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EDMONTON - Alberta's chief medical officer of health says the province is at a dangerous plateau, with almost 3,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last three days, 20 new deaths and overwhelmed contact cha...

VANCOUVER - A retired RCMP officer repeated his earlier testimony Tuesday at British Columbia's public inquiry into money laundering that former cabinet minister Kash Heed told him the government's ga...

Canada reached a troubling milestone on Monday, surpassing 300,000 total COVID cases since the pandemic began earlier this year, and health experts are alarmed - but not surprised - by the rapid growt...

OTTAWA - At this point during last year's flu season, Canada had already recorded 711 positive cases of influenza. So far this year, there have been just 17. "Influenza is way behind the eight ball he...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Now that he's the president-elect, Joe Biden is doubling down on his promise that economic recovery efforts in the United States will remain a made-in-America endeavour.  Biden...

President Donald Trump is expected to cut a significant number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and a smaller number in Iraq by the final days of his presidency, U.S. officials said Monday. The plan woul...

OTTAWA - Former Supreme Court justice Morris Fish has been tapped to lead an independent review of Canada's military-justice system, which is struggling with a variety of challenges - including over i...

Ottawa and provincial and territorial governments must build monuments in capital cities across Canada to honour residential-school survivors and their families, says the director of the National Cent...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer has ordered a two-week shutdown, starting Wednesday, of non-essential businesses and schools in the territory due to the spread of COVID-19.Mic...

OTTAWA - Former finance minister Bill Morneau is heading back to the classroom next year.He has been appointed a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, where he will ...