Val Pike, chair of the Run for Mom organizing committee in Yukon, thanked all those who have taken part in fundraising, including those in communities outside Whitehorse. OTTAWA — International Development Minister Karina Gould isn't running any victory laps despite ending by doing what so few of her political predecessors could — wrestling a sizable increase in Canadian foreign-aid spending. Gould also told a subsequent video conference on Friday with several international health organizations that Canada would "would absolutely be donating any excess capacity" of vaccines to poor countries.
But as welcome as a vaccine will be, it won't cure the damage the global COVID pandemic inflicted over the course of this year. Gould says the pandemic, in less than one year, wiped out a decade's worth of progress in improving the plight of the world's poorest people, especially children. The damage includes a dramatic drop in kids going to school, declining access to vaccines already used to combat preventable diseases, declining nutrition and soaring food insecurity. It's a warning that Gould has sounded often since the pandemic descended in the spring. The longer girls are out of school, the less likely they are to return, she said.
Henrietta Fore, the head of the United Nations Children Fund, said one-third of the world's children under age five are malnourished.
Canada's aid spending increase of this past week may eventually help raise its standing on another international benchmark: the proportion of aid spending to gross national income. The benchmark is 0. Canada has never met that benchmark, and before the pandemic its spending was less than 0. Liam Swiss, a foreign-aid expert at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, said one of the sad mathematical ironies of is that as the post-pandemic economies of rich countries shrink, their percentage of aid spending to GNI might actually rise.
Britain was one of the few countries to commit to the 0. Altruism aside, Swiss said any future foreign aid spending decisions will also have to be driven by a more practical, self-serving desire to end the pandemic everywhere. Maybe that sounds idealistic, but I firmly believe it. It's one of the reasons why I got into politics in the first place. Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press. She's just finished a high-energy hour of music and information programmed for the Filipino community of Calgary. We give them the joy in their hearts even for one hour. Buluran believes Filipino radio's roots run deep here.
But her conversations aren't confined to Calgary, Her radio reaches across borders, bringing her home country a little closer. We have the internet where people in the Philippines are also listening and messaging me what kind of songs they want to sing. They also wish their family happy birthday, happy anniversary, so it's not only in the Philippines but it's what I've said.
It's all over the world. Long historyAcross town in a suburban mall, Manila-born Renato Barnachea, 56, lowers the announcer chair for a photo shoot at Fairchild studios in Calgary's northeast. He aspires to welcome an audience of new Canadians and strengthen support for his ever-growing community.
For him, local Filipino radio isn't so much a "life line" as a "once in a lifetime. Or may not have been brought up with these incredible Filipino traditions that we have," Guarin says. He suggests it may be the way we absorb any foreign language. I'm not saying this applies to the entire community, it does sound unfamiliar to a lot of people and I think we need to remove that stigma from a lot of the conversation. He's 63 and likes to write books in his spare time.
So, it's a good thing. I was part of the Filipinos student association at the U of C and that really reinvigorated my love of my culture. But it's something that I had to go out and seek myself. The icon, which was said to be years old, is believed to originate from eastern Ukraine, where Russia-backed rebels have fought Ukrainian troops in a six-year conflict.
Dozens of Serbs have fought alongside the pro-Russia rebels in the conflict, which started in On Saturday, Russia's Foreign Ministry said the icon would be returned to Bosnia pending an Interpol probe to clarify its origins. The Associated Press. What's your plan for Christmas dinner?
With perhaps a smaller guest list due to COVID, will you still be serving a turkey, or will you try something different for this very different Christmas? On Thursday, P. Heather Morrison announced the province will ease the "circuit-breaker" restrictions, allowing households to add up to 10 more visitors though the 10 people should be as consistent as possible.
Anyone travelling from out of province must still self-isolate for 14 days. But some Islanders traditionally have very large Christmas gatherings for 20, 30, even 40 people. We asked you, dear readers, about your plans for Christmas dinner. Then on Sunday, check back on cbc. Here's a selection. Can't wait!
Junior Peter-Paul said he would be trying something different this year, having roast moose and salmon. Gramps and Gamma and our other greats' health are a priority," wrote Jena Kyle Dudley. Turkey or bustMany of you wrote that it just wouldn't be Christmas without turkey, so turkey it will be. We will still be making our turkey with all the fixings and spending it quietly with our pets and video chatting with family back in Ontario," said Shannon-Sidney Wood.
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We just won't have so many for dinner and leftovers are good in soup," wrote Daryl Hale. Since he isn't coming, we will eat nothing and drink to excess. Just get the day over with," commented Catherine Dominey Phillips. Only the second time in 40 years that I haven't been able to go home and P. I know I'm supposed to be making the best of it, and I will, but it really is just so sad. It's not like we are mingling with the public. More from CBC P. The Regent Park School of Music, a non-profit organization, held their annual winter recital Friday evening online, without hiccups. But the clamouring of piano keys and the sound of violins, drums and students singing remained unchanged.
