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OTTAWA - The Senate will be reopening for business nearly a week later than planned, partly in response to the surging second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Senate Speaker George Furey is extending th...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is being urged to follow the tough talk of Europe's health minister, who Wednesday accused a vaccine company of not living up to its moral and legal obligations because...

Amid concerns about the emergence of variant strains, new COVID-19 infections maintained a downward trend in Canada's two most populous provinces on Wednesday, although authorities reported more than ...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday warning of the lingering potential for violence from people motivated by antigovernment sentiment after ...

OTTAWA - Pfizer and BioNTech will cut back on how many vials of COVID-19 vaccine they send Canada this year if the federal health regulator agrees to change the vaccine label to say every vial contain...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government said Wednesday it will not challenge a temporary court order granted Tuesday that exempts the homeless from a provincewide curfew imposed to limit the spread of COVID-...

OTTAWA - Canadians expect concrete measures from politicians to ensure everyone - Indigenous people included - has access to first-class medical treatment, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller sai...

OTTAWA - A lawyer for Hassan Diab says a French appeal court's order that the Ottawa sociology professor stand trial for a decades-old synagogue bombing is the latest misstep in a long odyssey of inju...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is grappling with a surge in the number of troops who have been infected with COVID-19 over the past month, even as a growing number of service members have started ...

NEW YORK - One of the first book-length inside accounts of the coronavirus pandemic will be coming out in June. Lawrence Wright's "The Plague Year," which builds on a New Yorker story that ran earlier...