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Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.
A planned boycott of Loblaw stores is gaining momentum. Potentially thousands of customers could dodge the grocer in May if posts online are to be believed.
'Don't want to struggle anymore': Grocery shoppers plan Loblaw boycott in May https://t.co/B4p9jL6viO pic.twitter.com/1gPa6nQf4s
— National Post (@nationalpost) April 29, 2024
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has landed in China ahead of reports he is planning to discuss the activation of self-driving in the communist country. Tesla, whose biggest market is China, wants to use data from the autonomous driving feature of its cars to help train its algorithm.
Elon Musk in China to discuss enabling full self driving https://t.co/Q0cLoXxESr
— BBC News Technology (@BBCTech) April 29, 2024
Norovirus is spreading at a "higher frequency" than expected across Canada, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. Cases of the vomit-inducing virus are up in 2024 compared with the five-year average.
Norovirus spreading at 'higher frequency' than expected in Canadahttps://t.co/64iOkyZfQ8
— CP24 (@CP24) April 29, 2024
A cat has survived after being accidentally mailed hundreds of kilometres across the US. Galeana disappeared from her home in Utah earlier this month before popping up at an Amazon warehouse in California a week later.
A Utah couple's shy cat suddenly disappeared.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 28, 2024
Then she was found in an Amazon warehouse all the way in California. https://t.co/6zOw7lQdWt
Several people, including a four-month-old baby, have been killed after dozens of tornadoes ripped through the central US. Oklahoma was the worst-hit state, but Iowa, Texas, Nebraska and Missouri were also affected.
Catastrophic damage in Sulphur, Oklahoma, after an overnight tornado. #OKwx pic.twitter.com/Pq8LmRUSCC
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) April 28, 2024