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VICTORIA - Two mink farms that are still quarantined after COVID-19 outbreaks have begun annual breeding programs along with seven other farms in British Columbia. The Agriculture Ministry said the pr...

VICTORIA - The lifting of more British Columbia health restrictions is likely as the COVID-19 vaccination plan rolls out across the province, Premier John Horgan said Wednesday. However, Horgan says h...

OTTAWA - Intolerably suffering Canadians who are not near the natural end of their lives now have the right to seek medical assistance in dying. And that will eventually include people suffering solel...

WASHINGTON - Canada has indeed asked the United States for help in procuring doses of COVID-19 vaccines, but the White House refused to say Wednesday whether it has agreed to the request. Press secret...

EDMONTON - A group that supports an Alberta pastor jailed after being charged with violating COVID-19 public-health orders says it expects him to be released in the coming days. Crown prosecutors have...

Canada's chief public health officer urged caution Wednesday as a national decline in severe COVID-19 outcomes, such as hospitalizations and deaths, began to level off at the same time as the country'...

A national Inuit women's organization is calling on Inuit women and families across Canada to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Rebecca Kudloo, president of Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, said Wedne...

MONTREAL - A regional health authority north of Montreal says it is investigating after it was revealed one of its job postings last year for a patient attendant required that candidates be white wome...

TORONTO - Changes to federal quarantine requirements for temporary foreign workers do nothing to protect them from COVID-19, advocates said Wednesday, calling for the workers to be granted permanent r...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 7:15 p.m. British Columbia is reporting 498 new cases of COVID-19 and four more deaths, pushing the death toll in the province t...