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TORONTO — Canadian families mixed long-standing traditions with new, pandemic-ready rituals on Saturday as they tried to celebrate a festive occasion while keeping themselves and their children safe from the risks of COVID-19.

OTTAWA — On Thursday, privacy watchdogs revealed that five million images of shoppers' faces were collected without their consent at a dozen of Canada's most popular malls.

TORONTO — A ticket holder in Quebec won Friday night's $55 million Lotto Max jackpot. There were also five MaxMillion prizes of $1 million each up for grabs, and two of them were claimed by lottery players in Quebec and British Columbia. Another B.C.

VANCOUVER — A Canadian border officer says Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's phone passcodes were shared with the RCMP two years ago through a personal blunder, not a plot between law enforcement agencies to thwart privacy laws.

EDMONTON — Caribou herds in Canada's Rocky Mountains are now so precarious that Parks Canada is preparing a plan to round up females from nearly vanished herds and pen them in a captive breeding program to replenish others.

VANCOUVER — The inquiry into money laundering has heard British Columbia's largest casino didn't always comply with reporting requirements on large cash buy-ins as suspicious transactions became increasingly common a decade ago.

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at ways to pry open Canada's neglected national security vaults, possibly through creation of a centre to declassify historical documents, a newly released memo reveals.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.