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TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford's decision to speed up the rollout of alcohol sales in corner stores – which first sparked early election speculation last spring – will cost the province more than $600 million, Ontario's budget watchdog said Monday.

KRAKOW — Miriam Ziegler said she's reminded of being an eight-year-old girl, left all by herself, as she prepares to return to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...

VANCOUVER — In early 2020, Lili Wu was already "armed to the teeth" whenever she ventured to public places near her home in Port Coquitlam, B.C. — face mask, sanitizer, protective eyewear and gloves.

OTTAWA — One of the seven Liberal leadership hopefuls says the party is not allowing him to run, as another high-profile cabinet minister endorsed Mark Carney on Sunday.

British Columbia-based environmental activist Zain Haq was aboard a plane in Toronto on Sunday afternoon, awaiting a nearly 14-hour flight to Pakistan, where he said he was looking forward to seeing his family and eating the food.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canadian David Lavery has safely made it to Qatar from Afghanistan with the help of the Qatari government.

OTTAWA — Canada's political leadership has found rare unanimity in recent weeks: nobody wants the country to become the "51st state," as U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly pitched.

SAINT-ANICET, Que. — A 55-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after a death in Quebec's Montérégie region on Saturday. The man appeared in court via video conference on Sunday.

OTTAWA — The working group tasked with measuring productivity within Canada's federal public service has not looked at remote work, one of its members says.