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Canada surpassed 500,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday as infections continued to surge while the vaccine rollout reached its final province.

MIRAMICHI, N.B. — New Brunswick started its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Saturday with the inoculation of an 84-year-old nursing home resident who said needles don't bother her in the least.

HILLSBURN, N.S. — The aerial search for five fishermen who were working on a scallop boat when it sank in the Bay of Fundy has been suspended until Sunday, and the ground search has been called off indefinitely.

OTTAWA — International Development Minister Karina Gould isn't running any victory laps despite ending 2020 by doing what so few of her political predecessors could — wrestling a sizable increase in Canadian foreign-aid spending.

OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh is being squeezed.

No winning ticket was sold for the $40 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Dec.

The largest mass immunization effort in Canadian history began Dec. 14 in Ontario and Quebec after the country received its first COVID-19 vaccine shipment over the weekend.

VICTORIA — Carole James says she was still deciding whether to run in British Columbia's provincial election earlier this year when a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease gave her the answer. It was last March, just days before B.C.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. There are 495,346 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 495,346 confirmed cases (75,695 active, 405,611 resolved, 14,040 deaths).

VANCOUVER — Lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou allege the United States' legal case against her violates common international law and the extradition proceedings against her should be stayed. In a notice of application filed with the B.C.