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TORONTO - The decisions of several top-tier universities to make COVID-19 vaccination a requirement to return to campus is putting added pressure on holdouts to follow suit, with some professors hopin...

The Alberta government is walking back its decision to eliminate isolation requirements for people who test positive for COVID-19 after weeks of pressure from local leaders, physicians and families. D...

REGINA - Saskatchewan has become the latest jurisdiction to sign on to the federal government's plan to implement $10-a-day childcare for families. "A child-care centre is as important to our economy,...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California will become the first state in the nation to require all teachers and school staff to get vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing, as schools return from summer b...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba is signing on to the federal government's plan to implement $10-a-day child care for families by 2023. "It is no exaggeration to say this is the largest child-care deal ever struck...

TORONTO - Bill Davis, the 18th premier of Ontario and one of the country's longest-serving premiers, has died at 92. A statement from his family says Davis was surrounded by his relatives when he died...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing its ban on mask mandates after lawmakers left the prohibition in place despite a rising number of COVI...

MONTREAL - The federal government will transfer about $6 billion to Quebec over five years in connection with Ottawa's national child-care program, but the money comes without conditions and Quebec's ...

PLYMOUTH, Pa. (AP) - A book checked out a half-century ago has been anonymously returned to a library in northeastern Pennsylvania, officials said. The Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice reports that the 19...

The NCAA has fallen short of upholding its commitment to gender equity by prioritizing its cash cow Division I men's basketball tournament "over everything else," according a scathing review released ...