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Twitter will label tweets with “misleading” information about COVID-19 vaccines and ban accounts that repeatedly break its rules.
VIZIO Holding Corp. ("VIZIO") today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The number of shares to be offered by VIZIO and certain selling stockholders and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. VIZIO intends to list its Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "VZIO."
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The New York City mayor also suggested the governor should resign if the allegations prove to be true.
WASHINGTON — Everything was going to be okay. That was the message President Trump had on February 23, 2020, as Americans were beginning to learn about a novel pathogen that had originated in China and was now moving through Europe and other parts of Asia.
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MONTREAL — Quebec’s mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 began in earnest in the Montreal area Monday with long lines and grumbling from some seniors upset at the wait times to get a first injection. Hundreds of people, many holding walkers or in wheelchairs, waited in lines inside Montreal's Olympic Stadium; some were discouraged, others were angry. "It's a catastrophe," Jean-Yves Plourde, 75, said moments after being vaccinated against the virus that has killed more than 10,000 people in the province, mostly seniors. Plourde said his appointment was for 11:45 a.m. but he wasn't vaccinated until 1:20 p.m. "For the elderly, it seems to me that this is not a nice way to act," he said. Another man in line nearby commented: "This is badly organized." Others were visibly relieved after they had received a shot. "I will be able to get out of the house and see my grandchildren," said a delighted Pasqualina Mancini, 72. The province announced last week it was booking appointments for seniors aged 85 and up across the province, or 80 and above in Montreal. But by Monday morning, public health officials announced they were widening eligibility to those 70 and older in Montreal, Laval and the Cote-Nord region, while the age limit was lowered to 80 in three other regions, including Quebec City. At the Olympic Stadium, some of those awaiting shots were in line close together, not respecting physical distancing rules. Folding chairs had been set up along the queue, and motorized shuttles transported some seniors around. The operation has the capacity to vaccinate 3,000 people a day, Julie Provencher, a spokeswoman with the regional health authority, said in an interview. She asked people not to be too harsh because it was the first day. She also asked people not to arrive too early for their appointment to avoid creating long lines. Provencher said given the size of the operation, things were going relatively smoothly. "For the first day of the biggest mass vaccination in the history of humanity, I think it's going OK," she said. "People are happy when they get out; it's clear there is a delay." The campaign began as health officials on Monday reported the lowest number of new, daily infections since September: 613 COVID-19 cases. Officials reported six more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including one that occurred within the previous 24 hours. Hospitalizations rose by 11, to 612, and 122 people were in intensive care, a rise of five. As of Monday morning, 200,000 appointments had been booked, Health Minister Christian Dube said on Twitter. Quebec began accepting appointments last Thursday. Quebec expects to receive 100,620 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine this week, with no deliveries of the Moderna vaccine scheduled. The Health Department said 6,308 doses of vaccine were administered Sunday, bringing the total so far to 438,815. Some regions started vaccinating members of the general population late last week, but the campaign is expected to speed up considerably with the opening of mass vaccine clinics in the Montreal area. Outlying regions are expected to ramp up vaccinations after the March break holiday, which takes place this week. Quebec has so far concentrated its vaccination effort on health-care workers, people living in remote regions and seniors in facilities such as long-term care and private care residences. The province has chosen to delay giving second doses in favour of administering a first jab to as many people as possible, but Dube said last week it will provide second doses beginning March 15. This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 1, 2021. ——— This story was produced with the financial assistance of the Facebook and Canadian Press News Fellowship. Stephanie Marin and Jacob Serebrin, The Canadian Press
Warren's Ultra-Millionaire Tax would impose a 2% annual tax on net worth of households and trusts between $50 million and $1 billion.
