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OTTAWA - British Columbia's transport minister made an official plea to her federal counterpart Wednesday to quickly make airlines provide more details on travellers to aid contact tracing efforts tha...

OTTAWA - Canada now has deals in place with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and U.S.-based biotech firm Moderna to secure millions of doses of their experimental COVID-19 vaccines, in case either of ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:25 p.m. on Aug. 5, 2020: There are 118,187 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 60,000 confirmed (including 5,687 deaths, 50,886 resolv...

OTTAWA - A new study suggests Canadians, especially women, will face a potentially explosive increase in mental illness for years after the COVID-19 pandemic is finally over. Over the long t...

OTTAWA - A Canadian company is telling the government today that its trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine on animals completely blocked the virus, but it must conduct human trials to know wheth...

Plans are being made across the country for how to safely send students back to school in the fall as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Here is a look at what the various provinces have said ...

OTTAWA - Canada's top public health doctors warned Tuesday that vaccines in development for COVID-19 provide hope but will not mean an immediate end to the pandemic. Dr. Theresa Tam said the Public He...

OTTAWA - Canada and some of its closest allies have kicked off a three-week naval exercise in the Arctic that aims to send a message of unity against potential adversaries in the North without spreadi...

OTTAWA - Answering criticism that the federal "COVID Alert" app only works on newer smartphones, Dr. Theresa Tam says it's one of many tools in fighting the novel coronavirus. The app released last we...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:12 p.m. on Aug 4, 2020: There are 117,791 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 59,845 confirmed (including 5,685 deaths, 50,886 resolve...