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TORONTO — Government messaging about the state of the COVID-19 pandemic may stymie uptake of fourth vaccine doses, some experts said, as provinces laid out plans to expand eligibility for the shots to millions more Canadians.

OTTAWA — After two years of pandemic-induced uncertainty, the federal Liberals are getting ready to deliver an updated spending blueprint in a 2022 budget that, by all accounts, has been influenced by fast-changing circumstances.

MONTREAL — Newly released recordings of phone calls to a Quebec government health line from March 2020 reveal how desperate the owners of a long-term care home were as COVID-19 struck their establishment during the pandemic's first wave.

OTTAWA — The final message to Scotiabank shareholders from its president and CEO's annual address: a higher tax on the country’s biggest banks is a tax on you.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut is to lift all its remaining COVID-19 health measures when it ends its public health emergency on Monday.

OTTAWA — It's one of those promises that doesn't cost the government too much, but never seems to materialize on budget day.

Health officials in the United States say a norovirus outbreak linked to raw British Columbia oysters has spread to at least 13 states.

OTTAWA — The federal government is set to table a budget Thursday against the backdrop of several national and international emergencies and major funding commitments.

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HUMBOLDT, SASKATCHEWAN — The manager for a Saskatchewan city planning a multi-purpose building in remembrance of a deadly junior hockey bus crash four years ago says plans are moving more slowly than had been hoped.