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The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:34 p.m. ET on June 22, 2020: There are 101,637 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Chinese officials made clear in the days following the arrests of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor that their imprisonments were linked with Canada's having detained high-tech scion Meng Wanzhou days earli

Quebec Premier Francois Legault made major changes to his cabinet Monday, including replacing the province's health minister in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan government says it's disappointed the RCMP has declined to participate in a new measure aimed at preventing people from becoming victims of domestic violence.

BANFF, Alta. — American visitors attempting to use a loophole allowing them to travel through Canada on the way to Alaska ran into the long arm of the law in Banff National Park last week.

TORONTO — Ontario farmers who employ temporary foreign workers received a warning Monday from Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: Protect those workers from COVID-19 or face consequences.

OTTAWA — Canada's employment minister says federal officials are looking for ways to fill gaps in a key, but decades-old, safety net for unemployed workers to catch those left out from upcoming changes to pandemic-related aid.

Airlines faced a tough reception at the House of Commons health committee Monday as MPs grilled them on the lack of refunds for customers whose flights were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

OTTAWA — The federal government needs to do better at responding to formal information requests from the public, Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos acknowledged Monday.

OTTAWA — Iran has promised to hand over the flight recorders from the civilian airliner it shot down in January "without further delay" and begin compensation talks with the families of those killed in the incident, the federal government said Monday