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Play was a casualty of the pandemic. Heres what kids really need as lockdowns are lifted With play dates cancelled and some playgrounds closed, scholar and author Tim Gill says hes worried childrens play has been an overlooked casualty of COVID-19. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: May 23, 2021 12:09 PM ET | Last Updated: May 23 A child uses a swingset during socially distanced recess in Louisville, Kentucky. Tim Gill says childrens play is one of the overlooked casualties of COVID-19.( Jon...

China slams Taiwan over foreign ministers comments in CBC interview cbc.ca 3 days ago Brennan MacDonald © Andy Wong/The Associated Press Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian accused Taiwan of clumsy political manipulation after Taiwans Foreign Minister Joseph Wu gave an interview to CBC News calling on fellow democracies to voice more support for Taiwan in the face of an increasingly hostile China. A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry accused Taiwan ...

What happened in Belarus?And why a reporter got off the plane and escaped and was arrested As civilian planes fled the airspace, Belarus’s isolation deepened, the European Union enacted new sanctions and officials expressed concern about the welfare of opposition journalists. Roman Protasevich was arrested on Sunday because he was removed from a plane transferred to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in what the West calls a state-sponsored hijacking. The plane flew from Greece to Lithuania. Take...

By suppressing opposition through harsh police actions and keeping much of the countrys economy under state control, Lukashenko has made Belarus a neo-Soviet outlier, wary of its thriving NATO and European Union neighbours. People attend an opposition rally in Minsk in September 2020 to protest the presidential election results and the inauguration of Lukashenko.(Reuters) Who is Roman Protasevich? The 26-year-old dissident journalist has been an anti-Lukashenko voice since he was a teen. ...

China has crushed opposition in Hong Kong, Taiwan fears it is next In the face of an increasingly hostile China, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu joined CBC News Networks Power & Politics Monday to call on fellow democracies to voice more support for Taiwan. "We cannot allow a democratic Taiwan to be taken over by China," said Wu. Social Sharing ‘We cannot allow a democratic Taiwan to be taken over by China,’ said Taiwan’s foreign minister Posted: May 24, 2021 5:00 PM ET | Last Updated: ...

Public Security Minister Bill Blair said that Ontario’s Prime Minister Doug Ford recently called on the federal government to further restrict travel in and out of Canada in a letter to divert people’s attention from sweeping the province for the third time. The impact of the pandemic wave. Blair said to the guests: “I encourage the Prime Minister to look at his data, listen to his health experts, and let us act on the facts. Frankly speaking, we have seen efforts to divert and distract p...

Posted: May 13, 2021 8:00 PM ET | Last Updated: May 14 Prime Minister, Ontario Premier continue dispute over border measures Power and Politics9 days ago 9:06 Premier Ford has again asked Prime Minister Trudeau to enhance border measures, including PCR tests for domestic flights. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says "if the Premier wants to implement measures restricting travel into Ontario from anywhere domestically in Canada, he has the authority to do that."9:06

Posted: May 12, 2021 7:29 PM CT | Last Updated: May 13 The rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine will be limited in Manitoba moving forward. For the most part, it will be reserved for second shots for those who received that vaccine for their first dose.(Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)

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Mixing COVID-19 vaccine doses leads to more reactions, study finds, which may be first sign of success Mixing different types of COVID-19 vaccines for two doses can hike the chance of someone having mild or moderate reactions like fatigue, headache, or a fever, according to early results from a U.K. study, which is being watched closely by health officials in Canada and beyond. Social Sharing