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OTTAWA — The Liberal government is promising to finally spend $10 billion that has sat in the accounts of its infrastructure financing agency for years, hoping to create thousands of post-pandemic jobs.

OTTAWA — Canadian troops risk being caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iraq, even as the six-year-old fight against the Islamic State group morphs into a geopolitical struggle between Washington and Iran.

WINNIPEG — A little more than six months into Manitoba's COVID-19 state of emergency, the province's chief public health officer says there have been lessons learned in terms of fighting the novel coronavirus and of keeping the public on track about

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VANCOUVER — A lawyer representing 15 youths who accuse the federal government for breaching their constitutional rights by failing to properly address climate change says the courts have a definite role to play in determining the lawsuit's outcome.

Vaccines normally offered in school to Grade 7 students will instead be delivered at community clinics and doctors' offices in parts of Ontario, meaning parents will have to make arrangements to ensure their children are immunized.

EDMONTON — A northern Alberta woman who survived a fatal tour bus crash in Jasper National Park this summer says she is one of the lucky ones, but her recovery will be long and painful. Sweta Patel, 27, from High Prairie, Alta.

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): --- 7:14 p.m. B.C. has confirmed 125 new cases of COVID-19 in the past day and no one else has died from the illness, leaving the province's death toll at 234.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 30, 2020: There are 158,765 confirmed cases in Canada.

MONTREAL — Quebec's premier promised to crack down on those who violate public health orders and Ontario released sobering COVID-19 projections as leaders of Canada's two hardest-hit provinces on Wednesday grappled with how best to flatten a growing