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Global News published this video item, entitled “Global National: Feb. 22, 2021 | Canada’s new hotel quarantine rules begin, lead to frustration” – below is their description.
On this episode of Global National: New federal rules now require air travellers arriving in Canada to get tested for COVID-19 and quarantine at a government-approved hotel at their own expense. Robin Gill explains why there’s still a lack of clarity over the new rules, and why they didn’t apply to one group of passengers on Monday.
Plus, the U.S. has now hit a tragic benchmark in the coronavirus pandemic, with at least 500,000 Americans losing their lives to COVID-19. As Jackson Proskow reports, many American families are grieving.
And Canada’s House of Commons defence committee has met to look into what the government did and did not know about the allegations of inappropriate behaviour against former chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance. Mercedes Stephenson reports.
Canadian members of Parliament have voted to declare China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims a genocide. As Abigail Bimman reports, no MPs voted against the motion, but not everyone voted either.
Water operators in First Nations across Canada play a critical role in maintaining infrastructure, but they’re overworked and underpaid. As part of an investigation led by Global News, APTN, and Concordia University’s Institute for Investigative Journalism, Elizabeth McSheffrey reports on the struggle of these pivotal workers.
Also, community vaccination clinics are now opening in Nova Scotia, where COVID-19 case numbers remain relatively low. Ross Lord explains how the inoculation plan starts with people aged 80 and older.
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Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
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As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
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