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OTTAWA — The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 7:50 p.m. B.C. health officials are reporting 446 new COVID-19 cases and nine deaths. They also reported a new health-care facility outbreak at Mount St.

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Navdeep Bains has announced he's stepping down from his role as innovation, science and industry minister and won't run again in the next election in the riding of Mississauga-Malton.

OTTAWA — Canada's new foreign minister says he will work with the incoming Biden administration in Washington to find ways to help two Canadian men imprisoned by China.

OTTAWA — Canada's biggest province declared a new state of emergency Tuesday and is invoking a stay-at-home order as COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm Ontario hospitals.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian blueberry farmers and embassy officials pushed back Tuesday against claims that U.S. producers are being driven out of business by cheap imports from north of the border.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut officials are urging residents to get immunized against COVID-19 as the vaccine starts to roll out across the territory. Chief public health officer, Dr.

MONTREAL — A Quebec restaurant is launching a class-action lawsuit against food delivery companies for the alleged exorbitant and abusive commissions they are charging during the pandemic.

TORONTO — Two Canadian nurses who spoke at an anti-lockdown rally in Washington, D.C., on the day of the deadly storming of the Capitol are under investigation by their regulatory body.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed a former Nunavut premier as the territory's next commissioner.

OTTAWA — The federal information watchdog is calling for the offices of the prime minister and other cabinet members to be included under the Access to Information Act.