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Ontario's nursing regulator says it is investigating two nurses who travelled to Washington, D.C., last week to attend a rally by a group of their peers that has made unsubstantiated, conspiratorial claims about "COVID fraud" and hospitals' alleged role in misrepresenting the coronavirus pandemic. 

Ontario's nursing regulator says it is investigating two nurses who travelled to Washington, D.C., last week to attend a rally by a group of their peers that has made unsubstantiated, conspiratorial claims about "COVID fraud" and hospitals' alleged role in misrepresenting the coronavirus pandemic. 

The Canada Revenue Agency began sending out T4a slips today to Canadians who have received COVID-19 benefits, reminding them that the money is taxable income and must be recorded on their tax returns.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced that Canada would commit up to $55 million to a United Nations initiative aimed at preventing further degradation of land and protecting vital ecosystems.

United Conservative Party MLAs, including Speaker Nathan Cooper and deputy Speaker Angela Pitt, are denouncing the choices of Premier Jason Kenney and caucus colleagues after several took vacations abroad despite warnings to avoid non-essential travel amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

U.S. House Democrats on Monday introduced a resolution containing a single article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, charging him with "incitement of insurrection" for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol last week.

The FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington in the days leading up to president-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, stoking fears of more bloodshed after last week's deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol.

The head of the National Guard says at least 10,000 troops will be deployed in Washington, D.C., by Saturday, and an additional 5,000 could be requested from other states as officials brace for more, possibly violent protests surrounding president-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

Canada's telecommunications regulator launched a multi-day review today of the CBC's broadcasting licences.

Canada's telecommunications regulator launched a multi-day review today of the CBC's broadcasting licences.

Oversight and transparency took centre stage on Day 1 of a nearly three-week review of the CBC's broadcasting licences, as the broadcaster asks Canada's telecommunications regulator to renew licences for its various English- and French-language audio and audiovisual programming services.

Oversight and transparency took centre stage on Day 1 of a nearly three-week review of the CBC's broadcasting licences, as the broadcaster asks Canada's telecommunications regulator to renew licences for its various English- and French-language audio and audiovisual programming services.

The leaders of Canada's top banks believe an economic rebound is on the horizon, but say the short-term looks difficult and spending won't truly pick up until the back half of 2021 or even 2022.

In the first study of its kind, Statistics Canada is mailing out test kits to tens of thousands of people to study the prevalence of coronavirus in the country. In order to get a good result, the agency is hoping for a minimum 45 per cent response rate.

Google and Apple have removed the far right-friendly Parler from their app stores and Amazon booted it off its web hosting service just after midnight Pacific time early Monday.

After a weekend of mounting pressure, Paul Woods has been fired as CEO of the London Health Sciences Centre, the hospital's board said in an email to staff Monday morning.

Congressional Democrats begin their drive to force U.S. President Donald Trump from office early this week, with a House vote on articles of impeachment expected as early as Wednesday that could make him the only president in the country's history to be impeached twice.

Melania Trump said Monday she is "disappointed and disheartened" by the deadly riot at the Capitol last week by supporters of her husband. The U.S. first lady also lashed out at people she said have used the event to spread "salacious gossip, unwarranted personal attacks and false, misleading accusations" about her.

The federal government says it will soon introduce legislation to close "an accident of law" that allows Canadians who travelled abroad to claim up to $1,000 in sick pay while quarantining back home.

Thousands of elementary school students are heading back to in-person classes in Quebec on Monday, amid debate over how to best reduce COVID-19 transmission in school and whether classrooms should even be reopening at all.

Pope Francis changed church law Monday to explicitly allow women to do more things during mass, while continuing to affirm that they cannot be priests.

In December, Air Canada said it would suspend Sydney, N.S., commercial flights indefinitely.

Multiple levels of government are striving to prevent infected travellers from bringing the coronavirus to Ontario from abroad, but experts warn regional movement remains a far greater driver of transmission. But it may also be a trickier form of travel to curb.

Ariana Quesada, 16, walked into the RCMP detachment in High River, Alta., on Friday and filed a formal complaint asking police to investigate potential criminal negligence in the death of her father.

Intensive care nurse Andrea Kosloski describes the vaccine as a "snippet of hope" after what has been a long, rough year. Kosloski gives a raw account of the mental toll of the pandemic, including bouts of rage, crying, and panic attacks.

Ontario’s latest COVID-19 modelling will project the province’s intensive care units to be be filled beyond capacity by early February, and will also show how a new more contagious variant of the coronavirus risks accelerating the spread of infections, sources tell CBC News. 

Canada and its closest military allies have exchanged important global health warnings and assessments for decades, but newly released documents show the Public Health Agency of Canada did not examine classified information about COVID-19 — something one intelligence expert calls a strategic failure.

Multiple levels of government are striving to prevent infected travellers from bringing the coronavirus to Ontario from abroad, but experts warn regional movement remains a far greater driver of transmission. But it may also be a trickier form of travel to curb.

A father-and-son team of rookie inventors say they pitched their patent-pending COVID-safe lid applicator to Tim Hortons, and got a good response. But after the deal fell apart over a price dispute, they say the chain took their idea without paying a cent.

While some say market trading of water as a commodity will help the world prepare for climate change, Canadian experts are wary and doubtful, writes Don Pittis.

China says a group of experts from the World Health Organization are due to arrive Thursday for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

Eerily empty streets as Quebec’s province-wide curfew goes into effect, Ottawa opts out of buying more vaccine doses, and the Vancouver Canucks cancel practice after potential COVID-19 exposure.

Eerily empty streets as Quebec’s province-wide curfew goes into effect, Ottawa opts out of buying more vaccine doses, and the Vancouver Canucks cancel practice after potential COVID-19 exposure.

The National for January 10: Streets empty as Quebec’s COVID-19 curfew goes into effect, but do curfews work? Plus, Ottawa reveals they didn't buy millions more Moderna doses.

Canadian authorities are collecting information about the far-right Proud Boys group as part of a possible terrorist designation, the federal Liberal government said Sunday as it faced calls to ban the organization over its role in last week's U.S. Capitol attack.