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OTTAWA - WestJet says it is suspending all commercial international and transborder flights for a 30-day period to help control the spread of COVID-19, effective March 23. The Calgary-based airline sa...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has postponed until at least June hearing a constitutional challenge of the federal government's carbon tax. The top court was to have heard the challenge, la...

WASHINGTON - In a massive federal effort Tuesday, President Donald Trump asked Congress to speed emergency checks to Americans, enlisted the military for MASH-like hospitals and implored ordinary peop...

WASHINGTON - Racing to stall an expected surge of coronavirus cases, the White House on Monday released a series of sweeping guidelines that for the next 15 days will temporarily rewrite the norms of ...

MEXICO CITY - President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador said Monday he will suspend his tours of the countryside and intimate, person-to-person interactions with large numbers of supporters when his coronav...

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden swept to victory in Florida, Illinois and Arizona on Tuesday, increasingly pulling away with a Democratic presidential primary upended by the coronavirus and building pressure o...

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden has been declared the winner of last week's Democratic presidential primary in Washington state, giving him victories in five out of six states that voted March 10. After nearly...

U.S. airlines are asking the federal government for grants, loans and tax relief that could easily top $50 billion to help them recover from a sharp downturn in travel due to the new coronavirus. Airl...

CUSCO, Peru - As the federal government urges Canadians overseas to return, some travellers in countries where borders are closing don't know how they're going to get home. Nikita Singh and ...

OTTAWA - When Dr. Theresa Tam first got the top public health job in Canada, she said something that has turned out to be prophetic. Her job, she said, would be all about "harnessing the efforts ...