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TORONTO - Growing concern about contracting or spreading the new coronavirus has so far prompted Canadians to make relatively modest changes to protect themselves and others, a poll released on Thursd...

OTTAWA - The federal government unveiled a $1 billion response package to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on the Canadian health-care system, the economy, and workers. Here is the breakdown of the sp...

GENEVA - World Health Organization declares COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. More coming The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The glad-handing, confetti-and-skimmer-hat spirit of North American retail politics is on a collision course with the realities of life in a pandemic. In both Canada and th...

WASHINGTON - The Associated Press surveyed voters in three of the six states that held Democratic presidential contests on Tuesday. Here's a snapshot of voters in Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi - ...

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden decisively won Michigan's Democratic presidential primary, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders' insurgent candidacy four years ago. The former vic...

A Saskatchewan high school student is accusing the teachers union of leveraging students in their contract dispute with the provincial government. Tristin Funk from Herbert posted a Facebook video on ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian military is searching for its sixth second-in-command in less than four years after Lt.-Gen. Jean-Marc Lanthier's surprise decision to retire this summer. The turnover in vice-ch...

MOSCOW - The Russian parliament approved a sweeping constitutional reform in the third and final reading Wednesday, a move that will allow President Vladimir Putin to stay in power for another 12 year...

OTTAWA - The federal government rolled out a $1-billion package Wednesday to help the country's health-care system and economy cope with the novel coronavirus outbreak as the number of cases in C...