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Ontario announced Monday it was closing its schools, and Toronto-area hospitals cleared pediatric beds to make room for COVID-19 patients as officials in other provinces defended the need for public-h...

TRURO, N.S. - Nova Scotia's premier is inviting people in the province to participate in two minutes of silence this Sunday at 3 p.m. for those lost in last year's mass shooting. Iain Rankin will atte...

OTTAWA - Despite a report showing Canada's greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2019, the federal environment minister says the country is right where it needs to be to start seeing them fall. The nationa...

SANTA FE, N.M. - New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham was set Monday to sign legislation that will legalize recreational marijuana use and sales in the state, making it the seventh since last Novemb...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 6:55 p.m. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is condemning those who use threats and intimidation to protest COVID-19 rules. Provincia...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says he will vote against a bill brought forward by a member of his caucus that aims to ban so-called "sex-selective abortions." O'Toole said he supports a wo...

MONTREAL - The front window of Frank Passa's Old Montreal restaurant, Quattro, is covered with a piece of plywood, broken after an anti-curfew protest turned violent on Sunday night. While some of his...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog found "reasonable grounds to believe" that a Syrian air force military helicopter dropped a chlorine cylinder on a Syr...

HONG KONG - Chinese telecommunications equipment firm Huawei said Monday that it has reached an agreement with HSBC in Hong Kong to obtain documents that its chief financial office Meng Wanzhou hopes ...

BERLIN - The head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, Armin Laschet, on Monday rallied his party's leadership behind his bid to become the centre-right candidate to be Germany's next leader. That gav...