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The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 9:00 p.m. ET on Monday Feb. 8, 2021. There are 808,120 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 808,120 confirmed cases (40,175 active, 747,110 resolved, 20,835 deaths).

OTTAWA — Senators have agreed to put a bill to expand access to medical assistance in dying to a final vote by Feb. 17, but they've signalled their intention to propose substantial amendments.

OTTAWA — Hotel operators seeking to take part in Canada's mandatory three-day quarantine for returning travellers can now access the criteria, though it comes as cold comfort to a battered industry.

OTTAWA — Documents given to parliamentarians show federal officials audited at least 127 landlords who received aid through a program designed to ease rent costs for small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. That was the figure as of Dec.

OTTAWA — Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan says Canada can get more out of its marine resources through a strategy that also protects ocean health.

VANCOUVER — A Catholic order shuffled known abusers from a notorious Newfoundland orphanage to two schools in the Vancouver area where more boys were victimized, a lawsuit alleges.

EDMONTON — Public protest has persuaded the Alberta government to U-turn on a major section of its economic road map and reinstate a policy that has kept open-pit coal mines out of the Rocky Mountains for almost 45 years.

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:20 p.m. British Columbia now has 40 confirmed cases of fast-spreading variants of COVID-19. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says 25 cases are the U.K.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Flights have been grounded and most operations suspended at an open-pit iron ore mine on Nunavut's Baffin Island as protesters upset about its expansion plan continue to block the site's road and air strip.

OTTAWA — Those who support expanding access to medical assistance in dying are doing so because they have not grappled with the consequences of medical racism, a disability activist said Monday before senators began debating the proposed legislation.