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The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:11 p.m. EDT on Oct. 31, 2020: There are 234,511 confirmed cases in Canada.

Ontario and Quebec are both reporting more than one thousand new COVID-19 cases, while farther west in Manitoba, officials again reported hundreds of new cases as its capital city gets set for tighter restrictions.

A Canadian soldier died Saturday after being shot during a training exercise at a military base in Alberta.

The father of a Neo-Nazi turned renegade internet spammer whose body was identified this week -- years after it was found in a burnt-out vehicle -- said news of his son's death is not entirely unexpected.

HALIFAX — A group of Nova Scotia Indigenous leaders has levelled harassment allegations at the federal government over an ongoing moderate livelihood fishery dispute, accusing the department responsible for fisheries of planning to seize gear from lo

TORONTO — Canadian families mixed long-standing traditions with new, pandemic-ready rituals on Saturday as they tried to celebrate a festive occasion while keeping themselves and their children safe from the risks of COVID-19.

OTTAWA — On Thursday, privacy watchdogs revealed that five million images of shoppers' faces were collected without their consent at a dozen of Canada's most popular malls.

TORONTO — A ticket holder in Quebec won Friday night's $55 million Lotto Max jackpot. There were also five MaxMillion prizes of $1 million each up for grabs, and two of them were claimed by lottery players in Quebec and British Columbia. Another B.C.

VANCOUVER — A Canadian border officer says Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's phone passcodes were shared with the RCMP two years ago through a personal blunder, not a plot between law enforcement agencies to thwart privacy laws.

EDMONTON — Caribou herds in Canada's Rocky Mountains are now so precarious that Parks Canada is preparing a plan to round up females from nearly vanished herds and pen them in a captive breeding program to replenish others.