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OTTAWA - Canada is on the cusp of hitting its first national vaccination target, but chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the Delta variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 might mean the...

OTTAWA - The federal government is launching a consultation on how it should define elder abuse, an exercise that would bring more targeted programs and policies for Canada's aging population. About o...

New coal mines in Alberta's Rocky Mountain foothills would create more environmental problems than economic benefits, a lengthy new study has concluded. "The best available information indicates that ...

Queen's University has become embroiled in an increasingly public dispute over whether some of its faculty and other associates are falsely holding themselves out to be Indigenous, thereby harming the...

MONTREAL - Quebec is investing nearly $100 million over five years to fight the sexual exploitation of minors. Public Security Minister Genevive Guilbault told reporters today $79.2 million will go to...

Jeanette Westbrook says being sexually abused as a child will haunt her for the rest of her life. The perpetrators used eight-millimetre film, she said, but over time, abusers can transfer footage to ...

OTTAWA - Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion says former Liberal MP Yasmin Ratansi violated Parliament's conflict of interest code when she hired her sister in her constituency office. Dion says Ratansi co...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government introduced legislation Tuesday to strengthen the protection of French in Canada as part of the biggest overhaul to the Official Languages Act in more than three decades...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - An appeals court in Slovakia has dismissed a lower court's acquittal of a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018 slayings of an investigative journalist and his fian...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 8:35 p.m. Yukon health officials are reporting 12 new cases of COVID-19. Yukon's acting chief medical officer of health, Dr. Cat...