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Canada Day has come and gone, but that’s no reason to stop showing your patriotism. Upgrading your red-and-white gear—and ditching the face paint—might be a good …

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Sudan Archives at National Stage 4, 6:15 p.m. There’s layers to Brittney Parks, the 23-year-old violinist/vocalist behind the Sudan Archives. Her style is layered: the Cincinatti-born, …

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Get your Folk feet wet with a two-stage schedule of music. The War & Treaty at Mainstage, 5:30 p.m. The husband-wife duo of Tanya Blount Trotter …

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Carmelo Torres y Su Cumbia Sabanera at Enmax Stage 6, 12:50 p.m. Torres is a master of the Colombian dance music cumbia. He was born and …

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Hannah Epperson at Field Law Stage 3, 11:55 a.m. The B.C.-raised, New York-based Epperson draws inspiration from Bjork for her looping experimental folk. “She’s been the …

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Alberta plans to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to about 15,000 workers at meat-packing plants across the province starting this week, according to provincial Health Minister Tyler Shandro.Cargill’s meat-processing facility in High River, Alta., is seen on Jan. 8, 2021. Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro said Monday that COVID-19 vaccinations for essential workers at the plant that…

Vaccine shortages at Toronto pop-up clinics are leaving many residents in the city’s hot-spot postal codes unable to secure a COVID-19 vaccine and disheartened by their prospects at getting one.A pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic at John McCrae Public School in Scarborough turned away numerous residents in the hot-spot neighbourhood on Saturday due to lack of vaccine supply. (CBC)Vaccine shortages at…