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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will buy another 40 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine over the next two years.

OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence says it's launched an online tracker to help keep staff informed on its efforts to improve culture within the ranks.

A tally from police across the country shows there are four ongoing criminal investigations and one decade-long probe into complaints involving residential schools.

MONTREAL — As police in the Montreal area deal with a jump in gun violence linked to street gang clashes, community workers are calling for decision makers to focus on the root of the problem.

TORONTO — A ticket holder in Quebec won Friday's $15 million Lotto Max jackpot. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Aug. 17 will be an estimated $10 million. The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER — Pacific salmon can no longer access hundreds of kilometres of spawning streams or floodplain habitat after decades of urban, agricultural and resource development around British Columbia's Lower Fraser River, a study has found.

Winds forecast to fan wildfires over the weekend in British Columbia are a "direct threat to life and property," a BC Wildfire Service official says.

SASKATOON — Two universities in Saskatchewan have joined a growing number of post-secondary institutions in the country requiring staff and students to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

Ottawa will require federal employees, workers in federally regulated industries and many travellers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, marking a shift in the federal government's position on vaccine mandates. The move — which will affect roughly 1.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is promising to resettle 20,000 refugees who have already fled Afghanistan even as months of frustration turn to outright fear over the fate of hundreds of former interpreters and their families still stuck in the coun