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Canada added another 2,342 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus Thursday, one of the highest daily case counts yet since the pandemic began early this year.

The new positive cases pushed the country’s total to 191,532 infections. It took five days for Canada to add over 10,000 new coronavirus cases, after taking just four days to jump from 170,000 to 180,000.

The new cases also represented about 2.5 per cent of the 92,796 new tests performed over the past 24 hours. To date, more than 10.2 million tests have been performed across Canada, although some provinces and territories do not update their testing data daily.

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Thursday also saw the national death toll rise to 9,699 after 38 new deaths were reported. Twenty-two of those deaths were historical and all based in Quebec, which also removed two earlier deaths from its total after they were found to not be attributable to COVID-19.

Quebec did report eight new deaths had occurred since Wednesday, as well as 969 new positive cases. The province has now seen a total of 89,963 confirmed infections and 6,005 deaths, while 75,467 patients have recovered from the virus.

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Ontario added 783 new cases and five more deaths, bringing its totals to 62,196 cases and 3,022 deaths to date.

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Newfoundland and Labrador reported one new case, the only Atlantic province to see any increase Thursday. Newfoundland has now seen 284 new cases, four of them fatal, while 271 have recovered.

New Brunswick reported no new cases for the first time since Oct. 4. A total of 292 cases have been reported so far, with two deaths and 200 recoveries. Nova Scotia has seen a total of 1,092 cases and 65 deaths, while Prince Edward Island has three active cases out of 63 total infections, with no deaths so far.






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Manitoba posted another new record with 173 new cases, while health officials said another person has died from COVID-19. The province has now seen a total of 3,098, only half of whom have recovered, and 38 deaths.

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In Saskatchewan, 33 new cases were reported, with no new deaths. A total of 2,232 cases have been confirmed to date, along with 25 deaths and 1,936 recoveries.

Alberta added another 244 new cases and one new death, bringing the province’s totals to 21,443 confirmed infections and 288 deaths, while 18,417 patients have recovered from the virus.

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Officials in British Columbia reported 139 lab-confirmed cases and three more “epidemiologically-linked” cases, meaning they have not been confirmed by laboratory testing. The province has now seen 10,836 confirmed cases and 198 epi-linked cases to date.

No new deaths were reported Thursday, keeping the death toll at 250, while 9,257 patients have recovered so far.

None of the three territories reported new cases on Thursday.






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The Northwest Territories has seen five cases to date, all of which have recovered. The territory’s last case was reported over six months ago.

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The Yukon said Wednesday that a presumptive case has come back negative, keeping its total at 15 cases — all of which have recovered.

While Nunavut says it has seen no local confirmed cases, several positive cases have been confirmed in out-of-territory workers at a pair of local mines. All of those cases have been counted by their home jurisdictions.

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With cases rising — and some provinces moving to limit or close businesses again — many Canadians who remain unemployed or short of work are turning their attention back to government relief and ensuring they can qualify.

On Thursday, the Canada Revenue Agency said it will update the wording of a question on its online application for the Canada Recovery Benefit, to make clear that Canadians who exhausted their Employment Insurance benefits are eligible for the new benefit.

The decision comes after Global News indicated the phrasing was creating confusion for some jobless Canadians.

Worldwide, over 38.8 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed by public health authorities, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Over 1,096,000 of those patients have died to date.

India, with 7.3 million confirmed cases, is continuing to surge towards the United States’ world-leading total of 7.9 million cases. The U.S. still leads the world in deaths, at over 217,000.

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Saskatchewan Party flirting with majority win in early election returns

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Saskatchewan’s election unfolded as predicted in early returns Monday, with Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party dominating in rural constituencies and Carla Beck’s NDP fighting for enough urban votes to eke out a path to victory.

Moe’s Saskatchewan Party was edging closer to securing the 31 seats needed for a majority in the 61-seat legislature, powered by victories in its traditional rural base.

Beck’s New Democrats were leading or elected in about two dozen seats in Regina and Saskatoon but needed to sweep the major cities.

The NDP also gained back the rural northern riding of Athabasca, which it won in 2020 only to lose to the Saskatchewan Party in a subsequent byelection.

Moe, in his second election as leader of the Saskatchewan Party, retained his seat in Rosthern-Shellbrook. No polls had reported yet in Beck’s riding of Regina Lakeview.

Several other cabinet ministers retained their seats: Agriculture Minister David Marit, Energy Minister Jim Reiter, Advanced Education Minister Colleen Young, Highways Minister Lori Carr, Health Minister Everett Hindley and Trade and Immigration Minister Jeremy Harrison.

Harrison was a controversial figure on the hustings. Earlier this year, he apologized for carrying a gun into the legislature about a decade ago while on the way to go hunting.

The Saskatchewan Party was seeking a fifth-straight majority to add to its 17 years in office, while Beck’s NDP was looking to take back government for the first time since 2007.

The voting caps a month-long campaign that focused on health care, affordability and crime.

