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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 12 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.

TORONTO — The economic brutality of Canada's anti-pandemic measures was highlighted on Friday with the latest figures showing almost two million people lost their jobs in April on top of the one million in March as COVID-19 cases and deaths climbed a

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:17 p.m. on May 8, 2020: There are 66,434 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 8 p.m. B.C.'s provincial health officer and health minister say the best thing people can do for their mother this Mother's Day weekend is to celebrate at a safe distance.

VANCOUVER — T.J. Lovell had just 30 minutes to pack up his belongings from the tent city in Oppenheimer Park if he wanted access to a hotel room that he could share with his father.

OTTAWA — The federal government has suspended shipments of N95 respirators from a Montreal-based supplier after about eight million of the masks made in China failed to meet specifications.

VANCOUVER — Expanded protections for endangered southern resident killer whales off British Columbia's coast focus on contaminants, noise, physical disturbances and accessibility of chinook salmon, the orca's primary prey.

OTTAWA — First Nations, Inuit and Metis leaders are raising concern about a growing number of outbreaks of COVID-19 in Indigenous communities and say it's getting harder to find the money and supplies to deal with them.

WASHINGTON — In the shark-infested seas of the world's new normal, Canada and the United States are in the same leaky economic boat — but one is bailing water while the other swims for shore.