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CALGARY 鈥?The father of a nine-year-old girl drugged and killed by her mother says no prison sentence will do his daughter justice.I will never get to watch my daughter grow up, but I know she would have done great in life, Duane Lucius said Friday as he clutched a photo of his daughter Amber.I have had to bury my child and nothing will bring her back. I can only hope that other children are not being used as bargaining chips in a divorce or used to hurt the other parent. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW His former wife, Laura Coward, was sentenced Friday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years after pleading guilty in a Calgary courtroom last month to second-degree murder.The life sentence was automatic, but it was up to Court of Queen Bench Justice Scott Brooker to decide how long she ;d have to wait before being able to seek parole.
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The United Kingdom has approved an antiviral pill that promises to reduce the risk of death in COVID-19 patients by half, shifting focus to advances in treatment options for the illness and raising questions about whether Canada will follow suit.The antiviral pill, molnupiravir, is produced by American pharmaceutical companies Merck Co. and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, and has been hailed as a game changer by British Health Secretary Sajid Navid. Clinical trials revealed the drug could reduce death or hospitalization due to COVID-19 by half.The pills approval in the U.K. comes at the heels of another significant advancement in COVID-19 treatment: On Friday, Pfizer said its own experimental pill 鈥?Paxlovid 鈥?reduces the risk of hospitalization or death by 89 per cent. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW
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