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OTTAWA - Canadians who tune in to watch proceedings in the House of Commons during the COVID-19 crisis may wonder why Conservative and Bloc Quebecois MPs continue to accuse the Liberal government...

VICTORIA - Education Minister Rob Fleming says about one third of students returned to classrooms in British Columbia yesterday and he expects those numbers to rise. Fleming says in cou...

OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis is the only woman in the race, the only immigrant, the only visible minority. Though she could seize on those qualities to differentiate he...

VANCOUVER - Warming ocean temperatures and acidification caused by climate change are threatening the survival of glass sponge reefs unique to the waters of the Pacific Northwest, a new study from res...

Blayre Turnbull knows how it feels to lose a parent at a young age. Her mother died of cancer when she was a teenager. So the Canadian women's hockey team forward wanted to help childre...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals are asking parliamentarians to approve $60 billion in spending on a key COVID-19 emergency benefit for workers. The Liberals had expected the Canada Emergency Response Be...

TORONTO - The importance of understanding the role race might play in the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted Ontario to look at regulatory changes to make collection of such data provincewide, the governm...

NANAIMO - A Nanaimo man was issued a four year prison term for trafficking what was called an alarming mixture of opioids.The recently released BC Supreme Court judgment against Michael Damien Byrne, ...

ST-JEROME, Que. - A Quebec man found guilty of two murders poses a high risk to public safety as well as a risk of evading authorities, correctional documents filed at his sentencing hearing suggest. ...

Khari Jones says he received death threats while he was the quarterback of the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers because of his interracial marriage. Jones, entering his second season as the Montreal Alouet...