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First Nations have begun to receive doses of COVID-19 vaccines as provincial immunization programs get underway, with Indigenous leaders encouraging people to roll up their sleeves.

More than six years after Canada first deployed troops to the Middle East to help fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, hundreds of Canadian Armed Forces personnel remain in the region.

Police and Alberta Health Services responded to a southeast Calgary church on Sunday, after the pastor continued to encourage congregants to break public health rules following a fine and health inspection order. 

The Vancouver Canucks will return to practice Monday morning after cancelling practice and workouts Sunday due to potential COVID-19 exposure.

The Vancouver Canucks will return to practice Monday morning after cancelling practice and workouts Sunday due to potential COVID-19 exposure.

The Vancouver Canucks will return to practice Monday morning after cancelling practice and workouts Sunday due to potential COVID-19 exposure.

The Vancouver Canucks have cancelled their training camp practices and workouts Sunday due to potential exposure to COVID-19. They are the fourth team to have its training camp affected by COVID-19.

A new coronavirus variant has been detected in four travellers from Brazil's Amazonas state, Japan's Health Ministry said on Sunday, the latest new mutation of the virus discovered.

The federal government has chosen not to exercise its option to buy up to 16 million more doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, Procurement Minister Anita Anand's office told CBC News late Sunday.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House of Representatives "will proceed" with bringing legislation to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump to the floor.

Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey on Sunday joined Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in calling for Trump to "resign and go away as soon as possible" after a violent mob of his supporters broke into the Capitol on Wednesday.

Leaders of the two federal political parties are among those attending a rally outside St. George Care Community organized by family groups.

Provincial lockdown measures have been extended in Alberta and Manitoba, while Saskatchewan has said it plans to review the status of its Christmas limits on gatherings and retail capacity.

The recent case of a Nunavut woman who flew to Winnipeg to deliver her fifth child and died of COVID-19 points to the risks in relying on interprovincial travel for health care, especially during a pandemic.

Indonesian authorities on Sunday located the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea soon after taking off from the capital, Jakarta, as human body parts and pieces of the plane were retrieved.

Ontario is reporting 3,945 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, a single-day record for the province. There were also 61 more deaths reported.

A former U.S. defence secretary says he’s “shocked” that Wednesday’s siege of Capitol Hill wasn’t met with a stronger security presence and worried about what that could mean for president-elect Joe Biden’s impending inauguration.

Among some legal circles January is known as "divorce month" because of an increase in inquiries about splitting up. The theory is that couples buck up for one last holiday with family, and then head to the lawyer's office soon after the Christmas tree comes down.

CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.

The foreign ministers of Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Canada have issued a joint statement expressing "serious concern" about the arrest of 55 democracy activists and supporters in Hong Kong last week.

Using information gleaned from Canadian public health authorities, this online calculator is capable of spitting out an estimate for when different groups of Canadians will receive their shots.

Most of the new appointees to the Order of Canada in 2020 were white men, despite some progress made in boosting the diversity of the elite group.

As the Royal Family contemplates the year ahead, some notable milestones lie in the offing, along with the likelihood of continuing new ways of doing royal business that have evolved since the pandemic began. But controversies that have loomed large in the last little while show no signs of fading.

I have been an enthusiastic resolutioner for as long as I can remember. But each year of putting myself through this, I’d finish out the year sicker than I'd begun it. Until last year.

Input Capital, a publicly traded company based in Regina, says it is investigating after its $97.5-million proposed sale to smooth-talking American businessman Eric Blue collapsed two months ago.

Quebec has become the first province to implement a curfew to help curb the spread of COVID-19 — a measure that has already been instituted in many regions across the world. But how effective those measures have been are difficult to determine. Yet France has shown some positive results, according to a study.

American golfer Justin Thomas apologized after using a homophobic slur during the third round of the Sentry Tournament of Champions on Saturday.

Democrats' momentum for a fresh drive to quickly impeach outgoing President Donald Trump gained support Saturday, and a top Republican said the president's role in the deadly riot at the Capitol by a violent mob of Trump supporters was worthy of rebuke.

Kelowna RCMP say they have issued a $2,300 fine to the organizer of a protest and march in the city’s downtown Saturday that contravened provincial public health orders related to COVID-19.

A persistent blizzard blanketed large parts of Spain with an unusual amount of snow on Saturday, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or at train stations and airports, leading to the suspension of all services.