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WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is closing America's borders to foreign nationals who recently spent time in Europe, a dramatic step that illustrates both the severity of the global outbreak of COVID-1...

NEW YORK - The NHL has suspended its season immediately due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The league made the announcement Thursday afternoon.The NHL advised all its clubs earlier in the day not to conduct...

OTTAWA - The federal ethics commissioner says there is no reason to believe former Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick broke the conflict-of-interest law during the SNC-Lavalin affair. In a report Tue...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's governing Progressive Conservatives tabled a $10.2-billion budget Tuesday that could prove to be their undoing, given their tenuous minority in the le...

Better fire protection is needed in barns to stop the cruel deaths of tens of thousands of farm animals each year, says a report from the Humane Society International/Canada. "We're just not...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is defending its decision to take more than $4.1 million from Veterans Affairs Canada's operating budget at a time when the department is struggling with a backlog of t...

OTTAWA - Seeking to understand the circumstances surrounding the murder of a 22-year-old Quebec woman at the hands of a violent offender out on day parole, federal MPs emerged with few ...

CALGARY - A daycare in a downtown Calgary office tower has closed after a child tested positive for COVID-19. Suncor Energy spokeswoman Erin Rees says the Pump-Kin Patch Child Care Centre is closed un...

GATINEAU, Que. - A couple from Gatineau say they're relieved to be back home after contracting COVID-19 aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. Bernard Menard, who went through the expe...

OTTAWA - The board that governs the House of Commons says it's considering measures to improve safety on Parliament Hill after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would self-isolate over corona...