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Health professionals and provincial governments are drawing up battle plans to curb the spread of COVID-19 by bringing back restrictions, while speeding up booster doses as the highly transmissible Omicron variant washes over the country.

DARTMOUTH, N.S. — Halifax Regional Police say a young boy has died after being shot. Police say in a release that officers responded to a report of a shooting Tuesday afternoon in Dartmouth, N.S.

A look at the latest COVID-19 news in Canada and restrictions being brought in to try to stem the spread of the Omicron variant: — Quebec is reporting for a third day in a row a record number of cases of COVID-19 with the Omicron variant accounting f

MONTREAL — Close friends of a Montreal teen killed in an apparently random act of gun violence last month have banded together in an effort to push the federal government to ban handguns.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is facing fresh calls to create an “explicit exception” for victims of sexual misconduct and their confidantes from having to report incidents to their commanders.

MONTREAL — COVID-19 testing centres in Quebec are being overwhelmed by the pandemic's fifth wave, with long lineups to get a test and delays in results as the Omicron variant pushes daily case counts to record levels.

OTTAWA — The federal fee to apply for a criminal pardon will drop to $50 from almost $658 as of the new year.

Mercury contamination in freshwater fish populations falls quickly once new sources of the toxic chemical are cut off, says new research.

OTTAWA — A Liberal minister struck a last-minute deal with the Conservatives before the holidays to extend bereavement leave for grieving parents who work in federally regulated industries.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut has two active COVID-19 cases after the infections were identified in a hamlet on Baffin Island.