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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will buy another 40 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine over the next two years. Trudeau tweeted about the agreement with the Massachusetts-b...

MADRID (AP) - Spain set a new provisional heat record of 47.2 degrees Celsius (116.96 Fahrenheit) on Saturday as Southern Europe sweltered under a relentless summer sun. Italy put 16 cities on red ale...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday, killing at least 304 people and injuring at least 1,800 others as buildings tumbled into rubble....

SASKATOON - Two universities in Saskatchewan have joined a growing number of post-secondary institutions in the country requiring staff and students to be vaccinated for COVID-19. The University of Sa...

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...

Ottawa will require federal employees, workers in federally regulated industries and many travellers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, marking a shift in the federal government's position on vaccine ...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is seeking to intervene in a Federal Court case where the Liberal government is trying to shield documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada...

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...

DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) - As the bus carried the New York Yankees through the cornfields blanketing this serene, rolling farmland of northeast Iowa, Aaron Judge noticed a difference from the usual arriv...

VICTORIA - A surge in COVID-19 cases spurred by the Delta variant is prompting British Columbia health officials to enact mandatory vaccine requirements for all staff and volunteers at long-term care ...