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HALIFAX — Chilling details of a Nova Scotia couple's close encounter with a mass murderer have emerged from RCMP documents released this week, including a bizarre account of how the killer tried to conceal his identity.

OTTAWA — Five years after the first of them arrived in Canada, tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have had to adapt to COVID-19 lockdowns that brought back the memories of war horrors and upset the lives they had begun to rebuild. On Dec.

VANCOUVER — Sophia Gabiniewicz is well accustomed to dealing with stress as a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver.

MONTREAL — The merchant's association on Montreal's St-Laurent Boulevard says it has been the victim of a Christmas tree-stealing "Grinch.

TORONTO — Months after a group of Haudenosaunee people set up camp on a construction site near Caledonia, Ont., an provincial court granted Haldimand County an order permanently forbidding people from “interfering” with any public road.

OTTAWA — The United States is marking the second year of the imprisonment of two Canadians in China by calling for their immediate release.

OTTAWA — A government-commissioned report says the effect of COVID-19 on the number of homeless people in Canada won't be felt for three to five years, giving policy-makers a chance to prevent the pandemic from putting people on the street.

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kick-start your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 10 ... What we are watching in Canada ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Thursday Dec. 10, 2020. There are 435,330 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 435,330 confirmed cases (72,336 active, 350,011 resolved, 12,983 deaths).

OTTAWA — Canada's anti-money laundering agency is flagging some telltale signs that a financial transaction could be linked to online child sexual exploitation.