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WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Progressive Conservative government tabled its 2020-21 budget on Thursday. Here are some of the highlights: - The province estimates health care costs this year could jump b...

WINNIPEG - The Progressive Conservative government tabled its 2020-21 budget on Thursday. Here is a list of some winners and losers: WINNERS Drivers: Vehicle registration fees are to be cut by 10...

OTTAWA - Karen Grepin's family arrived in Hong Kong six months ago to start a grand adventure in a new country after she took a job as a professor of public health at the University of Hong Kong. They...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is keeping a tight leash on spending and delaying some promised tax cuts as it prepares for the economic fallout from COVID-19. The Progressive C...

OTTAWA - Newfoundland and Labrador MP Jack Harris says he's being treated for cancer. In a news release Thursday, the New Democrat says the diagnosis came after he recently discovered a lump on his ne...

Parents in Canada whose children are stuck in Peru following border closures are anxiously waiting for any concrete information on how to get their kids home. Amit Konorty's son, Jacob, 24, ...

OTTAWA - Canada's top doctor says it might be months until we know whether social distancing measures being employed across the country are slowing the spread of COVID-19. Canada has seen a "conc...

OTTAWA - The federal government is rolling out $27 billion in new spending and $55 billion in credit to help families and businesses get past the COVID-19 pandemic, which has reduced consumer spending...

WASHINGTON - Canada and the United States are expected to close their doors to discretionary cross-border travel sometime overnight Friday, leaving it open to long-haul truckers, air cr...

WASHINGTON - Iran has granted a medical furlough to a U.S. Navy veteran who has been imprisoned in for more than a year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday. Michael White of Imperial Be...