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17/04/21
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Colleen Fuller
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17/04/21
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Derrick O'Keefe
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APRIL 14, 2021

New CCPA report quantifies the pandemic profits of the ultra-rich and recommends an array of new tax measures

As the third wave of COVID-19 hits Canada’s most populous provinces, a new study shows the staggering size of the tsunami of cash that has poured into the pockets of the country’s wealthiest people during this pandemic.

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17/04/21
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Jason Wilson
Kyle Rittenhouse in Waukegan, Illinois, on 30 October 2020. Rittenhouse stands accused of murdering two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last August. Photograph: Reuters

16 Apr 2021

Officers and officials also donated to fundraisers for far-right activists and fellow officers accused of shooting black Americans

A data breach at a Christian crowdfunding website has revealed that serving police officers and public officials have donated money to fundraisers for accused vigilante murderers, far-right activists, and fellow officers accused of shooting black Americans.

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17/04/21
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Jeff Gray Queen's Park Reporter, Laura Stone Queen's Park Reporter, Nathan Denette/The Canadian PressS

APRIL 16, 2021

Ontario is setting up checkpoints at its land boundaries and enhancing police powers to enforce its stay-at-home order as modelling warns that new COVID-19 infections could rise to more than 10,000 a day.

But the series of additional measures unveiled by Premier Doug Ford on Friday were roundly criticized by medical experts and opposition politicians, who expressed concern that police would abuse their new powers.

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16/04/21
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Jorge Martín
Wide layers of workers and peasants in Peru, through Castillo's candidacy, are seeking solutions to the hardships that they face / Image: Vladimir Cerrón

13 April 2021

On Sunday 11 April, the first round of the presidential elections in Peru produced a major surprise: the victory, against all the odds, of Pedro Castillo, the leader of the 2017 teachers' strike. In the second round, he will face the reactionary, right-wing candidate of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, in a clear expression of enormous political polarisation in a country ravaged by the economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.

16/04/21
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Michael Safi
Staff train at Oxford Biomedica during production of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. Researchers looked at the source of hundreds of millions of pounds of research grants from 2000 onwards that underpinned work on the vaccine. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

15 Apr 2021

Analysis rebuts claim by Boris Johnson that jab was developed ‘because of greed’

At least 97% of the funding for the development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been identified as coming from taxpayers or charitable trusts, according to the first attempt to reconstruct who paid for the decades of research that led to the lifesaving formulation.

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