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OTTAWA — Evidence that a federal election is on the horizon continued to mount on Saturday as the Liberal party unveiled a series of campaign-style advertisements a day before the widely anticipated vote is expected to be called.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will buy another 40 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine over the next two years.

OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence says it's launched an online tracker to help keep staff informed on its efforts to improve culture within the ranks.

A tally from police across the country shows there are four ongoing criminal investigations and one decade-long probe into complaints involving residential schools.

MONTREAL — As police in the Montreal area deal with a jump in gun violence linked to street gang clashes, community workers are calling for decision makers to focus on the root of the problem.

TORONTO — A ticket holder in Quebec won Friday's $15 million Lotto Max jackpot. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Aug. 17 will be an estimated $10 million. The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER — Pacific salmon can no longer access hundreds of kilometres of spawning streams or floodplain habitat after decades of urban, agricultural and resource development around British Columbia's Lower Fraser River, a study has found.

Winds forecast to fan wildfires over the weekend in British Columbia are a "direct threat to life and property," a BC Wildfire Service official says.

SASKATOON — Two universities in Saskatchewan have joined a growing number of post-secondary institutions in the country requiring staff and students to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

Ottawa will require federal employees, workers in federally regulated industries and many travellers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, marking a shift in the federal government's position on vaccine mandates. The move — which will affect roughly 1.