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The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Friday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.9:36 a.m.: ‘We knew the numbers were a problem’: Nursing shortage laid bare as health systems face Omicron. Read the full story from the ...

Sean Fraser says he knew what he was getting into when he was tapped to be Canada’s next immigration minister.“Things are at such a strained point as a result of COVID-19 that I see an opportunity to make an extraordinary difference coming from this particular starting point,” the Nova ...

Maryam Said Anwar’s says her body still bears the scars from the beatings with a screwdriver she endured at the hands of her husband. Forced to marry when she was 13, Anwar says she was drugged, beaten and tortured by her husband. “Even as l lay full of pain ...

Roya Shams ran fast, then faster when she spotted the tiny woman, delicate as a sparrow, in a wheelchair at Pearson airport’s arrivals level.She dropped to her knees and, for the first time in nearly 10 years, fell into her mother’s embrace.“Don’t cry!” Roya said. “It’s all good.”But her ...

The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.6:18 a.m.: Right now in Ontario, if you’re eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, you must be fully immunized to see the new Marvel ...

For 47 days, Hussain watched from behind the curtains of his family’s tiny suite as Taliban soldiers passed by their window.The former Afghan interpreter for the Canadian Forces, his wife and their five children, all under the age of 10, had hunkered down in lodgings arranged by Canadian war ...

The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.7 a.m.: An expert advisory panel recommended Tuesday that the U.K. government offer a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine to everyone over age 50 ...

Canada-bound Afghan interpreter Kohistany breathed a sigh of relief when he made it through the gate of the Kabul airport on Aug. 24 after months of playing cat-and-mouse with Taliban insurgents.“We finally got out of hell. Tears just started streaming down my face,” said the 42-year-old man, who worked ...

Shortly after the news came of Kabul’s fall to the Taliban, Wendy Cukier started getting email from former sponsors of Syrian refugees looking to her to do something about the humanitarian crisis coming out of Afghanistan.The Ryerson University professor quickly convened the same advocates, colleagues and friends she worked ...

With Thursday’s suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport, the much feared Taliban, too, found itself the target of terrorist attacks.After the initial euphoria of overthrowing the U.S.-supported government on Aug. 15, the militia group now has to face the music of forming a national government when there are no ...