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HALIFAX - The Canadian Hurricane Centre is predicting another active hurricane season this year, citing the persistence of warmer-than-average ocean temperatures. Meteorologist Bob Robichaud also conf...

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. - Opponents of old-growth logging have re-entered a restricted area on southwest Vancouver Island and Mounties have returned to enforce a court injunction that orders their removal...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli media say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Security Cabinet has approved a unilateral cease-fire to halt an 11-day military operation in the Gaza Strip. The dec...

MONTREAL - The mayor of a Montreal suburb is calling for other municipal leaders to denounce antisemitism after several recent anti-Jewish incidents in the region. Mitchell Brownstein, mayor of Cte-Sa...

TORONTO - Impatience and a lack of clarity persisted Thursday over the fate of thousands of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine set to expire in the coming weeks. Several provinces have stopped gi...

HALIFAX - The spectre of pandemic-fuelled social chaos and widespread looting appeared to haunt the Nova Scotia mass shooter a month before he carried out his killing rampage of April 18-19, 2020. Twe...

OTTAWA - Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says he cannot yet commit to a date - or COVID-19 vaccination rate benchmarks - for when so-called vaccine passports will allow Canada to ease travel restrict...

TORONTO - Canada's Olympic swim trials can proceed next month in Toronto, Swimming Canada announced Thursday. The organization said in a release that Toronto Public Health has confirmed that the June ...

QUESNEL - Safety improvements are coming to a section of Highway 97 near Quesnel.The project will involve widening 1.1 kilometres of Highway 97 and improvements to two key intersections. Traffic signa...

VERNON, B.C. - A two-year-old child has died after a fall from a third-storey window at a home in Vernon, B.C. A statement from RCMP says it happened Saturday, May 15. The toddler was taken to hospita...