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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the possibility of extending emergency federal aid programs to ease the economic burden from COVID-19 as his government announced one-time payments for se...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 7:05 p.m. B.C. has just seven new cases of COVID-19, but one more person from a long-term care home has died. The death t...

MOSCOW - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has been hospitalized with the coronavirus, the latest in a series of setbacks for President Vladimir Putin as Russia struggles to contain the growing outbreak...

OTTAWA - The old-fashioned way Canada records deaths means the country could be missing out on data important to addressing the COVID-19 crisis. The confirmed number of COVID-19 deaths -&nbs...

Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far:   ...

TORONTO - Canada's death toll from COVID-19 passed the 5,000-mark on Tuesday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the pandemic had exposed serious cracks in Canada's hard hit long-term care that gove...

OTTAWA - As restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 persist, a new survey suggests more than half of Canadians find it stressful to venture out in public. In a web survey conducted by poll...

OTTAWA - The federal heritage minister says if new tools are needed to get digital giants to pay for Canadian content, they will be built. Steven Guilbeault says he is watching how other countrie...

VANCOUVER - The elected leadership of several First Nations split over a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia are calling for the immediate resignation of Crown-Indigenous Relat...

VICTORIA - The recipe for a successful restaurant recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic could involve adding outdoor patios, parking lots, sidewalks and even streets to allow for physical distanc...