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WHITEHORSE — The migration of extinct mastodon herds to Yukon and Alaska during warm periods between ice ages could hold clues and warning signs for today's animals moving north during a warming climate, says a new research paper.

COVID-19 cases disrupted the reopening of two Alberta schools on Tuesday, but Premier Jason Kenney said his government has accepted that such infections are inevitable and don't warrant closing down all classrooms.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:24 p.m. EDT on Sept. 1, 2020: There are 129,425 confirmed cases in Canada.

OTTAWA — Federal New Democrats are citing recently released documents as proof that Youth Minister Bardish Chagger was the key driver in the Liberal government's decision to have WE Charity administer a multimillion-dollar student-volunteer program.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A pair of Snowbird jets took off from Kamloops, B.C., Tuesday, more than three months after a fatal crash near the city's airport. The jets were given approval last week to head to their home base in Moose Jaw, Sask.

VANCOUVER — Lance S.G. Finch, a former chief justice of British Columbia, has died at the age of 82. Chief Justice Robert J. Bauman says as a judicial leader, Finch was strong, steady and humble.

MONTREAL — A union representing 10,000 Quebec home daycare workers began the first of a series of rotating strikes Tuesday, leaving thousands of families to find alternate child-care arrangements.

OTTAWA — Canadians will need to roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated in large numbers to finally corral COVID-19 before life can return to a semblance of its pre-pandemic state, Canada's top public health officers said Tuesday.

FREDERICTON — A senior civil servant who had control of the former New Brunswick lieutenant-governor's finances is accused of siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds into his personal coffers between 2012 and 2019.

OTTAWA — The RCMP says it is addressing "lessons learned" from the force's handling of employee complaints about bullying by a senior director who now awaits trial on national-security charges.