One in six adult Canadians falls short of passing the most basic set of literacy tests, making them functionally illiterate, and this could mean problems as a post-COVID-19 economic recovery ramps up.
Day: January 17, 2021
Leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny plans to fly home to Russia on Sunday after recovering in Germany from his poisoning in August with a nerve agent.
Marta Bassino of Italy won her second World Cup giant slalom in two days Sunday in Slovenia while 19-year-old Cassidy Gray of Panorama, B.C., earned her first points on the circuit, placing 26th of 29 finishers. Fellow Canadian Val Grenier was 15th.
The fishing vessel that went missing off the coast of Delaps Cove in December has been found.
Canada has reached a grim new milestone in its fight against COVID-19, with the country’s case count surging past 700,000, ahead of an expected reduction in shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from a factory in Belgium.