Canada's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 10,000

Canada has recorded its 10,000th death linked to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. The total number of deaths surpassed 10,000 on Tuesday afternoon, when Alberta announced two coronavirus-related deaths over the past 24 hours. This brought the national total, which had started the day at 9,973, to 10,001. After an initial spike in the spring, national daily COVID-19 death numbers stayed low through the summer. Only in the last few weeks has the country again seen daily death totals in th