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IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer says all those currently infected with COVID-19 in Iqaluit are adults. Dr. Michael Patterson also says about three-quarters of them are in thei...

EDMONTON - Some 35 scientists from the University of Alberta are urging the provincial government to rethink its plans for expanding coal-mining in the Rocky Mountains. The researchers, all from the u...

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors have signed forward Yuta Watanabe to a standard NBA contract. The six-foot-nine, 205-pound native of Yokohama, Japan is averaging four points, 3.3 rebounds and 13.4 minut...

MONTREUX, Switzerland - Players at the 12 clubs setting up their own Super League could be banned from this year's European Championship and next year's World Cup, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin sa...

ANNANDALE, Va. - Canadian bowler Franois Lavoie has won the Guaranteed Rate PBA Super Slam. The 28-year-old from Quebec City, who now makes his home in Wichita, Kan., defeated PBA Players Championship...

Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says he has contacted the city's chief of police after several gatherings on the weekend violated COVID-19 health restrictions.In a message posted on social media, Stew...

Ontario and Quebec have imposed new interprovincial travel restrictions in an effort to slow the surging COVID-19 variants that are putting increasing strain on Ontario's hospital system. Starting tod...

MERRITT, B.C. - A wildfire burning near homes in British Columbia's southern interior has prompted the first evacuation alert of B.C.'s barely three-week-old wildfire season. The Thompson-Nicola Regio...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 10:50 a.m. Ontario is reporting 4,447 new cases of COVID-19 today and 19 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Health...

NEW YORK - The original principal cast of "Downton Abbey" are returning for a second film that will arrive in theatres December 22 this year, Focus Features announced Monday. "Downton Abbey" creator J...