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OTTAWA - Canadian authorities are blaming travel restrictions related to COVID-19 for a request that Iran hold off on downloading the flight recorders from a commercial jetliner shot down in January. ...

MONTREAL - The Quebec coroner's office announced Sunday it will investigate the deaths of dozens of seniors at a private long-term care facility west of Montreal linked t...

OTTAWA - It was last on a list of eight threat scenarios, but the danger of a global pandemic made the cut when the Liberal government issued a national security policy in 2004. With the then-recent S...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 6:45 p.m. Alberta is reporting four new deaths from COVID-19. The province says two were residents at the McKenzie Towne ...

WASHINGTON - In war, as the saying goes, truth is the first casualty. In a global pandemic, it seems trust doesn't fare too well either.  At a moment in history marked by soci...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory. Canada's chief public health officer and her provincial counterparts are encouraging people to wash their hands, give ea...

OTTAWA - Canada's political leaders joined Christians from across the country in marking Easter Sunday by issuing messages of hope and calls for strength even as COVID-19 continued to cause pain ...

EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney says Alberta has more than enough protective masks, gloves and ventilators for its own COVID-19 needs, so it's sharing some of its surplus with provinces in more dire n...

OTTAWA - Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough says the federal government is working on ways to ensure seasonal workers who do not currently qualify for the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit will be...

OTTAWA - Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is raising concern about temporary foreign workers arriving in Canada to work on farms, saying he believes the quarantine rules for these wor...