An Ontario physician and her husband — the first people in Canada known to have caught the new coronavirus strain originally detected in the U.K. — have been charged with hindering efforts to trace their contacts both before and after it was randomly discovered they had it.
Twitter has locked the account of the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. for a tweet that defended China’s policies in the Xinjiang region, which the U.S. social media platform said violated the firm’s policy against “dehumanization” of a group of people.
Thousands of people on both sides of the border watched history in the making on Wednesday as Kamala Harris became the first woman of colour to be vice-president of the United States.