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The climbing variant caseload will certainly become a challenge for Premier Jason Kenney and his government, trying to strike a balance between fighting the ever-shifting pandemic and easing restrictions on Alberta’s economy.

Market close: NZX goes into festive break on a high 24 Dec, 2020 02:50 AM 4 minutes to read NZ Herald By: Graham Skellern The New Zealand sharemarket shut up shop for Christmas on another positive tone, with transport and logistics operator Mainfreight leading the way. Trading was shortened to a half day, and the S&P/NZX 50 Index closed at a new high of 13,037.94, up 17.73 points or 0.14 per cent, after reaching an intraday high of 13,101.16. Trading was light with 17.7 millio...

Article content My COVID Story: How have you been impacted by coronavirus? Postmedia is looking to speak with people who may have been impacted by the growing second wave of COVID-19 here in Alberta. Do you have a child or teen who caught COVID-19? Are you a front-line worker? Have you been immunized? Send us an email at reply@calgaryherald.com to tell us your experience, or send us a message via this form. Ford rips Trudeau government for failing to secure border as Ontario imposes strict new ...

Health Canada warns of counterfeit vaccines being sold online Health Canada is warning of counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines being sold online and from other unauthorized sources. In a notice posted to its website, the government agency said that COVID-19 vaccines sold online and from unauthorized sources are counterfeit, could pose “serious health risks” and are “ineffective at protecting an individual from the COVID-19 virus.” Health Canada authorized the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-1...

RNZ More than 10,000 companies have been audited to check theyve met the rules of the wage subsidy programme. Big cashed-up listed companies who took the government wage subsidy need to find their moral compass and pay the money back, says University of Auckland accounting professor Jilnaught Wong​. A Stuff survey of the biggest 50 companies on the NZX found about half of them did not call on the government’s $14 billion wage subsidy scheme, designed to help keep people in jobs during the...