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The Canadian Press
In The News summarizes The Canadian Press article. It's a thing. Designed to kickstart your day. Here's what the editors have their eye on Friday morning, August 19, 2022.
What we see in Canada …
Canadian travelers experience flight cancellations, baggage delays, long queues at airports, has been bothering me for months.
Transport Minister Omar Al-Ghabra is now set to testify before the House Transport Committee about recent disruptions at Canada's major airports and airlines.
The Commission held hearings on the delay last week and voted unanimously to invite Al Ghabra to testify.
He will appear in a video conference on Friday after recently testing positive for COVID-19.
Airlines and airports are grappling with a surge in travel this summer due to staffing shortages affecting both airlines and federal agencies.
Critics say the airline aggressively increased flight schedules as customer interest grew, without giving due consideration to labor shortages.
Transport Canada said in a recent statement that it is working with industry partners to improve airport conditions.
In a statement, the agency said the first week of August saw fewer cancellations and delays than a month earlier.
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Also...
The federal ban on restricted handgun imports begins Friday.
With limited exceptions, individuals and businesses are no longer allowed to import restricted handguns into Canada.
The measure, announced earlier this month, aims to advance a key pillar of the federal government's efforts to limit the number of handguns in the country.
The liberal government announced in May plans to freeze the import, purchase, sale, or otherwise transfer of handguns to quell firearms-related violence.
This measure would allow gun licenses to be automatically removed from people who commit domestic violence or engage in criminal harassment, such as stalking. Part of a broader firearms management package.
The import ban is expected to remain until a permanent freeze is passed by Congress and implemented.
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What we are seeing in the United States …
Federal judge tells DOJ to fix as he promised ordered to submit a proposal. Release at least a portion of the affidavit supporting the search warrant for former President Donald Trump's property in Florida. I was given a week to submit a copy of the affidavit containing the redacted information to the prosecutor.
It's been a little over a week since the FBI raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion and seized classified and classified information last week.
Prosecutors said the investigation into whether Trump illegally stored classified records was still in the "early stages."
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What we see in the world...
never accept South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol's "stupid" offer in exchange for denuclearization measures, accusing South Korea of reusing rejected offers from the past.
Kim Yo Jong said the president would have preferred to "keep quiet" rather than say nonsense.
She also said South Korea has held military exercises with the United States and allowed activists to fly propaganda leaflets across the border, while South Korea sought to improve bilateral relations. questioned the sincerity of the request.
Prime Minister Yun expressed his hope for a meaningful dialogue with North Korea regarding his proposal for disarmament assistance.
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On this day in 1942, some 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a devastating raid against German forces at Dieppe, France.
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In entertainment …
R. Kelly's legal team announced Friday that We will have the opportunity to question government star witnesses.
Jane was the pseudonym used during the trial and has been at the center of Kelly's legal troubles for over two decades. She testified for more than four hours on Thursday, telling jurors that it was a videotape of her and Kelly that was at the center of the 2008 child pornography trial, and that he was acquitted.
Jane (now 37) stops, pulls her necklace and dab her eye with a tissue, the man in the video is Kelly, and the girl says she's 14.
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Did you see this?
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have discovered what they call a "weakness" in the virus that causes COVID-19. This is a potential breakthrough for developing new treatments effective against all strains.
Researchers say the primary vulnerability is found in all major variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Exploiting this weakness could lead to new ways to combat the disease that has claimed millions of lives worldwide since its discovery more than two years ago. , says a study published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Communications.
The UBC team studied the virus at the atomic level, finding weaknesses and identifying antibody fragments that can bind across many mutations of the virus, including the burgeoning Omicron subvariant.
The spike protein's weakness is constant across all seven major subspecies of the virus, researchers say, and one antibody could act as a 'master key' that could overcome widespread mutation.
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This Canadian Press report was first published on August 19, 2022.
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