Moe promised broad tax relief and continued withholding of federal carbon levy payments to Ottawa.

His platform would cost an additional $1.2 billion over four years. He said his tax reduction plan would save a family of four $3,400 over four years. It also includes tax credits for those looking to grow their families or put their children in sports and arts.

Moe promised deficits in the first two years, followed by a surplus in 2027.

Beck pledged to spend more to fix health care and education, pause the gas tax, and remove the provincial sales tax on children’s clothes and some grocery items.

She said her promises would cost an additional $3.5 billion over four years, with plans to cut what she calls Saskatchewan Party waste and to balance the budget by the end of her term.

Moe also promised that his first order of business if re-elected would be to ban “biological boys” from using school changing rooms with “biological girls.”

He said he made the promise after learning of a complaint at a southeast Saskatchewan school about two biological boys using a girls change room.

It was later revealed that a parent of the two children who were the subjects of the complaint is an NDP candidate. Moe said he didn’t know that when he made the promise.

Beck has said such a ban would make vulnerable kids more vulnerable. She also promised to repeal a Saskatchewan Party law that requires parental consent if children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school.

Political experts said Moe was favoured to win the election, given his party’s strength in rural areas, but recent polls suggested a closer race.

At dissolution, the governing Saskatchewan Party had 42 seats, while the Opposition NDP had 14. There were four Independents and one seat was vacant.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 28, 2024.

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After years of legal battles, Montreal suburb finally kills deer in park

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MONTREAL – A Montreal suburb with a park overpopulated with white-tailed deer says it has carried out the first phase of its cull, with 64 animals killed.

Longueuil, Que., has fought against activists for years to carry out the cull, and says it will thin the herd further before February.

Between Tuesday and Thursday hunters using air guns shot and killed 64 deer at Michel-Chartrand Park, a green space on Montreal’s South Shore.

Longueuil officials say the operation went smoothly and that other culls will take place until February, when a provincial permit expires.

The city has said it needs to restore ecological equilibrium to the park, where up to 114 deer had been living in a green space that can accommodate about 15.

Officials had been trying to kill the animals since 2020 but faced strong opposition and legal challenges from animal rights groups.

In October 2023, the province’s Court of Appeal sided with the city.

The meat will be donated to a local food bank for distribution by the end of the year.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 25, 2024.

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‘On my bucket list’: Iconic Banff sign, a must-see for visitors, moving to safer spot

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BANFF, Alta. – A popular selfie spot for visitors to Banff National Park has become a victim of its own success.

The two-metre-high, $350,000 “Banff” sign was installed in 2017 on Mount Norquay Avenue, one of two entrances into the Alberta mountain park’s idyllic townsite.

But the narrow two-lane road, which runs from the Mount Norquay Ski Resort seven kilometres away, is fraught with traffic jams, even between the peak tourist seasons of winter and summer.

Town officials have decided it needs to be moved.

“We’ve debated this for over three years now,” said Darren Enns, Banff’s director of planning and environment. “We’ve finally reached the point that we made the decision to take the next step forward.”

Banff gets about four million visitors a year, and Mount Norquay Avenue sees 55 to 60 per cent of the traffic, said Enns.

In the summer, there are about 17,000 vehicles a day on the avenue, with lots of pedestrians crossing the road from a parking lot to the sign.

“We’re very fortunate to not have any public safety incidents. But certainly that’s always top of mind, and our council has directed us to look at a more pedestrian-oriented environment for the sign,” said Enns, adding a move could happen as early as next summer.

On a recent sunny day in October, a steady stream of visitors made their way from across the road to the sign, causing traffic to stop.

A lineup of about 30 people waited for a chance to take photos, many offering to snap shots for others.

Mike Jones and his wife were among those in line.

“It’s something we always do when we go to a touristy place. We always like to have a memory of wherever we’re visiting, whether it’s Banff or somewhere else. It’s kind of what we do and I know a lot of others think the same way,” said Jones, who is from Fort McMurray.

He was surprised to hear the sign will be moving but said it’s likely the right call.

“I’m sure they’ll pick a good spot and a safe spot,” he said. “If it’s causing an issue, they do have to move it.”

Alissa Kittelson, her husband and two daughters were visiting from Minneapolis.

“Banff was on my bucket list. It’s beautiful. I’ve seen photos and I wanted to come and check it out. I hope it makes the Christmas card,” Kittelson said.

She was glad to get the family photo before the landmark is moved.

“I feel like it’s the perfect spot. We’re right on the edge of town. You can see the beautiful mountains behind it. You can see the beautiful trees. I’d be sad to see it moved.”

Enns said there are a couple of places where the sign could find a new home, including a downtown park. But the most likely location is a kilometre away at the Banff train station, where there are about 450 parking stalls.

“It’s always great to see a project that is so successful that it has unintended consequences around it,” Enns said.

“I’m very grateful for all the interactions we’ve been able to provide our visitors and all the memories that we’ve been able to create.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 27, 2024.

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