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VANCOUVER — Residents of North Vancouver are planning a candlelight vigil tonight to honour a young woman who was fatally stabbed at a local library along with six others who were injured there.

Health Canada has issued a recall on disposable masks containing a material made of tiny particles it says could pose a danger if inhaled.

MONTREAL — Dozens of workers at a factory in La Pocatiere, Que. have lost their jobs after a theft at a plant in Mexico.

EDMONTON — Leaders with a mosque and a synagogue in Edmonton have a message for an area Christian church that has been routinely holding services that violate COVID-19 restrictions.

OTTAWA — Canada's deputy chief public health officer wouldn't hesitate to roll up his sleeve if the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine were offered to him tomorrow, he said this week. Dr. Howard Njoo, along with chief public health officer Dr.

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $15 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Apr. 6 will grow to an estimated $20 million. The Canadian Press

MONTREAL — Protesters marched through Montreal's Plateau borough Friday afternoon to denounce what many described as a "pandemic" of violence against women, after a slate of recent killings.

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:10 p.m. Alberta's chief medical health officer says the province had an estimated 1,100 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Dr.

OTTAWA — Three of the provinces hardest-hit by COVID-19 spent their second pandemic-era Good Friday either adjusting to or bracing for stricter public health measures meant to bring resurgent case counts back in check.

OTTAWA — Canada and other G7 nations are denouncing what they describe as human rights violations and calling for immediate access for humanitarian aid groups in Ethiopia's conflict-ridden Tigray region.