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Day: July 18, 2021
With five days to go before the Olympics Games kick off, the Canadian government still isn’t saying whether a federal delegation is heading to Tokyo. A rising rate of infection over the past month and ever evolving rules and restrictions in Japan have kept Ottawa on edge about sending over its usual contingent of dignitaries.
Rescue workers laboured to deal with damage laid bare by receding water on Saturday as the death toll from disastrous flooding in western Europe rose above 160 and thoughts turned to the lengthy job of rebuilding devastated communities.
With pace for days and a cannon of a right foot, Jayde Riviere has transitioned from being an attack-minded midfielder for her youth team to providing dynamism and explosiveness on the wing for the senior national team.
Canada has gone from a vaccine laggard to a world leader in COVID-19 immunizations in just a few months’ time — thanks to an ambitious vaccination campaign that has so far blunted the spread of the much more virulent delta variant. But experts say we still need to get many more people vaccinated to avoid a fourth wave.