COVID-19 leads Thunder Bay s top stories of 2020
The coronavirus changed life in Thunder Bay, but a pair of trials also drew nationwide interest this past year.
Jan 1, 2021 11:36 AM By: Leith Dunick
THUNDER BAY –There’s no question 2020 will go down in infamy. It was a tumultuous year, to say the least.
A pandemic swept the world, killing more than 1.8 million people around the world. The killing of George Floyd brought Black Lives Matter to the global forefront, with protests spilling into the streets of Minneapolis and across the planet.
Wildfires threatened to destroy Australia, heightening the climate change concern, and the U.S. election, pitting incumbent Republican Donald Trump against lifetime politician Joe Biden of the Democrats, is still be contested by Trump, despite losing by seven million votes.