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The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:30 p.m. ET on Monday May 24, 2021. There are 1,361,564 confirmed cases in Canada. Canada: 1,361,564 confirmed cases (51,818 active, 1,284,481 resolved, 25,265 deaths).

Officials imposed new restrictions or offered support to existing and emerging COVID-19 hot spots on Monday while regions where the pandemic appeared to be loosening its grip continued to ease public health measures.

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:15 p.m.

CALGARY — Alberta's two big cities will get new mayors this fall and voters will choose whether to build on the progressive legacies of Calgary's Naheed Nenshi and Edmonton's Don Iveson or swing toward a more conservative vision.

A feel-good story in which a Montana First Nation was holding COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the Canada-United States border in southwestern Alberta has come to an end.

HALIFAX — Findings from a study describing the arsenic legacy left in lake-bottom sediments near an abandoned Halifax gold mine are setting off alarm bells for a senior cancer researcher.

OTTAWA — After decades of digging through archival material and talking with the relatives of people of Italian origin detained in Canada during the Second World War, Montreal historian Joyce Pillarella says Canada's long-awaited apology gives her fa

MONTREAL — At 13, while most of her friends were playing outdoors, Joany Roussel was home.

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday May 24, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 311,609 new vaccinations administered for a total of 21,025,807 doses given. Nationwide, 1,653,026 people or 4.

OTTAWA — Canada is set for a relatively quiet few days on the COVID-19 vaccine front with only about 600,000 Pfizer-BioNTech doses set to arrive this week.