Canada’s meat-and-potato problem: Coronavirus pandemic hits the food supply chain – National | Globalnews.ca

Canada’s potato industry signs up with an expanding variety of food industries that finds itself in crisis, a crisis sparked by the close to removal of need for french fries.Global Information has actually found out that the Canadian Potato Council, which represents 1,000 potato farmers across the nation, sent a>>>

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Some of Canada’s COVID-19 scenarios ‘unexplained and doubtful’, new report argues – National | Globalnews.ca

Modelling by Canadian public health officials of the coronavirus pandemic, released last week, fell short of explaining the assumptions behind some of the projections, according to a new report that described them as “unexplained and doubtful.” One of the researchers behind the report, Amir Attaran, spoke as an expert witness>>>

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Calgary, Edmonton drive-thru testing for COVID-19 by AHS referral only | Globalnews.ca

AHS testing centres for COVID-19 are ramping up services, including adding drive-thru options, as more people require testing in the Edmonton and Calgary zones. The centres are all by referral only, said an AHS representative, which means that members of the public will not be allowed to drive up without>>>

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Coronavirus: Reports of lengthy lines, shelves running low at several Ontario grocery stores | Globalnews.ca

As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to grow in the Greater Toronto Area and Canada, residents are flocking to local grocery stores with shoppers reporting long lines and a diminishing number of items on shelves. On Twitter Thursday evening, four out of the top five trending topics in Toronto>>>

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Drive-thru coronavirus test centres could help reduce spread in Canada: expert | Globalnews.ca

Drive-thru clinics testing people for COVID-19 in South Korea could serve as a model for Canada, where the spread of the virus is comparatively limited but increasing to the point that such early interventions could be considered, an epidemiologist says. Stephen Hoption Cann of the University of British Columbia’s school>>>

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Animal lovers in virus-stricken Wuhan are breaking into homes to save pets – National | Globalnews.ca

As the novel coronavirus continues to dominate headlines, a group of forgotten victims is emerging — the family pets left behind. Lao Mao, a 43-year-old man from the virus’s epicentre of Wuhan, scaled up rusty pipes to the third-floor balcony of an apartment to get inside the home of a>>>

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Toronto police officer watches NHL hockey game on cruiser computer at double shooting scene – Toronto | Globalnews.ca

As emergency crews and residents gathered at the scene of a double shooting in East York Saturday night, an officer could be seen sitting in his cruiser watching Hockey Night in Canada on the vehicle’s internal computer. While gathering footage at the scene of the shooting, a Global News camera operator spotted>>>

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Alberta dog breeder first baffled then thrilled by ‘shamrock green puppy’|Globalnews.ca

An Alberta canine breeder got an early Christmas surprise today when her Excellent Dane, Kahlua, gave birth to a “shamrock green puppy.” ” I had no concept that a green young puppy might be born,” Lise Laperriere stated from her house near Ma-Me-O Beach, Alta., about a one-hour drive southwest>>>

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