Author: Cole Hanson

Queen Elizabeth II felt “overwhelmed” after contracting COVID in February, the 96-year-old revealed during a video conference where she spoke to British caregivers mobilized during the pandemic. • Read also: Affected by COVID, Marie Ellen Tibert will miss the Variété de Star Académie • Read also: Beijing criticizes the United States’ “accusations” of “Covid-19” in Shanghai Elizabeth II tested positive for COVID-19 in February and, according to Buckingham Palace, presented “mild symptoms”. Speaking on Wednesday, speaking to Asif Hussain, a former Covid patient, at the virtual opening ceremony of a care unit in his name at Britain’s Royal London Hospital,…

The traditional parties of the right and the left have already been suffering for years in France, and the first round of the presidential election on Sunday hammered a new nail in their coffin. • Read also: Presidency in France: Macron and Le Pen go to the second round • Read also: Macron-Le Pen: a view of the world in opposites • Read also: [EN DIRECT] The first round of the French presidential elections: Follow the developments According to the first estimates, Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo got a humiliating and unprecedented result, about 2%, or even less, and Republicans (on…

Gray weather and a long wait around the Palais des Congrès in Montreal did not stop the French from coming to vote on Saturday in the first round of the French presidential election. • Read also: Macron leads, narrow gap with Le Pen in the second round People have been present since seven in the morning, two hours before voting opens, to make sure the nightmare of the last (2017) presidential election is not revived. “We waited four hours five years ago, so we tell ourselves we’re still on time,” testified Mael Amselm, who had already been waiting for more…

A California woman had the misfortune of becoming a millionaire thanks to a “rude person” who pushed her and made her choose the scratch ticket she didn’t intend to buy. California state lottery officials said in a statement Wednesday that when making his decision, he came across a stranger and accidentally made him press the wrong number on the machine last November. “He just pushed me, didn’t say anything, and just walked out,” explained Laquedra Edwards. Furious at not being able to make the usual choice, the lady got back to her car and started scratching her $30 ticket. Then…

Today, Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian forces opened fire on a Ukrainian ship that was trying to evacuate the commanders of the Azov Battalion from the besieged city of Mariupol. • Read also: Canada provides an additional 100 million to Ukraine • Read also: Ukraine is “always ready” for talks with Russia • Read also: Moscow accuses YouTube of blocking the account of the Russian parliamentary channel “The Kyiv regime does not abandon attempts to evacuate the commanders of the Azov National Regiment and foreign mercenaries from Mariupol,” the ministry said in a statement. On Friday evening,…

Despite the expected increase in hospitalizations within two weeks, Public Health does not intend to extend the mandatory wearing of masks beyond May 1, unless the virus decides otherwise. • Read also: COVID-19: Symptoms persist with omicron lower than delta The Acting Director of Public Health, Dr.s Luc Poelho, providing an update on the pandemic, Friday. Listen to Benoit Dautrezac’s interview with Benoit Maureen, president of the Quebec-owned Association of Pharmacists on QUB Radio: “The weather can help too, so we don’t intend to continue with this in May,” he said. In the meantime, confirmed ds Boileau. He warned that…

The Russians are having great difficulty in assembling and supplying the forces needed to seize eastern Ukraine. Moscow is now recalling conscripts who have been discharged from military service since 2012 to undergo rapid training for deployment to combat units. They also speed up officer promotions. Russian and Belarusian forces carry out “demonstration operations” near the northern border in the hope of controlling Ukrainian forces around Kyiv. But new Russian offensive operations in the region are highly unlikely, and Ukrainian units around the capital continue to redeploy towards Donbass. Troop morale Ukrainian intelligence reported that Russian units withdrawing from northern…

Who are the candidates?The gap narrowed between the two candidates running for the first round on Sunday: outgoing President Emmanuel Macron, president of La République en Marche (center), and Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right National Rally party. According to opinion polls, Macron and Le Pen are on the way to victory over the other two candidates, which will allow them to cross swords in the second round – an opportunity to replay the duel in which the candidate of the Republic was knocked out. Winner in 2017. If Emmanuel Macron was criticized for entering the campaign late,…

With the number of hospital admissions continuing to rise daily, Public Health reminded during a press briefing Friday that people showing symptoms of COVID should remain in isolation, even if their rapid test result is negative. • Read also: An increase in hospitalization for another two weeks • Read also: Hospital cases continue to rise • Read also: New variant integrating BA.1 and BA.2 “We must continue to isolate ourselves as long as we have COVID symptoms” due to potential false negatives, explained microbiologist and clinical expert supporting the scientific management of the epidemic at the Ministry of Health, Jan…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will not have the expected effect on increasing the defense budget. The new amount totaling more than $8 billion over five years, which is included in the 2022 budget, represents a difference of just 0.1% compared to expenditures already planned for the 2026-2027 horizon. • Read also: The 2022 federal budget: shortfall but less wasteful • Read also: Here are 10 actions from Freeland’s 2022 budget In doing so, Canada is reducing its military budget from roughly 1.4% of its GDP to 1.5% by 2024, far from the 2% threshold recommended by NATO. Alongside this announcement,…