ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador's Liberals will unveil a budget Monday, their second in less than a year — but this time, it comes from a majority government. Since the province's first pandemic budget last September, Premier Andrew ...

OTTAWA — Canada is set to receive 2.9 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this week thanks in large part to an increase in planned deliveries from Pfizer and BioNTech.The two pharmaceutical companies had been delivering about 2 million shots per week th...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two in response to the population's rising age, a state news agency said Monday.The announcement follows census data that ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Chinese Australian writer tried in Beijing for alleged espionage said he pleaded to a judge to reject evidence of what he had said while being tortured by interrogators.Yang Hengjun faced a closed trial last Thursday an...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats pulled off a dramatic, last-ditch walkout in the Texas House of Representatives on Sunday night to block one of the most restrictive voting laws in the U.S. from passing before a midnight deadline.The sudden revolt to...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday May 31, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 315,187 new vaccinations administered for a total of 23,471,446 doses given. Nationwide, 2,012,849 people or 5.3 p...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday May 31, 2021.There are 1,378,971 confirmed cases in Canada.Canada: 1,378,971 confirmed cases (35,935 active, 1,317,524 resolved, 25,512 deaths).*The total case coun...

A treasured llama reported missing last week from a local gun range where he had become the unofficial mascot has been found dead of natural causes.The Victoria Fish and Game Protective Association, in Mill Bay just off the Malahat, took in Otis, als...

Yana Hempler was looking forward to a refreshing craft beer as part of her relaxation Sunday after running the last of 30 marathons in 30 days to raise money for charity. “I haven’t had a drink for the whole month,” said Hempler, 31. The be...

Vancouver Island towns and cities are lowering municipal hall flags after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Sunday that all federal building flags be flown at half-mast in honour of the lives of 215 children whose remains were found at a former r...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A First Nations teacher says the discovery of the remains of 215 children buried at the site of a former residential school in British Columbia is a triggering event for students who regularly learn about the history of wrongs agai...

OTTAWA — Work is underway for a travel exemption that would let the winner of the NHL's all-Canadian division and an American counterpart cross the border during the third and final rounds of the playoffs.Two federal government sources say the exem...

WINNIPEG — More of Manitoba's politicians will be working from home after the province tightened public health orders last week.A joint statement from the house leaders of the governing Progressive Conservatives, the NDP and the Manitoba Liberal Pa...

WATER VALLEY, Alta. — Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcement officers have captured a grizzly bear they say fatally attacked a woman while she went for an evening stroll on her property last week.The government agency says the animal will be euthani...

Canadians are in no rush to head back to the office even as COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline across the country, a new survey suggests.A recent poll by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies has found that 82 per cent of Canadian...

JASPER, Alta. — Parks Canada says two people have died in an avalanche on an Alberta mountain popular with climbers.Steve Young, a communications officer with Jasper National Park, says the slab avalanche occurred Sunday morning on Mount Andromeda ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of a small hard-line party on Sunday said he would try to form a unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opponents, taking a major step toward ending the 12-year rule of the Israeli leader. In a nationwid...

OTTAWA — An internal Defence Department review completed last fall found significant problems and shortcomings in attempts to promote diversity and inclusion across the Canadian Armed Forces.Those problems included a lack of leadership and insuffic...

TORONTO — Flags on federal buildings will be lowered for the 215 children whose bodies were found at a former British Columbia residential school, the prime minister said Sunday as communities across Canada began mounting their own tributes to the ...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Joi McCondichie is a native of this city, but her life and career in public education kept her away from home for decades. When she returned to Tulsa from Los Angeles with her then-teenage son, she moved into a home just off of ...