France

Ambassador of France to Canada, Kareen Rispal, is photographed at the Embassy of France in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

After opening its borders to Canadian tourists, France wants Canada to do the same

France lets Canadians who can prove they are fully vaccinated, or who submit a recent negative COVID-19 test and who attest to not having COVID-19 symptoms, to enter its territory.

 

France’s President Emmanuel Macron, meets French carmakers at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, July 12, 2021. President Emmanuel Macron is hosting a top-level virus security meeting Monday morning and then giving a televised speech Monday evening, the kind of solemn speech he’s given at each turning point in France’s virus epidemic.(AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)

French rush to get COVID vaccines after president warns of new rules for unvaccinated

Passes will be needed starting in August to enter restaurants, shopping malls, to get on trains and planes

 

In this photo provided by the Human Adaptation Institute on Saturday, April 24, 2021, a member of the team taking part in the “Deep Time” study explores the Lombrives Cave in Ussat les Bains, France. After 40 days in voluntary isolation, 15 people participating in a scientific experiment have emerged from a vast cave in southwestern France. Eight men and seven women lived in the dark, damp depths of the Lombrives cave in the Pyrenees to help researchers understand how people adapt to drastic changes in living conditions and environments. They had no clocks, no sunlight and no contact with the world above. (Human Adaptation Institute via AP)

Out of the cave: French isolation study ends after 40 days

The team members followed their biological clocks to know when to wake up, go to sleep and eat

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Trudeau Trudeau is speaking with French President Emmanuel Macron today after criticism in both Canada and France that he has not done enough to defend free expression in response to extremist violence there. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Trudeau slated to speak with Macron amid furor over his response to attacks in France

Conversation comes a week after three people were killed in a deadly knife assault in the city of Nice

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Trudeau Trudeau is speaking with French President Emmanuel Macron today after criticism in both Canada and France that he has not done enough to defend free expression in response to extremist violence there. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld