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TORONTO — Federal officials are mounting a renewed push to instill Canadian confidence in Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, but observers predict they're in for a tough battle.

"Whispers and Sighs,” David Olney and Anana Kaye (Schoolkids Records) There's a poignancy to these 11 swan songs, especially with such titles as “My Favorite Goodbye," “My Last Dream Of You” and “The Great Manzini (Disappearing Act).

Empire Company Ltd. has agreed to buy a majority stake in supermarket chain Longo's and its Grocery Gateway e-commerce business in a deal that further consolidates Canada's grocery retail landscape.

NEW YORK — Yaphet Kotto, the commanding actor who brought tough magnetism and stately gravitas to films including the James Bond movie “Live and Let Die” and “Alien," has died. He was 81.

Movies US charts: 1. Crisis 2. Monster Hunter 3. The Croods: A New Age 4. Cosmic Sin 5. Greenland 6. Girl (2020) 7. Tenet 8. Minari 9. Dark Web: Cicada 3301 10. News of the World Movies US charts - Independent: 1. Crisis 2. Girl (2020) 3. Minari 4.

BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela — Samuel Andrés Mendoza carefully chooses from dozens of colored pencils spread out on his kitchen table, humming a reggaeton song as he deftly applies contrast to the Dragon Ball anime character taking shape on his sketch pad

LOS ANGELES — If Laraine Newman recounted only her experiences as an original “Saturday Night Live” player — a storied ensemble that included Gilda Radner and John Belushi — she’d have plenty of memoir material.

Book Title by Author Name - ISBN - (Publisher) 1. Fast Ice by Clive Cussler & Graham Brown - 9780593327876 - (Penguin Publishing Group) 2. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah - 9781250178626 - (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 3.

TORONTO — Canadian actor Elliot Page is opening up about his life and gender identity in a lengthy profile in Time magazine.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's highest honour , has been awarded to the Paris-based duo of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal for “prioritizing the enrichment of human life," especially in the context of public housing.