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OTTAWA - A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians support the idea of a lockdown on non-essential businesses and services during the holidays to fight a surge in new COVID-19 cases across the count...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Alouettes have signed American kick returner Mario Alford and Canadian defensive lineman David Menard for the 2021 CFL season. The five-foot-eight, 177-pound Alford scored a pa...

DIGBY - Military aircraft and coast guard vessels are searching off the coast of southwestern Nova Scotia after a scallop boat was reported to have gone down in rough seas and empty life-rafts washed ...

PRINCE GEORGE - Germs are known to be everywhere in our environment and in our bodies. Sometimes people can encounter a harmful organism, it can lead to disease and death. Vaccines are developed to pr...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The monarch butterfly will have to wait several years more to receive protection under the Endangered Species Act despite its declining population. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Se...

OTTAWA - Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough says federal notices to emergency aid recipients are an attempt to verify information and avoid making tax time next year overly complicated. The Canada R...

LONDON - Social media and other internet companies face big fines in Britain if they don't remove and limit the spread of harmful material such as child sexual abuse or terrorist content and protect u...

WINNIPEG - Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been arrested in Winnipeg. Court records show Nygard, who is 79, was arrested under the Extradition Act and is to appear in a Winnipeg courtroom this...

VICTORIA - The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia is set to file for the largest reduction in basic insurance rates in the province's history.ICBC is asking the B.C. Utilities Commission to app...

QUEBEC - A Parti Quebecois member of the Quebec legislature has been arrested on allegations of sexual assault. Quebec provincial police arrested Harold LeBel today in Rimouski and he was being questi...