Kneehill County declined a ratepayer’s request for help accessing his farmland and instead encouraged the property owner to speak to a certain neighbour about access. The decision was made after a delegation at the Feb. 23 regular meeting of council. The meeting was streamed on the county’s YouTube channel to meet pandemic rules. Don Ferguson requested time to speak in-person to Kneehill County council, submitted a written request and brought some maps of the situation with him. “...would like council to provide access to two quarters farmland,” stated the written request form in council’s agenda. “SW19-29-22W4 and NW18-29-22W4. Don is willing to pay all expenses of achieving this. Could be done by forced road or just an easement on title, will bring handouts.” Ferguson stated his family farms that land under the name F-5 Corp. “We farm it all, no problem,” said Ferguson. He explained that when he purchased the parcels in question he was told an easement existed on an adjacent parcel for access to said property and assumed that was correct. Ferguson stated he found out about a year later it wasn’t correct, and no such easement existed. He explained the neighbour to the north gave him permission to enter to access property, but turned down the easement idea. He further explained he now has three interested buyers for the property in question, but they’ve all stated they insist on access guaranteed on the title. Ferguson stated small access roads aren’t unusual in the county and all he needs is just a right-of-way easement and added that he’d prefer to come in from the east where the county already has a quality approach. “I’m willing to pay all costs of that easement,” said Ferguson. He added that he has not approached his neighbour to the east and though he’s willing to negotiate with his neighbour he’s not optimistic he’ll get permission. Some hours later in the meeting councillors debated the request. Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Mike Haugen noted the county has authority to acquire land but goes to great lengths to avoid ever using that authority. Haugen stated Ferguson has the option of approaching his neighbour to the east and if the county got involved in this situation it would appear the county was acting on Ferguson’s behalf. Coun. Ken King stated he thought Ferguson should talk to his neighbour to the east. Reeve Jerry Wittstock agreed, saying, “You gotta start someplace and I think that would be a good place to start.” Councillors simply accepted Ferguson’s request as information. Stu Salkeld, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, East Central Alberta Review
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is be investigated by the state’s attorney general for alleged sexual harassment. The investigation was announced by Letitia James who said that she will make public a report into her findings when the probe is complete. The Democratic governor is facing allegations of sexual harassment from two former female aides in his office, which he says he thought was “playful” banter.
President Joe Biden said workers in Alabama and across the country have the right to join a union without intimidation from their companies. In a two-minute video posted to Twitter, Biden didn’t mention Amazon by name, or say how workers should vote, but he stressed that they should be given a choice. At the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse, Amazon has been holding classes, telling workers that the union will take their money for dues without any benefit.
The Milwaukee Brewers’ big trade from the fall of 2019 certainly didn’t work out in the short term. They’re still hopeful it will help them over the long run. The Brewers acquired infielder Luis Urías and left-handed pitcher Eric Lauer from San Diego in a November 2019 trade that sent outfielder Trent Grisham and pitcher Zach Davies to the Padres. Urías and Lauer struggled in 2020 while Grisham and Davies flourished. But a new season represents a fresh start for both Urías and Lauer. The Brewers are giving the 23-year-old Urías a chance to win their starting shortstop job. If Urías (prounounced oo-REE-us) has a solid season as a full-time player, it could lead to some reassessments of a trade that seemed lopsided in San Diego’s favour last fall. Urías says he isn’t putting any extra pressure on himself to prove the Brewers made the right move in acquiring him. But he understands what’s at stake. “Obviously I want to prove something, that I can really play,” Urías said Monday from the Brewers’ training camp in Phoenix. “But that’s more for myself, you know? I’m always trying to get better, trying to be a better teammate, a better player and it’s more like a goal for me. I don’t feel a lot of pressure.” Urías played eight games at shortstop last season but was at third base and second more often. Orlando Arcia has been the Brewers’ regular shortstop the past three seasons. “You know, I’m confident in knowing Orlando’s abilities at shortstop, so we’re going to take