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December 12

Rookie Flynn impressive in NBA debut; Raptors beat Charlotte to open pre-season
Canada’s Gavin ‘Guv’nor’ Tucker wins third straight in UFC with decision on UFC 256 undercard
Chelsea beaten by Everton; Manchester derby stalemate: Premier League
Everton's Yerry Mina, right, and Everton's Michael Keane celebrate at the end of the English Premier League soccer match between Everton and Chelsea at Goodison Park in Liverpool, England, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. Everton won the match 1-0. (Peter Powell/Pool via AP)
Claude Castonguay set the foundation of Quebec’s medical insurance and pension systems
(QBC 101) QUEBEC, April 16 -- Former Quebec Health Minister Claude Castonguay explains his report on a drug-insurance program he presented Tuesday to the government as current Health Minister Jean Rochon, right, looks on. (CP PHOTO) 1996 (stf/Jacques Boissinot) jqb
Brazil government outlines plan for coronavirus vaccinations, with no start date
A medical worker treats a COVID-19 patient at the intensive care unit at the Oceanico hospital, in Niteroi, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. Cases of COVID-19 are rising again in the country with the world’s second-highest confirmed death toll and many hospitals are filling up with patients. (AP Photo/Lucas Dumphreys)
Shibuno hangs on for 1-shot lead at U.S. Women’s Open
Hinako Shibuno, of Japan, hits off the 16th tee during the third round of the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Pro-Trump protests decry president’s election loss, tensions rise in Washington
Fireworks go off in a group of Proud Boys as police try to keep them separate from counter protesters during a march in response to various pro-Trump rallies held throughout D.C., in Washington, U.S., December 12, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis
U.S. will start getting COVID-19 vaccine Monday, officials say
The Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant is shown in Portage, Mich., Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine won an endorsement Thursday, Dec. 10, from a Food and Drug Administration panel of outside advisers, and agency signoff is the next step needed to get the shots to the public. AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
‘I fear the lockdown is too late’: COVID-19 linked to another 17 deaths in Ontario
A masked woman walks past an art installation in Toronto on Friday, December 11, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
Recovery effort under way after construction accident killed two workers in London, Ont.
First responders survey the scene after a building under construction collapsed in London Ontario on Friday, December 11, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Geoff Robins
Coronavirus updates Dec. 12: New COVID-19 deaths total 86 across four provinces
A pedestrian wearing a mask walks under Christmas decorations in an empty downtown Calgary, Alta., Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, after new provincial restrictions were announced amid a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Western Canada: Federal climate announcement prompts condemnation on the Prairies
Canada's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson attends a news conference at the Dominion Arboretum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada December 11, 2020. REUTERS/Blair Gable
World leaders urged to declare states of ‘climate emergency’ by UN chief
(FILES) A file photo taken on November 12, 2019 shows residents defending a property from a bushfire at Hillsville near Taree, 350km north of Sydney. - An official inquiry into Australia's recent historic bushfire crisis on October 30, 2020 has warned climate-worsened disasters will become more frequent, more costly and more severe -- telling citizens they should ready for "compounding" overlapping crises. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
Michael Sabia answers Trudeau’s call, sees ‘important opportunity’ for Canada
FILE PHOTO: Michael Sabia, chief executive officer of Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, attends a Reuters Breakingviews forum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada January 10, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo
Both powerful and powerless, America’s 538 electors include a Maine high-schooler
David Shribman
AstraZeneca to buy U.S. drugmaker Alexion for $39-billion to expand in immunology
FILE PHOTO: An employee in personal protective equipment (PPE) removes vials of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from a visual inspection machine inside a lab at Serum Institute of India, in Pune, India, November 30, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo
Our favourite TV shows, albums, films and arts performances that got us through 2020, our least favourite year
Perry Mason, The Weeknd, Dolly Parton, Measha Brueggergosman, John Wilson, Tehran, Grounded, Mrs. America, Ted Lasso, Schitt’s Creek, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Ridge, Fiona Apple, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, I May Destroy You, After Life and Zachary D. Carter’s The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes gave us some of this year’s best content.
COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deep flaws in Canadian philanthropy, fragility of non-profits
Dr. Samantha Nutt of War Child Canada poses for a portrait in Toronto on Dec 10, 2020 for a story on how the pandemic is impacting their fundraising efforts this year
Rhesus monkeys, ‘pizza boxes,’ and armed robbery: Canada’s history shows that, when it comes to vaccination, details matter
DEMAND FOR POLIO SHOTS A CRAZY BINGE, LAB OFFICALS SAY -- Metro Toronto residents clamouring for polio vaccine at the city's emergency clinics are on a "crazy binge" a spokesperson for the country's major supplier of polio vaccine said today. The emergency vaccination clinics were set up after two cases of the disease in Ontario were confirmed last week. Two more cases are suspected. Jay Jones, left, and sister Lindsay look on while Dr. A.C. Henderson vaccinates their mother, Martha, at City of Toronto public health office, August 8, 1978. Photo by Jack Dobson / The Globe and Mail. Originally published August 9, 1978
Iran executes journalist found to have encouraged 2017 protests
In this June 2, 2020 photo, journalist Ruhollah Zam speaks during his trial at the Revolutionary Court, in Tehran, Iran. Iran. The judiciary spokesman, Gholamhossein Esmaili, announced Tuesday, June 30, 2020 that Zam, a journalist whose online work helped inspire the 2017 economic protests and who returned from exile to Tehran was sentenced to death. The Persian writing on the podium reads, "defendant's place." (Ali Shirband/Mizan News Agency via AP)
How Canada’s big companies are giving (or not) this year
How six charities, from Saskatoon to Montreal, have adapted to COVID-19’s chilling effects this winter
Isabella Internicola, a volunteer at the Parkdale Community Foodbank, packs food boxes on Dec. 9.
What we can learn from the victory over polio
Marcus Gee
Tech is rewiring education – and our children, too
Maddi Dale focuses on her remote French class in her bedroom in Lake Oswego, Ore., Oct. 30, 2020. In Oregon, one of only a handful of states that has required a partial or statewide closure of schools in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents in favor of their children returning to in-person learning have voiced their concerns and grievances using social media, petitions, letters to state officials, emotional testimonies at virtual school board meetings and on the steps of the state's Capitol. (AP Photo/Sara Cline)
Trust during a pandemic is hard to get and hard to earn
African American employee talk at briefing expressing point of view, multiracial millennial workers brainstorm in boardroom discussing project report, diverse colleagues negotiate at business meeting
If Canada can’t address its homelessness crisis in a deadly pandemic, then when?
Chrissy Brett is an organizer at the homeless encampment in Vancouver's Strathcona Park.
If your dealer is telling you they can’t repair your car, it might not be the whole story
Web version Lou's Garage advice column logo Driving section credit illustration by John Sopinski/The Globe and Mail
Dec. 12: ‘Healing the divisions that Donald Trump wrought.’ Readers root for Joe Biden’s presidency, plus other letters to the editor
FILE - President Donald Trump, left, remains on stage as then-Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, right, walks away Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. President Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 with hearings in federal and state lawsuits seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots and give the GOP-controlled Legislature the power to name Trump the winner. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)
Your daily horoscope: December 12
Sagittarius.
Mexico approves emergency use of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine
In this file photo taken on Dec. 8, 2020, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador listens to Mexico's deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell during his daily press conference at the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City.
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