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TORONTO — Rachel Rosen doesn't even know what classes she'll be teaching in three weeks, let alone how she'll juggle preparing in-person and online lessons.

OTTAWA — For only the second time in 12 years, Marc-Andre Bernier and his underwater archaeology team at Parks Canada will not be heading north this month to explore the wrecks of the doomed Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin and his crew.

SACKVILLE, N.B. — At some of Canada's smaller universities, academic life is set to resume amid the pandemic. But for many this year, the thrill of arriving on campus will be replaced by long days in a room trying to keep loneliness at bay.

TORONTO — A lottery player in Nova Scotia won Saturday night's $17.4 million Lotto 649 jackpot. Atlantic Lottery says the winning ticket was sold in Victoria County on Cape Breton Island.

VICTORIA — Gurdeep Pandher has danced bhangra with firefighters, in front of a lighthouse and has even done so while wearing a wetsuit and holding a surfboard during a visit to Vancouver Island.

Vancouver police say they quickly shut down an impromptu street party that sprung up on Friday night in violation of public health measures.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 5:04 p.m. on Aug. 15, 2020: There are 121,889 confirmed cases in Canada.

MONTREAL — Doll Jean Frejus Nguessan Bi says he couldn't sleep at all last night.

The Public Health Agency of Canada says 100 more people have become ill from Salmonella contamination linked to a recall of U.S.-grown onions, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 339.

Long before he became The Wizard of New Zealand, Ian Brackenbury Channell spent a year training as a Royal Air Force navigator in Manitoba learning lessons that he says gave him the wisdom to become a wizard.