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OTTAWA — While researchers across the planet race to find a vaccine for COVID-19, a new poll suggests Canadians are divided over whether getting it should be mandatory or voluntary — setting up a potentially prickly public health debate if a vaccine

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on April 28, 2020: There are 48,500 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

A selection of headlines to read this morning 

Tuesday will have a high of 15 C, with a low of 3

There are now 365 cases in Saskatchewan

Nineteen cows on her front lawn and a parade of well-wishers driving past her house thrilled Jayleen Mantell, who spent her 19th birthday at home and unable to celebrate with friends.

“If you want a picture of [what it’s like] in the school, our classrooms are turned upside down. It's not like it's left how it was before. It looks like it's summer holidays”

Information from the Alberta Agriculture and Forestry survey

The 2020 interim benefit will increase from 50 to 75 per cent

A hearing officer has decided that a former Moose Jaw police constable, Alan Murdock, can appeal his dismissal even though he was on probation at the time of his firing