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The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:30 p.m. Alberta has set a new record for its number of new COVID-19 cases for the third straight day.

OTTAWA — Canada and Britain struck a new trade deal on Saturday, allowing the long-standing partners to trumpet a commercial triumph in the face of the economic devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. The interim deal beat the looming Dec.

IQALUIT — It has been just over two weeks since Nunavut declared its first case of COVID-19, but it's still unknown how 109 people were infected so quickly in the territory. Nunavut is home to about 39,000 people.

MONTREAL — Perennial anxieties around the state of the French language in Quebec have boiled over in the past week, with politicians seizing on a Liberal legislator's initial brush-off of the issue as evidence of indifference to a crisis.

HALIFAX — A teenaged girl who set out with her grandmother and mother last spring on a 1,800-kilometre RV trip to seek her new lungs has received the life-changing operation in an era of COVID-related delays.

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for Friday night's $43.9 million Lotto Max jackpot. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Nov.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's effort to try and bring rivals onside to help communicate the dramatic implications of rising COVID-19 infections appears to have faltered.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's effort to try and bring rivals onside to help communicate the dramatic implications of rising COVID-19 infections appears to have faltered.

VANCOUVER — The border officer who led Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's immigration exam before her arrest at Vancouver's airport says he doesn't believe RCMP asked him to collect the passcodes to her phones.

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 7:55 p.m. Yukon has recorded three new cases of COVID-19, bringing the territory's total to 29. Chief medical officer of health Dr.