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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Newfoundland and Labrador government is temporarily hiking the pay rate for doctors working in the province's rural emergency rooms.

TORONTO — Ontarians eager to get their fourth COVID-19 vaccinations lined up outside clinics and waited in online queues on Thursday as the province opened access for the shots to all adults. As of 8 a.m.

TORONTO — Nearly one third of Canadian cannabis retail employees hired over the last year already left their jobs and 24 per cent didn't even make it past their first month, a new study says.

Ontario is now allowing all adults to book fourth doses of a COVID-19 vaccine but the province's top doctor has said healthy young adults can choose to wait until the fall for a new shot that's expected to target Omicron subvariants.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the provinces, territories and municipalities have now received more than $2.85 billion promised months ago for health care, transit systems and classroom ventilation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The abortion bans taking effect after the nation's highest court overturned Roe v. Wade vary greatly in how they define when a pregnancy can be ended.

OTTAWA — Canada's drug regulator approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for infants and preschoolers Thursday, making it the first vaccine approved for that age group in the country.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia chief coroner says the province is on pace to lose another record number of people to toxic drugs this year.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nick Barragan is used to wearing a mask because his job in the Hollywood film industry has long required it.

TORONTO — Public Health Ontario says it has recorded the province's first case of monkeypox in a female. The agency says there are 156 confirmed cases of the disease in the province as of July 11, with all but one of them being male.