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REGINA — Allan Landrie died alone on the floor of a locked hospital washroom that nobody opened for more than three days.

WINNIPEG — Grand Chief Arlen Dumas shook his head in shock when he saw the line indicating new First Nations infections on a chart during the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs most recent COVID-19 meeting.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is looking at ways to pry open Canada's neglected national security vaults, possibly through creation of a centre to declassify historical documents, a newly released memo reveals.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:54 p.m. EDT on Oct. 30, 2020: There are 231,998 confirmed cases in Canada.

TISDALE, Sask. — The makeshift memorial of hockey sticks, jerseys, flowers and crosses is weathered and worn by time. The only thing vivid are the memories and the pain.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Members of the legislature in Nunavut have picked one of their colleagues to join cabinet after voting out a minister last week.

New federal projections suggest that Canadians need to cut a quarter of their contacts to keep the COVID-19 outbreak under control, as several provinces wrestle with how far their lockdown measures should go to reinforce that message.

OTTAWA — The COVID-19 pandemic hasn't stopped federal political parties from raking in millions of dollars in donations.

VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan has several spots to fill in his cabinet after losing seven ministers who didn't run again but winning a New Democrat majority in British Columbia gives him advantages when handing out jobs, political watchers say.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole took aim Friday at what he called financial elites, saying his own party needs to take inequality more seriously and to support ongoing emergency aid.