The host country still needs to shed 16 players and choose a team for the world junior hockey championship, which runs from Dec. 25 to Jan. 5 in Edmonton.
Quebec sent an alert using the emergency alert system, to remind people to follow the COVID-19 rules or face the consequences as cases and hospitalizations in the province continue to rise.
Five mink samples at a farm in B.C.’s Fraser Valley have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans, fuelling concerns of possible new mutations of the coronavirus.
U.S. regulators asked Wednesday for Facebook to be ordered to divest its Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services as the U.S. government and 48 states and districts accused the company of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors.