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MONTREAL - Quebecers are required starting today to show proof of vaccination to access businesses and events the government deems non-essential, such as restaurants, gyms and festivals. The governmen...

OTTAWA - The Liberal re-election platform released today includes $78 billion in new spending, more than three times the direct new revenues promised over the next five years. The 82-page document inc...

CALGARY - Canada claimed its first women's world hockey championship in almost a decade Tuesday when Marie-Philip Poulin scored the overtime winner in a 3-2 victory over the United States. The Canadia...

MATANE, Que. - Quebec provincial police issued an Amber Alert on Tuesday night after a three-year-old boy was allegedly abducted in a town 400 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. Police say the boy w...

NANAIMO - A pair of downtown Nanaimo parks are closed indefinitely in response to social disorder issues.Richard Harding, the City's general manager of parks, recreation and culture, said last week cr...

The three main party leaders are staying central for Day 18 of the federal election campaign. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau begins his day with an announcement in Toronto. Conservative Leader Erin O'T...

A health law professor says a belief by some that a medication used to deworm cattle and horses can treat COVID-19 shows how ideology can lead people to embrace misinformation. Timothy Caulfield from ...

OTTAWA - The anticipated flood of Canadians choosing to vote by mail on Sept. 20 has been more of a trickle so far. As of Monday night, Elections Canada had issued 298,040 special ballot kits. That's ...

EDMONTON - Alberta's Canadian Energy Centre appears ready to be vocal again, planning a new campaign to "change perceptions" about the province's oil and gas industry and build what it's calling a soc...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau has got to be hoping the adage "like father, like son" applies to election campaigns. His electoral path thus far has been a carbon copy of that forged by his late father, Pier...