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VANCOUVER — Efforts by British Columbia health officials and residents are managing to suppress infections that have been driven by COVID-19 variants, a group of modelling experts says.

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 7:05 p.m. British Columbia is reporting 740 new cases of COVID-19, along with four new deaths. More than 1.

Days of debate over whether revisions to the Broadcasting Act could undermine Canadian rights and freedoms continued Friday.

OTTAWA — A Sikh advocacy group says the government of India has blocked a Canadian website that aims to raise funds for COVID-19 patients abroad.

IQALUIT — A dedicated scientist who loved the North, Markus Dyck spoke his mind and strove to include Inuit in northern research.

OTTAWA — The Liberal Party of Canada says it fundraised around $3.5 million during the first three months of the second year dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday an independent review of the military's handling of sexual misconduct is an attempt to correct a "failing of the entire system." "We have brought in a number of measures.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford scrapped over international border measures Friday while officials in two of Alberta's COVID-19 hotspots sought clarification over a possible curfew being floated to tame that province's sur

VANCOUVER — The body of a man that was supposed to be flown home to India from British Columbia just before the federal government stopped flights is now in limbo as his family scrambles to get the remains home.

A British Columbia First Nation has joined calls for the federal government to step in on the environmental review of a proposed open-pit coal mine in Alberta's Rocky Mountains.