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On the day British Columbia Conservative Party Leader John Rustad unveiled a major election campaign promise to help renters and homeowners squeezed by high housing costs, a video surfaced showing him...

NEW YORK - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that at a time when the world faces increasing instability, leaders have a choice: bury their heads in the sand or put their differences aside for the sak...

OTTAWA - Canada is setting aside $151 million for the fight to eradicate polio worldwide. International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen announced the news at a Rotary International conference in Tor...

BLACKFALDS, Alta. - Alberta Health Services says an E. coli outbreak at a daycare in Blackfalds has ended. Several children and staff got sick in late August at an Aspen Lakes Discovery Center locatio...

Health Canada has authorized Novavax's updated COVID-19 vaccine that protects against currently circulating variants of the virus. The protein-based vaccine, called Nuvaxovid, has been reformulated to...

FREDERICTON - A quick look at some of the issues in the New Brunswick election campaign: HEALTH CARE Conservatives: introduce "incremental improvements" Liberals: open 30 community-care clinics Greens...

In a haunting message from beyond the grave, Mtis Elder Sonny James MacDonald recounted being incarcerated for more than two years at an Indian Hospital in Edmonton in the 1940s for tuberculosis treat...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland urged a committee of senators Wednesday not to tweak the pharmacare bill he carefully negotiated with the NDP earlier this year. The bill would underpin a potenti...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is expected to officially kick off a provincial election campaign Thursday morning with a visit to the lieutenant-governor. Opposition parties got a he...

SAINT-GABRIEL-DE-VALCARTIER, Que. - All 16 Canadian soldiers sent to hospital after they were injured on a Quebec military base have been released. The Canadian Armed Forces said two armoured vehicles...