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First COVID-19 vaccine shipments arrive in Canada, more en route

MONTREAL — The first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada.

Dec 13, 2020 6:13 PM Read more >

Man accused of trying to bring millions of smokes from Quebec into Manitoba

A Manitoba man faces charges after authorities there and in Ontario allege he was caught with millions of illegal cigarettes. The Manitoba government says the 44-year-old was stopped and arrested by Ontario Provincial Police on Nov.

Dec 13, 2020 6:11 PM Read more >

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Sunday Dec. 13, 2020. There are 460,743 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 460,743 confirmed cases (74,059 active, 373,253 resolved, 13,431 deaths).

Dec 13, 2020 4:34 PM Read more >

Quebec Police cancel Amber Alert after two young girls are found safe

TERREBONNE, Que. — Quebec police have cancelled an Amber Alert, saying two girls who were missing from the Terrebonne area have been found safe. Police lifted the alert shortly before 7 p.m. -- four hours after they were reportedly last seen.

Dec 13, 2020 3:57 PM Read more >

Former Liberal cabinet minister Alfonso Gagliano dies

OTTAWA — Alfonso Gagliano, a former Liberal cabinet minister who played a key role in the sponsorship scandal of the early 2000s, has died. He was 78. His daughter Imma Gagliano confirmed his death, which occurred Saturday.

Dec 13, 2020 3:02 PM Read more >

Former PM Brian Mulroney recovering after emergency surgery

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is recovering after undergoing an emergency surgery on Friday. A family spokesman says the "urgent procedure" was a "complete success" and Mulroney was released from hospital this afternoon. Mulroney is 81.

Dec 13, 2020 2:59 PM Read more >

Researchers aim to use artificial intelligence to save endangered whales in B.C.

VANCOUVER — Researchers are aiming to "teach" a computer to recognize the sounds of resident killer whales in order to develop a warning system for preventing ships from fatally striking endangered orcas off British Columbia's coast.

Dec 13, 2020 1:21 PM Read more >

Some older Canadians opt to take their chances, winter in Florida despite pandemic

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Now that they're safely back in Florida, Rose and Perry Cohen are looking forward to one of the joys of retirement: an extended lunch with friends. Extended, at least, in the 2020 sense of the word.

Dec 13, 2020 4:05 AM Read more >

Twenty-five years after Rwanda, where is Canada on peacekeeping?

OTTAWA — When now-retired major-general Guy Tousignant handed over command of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda 1995, Canada had been involved in virtually every UN mission over the previous four-plus decades.

Dec 13, 2020 4:00 AM Read more >

No winning ticket for Saturday night's $21 million Lotto 649 jackpot

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $21 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a lottery player in Ontario. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Dec.

Dec 13, 2020 1:55 AM Read more >