As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase and case numbers drop across the country, the provinces and territories have begun releasing the reopening plans for businesses, events and recreational facilities.Most of the plans are based on each jurisdictio...

TORONTO — There was no winning ticket sold for Tuesday's $27 million Lotto Max jackpot.The jackpot for the next draw on July 16 will be at an estimated $36 million.

BEIJING (AP) — The death toll in the collapse of a hotel in eastern China was raised to 17 Wednesday as authorities ended the search and rescue mission. The city of Suzhou said on its social media feed that 23 people had been pulled from from the r...

Fire broke out in an industrial building in the south end of Duncan early Tuesday evening near Boys Road. Flames could be seen shooting above structures and black plumes of smoke billowed into the air. Tyson Beswick, who works at the front desk...

The MV Coho is preparing to set sail as soon as the Canada-U.S. border reopens, says the president of Black Ball Ferry Line.“We’re ready to go once we get word of the border reopening,” said Ryan Burles, the company’s president and chief oper...

WINNIPEG — Goalkeeper Callum Irving only had to make two saves for his fourth clean sheet of the season as his Pacific FC side played to a 0-0 draw against HFX Wanders FC on Tuesday in Canadian Premier League action.Marco Bustos, who leads the CPL ...

The province is waiting on direction from the community following news that about 160 undocumented and unmarked graves have been found on the foreshore and on land once home to the Kuper Island residential school.“We stand ready,” Premier John Ho...

Few doses of AstraZeneca were wasted in B.C. after ­federal health experts changed their advice on the use of the ­COVID-19 vaccine, causing demand to fall, Health ­Minister Adrian Dix said.“We don’t have the exact number yet,” Dix said Tues...

IQALUIT, Nunavut — The mayor of Iqaluit says he will no longer bring forward a motion to make the city's churches pay taxes on land use.Kenny Bell proposed the motion following the discovery of what are believed to be hundreds of unmarked graves at...

VANCOUVER — The makeshift hospital at the Vancouver Convention Centre, which was repurposed with COVID-19 overflow beds, is being shut down without ever taking patients. Vancouver Coastal Health says it has approval from the Health Ministry to clos...

VANCOUVER — Aritzia Inc. says it swung to a $17.9-million profit in the first quarter as revenues more than doubled from a year ago despite a majority of its Canadian stores being closed.The Vancouver-based clothing retailer says its profit for the...

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:Toronto Stock Exchange (20,270.65, up 37.57 points.)Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Industrials. Up three cents, or 2.08 per cent, to $1.47 on 12.9 million shares...

OTTAWA — Conservatives are plotting their next steps on how to probe payments the offices of Liberal MPs made to a company founded by a friend to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, while the clock ticks down to a possible election that would bring any ...

REGINA — A Saskatchewan RCMP sergeant has been charged with possession of a restricted firearm.RCMP allege the Mountie from the Waskesiu detachment allowed his firearms licence to expire for a .22-calibre handgun.They say the officer surrendered th...

OTTAWA — There are ways to improve Canada's early pandemic alert and response systems, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, but he also insists the country's top public health officials did start building a national response to COVID-19 very early o...

MONTREAL — A Quebec man dubbed the "pilot to the stars" has been sentenced to a total of 16 years in prison after a Quebec court ruled he must serve two prison sentences consecutively.In a decision released today, the Quebec Court of Appeal found t...

The COVID-19 curve in the U.S. is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past three weeks, driven by the fast-spreading delta variant, lagging vaccination rates and Fourth of July gatherings. Conf...

OTTAWA — Federal officials' apparent lack of concern about the impact central bank actions have on managing government debt, shown in internal documents, is about to face a test as the Bank of Canada is poised to slow the pace of its bond-buying pr...

CHEMAINUS, B.C. — Canadians need to make sure they don't become hardened to news about unmarked graves at residential schools after what's believed to be another discovery of undocumented remains at a Vancouver Island site, an expert and former jud...

OTTAWA — Mary Simon will officially become Canada's governor general later this month.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named Simon, an Inuk leader and former Canadian diplomat, as his choice to be the Queen's representative in Canada last week.Canadia...