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Canada has quietly updated its guidelines on how COVID-19 spreads to include the risk of aerosol transmission for the first time, long after other countries and international health organizations acknowledged the airborne threat of the coronavirus. 

With COVID-19 cases rising in parts of the country, tightened restrictions are causing some Canadians to abandon safety precautions.

The federal Liberals have reached an agreement with opposition parties to fast-track a long-awaited bill to provide businesses with direct access to emergency rent relief.

New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will call for a new tax on wealthy Canadians and another on businesses that have profited excessively during the COVID-19 pandemic when it sets the topic of debate in the House of Commons on Thursday.

Many states made it easier to request a mail-in ballot amid the coronavirus pandemic and concerns about crowded polling places. But they generally require more time to process than ballots cast in person.

Long awaited fixes for those falsely flagged as being on the 'no-fly list' will be in effect ahead of the holiday travel system, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced today.

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network says threats against its chairperson and director led to the arrest of “helmet guy” Chris Vanderweide.

Given the unclear outcome, the ingredients have now been assembled for a combustible post-election aftermath in the U.S., writes Alex Panetta.

Given the still unclear outcome of Tuesday's U.S. presidential vote, the ingredients have now been assembled for a combustible post-election aftermath in the U.S., writes Alex Panetta.

Control of the Senate is a razor-close proposition in the election as Republicans fight to retain their majority against Democratic candidates who are challenging President Donald Trump's allies across a vast political map. 

U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign says it has filed a lawsuit trying to halt the vote count in the battleground state of Michigan.

U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign says it has filed a lawsuit trying to halt the vote count in the battleground state of Michigan.

Denmark's prime minister said Wednesday that the government wants to cull its entire herd of minks to minimize the risk of the animals re-transmitting a mutated form of the coronavirus to humans.

Parliament's budget watchdog has called out the Trudeau government for not providing information on billions of dollars in planned federal spending.

Alberta public health and agriculture officials are investigating after the first case in Canada of a rare swine flu variant was detected last month in a central Alberta patient.

Stock markets moved higher on Wednesday even as investors digested results of a U.S. election that remained too close to call.

While results had still not been fully tabulated early Wednesday for crucial swing states, Trump supporters were cautiously optimistic he would win a second term in the White House.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remained tight-lipped about the uncertainty clouding the U.S. election this morning, saying his government will watch the results carefully.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remained tight-lipped about the uncertainty clouding the U.S. election this morning, saying his government will watch the results carefully.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remained tightlipped about the uncertainty clouding the U.S. election this morning, saying his government will watch the results carefully.

The chair of Britain's coronavirus vaccine task force says data evaluating the efficacy and safety of its two most advanced candidates should be available in early December.

Kevin Bentson wrapped up two weeks at an isolation hotel in Yellowknife on Saturday, and says he felt uncomfortable with people's lack of social distancing within the facility and that some protocols weren't be followed.

Tropical storm Eta continues to spin across northern Nicaragua after lashing the country's Caribbean coast for much of Tuesday, isolating already remote communities and setting off deadly landslides that killed at least three people.

Hurricane Eta continues to spin across northern Nicaragua after lashing the country's Caribbean coast for much of Tuesday, isolating already remote communities and setting off deadly landslides that killed at least three people.

Voters in California backed a ballot proposal by Uber and its allies in Tuesday's U.S. election that cements app-based food delivery and ride-hailing drivers' status as independent contractors, rather than employees.

Shares of Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc jumped in premarket trading on Wednesday, as Wall Street cheered the app-based firms' projected victory in their battle to set the terms of the gig economy they have helped create.

Watch highlights of our coverage of the U.S. presidential election.

Police in Winnipeg are vowing to crack down on house parties and large gatherings in the region as the province reports 374 new cases of COVID-19.

A nationwide push to relax some U.S. drug laws took a significant step forward Tuesday as more states legalized marijuana for adults and voters made Oregon the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of street drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

The possible presence of pieces of glass has prompted Miss Vickie's Canada to recall a number of its Kettle Cooked Potato Chips brand of chips from store shelves.

Owen Mooney is a fit, front-line doctor who had been fighting the coronavirus in Winnipeg hospital wards with patients with COVID-19, but never expected that the virus would knock him out cold.

The Ontario farm belt town of Aylmer is becoming increasingly divided among those who refuse to wear a mask during the pandemic and those who wish they would.

The Ontario farm belt town of Aylmer is becoming increasingly divided among those who refuse to wear a mask during the pandemic and those who wish they would.

The Ontario farm belt town of Aylmer is becoming increasingly divided among those who refuse to wear a mask during the pandemic and those who wish they would.

Huawei is suing multiple U.S. government agencies to try to force the release of documents the company believes could reveal political motivations behind the arrest of its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou.

Millions of voters turned out to vote in Tuesday's presidential election, but by early Wednesday morning, several key states remained too close to call and Americans were bracing for days of uncertainty over the result.

Republicans are keeping their legal options open to challenge absentee ballots in Pennsylvania, if the battleground state could swing President Donald Trump's re-election. A top Democratic lawyer says the suits are meant to sow doubt about the results and lack merit.

Investors' hopes for a decisive early read on the U.S. election were dampened after mixed initial voting results on Tuesday night, which also raised doubts about an easy route to a massive fiscal stimulus package.

A Mi'kmaw chief who has battled for his band's treaty right to fish lobster in southwestern Nova Scotia has been re-elected. It will be a third term for Chief Mike Sack in the community of Sipekne'katik, N.S.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pressed Tuesday to clarify comments he made last week about the limits of free speech after a teacher in France was beheaded by a terrorist for showing cartoon caricatures of Prophet Muhammad during a class discussion.

Americans by the millions flocked to the polls on Tuesday amid a deadly pandemic in a mostly calm, orderly show of political determination and civic duty that belied deep tensions shaping one of the most polarizing presidential races in U.S. history.

Americans by the millions waited patiently to cast ballots at libraries, schools and arenas across the country on Tuesday, in an orderly show of civic duty that belied the deep tensions of one of the most polarizing presidential campaigns in U.S. history.

Americans by the millions waited patiently to cast ballots at libraries, schools and arenas across the country on Tuesday, in an orderly show of civic duty that belied the deep tensions of one of the most polarizing presidential campaigns in U.S. history.