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WINNIPEG - Manitoba is bringing back its mask mandate and requiring all front-line provincial employees who work with vulnerable populations to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The changes come a...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A manager for British Columbia's wildfire service says conditions are trending in the right direction with the number of fires that threaten public safety and property dropping down t...

YELLOWKNIFE - The chief public health officer of the Northwest Territories has confirmed the territory's first death related to COVID-19 as the N.W.T. experiences its worst outbreak since the beginnin...

OTTAWA - While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered Tuesday to keep Canadian military personnel in Afghanistan after Aug. 31, his fellow G7 leaders were not able to persuade President Joe Biden to ex...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military has pulled off its biggest day of evacuation flights from Afghanistan since the operation began, but deadly violence that has blocked many desperate evacuees from e...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sharply divided leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized democracies clashed Tuesday over U.S. President Joe Biden's insistence on withdrawing from Afghanistan by August 31 in th...

KABUL - U.S. President Joe Biden declared Tuesday he is sticking to his Aug. 31 deadline for completing a risky airlift of Americans, endangered Afghans and others seeking to escape Taliban-controlled...

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 Aug. 24. What we are watching in Canada ... Al...

VICTORIA - British Columbia is reintroducing a public health order requiring people to wear masks in all indoor public spaces including malls, grocery stores and on transit starting Wednesday to help ...

A possible Salmonella contamination has prompted Morgan Williams International Inc. to recall Mr. Porky brand Original Scratchings. The recall covers 65g packages sold across the country with best bef...