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The couple were fined for violating Yukon’s Civil Emergency Measures Act, but local community leaders argue that the fine will mean little to the wealthy couple. Photograph: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg
Millionaire couple travel to get vaccine intended for indigenous Canadians
  • World
  • January 27, 2021, 20:04

A millionaire Canadian couple who travelled to a remote community to receive a coronavirus vaccine intended for vulnerable and elderly Indigenous peop(...)

Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie takes part in an honouring ceremony at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Gatineau, Quebec, on December 6th, 2016. Photograph: Chris Wattie/Reuters
Canada mourns death of Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie
  • World
  • October 18, 2017, 20:01

The death of Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie, a music superstar beloved for songs about culture, small towns and hockey, triggered an outpouring o(...)