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TOKYO - Women's basketball player Miranda Ayim and men's rugby sevens player Nathan Hirayama have been named Canada's flag-bearers for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. They are the first me...

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration took a step toward its goal of shutting down the Guantnamo Bay detention centre for terror suspects Monday, releasing into the custody of his home country a Moroc...

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and asserted that criminal hackers associated wi...

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 July 19 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

OTTAWA - The federal government is expecting to receive about 7.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week, as it adjusts its distribution strategy amid waning vaccination rates and substantial su...

OTTAWA - Monica Agard says she was chatting with a colleague about her workload and looming deadlines when a supervisor passing by cut into their conversation. "We should go back to the good old days ...

Under the early evening sun, dancers from across Canada and the United States filed onto the powwow grounds at Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation in central Alberta. It was the first time in two years. The da...

WINNIPEG - Two Indigenous men have quit their positions on Manitoba economic development boards in the wake of controversial remarks by Premier Brian Pallister and a cabinet minister. The resignations...

OTTAWA - Annamie Paul is no longer staring down the barrel of a booting from her perch atop the Green party. Party executives have called off a non-confidence vote that was slated for Tuesday and coul...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's government says accommodations for wildfire evacuees are filling up as the flames and smoke from numerous blazes spread, forcing more people from their homes and contribu...