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OTTAWA — Green Leader Annamie Paul has survived another day of party strife after a move to push her out shifted course, leaving her with a tenuous grip on power ahead of a likely federal election this year.

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 1:10 p.m. Three-quarters of eligible Canadians are now partly vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccinations given on Tuesday were enough to push Canada over 24.

VANCOUVER — Organizers of a national conservation program aimed at removing trash from the country's many shorelines say the COVID-19 pandemic has even changed how we litter.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being allowed to check out from his quarantine hotel roughly 12 hours after checking in.

Two civil society groups are calling for the Canadian government to prosecute a man believed to be living in Canada who they say was involved in the massacre of more than 200 people in Guatemala in 1982.

QUEBEC — The governing Coalition Avenir Québec has dumped one of its members over a political donation she made to a rival party.

The federal government will step in to conduct an environmental review of any new coal project that could possibly release the contaminant selenium.

HALIFAX — A newly released statement from a senior Mountie in Nova Scotia says RCMP officers dispatched to apprehend an active shooter in Portapique last spring thought they were hearing gunshots long after the shooter fled the scene.

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of June 16 ... What we are watching in Canada ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. There are 1,404,093 confirmed cases in Canada. Canada: 1,404,093 confirmed cases (14,923 active, 1,363,198 resolved, 25,972 deaths).