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Canadian officials acknowledged some regions of the country could be closer to re-opening parts of the economy than others, but continued to stress a careful approach as the b...

VANCOUVER - Advocates for the rights of women and children in British Columbia are shining a light on the rise in family violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. B.C. Human Rights Commissioner...

OTTAWA - The demand for toilet paper in Canada has skyrocketed - increasing by 241 per cent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Derek Nighbor, president of the Forest Products Association of Canada, reveale...

OTTAWA - The federal government should consider rent relief for the precariously housed, or risk a wave of Canadians becoming homeless in the wake of COVID-19, advocates told MPs Friday. Prime Ministe...

VICTORIA - The City of Victoria is calling for the British Columbia government to take over its empty hotels and motels as a solution to housing the homeless during the COVID-...

Industry and environmental groups welcomed a multibillion-dollar oilpatch bailout package Friday, but both were looking for more from the federal government. "We are awaiting additional details o...

TORONTO - The brutal assault of the novel coronavirus on long-term care facilities in Ontario has exposed long-standing, systemic problems in a sector that otherwise seldom receives top-of-mind public...

CALGARY - Western Canada's largest private-sector union is proposing that people be limited to one trip to the grocery store each week to prevent the spread of COVID-19 a...

OTTAWA - The Senate will not resume sitting until June 2 at the earliest, but it was unclear Friday when and how the House of Commons would return. The Senate was slated to come back Tu...

OTTAWA - Even as planeloads of supplies to protect Canada's medical workers arrive, many primary-care physicians say they are in the dark about when they're going to get what they ...