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OTTAWA — Family and friends of Jack Layton are launching the "Layton Legacy" project to mark the federal NDP leader's untimely death 10 years ago.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday June 15, 2021. There are 1,403,285 confirmed cases in Canada. Canada: 1,403,285 confirmed cases (15,954 active, 1,361,387 resolved, 25,944 deaths).

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WHITEHORSE — Researchers say they've discovered castoreum, a secretion beavers use to mark their territory, in a 6,000-year-old throwing dart in the Yukon.

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Monday June 14, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 446,458 new vaccinations administered for a total of 29,454,614 doses given.

Documents related to the firing of two scientists from the high-security laboratory in Winnipeg, and the transfer of viruses to a research facility in Wuhan are too sensitive to hand over to the special committee on Canada-China relations, Health Min

OTTAWA — A new study in England suggests even just one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines are extremely good at keeping people from ending up in the hospital if they contract COVID-19 from the Delta variant of the virus that

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 9:00 p.m. ET on Monday June 14, 2021. There are 1,403,285 confirmed cases in Canada. Canada: 1,403,285 confirmed cases (15,954 active, 1,361,387 resolved, 25,944 deaths).

OTTAWA — Canada's promise to donate almost 13 million vaccine doses to the global vaccine sharing alliance known as COVAX includes none of the 251 million doses of vaccine Canada bought directly from drug companies.

OTTAWA — Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin is asking for a judicial review of the decision to remove him as head of Canada's vaccine logistics, alleging political interference by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and two of his cabinet ministers.