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Who's Buying All That Weed? Headset Has The Details

Headset, the leading provider of data and analytics to the cannabis industry, recently released its data on cannabis consumer trends and demographics for 2021 within the US and Canada.

Benzinga

White House says Ambassador Bridge blockade ‘poses risk to supply chains’

Anti-vaccine mandate protests have paralysed downtown Ottawa for almost two weeks

The Independent UK

Restoring community dialogue and resilience: The next COVID-19 emergency

COVID-19 is not the first health crisis to affect Canada. Previous emergencies, like the Lac-Mégantic train tragedy in 2013, showed the importance of including the affected communities to promote better adherence to preventive measures and build resilient communities. Our research shows this is largely missing for COVID-19, with high costs…

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Texas AG investigating GoFundMe for shutting down Canadian truck protest fundraiser

Canadian ministers have hit back at ‘foreign interference’

The Independent UK

Texas AG investigates GoFundMe after it halts donations to anti-vax Canadian truckers

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas attorney general’s office is investigating GoFundMe after the site shut down a fundraiser for protesters fighting COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Canada.

Tribune News Service

Canada trucker blockade poses risk to supply chain, auto industry -White House

The Canadian truckers blockade is posing a risk to the auto industry's supply chain and U.S. officials were in close touch with their counterparts in Canada on the issue, the White House said on Wednesday.

Reuters

US-Canada bridge blockade risks huge economic damage, governments warn

While protest remains on bridge between car-manufacturing cities of Detroit and Windsor, businesses risk losing $50m a day

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Canadian govt ministers label bridge blockade from COVID protests as 'illegal'

Canadian federal ministers labeled the protests and blockade at the vital Ambassador Bridge linking Canada and the United States as "unlawful" and "illegal," urging demonstrators to bring the blockade to an end.

Reuters

Republican lawmakers target GoFundMe over Canadian COVID mandate protests

Canada’s public safety minister cautioned against "potential foreign interference" as more U.S. lawmakers weighed in.

Axios

Explainer-How Ottawa's anti-vaccine mandate protests are spreading globally

Horn-blaring demonstrations demanding an end to Canadian COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers have caused gridlock in the capital Ottawa since late January. The protests are now spilling to key Canada-United States border crossings and disrupting trade.

Reuters

Michigan's Ambassador Bridge remains closed into Canada

DETROIT — Traffic from the U.S. to Canada via the Ambassador Bridge remained blocked Wednesday morning, more than 36 hours after the bridge was completely closed due to a protest by Canadian truck drivers.

Tribune News Service

Canadian provinces lift COVID restrictions, protests remain

A rapidly growing list of Canadian provinces moved to lift their COVID-19 restrictions as protesters decrying vaccine mandates and other precautions kept up the pressure with truck blockades in the capital and at key U.S. border crossings, including the economically vital bridge connecting the country with Detroit

The Independent UK

Republic Services Agrees To Acquire US Ecology At 70% Premium

Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE:RSG) has agreed to acquire US Ecology Inc (NASDAQ:ECOL) for $48 per share in cash, representing a total value of ~$2.2 billion, including net debt of ~$0.7 billion. The acquisition price represents a premium of 70% to US Ecology's closing price of $28.17 on February 8, 2022. US Ecology is a…

Benzinga

Candice Bergen's nod to Trump is a sign of Canada's descent, but the Charter may save us

Prior to becoming interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, MP Candice Bergen was among the more vocal members of caucus to push former leader Erin O’Toole into an explicit embrace of the so-called freedom convoy that’s now occupying Ottawa.

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Canada needs to cut carbon, not try to capture it

When the federal government released the budget in April 2021, it proposed creating a new tax credit for private firms that make investments in carbon capture, utilization and sequestration projects.

Reuters

Canada's population surges from 2016-2021 on immigration-official data

Canada's population rose to 37 million people in 2021, up 5.2% from 2016, driven mostly by immigration, according to official data released on Wednesday, with the downtowns and distant suburbs of large cities seeing the strongest growth.

The Guardian - US

Democratic governors lift indoor mask mandates despite CDC guidance – as it happened

Kathy Hochul announces policy will expire as of Thursday as cases decrease but will keep masks in school for now – follow the latest politics news

The Independent UK

Woman’s Twitter thread on why she’s freezing her eggs goes viral

Safina Adatia lives in Montreal, Canada, and decided to freeze her eggs at the age of 32, as her ‘insurance policy for the future’

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Ford, Toyota halt some output as U.S., Canada warn on trucker protests

Ford and Toyota on Wednesday both said they were halting some production as anti-coronavirus mandate protesters blocked U.S-Canada border crossings that have prompted warnings from Washington and Ottawa of economic damage.

The Independent UK

Ashley Wadsworth: Devastated grandad of Canadian teen stabbed to death ‘thought UK was safe’

The family are raising funds to bring the teenager’s body back to Canada

Evening Standard

New Zealand faces Canada-style protests against zero-Covid restrictions

Protesters brought the capital of New Zealand to a partial standstill as they demonstrated against the country’s Covid rules.

The Independent UK

Winter Olympics: Absence of NHL stars leads to wide-open men’s ice hockey tournament full of intrigue

The withdrawal of professional players based in the United States and Canada changed the tournament odds overnight - leaving an open field full of uncertainty

The Guardian - UK

Blockade: Inside the 11 February edition of Guardian Weekly

What’s driving Canada’s truck protests? Plus: a decade of Netflix

Wales Online

Covid briefing: Seven things you need to know as popular holiday destinations relax rules ahead of half-term

UK customers’ holiday bookings this summer are nearly a fifth higher than before the pandemic

Evening Standard

Canada truckers hit with arrests as police battle nearly two weeks of protests

Arrests have been made in Ottawa as police continue to battle protesting truckers after nearly two weeks of demonstrations over Covid mandates.

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