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TORONTO — Canadians consumed by wanderlust can choose from nearly 50 international destinations that aren’t requiring travellers from this country to quarantine on arrival. The novel coronavirus has cancelled or postponed travel plans for close to six months now, and there is no end in sight for the battle to control the virus.
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One person is dead and six others were injured after a boat hit the rocks at Woodbine Beach on Thursday afternoon. The call came into Toronto Police around 12:35 p.m. that a boat, 75 metres out from shore, had crashed.
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CROTONE — At least three migrants, two men and a woman, died when a fire broke out on a boat carrying around 20 of them close to the southern coast of Italy on Sunday, police and health officials said. Another five migrants were injured and taken to hospitals, health authorities in the Italian port city of Crotone said, adding that two of them were in a serious condition.
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OTTWAWA, Ont. — The federal government is extending travel restrictions by one month to limit the spread of COVID-19. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said Friday on Twitter that existing restrictions on international travel to Canada would be extended to Sept. 30.
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The UCP government is on board with a plan to build a 1,000 km/h magnetic duo-monorail-type link between Calgary and Edmonton. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the province and TransPod moves the dream of constructing the $6-billion to $8-billion hyperloop — that would whisk riders between the two major cities in 30 minutes — a major step closer, say both sides.
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Discovering a cracked window while on board a flying airplane would likely cause a lot of anxiety. An Air Canada passenger can attest to that, sharing his experience from a Toronto-Montreal flight last month in a TikTok video that has gone viral.
Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53816511
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Thousands of people packed shoulder-to-shoulder with no face masks in sight, frolicking on rubber floats and cheering along to a music festival. It’s not a very 2020 image, but it was the scene this weekend in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where Covid-19 first emerged late last year. Pictures of partygoers at the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park – looking very much removed from the outbreak that the rest of the world continues to battle – have now gone, well, viral.
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STONEHAVEN — Three people died in a train derailment in eastern Scotland on Wednesday that left carriages overturned and piled on top of each other on a steep wooded slope, making it hard for emergency services to access the scene. Dark smoke billowed from the site of the accident for most of the day after the ScotRail train derailed in the morning in a narrow valley near Stonehaven, south of the city of Aberdeen.
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A British daredevil couple are now the proud parents of the youngest person to reach the summit of a 33,530-metre tall mountain unaided when the family scaled the treacherous peak. Seven-year-old Freya Houlding climbed Piz Badile, a mountain located on the border of Switzerland and Italy, accompanied by her mom, Jessica, 41, and dad, Leo Houlding, 40, a professional climber.
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OTTAWA — Canada is tightening its rules for foreign travelers who must transit through the country to get to Alaska, the government said on Thursday, after several U.S. citizens were fined by police for making detours to sightsee. The Canada-U.S. border has been closed to non-essential travel since mid-March, but returning Canadians, essential workers, truck drivers, foreigners reunifying with family, and people driving to Alaska have been allowed in.