a look at Luis at shortstop this spring because we need to see it,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said at the start of camp. “So that ends up meaning Orlando is going to see some time at third base this spring. We haven’t made any decisions on how that’s going to play out during the year.” Urías is simply happy he gets a full spring training to prepare for this season. Last year, Urías underwent surgery on his left wrist in January and spent spring training recovering. He had injured the wrist while playing winter ball. For much of the preseason summer camp, Urías was in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19, though he was asymptomatic. Lauer dealt with an injured left shoulder in spring training and was limited in summer camp due to a close contact with someone who had tested positive. Urías returned and batted .239 with a .308 on-base percentage, zero homers and 11 RBIs in 41 games. Lauer, who had gone 14-17 with a 4.40 ERA while making 52 starts for San Diego from 2018-19, was 0-2 with a 13.09 ERA in four games with Milwaukee last season. “It was kind of frustrating because last year was my first year coming to the Brewers, and obviously I wanted to make my best impression to the fans and to the team,” Urías said. “But that’s not an excuse.” Their struggles were notable in a year when the Padres got big contributions from their acquisitions. Grisham was a Gold Glove centre fielder with an .808 OPS last season. Davies went 7-4 with a 2.73 ERA before getting sent to the Chicago Cubs last December as part of the trade in which the Padres acquired 2020 NL Cy Young runner-up Yu Darvish. But there’s still time for Urías and Lauer to make an impact. Lauer, 25, started the Brewers’ exhibition opener Sunday and says he’s feeling better. “It feels so much better to be back to full health and feeling good and feeling like I can go back out and prove what I was supposed to do last year,” Lauer said. “What I did early in spring last year, before the shoulder stuff happened, I essentially showed what kind of guy I was going to be for the team. That’s who I plan on being this year.” Urías is taking a similar approach. After enduring so much adversity off the field last year, he’s eager to show what he can do on the field. “The things that happened in 2020 are not an excuse,” Urías said. “I can do a lot better, and hopefully this year everything comes back to normal and hopefully I’ll be able to do what I can.” Notes: The Brewers plan to induct former outfielder Carlos Gomez and pitchers Yovani Gallardo and Francisco Rodriguez into the team’s wall of honour. The team also announced that Gomez, who last played in 2019 with the New York Mets, will retire as a member of the Brewers at a ceremony to be announced later. … Pitching prospect Dylan File had elbow surgery last month. He’s expected to miss 3 1/2 to four months from the date of Feb. 4 operation. ___ Follow Steve Megargee at https://twitter.com/stevemegargee ___ More AP MLB coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB Steve Megargee, The Associated Press
Wall Street analyst sees EVs growing into a $5 trillion industry in 10 years, which could be great news for miners of lithium and the rare earths.
Starting in March, the HGreg Group’s 30 North American stores in Canada and the United States, will accept cryptocurrency payments for the purchase of new and pre-owned vehicles.
MILAN — Fashion is off the hamster wheel, taking a deep breath that is allowing some freshness to seep into the once relentless cycle. “It is so weird thinking about fashion, and the kind of hamster wheel of fashion, and how we never had a break and always complained about it,’’ Marc Jacobs said during a Milan Fashion Week video chat with Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons post-digital show. “And then you get a break, and you complain.” Instead, he said, he was taking the moment to watch others, and be inspired. Milan Fashion Week of mostly womenswear previews for next fall and winter wrapped a nearly all-digital edition on Monday. Only one designer — Daniel Del Core, marking his brand's debut — held a live runway show for a small number of guests. While the bustle of live shows with the parade of itinerant fashionistas decamping from New York to London, Milan and finally Paris was missed, designers also were stimulated by the slower pace of the pandemic-era fashion cycle. Austrian designer Arthur Arbesser shrank his collection to just 25 looks, which he presented in visits to his Milan studio and video calls, opting out of a digital runway show. For the creations, he upcycled textiles from previous collections that had been stashed in a studio cubbyhole. The designer revitalized them either by printing a new design on the other side, in the case of a pretty pleated skirt, or printing over the original with a different pattern, in the case of a black architectural detailing over a striped cotton. Arbesser said the enforced quiet of the COVID-19-era restrictions, along with the