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NANAIMO - City council is throwing its weight behind a possible 60-bed supportive shelter in Nanaimo.. Councillors voted 7-2 on Monday, Aug. 31 to send a letter to the province expressing interest in ...

ORCIERES-MERLETTE, France - After just four stages at the Tour de France, the balance of power is already clearer: Primoz Roglic and his Jumbo-Visma team are looking like the ones to beat. Roglic, the...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. government and City of Vancouver are partnering to build 450 new supportive homes for people experiencing homelessness. Housing Minister Selina Robinson and Mayor Kennedy Ste...

OTTAWA - New data from some of Canada's biggest police forces show major COVID-19 lockdowns across much of the country in the spring led to a sharp uptick in calls to police for domestic vio...

TORONTO - Kadeisha Buchanan and Alphonso Davies, who each lifted the Champions League trophy in August, have been named Canada Soccer's players of the month. Buchanan claimed her fourth Euro...

WASHINGTON - The lawyer for accused neo-Nazi and former Canadian Forces reservist Patrik Mathews has asked a U.S. court to drop weapons charges against his client and to allow him to stand trial separ...

EDMONTON - A decision has yet to be made on whether the 2021 world junior men's hockey championship in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alta., will be played with or without fans. The International Ice Hockey F...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he will lift the state's ban on visiting nursing homes that has cut off vulnerable seniors from family since mid-March over fears o...

OTTAWA - The national statistics agency is readying a new online tool designed to help Canadians track the impact of price changes on their spending during the pandemic. Statistics Canada already has ...

MONTREAL - Ten thousand Quebec unionized home daycare workers began the first of a series of rotating strikes Tuesday, after negotiations with the province failed to produce a deal. The group rep...