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Canada hit more unwanted firsts in its battle against the COVID-19 pandemic on Sunday, as Quebec became the first province to surpass 10,000 deaths and Toronto reported Ontario's first case of a varia...

More than a dozen federal lawmakers from all parties are calling for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be moved outside China, citing a "genocidal campaign" by the state against Uighurs and other Muslim min...

WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and...

OTTAWA - The federal government has allocated $30 million over the past 15 years to sustain charitable foundations created by governors general once they leave office. But Prime Minister Justin Trudea...

SAINT-HERBLAIN, France - French pharmaceutical startup Valneva had big news in September: a government contract for 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate. The buyer? The United Kingdom...

YANGON, Myanmar - As enthusiastic crowds of tens of thousands marched through the streets of Myanmar's biggest city on Sunday to protest last week's coup ousting Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government,...

BERLIN - A snowstorm and strong winds pounded northern and western Germany on Sunday, forcing trains to cancel trips and leading to hundreds of vehicle crashes. Police said 28 people were injured on i...

OTTAWA - Angela Gevaudan recalls the first year after her RCMP-officer husband was killed on duty as a whirlwind of responsibility and emotion that offered her little time to process her grief and los...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Elections Newfoundland and Labrador says more than 33,000 people have voted in the province's advance polls. The province released figures late on Saturday indicating 33,523 was the...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Sunday Feb. 7, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 21,469 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,064,245 do...