivors of sexual exploitation along with hundreds of non-governmental organizations are urging Ottawa to pursue a "full criminal investigation" into Pornhub's parent company....
Mar 04, 2021

Three years after Broncos bus crash, Logan Boulet still inspiring organ donation
Jim Lowes had never thought about being an organ donor until he read a story about Logan Boulet nearly three years ago. Boulet was one of 16 people who died in April 2018 when a truck driver blew a st...
Mar 04, 2021

Chief medical adviser says Health Canada preparing for quick approval of boosters
OTTAWA - Canada's chief medical adviser says her department is constantly receiving and reviewing any data on vaccines and COVID-19 variants and will be ready to quickly authorize needed boosters when...
Mar 04, 2021

With Biden's backing, Dems revive bill to overhaul policing
WASHINGTON - Cheered on by President Joe Biden, House Democrats hustled to pass the most ambitious effort in decades to overhaul policing nationwide, able to avoid clashing with moderates in their own...
Mar 03, 2021

Olymel announces gradual reopening of pork plant in Red Deer, Alta., after outbreak
A pork processing plant in central Alberta has announced it has been given the green light to gradually reopen after a COVID-19 outbreak forced it to shut down for two weeks. The Olymel facility in Re...
Mar 03, 2021

California to give 40% of vaccine doses to vulnerable areas
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California will begin setting aside 40% of all vaccine doses for the state's most vulnerable neighbourhoods in an effort to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus more...
Mar 03, 2021