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Stocks were mixed in afternoon trading Monday as a fall in technology stocks was offset by a rise in banks and other financial stocks.
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Stocks trade mixed after hitting record highs last week

SpaceX will launch the “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon” in the first quarter of next year, with Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company accepting the meme-inspired cryptocurrency dogecoin as payment.
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SpaceX accepts dogecoin as payment to launch lunar mission next year

Canadian companies are trying to move the needle on COVID-19 vaccinations by offering discounts and freebies for customers that get jabbed.
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Companies entice vaccinated Canadians with freebies, discounts

Dubai’s long-haul carrier Emirates will begin shipping aid from the World Health Organization and other groups into India for free to help fight a crushing outbreak of the coronavirus, the airline said Sunday.
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Long-haul carrier Emirates to ship aid for free into India

Visitors to Romania’s forbidding Bran Castle, widely known as the inspiration for the lair of Dracula, are being jabbed with needles rather than vampiric fangs this weekend in a coronavirus vaccination drive.
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‘Dracula’s castle’ offers tourists COVID-19 shots

The owner of a restaurant in Field, B.C., said Albertans accounted for about 80 per cent of her customers last year.
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‘Why we survive’: B.C. boundary towns struggle without Albertans during pandemic

Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline has shut its entire network, which supplies fuel from U.S refiners on the Gulf Coast to the eastern and southern United States, after a cyberattack that industry sources said was caused by ransomware.
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Cyberattack shuts down top U.S. fuel pipeline network

The European Union cemented its support for Pfizer-BioNTech and its novel COVID-19 vaccine technology Saturday by agreeing to a massive contract extension for a potential 1.8 billion doses through 2023.
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EU agrees potential 1.8 billion-dose purchase of Pfizer jab

Amazon is pausing its Prime Day marketing event in Canada this year amid ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks at its facilities in Ontario’s Peel Region.
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Amazon pauses Prime Day event in Canada amid COVID-19 outbreaks at warehouses

An industry group is calling on Ottawa to follow the United Kingdom’s lead and help bring in a restart plan for Canada’s airline sector.
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Airline industry group wants Ottawa to follow U.K.’s lead, help bring in restart plan