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The country's chief public health officer urged Canadians on Wednesday to avoid non-essential outings, as cases continued to rise across the country and Ontario became the latest province to announce scaled-back holiday plans.

COVID-19's second wave tightened its grip on the Prairies on Monday, November 23, 2020, while two eastern provinces pulled out of the Atlantic bubble in an effort to rein in the virus.

Regions across Canada braced for a host of new public health restrictions on Sunday, November 22, 2020, as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sent case counts soaring from coast to coast.

Ontario may not meet its greenhouse gas emission targets because they're not a "cross-government priority," the province's auditor general said on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, casting doubt on a key environmental pledge made by Premier Doug Ford.

Canada's COVID-19 hot spots reported minor declines in daily infections on Sunday, November 15, 2020, but health officials urged people to remain cautious as the country rapidly approaches the 300,000-case mark and overall trends remain worrisome.

New projections suggest Ontario's surging COVID-19 caseload is likely to strain its health-care system to the point where surgeries will be cancelled, while Quebec's premier is raising the possibility of school closures around the holidays and Alberta is tightening restrictions.

COVID-19 continued its record-setting rise across parts of Canada on Wednesday, November 11, 2020, as Ontario reached another new high for daily infections and Manitoba recorded its deadliest day since the pandemic began.

COVID-19 cases surged across Canada as several provinces smashed daily infection records and the nationwide tally crested 4,000 on Sunday, November 8, 2020.

Severe cases of COVID-19 may soon rise as hospitalizations and deaths catch up to the recent spread of the illness, Canada's chief public health officer warned on Wednesday, November 3, 2020, as Quebec and Ontario reported almost 50 deaths between them.

Manitoba weighed imposing a curfew to help contain the spread of COVID-19 while Ontario considered whether to loosen restrictions in some hot spots on Monday, November 2, 2020, as both provinces continued to see hundreds of new infections.

Ontario and Quebec are both reporting more than one thousand new COVID-19 cases, while farther west in Manitoba, officials again reported hundreds of new cases as its capital city gets set for tighter restrictions.

More than 10,000 Canadians have died due to COVID-19, a grim milestone reached by a pandemic that is far from over.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the global COVID-19 pandemic "really sucks," and could jeopardize large gatherings with friends and family over Christmas after a reined-in Thanksgiving.

The Canadian provinces hardest hit by the global COVID-19 pandemic released sobering numbers on Sunday, October 25, 2020, with Quebec's overall case count passing the 100,000 mark and Ontario registering more than 1,000 single-day cases for the first time since the start of the worldwide outbreak.

Procurement Minister Anita Anand says the first shipment of rapid tests for COVID-19 has arrived in Canada, but their eventual destinations remain shrouded in mystery.