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OTTAWA - Sarah Jama of the Disability Justice Network of Ontario says senators and MPs are supporting a new law that would expand the access to medical assistance in dying because they have not grappl...

HALIFAX - The families of victims of the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting have added the gunman's spouse, her brother and her brother-in-law as defendants to the original class action lawsuit against th...

Relaxed COVID-19 restrictions go into effect today in Quebec, Alberta and Nova Scotia, while Ontario Premier Doug Ford is scheduled to announce a reopening plan for that province this afternoon. In Qu...

OTTAWA - Documents given to parliamentarians show federal officials audited at least 127 landlords who received aid through a program designed to ease rent costs for small businesses. That was the fig...

AUSTIN, Texas - Texas Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, who had battled health challenges over the past year including lung cancer treatment, has died more than two weeks after contracting COVID-19, hi...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 11 a.m. Quebec is reporting 853 new cases of COVID-19 and 17 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including two that...

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland - The women's world curling championship has been cancelled for a second straight year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Curling Federation says it had to cancel the Ma...

As concerns about internationally imported COVID-19 variants hit closer to home, public health authorities are asking - and increasingly, ordering - people to find alternative accommodations so they c...

NEW YORK - Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet who stirred America at the inauguration of President Joe Biden last month, again commanded the spotlight on one of the country's biggest stages, the Supe...

VALHALLA, N.Y. - Rapper Casanova, who is jailed in New York in a gang-related federal racketeering case, is facing disciplinary charges over a dance challenge video posted on social media. The 34-year...