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MONTREAL — COVID-19 transmission in Quebec remains high, though the situation is stabilizing in certain parts of the province, a senior public health official said Thursday.

OTTAWA — The federal government announced plans Thursday to start randomly testing travellers at sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s four main airports for COVID-19 again next week, but intends to move the actual swabbing off-site.

TORONTO — Ontario expects to receive supply of COVID-19 vaccines for children between the ages of six months and five years by "late next week.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Newfoundland and Labrador government is temporarily hiking the pay rate for doctors working in the province's rural emergency rooms.

TORONTO — Ontarians eager to get their fourth COVID-19 vaccinations lined up outside clinics and waited in online queues on Thursday as the province opened access for the shots to all adults. As of 8 a.m.

TORONTO — Nearly one third of Canadian cannabis retail employees hired over the last year already left their jobs and 24 per cent didn't even make it past their first month, a new study says.

Ontario is now allowing all adults to book fourth doses of a COVID-19 vaccine but the province's top doctor has said healthy young adults can choose to wait until the fall for a new shot that's expected to target Omicron subvariants.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the provinces, territories and municipalities have now received more than $2.85 billion promised months ago for health care, transit systems and classroom ventilation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The abortion bans taking effect after the nation's highest court overturned Roe v. Wade vary greatly in how they define when a pregnancy can be ended.

OTTAWA — sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s drug regulator approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for infants and preschoolers Thursday, making it the first vaccine approved for that age group in the country.