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A young boy, part of several asylum seeking families participating in a Las Posadas event at the U.S.-Mexico border wall, peers into the U.S. from Agua Prieta, Mexico Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, seen from Douglas, Ariz. People on each side of the border celebrate Las Posadas as they have done for decades, a centuries-old tradition practiced in Mexico re-enacts Mary and Joseph's search for refuge in Bethlehem through songs, with several of the families attending stuck south of the border, their lives in limbo with U.S. proceedings suspended amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

People yearn to connect across borders amid pandemic holiday

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A person walks past a COVID-19 restrictions sign during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mississauga, Ontario, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada authorizes second vaccine to fight the pandemic

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Canada's Kirby Dach (7) is checked by Russia's Ilya Safonov (24) during the third period of a game leading up to the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, in Edmonton, Alberta. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Blackhawks’ Kirby Dach injured in Canada’s exhibition win

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FILE- In this Friday Dec. 18, 2020, file photo, A traveller wearing a face mask checks the flight departures at Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Netherlands is banning flights from the United Kingdom for the rest of the year in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of the COVID-19 virus in Britain does not reach its shores. The ban came into effect Sunday morning Dec. 20, 2020, and the government said it was reacting to tougher measures imposed in and around London on Saturday. The Netherlands said it will assess &quot;with other EU nations the possibilities to contain the import of the virus from the United Kingdom.&quot; (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, FILE)

More EU nations ban travel from UK, fearing virus variant

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a man who had just received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine elbow bump as the Prime Minister toured a vaccinations clinic at the Ottawa Hospital with Minister of Health Patty Hajdu, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Trudeau says good riddance to 2020, Canada to get 500k doses

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

In this Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool, File)

Debunked COVID-19 myths survive online, despite facts

By AMANDA SEITZ and BEATRICE DUPUY - Associated Press

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is administered to a personal support worker at the Ottawa Hospital, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada getting 168K Moderna vaccine doses before year end

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Regulators adopt stricter water standards for Lake Koocanusa

By TRISTAN SCOTT - Associated Press

A health-care worker watches as the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are delivered to the Maimonides CHSLD in Montreal, Canada, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 in Montreal. The long-term care facility is slated to be one of the first in Canada to administer the vaccine. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada administers first doses of COVID-19 vaccine

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam, left, and Major-General Dany Fortin, second from left, join other members of the vaccine distribution task force as the Canadian Armed Forces and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) hold a rehearsal of concept drill for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout at the PHAC headquarters in Ottawa on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

First COVID 19 vaccine shipments arrive in Canada

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

In this Aug. 16, 2020, file photo, a woman holds a sign with photographs of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who have been detained in China since December 2018, during a rally in support of Hong Kong democracy, in Vancouver, British Columbia. China's Foreign Ministry says two Canadians held for two years in a case linked to a Huawei executive have been indicted and tried, but gave no details. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canada says 2 citizens held in China have not been tried

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A nurse holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy's Hospital in London, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, as the U.K. health authorities rolled out a national mass vaccination program. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool)

Canada becomes the third country to approve Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves a news conference in Ottawa, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada health regulator approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference at Rideau Cottage during the COVID pandemic in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada: US border measures to last until virus under control

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a bi-weekly news conference outside Rideau cottage on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa, Ontario, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada to add to record deficit in pandemic recovery attempt

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, leaves her home in Vancouver, British Columbia Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, to attend an evidentiary hearing in her extradition case at B.C. Supreme Court. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)

Ambassador visits Canadians detained in China in Huawei case

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Wind-surfers glide on Lake Ontario at Cherry Beach on a warm fall day during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Toronto goes back into lockdown because of a surge in cases

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

NORAD’s Canadian troops plan for a different holiday season

By TOM ROEDER - Associated Press

List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a press conference during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Trudeau looks to Biden for help in dispute with China

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press