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Premiers for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick said this weekend they will keep borders open, but Newfoundland and Labrador is bringing in a five-day isolation period for any travellers.

More than 1,000 people in British Columbia will be spending the Christmas holidays out of their homes this year, after being displaced from catastrophic flooding and fires in 2021, according to the province.

Canada and other countries were hoping a U.S. senator might kill a controversial electric-vehicle tax credit that has angered America's trading partners. Sen. Joe Manchin may be planning to torpedo the entire Build Back Better legislation that contains that provision.

The NHL and NHLPA reached an agreement to continue the regular-season schedule despite a rising number of positive COVID-19 cases, and the NBA said several games including the Toronto Raptors game against Orlando on Monday would be postponed.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says citizens, not just governments, have a role to play in ensuring that fundamental rights are defended after a Muslim teacher in Quebec was removed from her teaching position for wearing a hijab in class.

Ontario is reporting 4,177 new cases on Sunday — its highest daily count since April — as stricter public health measures took effect, with capacity limits back in place in restaurants and a smaller cap on social gatherings.

Large parts of Canada are starting to hunker down again as a fifth wave of COVID-19 appears to be building, with thousands of new cases being reported across the country.

My father scoffed when I suggested he get checked for melanoma. A year later, that response would haunt our family, writes Simon Blakesley of Whitehorse.

Many of the troubles the House of Windsor faced in 2021 show little sign of fading as the calendar turns to 2022, a year when attention will focus on marking the Platinum Jubilee to honour Queen Elizabeth's 70 years as monarch.

Along with a therapy dog, colourful balloons and a huge inflatable slide, nervous children at one vaccine clinic in Quebec also have the option of putting on a virtual reality headset to play a game while getting their shot.

Along with a therapy dog, colourful balloons and a huge inflatable slide, nervous children at one vaccine clinic in Quebec also have the option of putting on a virtual reality headset to play a game while getting their shot.

When Gerry Ouellette, better known as Santa Gee, was forced to host his holiday visits online last year, he went looking for technical help. Santa Glen Ford responded.

In the fall of 2015, someone in the federal government decided to drop a multimillion-dollar residential school compensation case against Catholic Church groups. Advocates decry what they call a 'conspiracy of silence' and say survivors deserve immediate answers.

In the fall of 2015, someone in the federal government decided to drop a multimillion-dollar residential school compensation case against Catholic Church groups. Advocates decry what they call a 'conspiracy of silence' and say survivors deserve immediate answers.

It's the time of year when many of us are looking forward to social outings or family gatherings, but divisions over COVID-19 vaccinations make planning and conversations around those events more challenging than usual. Two new projects in Winnipeg and Vancouver are trying to find creative ways to help salvage relationships.

The House of Commons may have found its rhythm in 2021, following a turbulent and chaotic 2020. The hybrid format seems set to stay for now, and the Speaker of the House says Canadians should be proud of their parliamentarians for making democracy work.

Police in the Philippines say at least 208 people have died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai and 52 were still missing.

The governor of an island province in the central Philippines said Sunday at least 63 people died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai in more than half of the towns that managed to contact him, bringing the death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the country this year to at least 112.

Paul Rudd was inducted into the vaunted Five-Timers Club on Saturday Night Live, but the surging omicron variant of the coronavirus meant there was no live audience to see it happen.

A Japanese cabinet official says victims of a fire in a clinic that claimed 24 lives last week were blocked from the only escape route, prompting an emergency inspection of similar buildings.

Hong Kong is voting in the first election since Beijing amended the laws to reduce the number of directly elected lawmakers and vet candidates to ensure that only those loyal to China can run.