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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 April 16 ... COVID-19 in Canada ...

VANCOUVER — Podcasting seemed like a frightening technological venture for Sylvie Anderson before she "gave it a whirl" with a group trying to stay connected during the pandemic through shared stories. "I barely knew what it was," she says.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory.

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:29 p.m. on April 15, 2020: There are 28,379 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 7:10 p.m. Yukon says six of the eight people diagnosed with COVID-19 in the territory have recovered.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signalled Wednesday that he's prepared to support easing travel restrictions along the Canada-U.S.

Corey Yanofsky, a data scientist living in Ottawa, took his dog out for a walk last week and ended up with an $880 fine for standing in the wrong place during the COVID-19 pandemic.

OTTAWA — While there's reason to believe the spread of COVID-19 is slowing, Canadian leaders warned Wednesday it was too soon to ease distancing measures, even as the country's central bank warned the downturn tied to the virus could be the worst on

OTTAWA — Life in Canada won't return to normal until Canadian authorities can quickly find and weed out new outbreaks of the virus that causes COVID-19, but the country is far from capable of that now.

OTTAWA — A surge in emissions from road traffic, manufacturing, home heating and fossil-fuel production in 2018 almost entirely erased any progress this country had made cutting greenhouse gas emissions since 2005, the federal government reported Wed