Forty years after John Lennon’s death and 50 years since the Beatles broke up, the Fab Four remain a constant and all-encompassing cultural presence.
Day: December 8, 2020
The billionaire CEO of his family-run company, the Serum Institute of India, decided early on in the COVID-19 pandemic to bet big and go all out — striking a deal with Oxford-AstraZeneca to mass produce millions of doses of one of the more promising vaccine candidates before it was even close to being tested and approved.
More than 700 Ontario families are waiting for key children’s health services at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. Staff say a halt on services in the early months of the pandemic has left them struggling to catch up, with current wait times of months or even a year or more.
Chuck Yeager, the steely ‘Right Stuff’ test pilot who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person to break the sound barrier, died on Monday at the age of 97.
Gustav Svensson scored off a corner kick in the final moments of second-half stoppage time, and the Seattle Sounders beat Minnesota United 3-2 on Monday night to advance to the MLS Cup final.