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UEFA is nearing a decision to postpone the European Championship by a year to 2021 as the continent grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is closing America's borders to foreign nationals who recently spent time in Europe, a dramatic step that illustrates both the severity of the global outbreak of COVID-1...

CANADA-The National Hockey League (NHL) has suspended the season due to the COVID-19 pandemicIn a statement released by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, and shared on the NHL's official twitter, it was ...

OTTAWA - The federal ethics commissioner says there is no reason to believe former Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick broke the conflict-of-interest law during the SNC-Lavalin affair. In a report Tue...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's governing Progressive Conservatives tabled a $10.2-billion budget Tuesday that could prove to be their undoing, given their tenuous minority in the le...

Better fire protection is needed in barns to stop the cruel deaths of tens of thousands of farm animals each year, says a report from the Humane Society International/Canada. "We're just not...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is defending its decision to take more than $4.1 million from Veterans Affairs Canada's operating budget at a time when the department is struggling with a backlog of t...

OTTAWA - Seeking to understand the circumstances surrounding the murder of a 22-year-old Quebec woman at the hands of a violent offender out on day parole, federal MPs emerged with few ...

CALGARY - A daycare in a downtown Calgary office tower has closed after a child tested positive for COVID-19. Suncor Energy spokeswoman Erin Rees says the Pump-Kin Patch Child Care Centre is closed un...

GATINEAU, Que. - A couple from Gatineau say they're relieved to be back home after contracting COVID-19 aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. Bernard Menard, who went through the expe...