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An online vigil honouring the 22 people who died in a tragic rampage began Friday with a fiddle performance from the massacre's youngest victim and ended with a montage of the victims' faces while "Amazing Grace" played on bagpipes.

TORONTO — Dozens more deaths in long-term care homes were reported Friday as new figures indicated the extent of the economic dislocation caused by isolation measures aimed at mitigating the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 virus.

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:42 p.m. on April 24, 2020: There are 43,888 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 7 p.m. Thirty-five workers at the United Poultry plant in Vancouver have now tested positive for COVID-19.

WASHINGTON — The United States has cleared the way for its long-awaited trade agreement with Canada and Mexico to go into effect July 1. The U.S.

PORTAPIQUE, N.S. — The victims in one of Canada's worst mass killings include an RCMP officer, a teacher, two nurses, neighbours of the shooter and two correctional officers killed in their home.

Police in Nova Scotia issued the all-clear on Friday evening, hours after a warning about possible shootings in several Halifax suburbs rattled the fragile nerves of a wounded province.

HALIFAX — A murderous rampage in Nova Scotia that left 22 victims dead could have been triggered by a violent domestic assault, the RCMP confirmed during a news conference Friday that provided grim details of killings that spanned 90 kilometres.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia RCMP provided a partial timeline of what happened last weekend when a man posing as an RCMP officer killed 22 people before he was fatally shot by police on Sunday — a little over 12 hours after he started what would become

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will have to consider increasing health-care funding after seeing the toll the novel coronavirus has taken on the country.