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A third death has been linked to the COVID-19 outbreak at a Cargill meat-processing plant near High River in southern Alberta, which is the largest tied to a single location in Canada.

We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to [email protected] and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday online, and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network.

We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to [email protected] and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday online, and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada and the U.S. are working on plans to deal with what she calls an inevitable increase in cross-border traffic as economies in both countries emerge from their pandemic-induced comas. 

Veterans ombudsman Craig Dalton, a respected former colonel in the army, has abruptly quit the position. He was barely half way through his federally-appointed term and apparently has an undisclosed job offer. He made waves last summer by suggesting the ombudsman's mandate needed to be reviewed because veterans had lost trust.

Premier Doug Ford appears to have broken COVID-19 physical distancing measures prescribed by Ontario's public health officials, saying his two daughters who live in different households visited his home over Mother's Day weekend.

Premier Doug Ford appears to have broken COVID-19 physical distancing measures prescribed by Ontario's public health officials, saying his two daughters who live in different households visited his home over Mother's Day weekend.

A 19-year-old stopped by the Ontario Provincial Police after being clocked driving 308 km/h on a busy highway reportedly told the officer who pulled him over he was "comfortable" doing three times the speed limit, despite the fact he still doesn't have his full licence.

An 18-year-old stopped by the Ontario Provincial Police after being clocked driving 308 km/h on a busy highway reportedly told the officer who pulled him over he was "comfortable" doing three times the speed limit, despite the fact he still doesn't have his full licence.

A new poll focusing on Canada’s children shows the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people across the country, no matter their age.

Air Canada's plan to introduce mandatory temperature checks for COVID-19 to all passengers in an effort to assure Canadians it's safe to return to the skies raises privacy concerns, legal and privacy analysts say.

Investigators suspect the gunman responsible for the mass shooting in rural Nova Scotia that killed 22 people used gasoline while setting homes and vehicles on fire. They also released information about where he obtained decals for his replica RCMP cruiser.

Investigators suspect the gunman responsible for the mass shooting in rural Nova Scotia that killed 22 people used gasoline while setting homes and vehicles on fire. They also released information about where he obtained decals for his replica RCMP cruiser.

After an initial flurry of panic buying at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, Canadians have slowed down their spending at grocery stores a little, but sales in April were still far above normal levels in a variety of product categories, a new report from Statistics Canada shows.

The U.S. government is increasingly concerned about pollution from British Columbian coal mines, following new research that shows contaminants in a river south of the border came from Canada.

With sports on pause, Olympic runner Brandon McBride wanted to give back to the community after hearing about people's struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic, so he and his girlfriend bought grocery cards for families in his hometown of Windsor, Ont.

A new surge in coronavirus cases took Russia's tally past those in Italy and Britain on Monday, making it the third-highest in the world just hours before President Vladimir Putin was due to issue an update on the situation.

A new surge in coronavirus cases took Russia's tally past those in Italy and Britain on Monday, making it the third-highest in the world just hours before President Vladimir Putin was due to issue an update on the situation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday announced a gradual easing of coronavirus lockdown measures despite a new surge in infections that took Russia's tally past Italy's, making it the fourth highest in the world.

Twenty years ago, history was made when the Nisga’a Treaty came into effect on May 11, 2000. It was the first modern-day treaty signed in B.C., and set a new path in Canada — incorporating inherent self-government written directly into the treaty.

Comedy veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and re-emerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show Seinfeld, died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday.

A group of international researchers say the Edmontosaurus, a dinosaur known to have lived some 70 million years ago between Alberta and Colorado, had an even larger range than what was previously believed, stretching to Alaska.

Restricted seating and staggered showtimes are among the measures planned to keep moviegoers and staff safe under any reopening strategy for cinemas.

Team leaders at Toyota Canada's manufacturing plants in Cambridge and Woodstock are expected to return to work Monday morning, the first step in a gradual process of reopening following an almost two month-long shutdown.

Fifteen students per class, scheduled recess periods to limit contact in the schoolyard and mandatory handwashing are among the new realities Quebec elementary school students will be facing as they make their way back to class.

Teachers are swimming upstream in unfamiliar waters with little training and a patchwork of resources, but what they learn could help the current generation of students truly benefit from the potential of ed-tech, writes Paul W. Bennett.

Teachers are swimming upstream in unfamiliar waters with little training and a patchwork of resources, but what they learn could help the current generation of students truly benefit from the potential of ed-tech, writes Paul W. Bennett.

Russian troops recently conducted a high-altitude parachute drop and military exercise in the High Arctic. It's a feat that has drawn both concern and admiration in western defence and diplomatic circles, with some wondering how to interpret Moscow's Far North ambitions.

While provinces ease into reopening their economies, questions swirl around the federal government's commercial rent relief program and whether it will work.

While parts of the country continue to grapple with supply, capacity or logistics issues, this drive-thru testing facility in Collingwood, Ont., has a different problem: not enough patients. 

Fifteen students per class, scheduled recess periods to limit contact in the schoolyard and mandatory handwashing are among the new realities Quebec elementary school students will be facing as they make their way back to class.

The union representing Canada's food inspectors says Ottawa is threatening disciplinary action against employees who refuse to be reassigned to work at COVID-19-infected meat plants.

We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to [email protected] and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday online, and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network.

Construction will soon ramp up on the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil export pipeline, including the installation of pipe in British Columbia where opposition to the project has been loudest.

While some government-imposed social distancing measures are being eased up among the provinces and territories, many of the checkpoints and travel restrictions remain in place. Here's what you need to know about the travel policies in place in each province and territory:

Teachers are swimming upstream in unfamiliar waters with little training and a patchwork of resources, but what they learn could help the current generation of students truly benefit from the potential of ed-tech, writes Paul W. Bennett.

Canadian newsrooms have had serious financial woes for years now. But since the coronavirus pandemic began, layoffs, cuts and closures across the country have left many teetering on the brink of survival.Today, Craig Silverman, a Toronto-based media editor for Buzzfeed News, joins us to talk about how it got to this point and what can be done to stop the hemorrhaging.

Singapore contained its coronavirus outbreak through aggressive tracing, testing and clamping down on its economy, but it exposed some ugly truths about its treatment of migrant workers in the process.

The Canadian Armed Forces is postponing the deployment of a warship and surveillance aircraft to help enforce United Nations' sanctions against North Korea because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Department of National Defence says it has recovered and identified the partial remains of a second victim of last month's military helicopter crash in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Department of National Defence says it has recovered and identified the partial remains of a second victim of last month's military helicopter crash in the Mediterranean Sea.

Vice-President Mike Pence was self-isolating Sunday after an aide tested positive for the coronavirus last week, but he planned to return to the White House on Monday.