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OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces has quietly revealed that 20 service members took their own lives last year, the largest number of military suicides since 2014.

OTTAWA — One of the companies making ventilators for the federal government is expanding its production capacity more than tenfold to meet demands created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

EDMONTON — Landowners and legal experts are criticizing Alberta's hastily passed new legislation intended to help clean up the province's huge stockpile of abandoned energy facilities.

TORONTO — Canada's confirmed cases of COVID-19 jumped to almost 19,000 on Wednesday, with more than 400 deaths ascribed to the raging global pandemic as Quebec became the province with the most fatalities attributed to the disease.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory.

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 2 p.m. ET on April 8, 2020: There are 19,179 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada.

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 1:50 p.m. There are three new cases of COVID-19 today in New Brunswick, bringing the provincial total to 108. Dr.

EDMONTON — Albertans are expected to learn more details today about what Premier Jason Kenney calls the province's relaunch strategy. The plan focuses on gradually boosting the economy while preventing a second wave of COVID-19.

WASHINGTON — Canada's deputy prime minister says the country's relationship with the United States is getting "constant gardening" as the federal government works to keep supply lines open despite the COVID-19 crisis.

TABER, Alta. — A man from southern Alberta has been charged with mischief after police say he participated in an online prank related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Police in Taber say the man allegedly tampered with products inside a store.