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Canadian Pacific agrees to buy Kansas City Southern for $25B

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A Red Cross volunteer prepares the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in a vaccination center of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, southwestern France, Friday, March19, 2021. Countries across Europe resumed vaccinations with the AstraZeneca shot on Friday, as leaders sought to reassure their populations it is safe following brief suspensions that cast doubt on a vaccine that is critical to ending the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

White House confirms ‘loan’ of 4M AstraZeneca doses to Mexico, Canada

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden signs the American Rescue Plan, a coronavirus relief package, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden plans to send COVID shots to Mexico, Canada

By ZEKE MILLER and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus twirls a flag at a public park in Beijing, Thursday, March 18, 2021. China has been regularly reporting no locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 as it works to maintain control of the pandemic within its borders. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Latest: Australia seeks vaccine aid for Papua New Guinea

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FILE - In this file image made from a March 2, 2017, video, Michael Spavor, director of Paektu Cultural Exchange, talks during a Skype interview in Yanji, China. The Canadian government says China will begin trials in March 2021 for two Canadians, Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who were arrested in 2019 in apparent retaliation for Canada’s detention of a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies. (AP Photo/File)

Canadian tried in China on spy charges, no verdict announced

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

Chief Financial Officer of Huawei, Meng Wanzhou is seen wearing an ankle monitor as she leaves her home in Vancouver, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)

Lawyer says authorities disregarded Huawei exec’s rights

By JIM MORRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2019 file photo, an anti-government demonstrator costumed as late military dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet salutes in front of a burning street barricade placed by protesters demanding a new constitution in Santiago, Chile. Chileans will elect an assembly on April 11, 2021, tasked with writing fresh governing principles and putting them to a national vote in the first half of 2022 to replace the much-amended relic of military rule, the 1980 constitution. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

The end approaches for Chile’s military-era constitution

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

InvestigateWest: Activists fight fossil-fuel pipelines

By BRAELA KWAN - Associated Press

In this March 1, 2021, file photo, a woman receives her COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic marking the beginning of mass vaccination in the Province of Quebec based on age in Montreal. Canada once was hailed as a success story in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, faring much better than the United States in deaths and infections because of how it approached lockdowns. But the trade-dependent nation has lagged on vaccinating its population because it has had to rely on the global supply chain. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canada lags in vaccinations but expects to catch up quickly

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, leaves her home to attend a hearing at British Columbia Supreme Court, in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Monday, March 15, 2021. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Huawei CFO lawyer argues new evidence to be submitted

By JIM MORRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this file image made from March 28, 2018, video, Michael Kovrig, an adviser with the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based non-governmental organization, speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. A Communist Party newspaper says China will soon begin trials for two Canadians, Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were arrested in December 2018 in apparent retaliation for Canada’s detention of a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies. (AP Photo, File)

Newspaper: China to soon try 2 Canadians on spying charges

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FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2008, file photo, Team Canada's Rheal Cormier pitches during the team's win over China in preliminary action at the Beijing Olympics in Beijing, China. Cormier, the durable left-hander who spent 16 seasons in the majors and remarkably pitched in the Olympics before and after his time in the big leagues, has died. He was 53. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

MLB lefty Cormier, pitched in 1988, ‘08 Olympics, dies at 53

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Hockey hall-of-fame legend Wayne Gretzky, right, watches the casket of his father, Walter Gretzky, as it is carried from the church during a funeral service in Brantford, Ontario, Saturday, March 6, 2021. Walter Gretzky, also known as Canada's hockey dad was 82 years old. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Wayne Gretzky delivers emotional eulogy at father’s funeral

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President Joe Biden congratulates NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars 2020 Perseverance team for successfully landing on Mars during a virtual call in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The Latest: Ontario wants vaccine shot in adults by June 20

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

People wait in line at a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at Olympic Stadium marking the beginning of mass vaccination in the Province of Quebec based on age in Montreal, on Monday, March 1, 2021. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada clears Johnson & Johnson vaccine, first to approve 4

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Health-care workers walk through the post-vaccine waiting area at a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic for Peel Region during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mississauga, Ontario, on Monday, March 1, 2021. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Ontario leader disappointed in Biden for not sharing vaccine

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, leaves her home to attend B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, on Thursday, March 4, 2021. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada lawyer says Trump comments shouldn’t halt extradition

By JIM MORRIS - Associated Press

Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, leaves her home in Vancouver, British Columbia, to attend a court hearing, Monday, March 1, 2021. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)

Huawei CFO lawyer says Trump comments a ‘salvo’ in trade war

By JIM MORRIS - Associated Press

Anita Anand, left, Canada's Minister of Public Services and Procurement and the High Commissioner of India to Canada Ajay Bisaria pose with some of the first 500,000 of the two million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses that Canada has secured through a deal with the Serum Institute of India in partnership with Verity Pharma Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at a facility in Milton, Ontario. (Carlos Osorio/Pool Photo via AP)

Canada vaccine panel recommends 4 months between COVID doses

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Ontario says seniors won’t get AstraZeneca vaccine

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