necessity of saving money, pushed other creative forces to the fore. He and his team created a patchwork mini-dress out of cotton, silk and technical nylon, and they experimented with Shibori hand-dying for a wool mini skirt. The collection bears Arbesser’s love of prints, this season’s inspired by an actual painter’s palette that he picked up at a flea market, which he mashes up with geometrical patterns and materials that range from soft silk jersey to wool to knits. “I felt it was important to keep writing this story, my little story, keep adding chapters,’’ Arbesser said of his 8-year-old brand. “I am happy that even doing something so reduced, so little, while at the same time producing quality, you can still be seen, you can actually sell your production.” Global masters Dolce&Gabbana took a technological leap forward with a no-holds-barred, youth-inspired collection featuring technical textiles in bold hues intermingled with hologram finishes, metallic glimmers and even multi-colored Styrofoam beads, for a feast of colorful confections. The 140 looks included some reinterpretations of Domenico Dolce and Stefan Gabbana’s iconic pieces — including Madonna’s bejeweled bodysuit and corsets worn by dancers in Prince’s “Cream” video — from the early days when Dolce&Gabbana helped define the bold sexiness of the 1990s. The result was a mix of Dolce&Gabbana’s trademark tailoring, often under strands of layered pearls and gold, alongside more futuristic elements that bely our new protective bearing: elaborate eye shields, plastic sneaker coverings and transparent slickers. Underlining this leap forward, a humanoid robot developed by the Italian Institute of Technology acted as master of ceremonies for the digital runway show. “The collection is a tribute to this generation that asks us about the 1990s,” Dolce said during an in-person presentation of the looks at the designers' showroom. The designers said the younger generation’s idea of sexy is much freer of preconceived notions than in the past, meaning men can wear lace T-shirts without a second thought. “It has nothing to do with sexuality,’’ Gabbana said. “It is almost a euphemism; it’s about pleasing themselves.” Giorgio Armani staged separate digital men's and women's collections in his own theatre both around a replica of a gorilla statue dubbed Uri that has been part of his personal home decor for decades. This green version of Uri evoked the designer's support of wildlife preservation, but also echoed the collections' ties to the natural world. Prints and designs that can be interpreted as leaves, or water lilies, or simple sea creatures, provided the motif for elegantly relaxed looks. The fashion world also paid tribute to creative colleagues in the theatre, which have been mostly empty in Italy since the start of the pandemic. Pierpaolo Piccioli staged the Valentino Fall/Winter 2020/21 collection live to empty seats in Milan’s Piccolo Theater, while the singer Cosima hauntingly intoned Sinead O’Conner’s lyrics: “It’s been so lonely without you here.” The Valentino collection was a sombre affair, fitting the moment. It featured tailored jackets that have been reconstructed into capes, layered with pointy-collared white shirts, skin-fitting tops with seemingly hand-cut holes. For women, there was a movement in flouncy miniskirts peeking out of jacket hems, while feminine flourishes like ruffles on shirts were employed with discipline. Accessories featured studded bags and boots. Milan designer Francesca Liberatore had planned an extravagant show in a Milan theatre with holographic effects, but decided against it in solidarity with theatre creatives who can't occupy that space. “I had the moral problem. How could I do a show in a theatre at this moment when artists themselves cannot recite in this place?” Liberatore said by phone. Instead, her virtual show featured an actor on an empty stage, and two-dimensional models, like paper dolls, in creations including reinvented trenches in camouflage, representing the state of siege society is living under in the pandemic. Colleen Barry, The Associated Press
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Shares in Brazilian banks were down in late afternoon trading on Monday as media reported the government will raise taxes on banks as a way to compensate for tax exemptions for fuel. According to O Globo newspaper, the government will raise one of the taxes paid by banks, a contribution over net income, from 20% to 23%. The government is also planning to end some tax exemptions for vehicles and petrochemical products, the newspaper said.
Sunday’s 78th Golden Globe Awards, the HFPA’s first-ever bicoastal and virtual show, was hosted by longtime collaborators Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who had previously hosted the event consecutively from 2013 to 2015. Not even these fan-favorite female powerhouses, however, could save the socially distanced soirée from soured ratings. Last night’s three-hour awards broadcast drew a mere 5.4 […]