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Actor Gavin MacLeod, who achieved stardom as sardonic TV news writer Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the cheerful Capt. Stubing on The Love Boat, has died. He was 90.

Ontario pharmacists who expected to spend the weekend racing to administer 45,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine set to expire have been given a reprieve from Health Canada.

Ontario received permission from Health Canada to extend the expiry of some doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine on Saturday, saving thousands of shots from potentially going to waste.

Ontario pharmacists who expected to spend the weekend racing to administer 45,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine set to expire have been given a reprieve from Health Canada.

Montreal's 4-3 OT victory in Toronto on Thursday, one that kept the club alive in its first-round playoff series with the Maple Leafs, paved the way for 2,500 fans to be allowed inside the Bell Centre for Saturday's Game 6 — the first Canadian NHL crowd since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

MPs unanimously agreed to wrap up debate on Bill C-5 on Friday, fast-tracking its passage and sending it on to the Senate. The move comes a day after a First Nation in B.C. confirmed discovery of the remains of 215 children buried in unmarked graves on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops.

A southern Manitoba hospital physician says staff are exhausted by a recent crush of admissions, but they're also up against something else that's draining energy and morale.

Pepper's family had given up on finding the 10-year-old German shepherd after she went missing from home in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. They didn't realize that Pepper was on an epic journey to track them down.

Some experts say Canada should shift to prioritizing second doses of COVID-19 vaccines now due to an increase in supply, a drop in COVID-19 levels and the growing threat of more contagious coronavirus variants that threaten to jeopardize the progress we’ve made.

Federal parties have shifted their positions on Israel-Palestine after a long period of stasis. The Gaza conflict is also causing tensions within the Liberal Party, the NDP and Green Party. Some MPs say BLM and other social justice protests have affected public views, driving up sympathy for Palestinians.

Leaving your address behind for van life may seem like a pipe dream, but the pandemic has made it easier for some people to pack up and hit the road.

Leaving your address behind for van life may seem like a pipe dream, but the pandemic has made it easier for some people to pack up and hit the road.

The Liberals are taking on the Bloc Québécois in Quebec, hoping to wrest enough seats from the party in the next election to make their path to a majority government easier.

The inquiry into the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman, is exploring not only her death in a Quebec hospital, but also how Indigenous people are treated within the province's health-care system generally.

Alexander Lukashenko has survived as Belarus's authoritarian ruler for 27 years by knowing how to play Russia off against the West. But did his gambit to "hijack" an Irish airliner to arrest a government opponent go too far?

I never felt like a “model minority.” I also didn’t think I fit in as a Canadian. My mental health suffered.

Some experts say Canada should shift to prioritizing second doses of COVID-19 vaccines now due to an increase in supply, a drop in COVID-19 levels and the growing threat of more contagious coronavirus variants that threaten to jeopardize the progress we’ve made.

The Indian Residential School Survivors Society is calling on the federal government and the Roman Catholic Church to take action following the discovery of the remains of 215 children buried on the Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds. 

May 28, 2021 | A B.C. First Nation says it has found the remains of 215 children near a former Residential School. Recovering COVID-19 patients in India are falling ill with black fungus, adding even more strain to the country’s healthcare system. Plus, singer Michelle Williams from Destiny’s Child opens up about her mental health.

Nigerian authorities confirmed that at least 60 people have died in a boat accident on the Niger River and that 83 missing passengers are also feared dead.

The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has administered COVID-19 vaccine shots to nearly 75 per cent of all federal prisoners — a vaccination rate that is much higher than the rate for the general population.

The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has administered COVID-19 vaccine shots to nearly 75 per cent of all federal prisoners — a vaccination rate that is much higher than the rate for the general population.