| | | | | | | | | FIVE THINGS TO KNOW | | | | | | VP debate
Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris turned the vice-presidential debate Wednesday night into a dissection of the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic, with Harris calling it "the greatest failure of any presidential administration." |
| | | | | | COVID-19 vaccine
Although companies working on a COVID-19 vaccine are increasingly saying it is likely that they will not complete the testing process until 2021, the head of the World Health Organization says there is still a chance a vaccine could be ready sooner than that. |
| | | | | | Canadian-Armenian killed
A Canadian-Armenian has been killed in the growing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. |
| | | | | | Family reunited
Amira, a five-year-old orphaned Canadian girl who was stranded in a refugee camp in Syria, has finally been reunited with her uncle after a Canadian delegation met with Kurdish officials to finalize her rescue. |
| | | | | | Plastics ban
Under the newly unveiled list of single-use plastics being banned in Canada, plastic grocery bags, straws, stir sticks, six-pack rings, cutlery and food containers made from hard-to-recycle plastics will be out of use nationwide by the end of 2021. |
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| | | | | | | Canadian athlete Quinton Byfield has become the highest-drafted Black player in NHL history, after the Los Angeles Kings selected him with the second pick. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | Up the nose | | | | Now that students have returned to classrooms across Canada, many parents are having to take their children to get a COVID-19 test. Parenting expert Caron Irwin explains how they can help make the process as trauma-free as possible for their kids. |
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