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OTTAWA — Canada's chief public health officer says there are positive signs the Omicron wave is peaking in this country, but no one should start choreographing a COVID-19 victory dance.

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Friday's Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Jan. 25 will be an estimated $15 million. The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Strengthening Haiti's beleaguered police emerged a key theme Friday as Canada, the United States and several other allies held talks to help the embattled, poverty-racked Caribbean nation.

MONTREAL — A second person experiencing homelessness in Montreal has died this month after being found outside in frigid temperatures, authorities said Friday.

OTTAWA — New Democrats want the federal government to give the most cash-strapped seniors a one-off emergency payment to help them pay for basics, including food and rent.

EMERSON, MANITOBA — Dressed in new winter jackets, balaclavas and insulated rubber boots, a group of Indian citizens walked hours in the prairie darkness through fields of knee-deep snow hoping to get to the United States.

HALIFAX — One of three people accused of supplying ammunition to the gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia in 2020 has pleaded guilty to a single charge.

OTTAWA — Questions are swirling over yet another delay in Ottawa's nearly $100-billion plan to rebuild the fleets of Canada’s navy and coast guard — only this time the delay isn’t due to the stalled construction of a ship.

OTTAWA — The federal government finished the week by touting the popularity of a program designed to quickly build or buy affordable housing for the nation's most vulnerable — one piece of a larger home-price puzzle.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba RCMP say they have charged a corrections officer in the death of a 45-year-old inmate at the Headingley Correctional Centre. RCMP say William Ahmo from Sagkeeng First Nation died on Feb.