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The school's lessons are subsidized to ensure "affordable music education" and fees were waived for the school year, their website states. Attendance rates have been around 80 per cent since, he said. We just want to stay connected at this difficult time with them," he said. It all culminated in the winter recital that saw students perform from their living rooms to a cheering virtual audience.
She's been taking classes at the school for the past eight years. This pet raccoon has taken over the baby swing for nap time. Cuteness overload! Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa will self-isolate for 14 days, spending Christmas at his official residence, after meeting earlier this week with French President Emmanuel Macron, who is infected with coronavirus. Lisbon's regional health authority ARSLVT said in a statement cited by Lusa news agency that a working lunch between the two leaders on Wednesday was considered a "high-risk exposure" to the coronavirus.
Le corps policier national de la province est actuellement en charge du dossier. She also remembers having more to give after placing 18th in Friday's women's downhill in Val d'Isere, France. On Saturday, the Canadian finished a career-best 10th in one minute I'm very happy that I was able to bring the same attitude that I've had all summer to my racing," Gagnon told Alpine Canada after the race.
Though the "difficult, steep and technical" hill suited Gagnon and her giant slalom background better than others, she wasn't completely satisfied.
It's a patience game with the speed events because you need mileage on the hill and experience. Moritz, Switzerland. It's been a while since I have felt like that.
A day after finishing runner-up to Suter in a race on the same hill, the Olympic champion from Italy turned the tables and beat the Swiss World Cup downhill champion by 0. Moritz in February A few weeks later, she had to cut her season short after fracturing her left arm in a crash. After all favourites were down, unheralded Norwegian skier Kajsa Vickhoff Lie, wearing bib 30, came close to bumping Johnson off the podium, but ultimately trailed the American by ths in fourth.
Many racers, including two-time world champion Ilka Stuhec, posted faster split times in the flat opening section, but no one matched Goggia's pace in the steep part, where the Italian excelled with risky turns. Organizers had slightly adapted a tricky curve toward the end of the course that caused four racers to crash into the safety netting in Friday's race. Austria's Nicole Schmidhofer suffered a potentially season-ending left knee injury, while two other racers who cashed — defending overall champion Federica Brignone and Alice McKennis Duran of the United States — opted not to start on Saturday.
To make that vote possible in her hometown, the year-old Baralija had to sue Bosnia in the European Court of Human Rights for letting a stalemate between two major nationalist political parties prevent her, along about , other Mostar residents, from voting or running in a municipal election for over a decade. The dominant nationalist Bosniak and Croat political parties, the SDA and the HDZ respectively, have spent over a decade failing to agree about how to do that. Left without fully functioning institutions, Mostar — one of the impoverished Balkan country's main tourist destinations — has seen its infrastructure crumble, trash repeatedly pile up on its streets and hazardous waste and wastewater treatment sludge dumped in its only landfill, which was supposed to be for non-hazardous waste.
An agreement between the two parties, endorsed by the top European Union and U. Mostar is divided in half by the Neretva River. During the war, Croats moved to the western side and Muslims to the east. Since the fighting stopped, the city has had two post offices, two electricity and water suppliers, two phone networks, two public hospitals and more — one crumbling set for each ethnic group. In , another student unrest took place in the university.
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In , a new Charter of the Imperial Russian Universities was adopted, which granted the right to appoint the rector to the Minister of National Enlightenment again. On March 1, O. As a result, new admission rules to gymnasiums and universities were approved by the Minister of National Enlightenment Ivan Delyanov in , which barred persons of non-noble origin from admission to the university, unless they were extraordinarily talented. By , 9, students had graduated from the university.
Among the renowned scholars of the second half of the 19th century, affiliated with the university were mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev , physicist Heinrich Lenz , chemists Dmitri Mendeleev and Aleksandr Butlerov , embryologist Alexander Kovalevsky , physiologist Ivan Sechenov and pedologist Vasily Dokuchaev. On March 24, O. As of January 1, O. In , the first student dining hall in Russia was opened in the university. Since about , regular strikes and student unrest shook the university and spread to other institutions of higher education across Russia.
During the Revolution of , the charter of the Russian universities was amended once more; the autonomy of the universities was partially restored and the right to elect the rector was returned to the academic board for the first time since In —, the university was temporarily closed due to student unrest. Its autonomy was revoked again in In the same year, the university was once again temporarily closed.
In , with the start of the First World War , the university was renamed Petrograd Imperial University after its namesake city. During the War, the university was the important center of mobilization of Russian intellectual resources and scholarship for the victory.