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Everyone working in long-term care and assisted living facilities in British Columbia must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 12.

The federal government is pledging more than $180 million for new programs that will help address some of the items from its action plan in response to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said on Thursday.

More than 17,000 years ago, a woolly mammoth roamed enough of the Alaskan landscape to circle the Earth twice, according to a new paper from an international team of researchers who retraced the lifetime of one of the extinct Arctic creatures.

The federal government has made it legal to gamble on individual sporting events, bringing legitimacy to a murky industry that Canadians already spent billions of dollars a year on.

With Canada's vaccination campaign stalling just as COVID-19 case counts are rising, the chief public health officer said today the federal government is considering mandatory vaccinations for some workers to increase protection.

Admiral Art McDonald has been placed on an administrative leave and will not immediately return to his job as the leader of the Canadian military, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan confirmed today.

Canada is donating all 10 million doses of the single-dose vaccine that it purchased from Johnson & Johnson to low and middle-income countries.

The Taliban have captured another three provincial capitals in Afghanistan on Friday, bringing the total to 18 of 34 provincial capitals. They now control more than two-thirds of the country, resulting in tens of thousands of families fleeing provinces in hope of finding safety in Kabul and elsewhere.

A unique reindeer herd, first brought to Arctic Canada from Russia in the 1930s, has been purchased by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation in Inuvik. The goal is to grow the herd to provide a sustainable food resource.

Fires stoked by hot winds swept through southern Italy on Thursday, a day after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of 48.8 Celsius, which some scientists believe could be the highest in European history.

Edmonton defence lawyer Peter Royal has been cited for contempt by a provincial court judge for refusing her direction to put on a mask during a sexual assault trial.

If elected, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is promising to bring in universal prescription drug coverage, dental care and mental health supports within his first mandate.

Authorities in northern Germany appealed to thousands of people on Tuesday to get another shot of COVID-19 vaccine after a police investigation found that a Red Cross nurse may have injected them with a saline solution.

Cineplex sold $12.5 million worth of movie tickets between April and June, nowhere near enough to offset its costs despite all of the chain's theatres being open in one form or another after closures due to COVID restrictions.

Sandra Turgeon of Sault Ste. Marie was watching television with her boyfriend last Saturday night when she noticed her cats chasing something that had darted across the living room floor.

Amal Battrawi and her five-year-old son Sameer sought refuge in Canada two years ago, but Battrawi's husband and two daughters are still trying to reunite with them.

Amal Battrawi and her five-year-old son Sameer sought refuge in Canada two years ago, but Battrawi's husband and two daughters are still trying to reunite with them.

New study says areas with the highest turnover were the petroleum and gas industries, as well as security guards, heavy equipment operators and truck drivers.

London's top police official said Thursday that the city's police department is reviewing its files but not opening an investigation of Britain's Prince Andrew, who faces sexual assault allegations in a U.S. lawsuit.

The recent shifts in Alberta’s public health policy will put more and more people, especially kids, at risk, according to Dr. Christine Gibson. She says measures like masking, isolation and testing to be continued.

"There were warnings of a second wave," Saskatchewan's ombudsman's office said. "There were public health orders and measures to protect residents in long-term care from COVID-19. So, what happened?"

An investigation by CBC's The Fifth Estate found the person who was hit by a Canadian Pacific train in Regina on July 28, 1995, was a Winnipeg man. The Saskatchewan Coroners Service says it will provide more information on the investigation at a Thursday morning news conference.

An investigation by CBC's The Fifth Estate found the person who was hit by a Canadian Pacific train in Regina on July 28, 1995, was a Winnipeg man. The Saskatchewan Coroners Service has identified the man as Michael Kirov and confirmed he was from Winnipeg.

An investigation by CBC's The Fifth Estate found the person who was hit by a Canadian Pacific Railway train in Regina on July 28, 1995, was a Winnipeg man. The Saskatchewan Coroners Service has identified the man as Michael Kirov and confirmed he was from Winnipeg.

The latest UN climate report this week raised the alarm over “irreversible,” long-term impacts of climate change that will continue for centuries even if we stop emitting CO2 now. The good news is some impacts are reversible if we remove CO2 from the atmosphere. What does this mean for the future?

Businesses in the lakeside town are preparing for an influx of bikers, even though this year's gathering is considered a "non-event."

A Toronto company that was paid to store potentially life-saving stem cells from the children of roughly 3,000 clients across Canada removed the samples from storage before providing Health Canada access to its lab to conduct a surprise inspection last week, according to the federal department.

The latest UN climate report this week raised the alarm over “irreversible,” long-term impacts of climate change that will continue for centuries even if we stop emitting CO2 now. The good news is some impacts are reversible if we remove CO2 from the atmosphere. What does this mean for the future?

A pair of Egyptian-born medical experts allege the University of Ottawa is unfairly trying to eliminate their jobs and that their manager subjected them to a sustained barrage of harassment, according to two recently filed human rights complaints.

Afghan government forces battled Taliban fighters in and around several cities on Thursday, officials said, as the militants pressed on with their offensive that U.S. intelligence believes could see them take over the capital, Kabul, within 90 days.

Two U.S. officials told Reuters that the U.S. State Department was expected to announce that a significant number of employees from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul would be relocated as the Taliban press their advance.

The Taliban captured a police headquarters Thursday in a provincial capital in southern Afghanistan teetering toward being lost to the insurgents as suspected U.S. airstrikes pounded the area, an official said.

The Taliban captured two major Afghan cities — the country's second- and third-largest after Kabul — and a strategic provincial capital on Thursday, further squeezing the embattled government just weeks before the end of the U.S. military mission there.

The Taliban captured two major Afghan cities — the country's second- and third-largest after Kabul — and a strategic provincial capital on Thursday, further squeezing the embattled government just weeks before the end of the U.S. military mission there.

Canadian Michael Spavor, who’s been detained in China since 2018, has been given an 11-year prison sentence by a Chinese court. Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau called the verdict “completely unjustified.” Today, Toronto Star reporter Joanna Chiu on what this means for Canada-China relations.

Edmonton is prepared to get tough on harassment based on race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity, with an updated public places bylaw that makes harassment an offence.

The National for Wednesday, Aug. 11 — The Crown lays out a case for Meng Wanzhou’s extradition as the fate of imprisoned Canadians hang in the balance. Plus, Ottawa’s plan for vaccine passports.

The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu's whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth than previously thought.

The Winnipeg Jets will require all fans to be fully vaccinated to attend home games at Canada Life Centre this season. The Jets' parent company, True North Sports and Entertainment, made the announcement on Twitter, saying season ticket holders had made it clear that was their preference.

A study from Toronto's University Health Network suggests a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine boosts immunity in transplant recipients.

A lawyer for Canada's attorney general says Meng Wanzhou's "dishonesty" lies at the heart of the fraud allegations that resulted in a request for the Huawei executive's extradition to the United States.

The screams of a man in terrible pain echoed through an Edmonton courtroom Wednesday as a Crown prosecutor played a bystander’s cellphone video of the violent arrest of Indigenous man Elliot McLeod.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging all pregnant women to get the COVID-19 vaccine as infections rise in hotspots.