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A look at the latest COVID-19 news in Canada: — Canada's chief public health officer says Canada is expecting a potentially massive surge in COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks, driven by the new Omicron variant already spreading through communities.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is lifting a restriction on gasoline for the general public that was put in place after flooding and landslides cut off supply.

OTTAWA — The federal government has planted less than half a per cent of the two billion trees it pledged to put in the ground across Canada by 2030, The Canadian Press has learned. Figures obtained through an access to information request show 8.

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau's minority Liberal government has easily survived its first confidence test of the new parliamentary session with the help of the Bloc Québécois and the NDP.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is preparing to spend $40 billion to compensate First Nations children harmed by Ottawa's underfunding of child and family services on reserve, as well as on reforming the current system.

OTTAWA — The federal government sought to emerge from a dark period in the Canadian Armed Forces’ legacy on Monday as political and military leaders delivered a long-awaited apology to victims of military sexual misconduct.

MONTREAL — Cybersecurity experts warned Monday that getting government departments back online could take weeks or months, after Quebec shut down almost 4,000 of its websites as a preventive measure over the weekend because of a massive software vuln

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday he was not ruling out federal intervention in a legal challenge to Quebec's secularism law, after an elementary school teacher was recently reassigned because she wears a Muslim head scarf.

Some universities are adjusting their plans for end-of-semester exams in response to the rise in COVID-19 cases. The University of Victoria in British Columbia will not be holding any further in-person exams this month.

OTTAWA — Canada’s central bank will aim to keep the annual pace of price gains at its historic target rate, but will now more formally take into account the health of the job market as part of its inflation-targeting regime.