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OTTAWA — The federal minister in charge of regional economic development says more needs to be done to help companies in the centre of Canada's biggest cities so they can stay open through and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on June 16 will grow to 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.

VANCOUVER — Clinicians and epidemiologists don't yet know much about COVID-19 and pregnancy, says the leader of a newly formed national network that's aiming to fill in those gaps.

MIRAMICHI, N.B. — Quebec's police watchdog says it has been called in to investigate a report of an RCMP-involved fatal shooting of a man in New Brunswick.

OTTAWA — Grain farmers are adamant that Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau was wrong when she said this week grain farmers were, at most, paying $819 a year in carbon tax to dry their products, so they don't need a break on the federal carbon t

VANCOUVER — Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou allege Canada's national spy agency was in on a plan for border officers to detain the Huawei executive for hours before her arrest and was mindful of the case's political implications.

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:01 p.m. on June 12, 2020: There are 97,943 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

While politicians demanded answers Friday after watching video of the violent arrest of a prominent northern Alberta First Nations chief, the province's top Mountie walked back his suggestion that the RCMP has no systemic racism.

CALGARY — Restaurateur Leslie Echino laughs at the notion that even as Alberta lifts many more COVID-19 restrictions her business could return to anywhere close to normal.