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TORONTO — As spooky season reaches its climax in a particularly frightening year, some historians argue the COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to explore a different side of Halloween.

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa. — Along a scenic stretch of historic Lincoln Highway, a meandering two-lane strip of east-west pavement that runs through southern Pennsylvania, partisan devotion to Donald Trump is on full display.

OTTAWA — Twenty-five years ago today, Quebec came within a small margin of separating from Canada. The referendum on Oct. 30, 1995, saw 4.

VANCOUVER — A Canadian border officer denied suggestions by a lawyer for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou Thursday that he seized her electronic devices at the behest of American investigators.

MONTREAL — A Montreal health agency has been forced off-line as authorities deal with a cyberattack.

OTTAWA — The federal ethics watchdog has cleared former finance minister Bill Morneau of failing to disclose a gift from WE Charity.

The Canada Infrastructure Bank has appointed Ehren Cory as its new chief executive officer. Cory previously served as Infrastructure Ontario's president and chief executive and prior to that, was a partner at McKinsey and Company.

MONTREAL — Quebec's police watchdog is investigating a police shooting Thursday that left a Black man dead in Montreal.

Politicians, advocates and public health officials were ringing the alarm Thursday over COVID-19's impact on long-term care homes as new modelling out of Ontario projected the virus will spread at a more gentle rate than feared.

The latest COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:30 p.m. B.C. provincial health officer Dr.