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TORONTO - Royal Canadian Legion branches are adapting their services to support veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic, even as the national organization warns financial pressures could ...

KARACHI, Pakistan - A Pakistani court Thursday overturned the murder conviction of a British Pakistani man found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl. Instead, th...

NEW ORLEANS - Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical family that includes famed musician sons Wynton and Branford, has died. He was 85. New Orleans Mayor LaToya C...

A look at some of the top quotes from across Canada on Thursday in relation to COVID-19:   "If we all stopped moving for two weeks and nobody talked to anybody for two weeks and we all just staye...

TORONTO - Canada's most populous city has imposed a mandatory home quarantine on residents infected with COVID-19, as officials move to "aggressively halt" the spread of the virus. Toronto Mayor John ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - U.S. President Donald Trump says there are plans to remove nearly 250 Canadians from two cruise ships and get them back to Canada. The U.S. Coast Guard has directed a...

A quick look at some of the federal COVID-19 benefit programs and who qualifies for assistance:Canada Emergency Response BenefitThe CERB pays a monthly $2,000 payment to workers who wouldn't otherwise...

LOS ANGELES - A train engineer intentionally drove a speeding locomotive off a track at the Port of Los Angeles because he was suspicious about the presence of a Navy hospital ship docked there amid t...

EDMONTON, AB. -- The province is expanding eligibility for selected licensed child care centres to offer child care for all essential service workers. Along with previously eligible front-line health-...

Red Deer Public Schools says it won't be laying off its 258 educational assistants until June 1, a month later than first planned.The district says there will also be no more assignments for substitut...