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NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. government said Thursday it is shutting down an embattled federal jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light following disgraced financier Jeffrey Epste...

A group of major Canadian long-term care operators will require all staff be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 this fall, with those who don't take the shots being asked to go on unpaid leave. Chartwe...

MONTREAL - A lawyer representing families of several residents of a Montreal-area long-term care home where dozens died of COVID-19 said the fight for justice isn't over, even as the prosecutor's offi...

MONTREAL - Steven Lachance, a Montreal-based digital security analyst and entrepreneur, says he was worried when the Quebec government announced it would impose a vaccine passport system across the pr...

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories has reinstated its mask mandate amid a growing number of COVID-19 cases. Masks will be mandatory in all indoor public spaces starting Thursday morning. The terr...

EDMONTON - Alberta reported more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesdaybut, along with Saskatchewan, is not planning to follow broad mask mandates announced this week by neighbouring western pr...

WHITEHORSE - Yukon will lift its civil state of emergency put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic as it shifts to targeting specific outbreaks, Premier Sandy Silver said Wednesday. He said certain h...

CALGARY - Canadian imams are urging members of the Muslim community to get vaccinated to protect themselves and others from COVID-19. Twenty-five religious leaders have issued a joint statement pointi...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Delivering another blow to what's left of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's legacy, New York's new governor acknowledged on her first day in office that the state has had nearly 12,000 mo...

LONDON (AP) - The international scientists dispatched to China by the World Health Organization to find out where the coronavirus came from said Wednesday the search has stalled and warned that the wi...