(L-R) Molly, June and Olivia pose in front of their school, Westmount High, where vice-president Kamala Harris was taught and graduated in 1981 in Montreal, on January 20, 2021. - Students of a Montreal high school on January 20 were glued to a live broadcast in classrooms of former alumni Kamala Harris being sworn in as US vice president.
"I find it so crazy that a woman from this school, my own highschool went and became such a great woman, and now she is the vice president of the USA," student Brenda told AFP ahead of the inauguration and celebrations at the school to mark the event. (Photo by Bénédicte MILLAUD / AFP)
(L-R) Molly, June and Olivia pose in front of their school, Westmount High, where vice-president Kamala Harris was taught and graduated in 1981 in Montreal, on January 20, 2021. - Students of a Montreal high school on January 20 were glued to a live broadcast in classrooms of former alumni Kamala Harris being sworn in as US vice president.
"I find it so crazy that a woman from this school, my own highschool went and became such a great woman, and now she is the vice president of the USA," student Brenda told AFP ahead of the inauguration and celebrations at the school to mark the event. (Photo by Bénédicte MILLAUD / AFP)
FILE PHOTO: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File PhotoCanada on Wednesday announced a one-month extension of a ban on non-essential international travel into the country, stretching the restrictions until February 21.
Travellers allowed into Canada despite the ban, which has been in force since March, must still quarantine for 14 days.
Since the beginning of January, they have also had to test negative for Covid-19 before boarding a flight into the country.
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said in a Twitter message that these were “some of the strictest travel restrictions in the world.”
Ottawa and Washington, meanwhile, have a separate arrangement prohibiting non-essential travel between their two countries, which is also set to expire on February 21.
As of Wednesday, Canada had recorded more than 720,000 cases of Covid-19 and more than 18,000 deaths.
