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OTTAWA — It is Canada's fault that 215 Indigenous children were buried in an unmarked, mass grave at a one-time residential school in Kamloops, B.C., Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. There are 1,383,214 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 1,383,214 confirmed cases (31,164 active, 1,326,484 resolved, 25,566 deaths).

VANCOUVER — Lawmakers in Alaska and Washington state are renewing calls for British Columbia to strengthen its mining regulations to protect shared waterways.

EDMONTON — An Ontario truck driver found guilty of killing a woman in his Edmonton hotel room has applied for a mistrial, which could mean yet another trial in the high-profile case.

OTTAWA — The Native Women's Association of Canada has walked away from what it calls a "fundamentally flawed" and politically motivated process to draft a national action plan for implementing the recommendations of an inquiry into missing and murder

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 6:25 p.m. British Columbia health officials say about 70 per cent of eligible adults in the province have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Quebec's Indigenous affairs minister said Monday that the province is open to searching the grounds of former residential schools for graves, if survivors and their families are in favour.

MONTREAL — Atikamekw leaders and Joyce Echaquan's family called on the Quebec government Tuesday to recognize systemic racism in the health-care system and adopt the Atikamekw community's solutions to reducing inequities faced by Indigenous patients.

OTTAWA — Canadians whose first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine came from Oxford-AstraZeneca can safely be offered a second dose of either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization said Tuesday.

KAMLOOPS, B.C.