Thanksgiving is also the most important holiday among our neighbors to the south, which begins with the start of the shopping season with the famous “Black Friday”.
There is also an even greater amount of travel across the entire country as part of these festivities.
Thanksgiving is happening in a context where a new variant of COVID-19 is emerging from southern Africa, the Omicron variant.
According to Valérie Beaudoin, our columnist on American politics, the United States must contribute more widely to the global distribution of vaccine doses, while the less fortunate countries have anemic vaccination rates against the coronavirus.
We also discuss the issue of a potential diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games this winter.
And it ends with a series of robberies in luxury stores in the United States where groups of more than 80 people wreak havoc in stores in at most one minute. A phenomenon that is growing in several American states.
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