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First COVID-19 vaccine shipment lands in Canada

14 December 2020

Two Canada Border Services officers watch COVID-19 vaccines get unloaded from a UPS plane that delivered Canada's first shipments.

The first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines landed in Canada on Sunday night, coming via a UPS plane.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the arrival of vaccines in a tweet. It came on the same day as the vaccines started shipping from Pfizer in the U.S.

The first batch of doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada. pic.twitter.com/xSvwkRROKo

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) December 14, 2020

Canada is receiving around 30,000 doses of the...

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Canada, UK reach transitional trade agreement

21 November 2020

The government of Canada announced Saturday the conclusion of “successful” transitional trade talks with the U.K.

The press release said the two countries reached an interim deal, the Canada-United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement, as a placeholder for a more comprehensive trade agreement. The U.K.’s departure from the European Union and “by extension the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)” necessitated the change.

CETA no longer applies to the U.K. as of...

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Canada needs logistics help with 358M COVID-19 vaccine doses

26 October 2020

A truck and a COVID-19 vaccine vile to illustrate a story about the Canadian government seeking logistics providers to distribute COVID-19 vaccines.

The Canadian government is seeking logistics providers to distribute as many as 358 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, including one that has to be kept at minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit).

Details of the logistics effort emerged in a tender notice posted on behalf the Public Health Agency of Canada on Monday. It came as COVID-19 infection rates surge across the country of 38 million people.

The challenge of distributing those vaccines appears formidable. It will require...

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Canadian government signs option with AIS data provider

27 March 2019

The Canadian government has exercised an option for another year with its AIS data provider. ORBCOMM Inc. photo

ORBCOMM Inc., a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, announced that the government of Canada has exercised the option for another year on its contract through ORBCOMM’s Canadian partner Maerospace, a global supplier of automatic identification system (AIS) data and maritime domain awareness solutions.

Through its Canadian subsidiary, SkyWave, ORBCOMM will provide satellite AIS data used for ship tracking and other maritime navigational and safety...

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