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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Public Health officials in Newfoundland and Labrador are reporting one new confirmed case of COVID-19. The new case, announced Sunday, involves a man between 20-39 years of age in the Eastern Health region.

MONTREAL — Visits to federal prisons in Quebec have been suspended in an effort to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19 inside the facilities, the Correctional Service of Canada said this weekend.

A Quebec author acquitted last week of child pornography charges in connection with passages in a horror novel says he — and fiction writers across the country — can "breathe again." "It's as if a huge weight has just come off my shoulders...

VICTORIA — An Indigenous leader says John Horgan would often use a joke to ease tensions during difficult times in talks over the future of fish farms between groups with different interests in British Columbia.

TORONTO — A shadowy group of cyber criminals that attacked a prominent nursing organization and Canadian Tire store has successfully targeted other companies with clients in governments, health care, insurance and other sectors.

The controversy around WE Charity in Canada is opening the door to a public discussion about whether WE — and groups like it — actually help the African communities where they operate.

HALIFAX — When Jaime Battiste was in his early 20s, cable news channels were full of images of Mi'kmaq fishermen in New Brunswick battling federal fisheries officers over seized lobster traps.

TORONTO — A ticket holder in Quebec won Saturday night's $8.4 million Lotto 649 jackpot. The draw's guaranteed $1 million prize also went to a lottery player in Quebec. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Sept.

MONTREAL — Demonstrators gathered in downtown Montreal on Saturday to protest planetary warming on the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 3:58 p.m. EDT on Sept. 26, 2020: There are 151,671 confirmed cases in Canada.