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OTTAWA — Air travellers will need to have their temperatures checked before they're allowed to board planes but the system will take months to set up, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Friday.

MONTREAL — For Louise Delisle, an African Nova Scotian who grew up in the rural town of Shelburne, the racism her community has experienced over the years is reflected in the health of its members. Her father and brother died of cancer.

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of June 12 ... --- COVID-19 in Canada ...

Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia has recorded the highest number of illicit drug overdose deaths in a single month, prompting the chief coroner to say the federal government should take bold action on the overdose epidemic as it has done with the COVID-1

CALGARY — The Crown says an Alberta judge showed bias against a medical expert last year when he acquitted a couple on trial in the death of their ill son, but the defence says the court process was fair.

OTTAWA — Harsh penalties for defrauding the Canada Emergency Response Benefit are needed because organized crime and identity thieves are trying to scam the program, a House of Commons committee was told Thursday A Canada Revenue Agency official said

REGINA — The family of a young man says he tried twice to get mental help at a hospital the day he drowned in a lake in Regina — and that he was taken there the second time, just hours before his apparent suicide, by police.

Ottawa will spend a further $133 million to help Indigenous businesses suffering the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vancouver's mayor wants the B.C. government to conduct a review of policing across the province, claiming city councils can only "rubber stamp" decisions.