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The two schools are closed to in-person learning for students in Grades 1 through 9 until Oct. 1 due to large numbers of students absent due to COVID infection.

Elections Canada will start counting more than 780,000 mailed-in ballots Tuesday, and it expects most to be finished by Wednesday, but officials did warn some ridings could take up to four days for final counts.

Organizers failed to obtain permits and were in breach of Mountain View County bylaws

"Most of the people that are in ICU that are requiring that extreme care, most of those people are unvaccinated."

Elections Canada has warned it may take days to finish counting all ballots cast in-person and by mail, meaning the country may not know Monday how many seats each party won in the 338-seat House of Commons.

Trudeau said Conservative politicians across the country have not been as effective in fighting the pandemic; O'Toole pinned the deteriorating situation on Trudeau, saying the Liberal leader let the Delta variant gain a "bigger hold" than necessary; and Singh said Kenney bears the blame, but insisted Trudeau must share responsibility, since he set off an election campaign that has soaked up attention and resources.

Adrian Dix said the B.C. Health Ministry told its Alberta counterpart Thursday that the province will help in other ways if it can and may be able to take patients in the future.

Dr. Verna Yiu, the head of Alberta Health Services, said AHS has begun briefing staff on how the triage protocol would work if necessary as an "absolute, absolute last resort." Under triage protocol, physicians will have to ration life-saving equipment and resources, effectively deciding who lives and who is left to die.

Health Canada points out the vaccines themselves are not changing — only the names are.

The spending plans from each party could put more pressure on prices and interest rates, and they could hurt, rather than help, voters' pocketbooks, according to a Scotiabank analysis of platform commitments.