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Face mask manufacturing giant 3M has bought a lawsuit against the directors of a Canadian company on Tuesday, claiming the two Ontario men “falsely affiliated themselves with 3M to sell N95 respirators at exorbitant prices during the pandemic.” 3M filed…
Swiss scientists have demonstrated a sensor that can detect SARS-CoV-2 in the air within minutes, which could help halt the COVID-19 pandemic in its tracks. Fast and reliable tests for the new coronavirus are urgently needed to bring the pandemic…
Canada is liable to compensate Chinese companies for losses incurred due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, under the terms of a trade agreement the Harper government signed with China. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government signed the Agreement…
A petition demanding the resignation of the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general accusing Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of kowtowing to China and mishandling the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic response is closing in on a million signatures. Toronto hair stylist Osuka Yip…
A majority of Albertans believe that former Premier Rachel Notley would be doing a better job handling the COVID-19 pandemic than current Premier Jason Kenney, a new poll has found. More than half of Alberta residents (54%) would prefer to…
Economic activity in Spain was an average of 49% lower following the coronavirus lockdown compared to the same period the previous year, a new analysis of 1.4 billion credit and debit card transactions during the first three months of 2020…
Beijing is demanding that Twitter uphold “freedom of speech” after the platform, which is banned by censors in China, temporarily banned a Chinese embassy official account. Twitter yanked @ChinaEmbSL account belonging to the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka on April…
COVID-19 pandemic is saving many more lives around the world than its taking by reducing harmful air pollution, according to estimates by a group of French and Hong Kong scientists. Writing in the journal Environmental Pollution, Frédéric Dutheil and Valentin…
Two new types of bird flu infections currently spreading in China could jump to humans threatening global health, scientists warn. The avian influenza virus subtype H16N3, first identified in 1975 and currently detectable among wild birds in many countries, has…
A Vancouver realtor may have made nearly a million dollars in some years while declaring poverty-level incomes on his tax returns, a divorce case has revealed. Lan Zhao is suing Jianping Zhou in BC Supreme Court to ask for more…