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MONTREAL — Three years ago, Warda Lacoste was at the centre of a fight against Quebec's attempt to ban religious face coverings for people who were giving or receiving public services.

OTTAWA — It wasn't the phone call Robert Nordlund's family had been expecting but one that dozens of other families across the country receive each year: Veterans Affairs Canada was tossing the deceased Mountie's application for disability benefits b

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the 10 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on May 19 will be approximately $15 million. The Canadian Press

Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19.

For months, their contents have sat locked up in the stale hallway air in schools across the country.

VANCOUVER — A rising death toll from overdoses in B.C. during the COVID-19 pandemic has advocates, government officials and health-care workers concerned about a public health emergency that has been overshadowed by the response to the virus.

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:08 p.m. ET on May 15, 2020: There are 74,613 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 6:50 p.m. The B.C. government has announced five more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the province's death toll to 140.

OTTAWA — An all-party committee is recommending the House of Commons hold additional virtual sittings to conduct all its regular business — including voting — during the COVID-19 pandemic.

OTTAWA — Outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer chuckled Friday when asked if he wishes he had done anything differently during his time at the party's helm. "Well, clearly," he said.