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OTTAWA - The federal privacy czar says the COVID-19 pandemic is underscoring weaknesses in the law that place the personal information of Canadians at risk. In his annual report presented to Parliamen...

FREDERICTON - Testimony at the Matthew Raymond murder trial in Fredericton is on hold until Friday morning. Justice Larry Landry of the Court of Queen's Bench told the jury today that a Supreme Court ...

OTTAWA - A new Statistics Canada report says more than two-thirds of students at the country's military colleges personally witnessed or experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in the past year. The fin...

MONTREAL - Premier Francois Legault says the province is reporting 1,078 new COVID-19 cases and nine more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Legault told reporters today hospitalizations incr...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says the federal carbon tax would have to rise over the coming years if the country is to meet emission-reduction targets under the Paris climate accord. The ...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not review the eight-year sentence handed to a man who stabbed a teenager at a church.Maksym Kravchenko assaulted the girl in a washroom after a Sunday servic...

NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Titans have had another positive test result to raise their outbreak to 23 cases, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday. Also, an inconcl...

WASHINGTON - Although more buttoned-up on the stage than his boss, Vice-President Mike Pence nevertheless echoed many of President Donald Trump's falsehoods Wednesday in the one and only debate with D...

BERLIN - Police in southern Germany say a woman got a shock while airing out her home when a 25-centimetre (10-inch) Chinese mitten crab scurried in from the terrace through the open door. Freiburg po...

NEW YORK - Here's an assignment to humble even the most confident doctor: Assess a patient's condition before millions of people without being able to examine him or see a complete medical chart. That...