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OTTAWA — Canada’s top doctor is warning of "increased growth" in new COVID-19 variants and an upswing in seasonal influenza cases, just as a surge of respiratory syncytial virus inundates hospitals. Chief public health officer Dr.

OTTAWA — Labrador member of Parliament Yvonne Jones is taking a leave of absence to deal with a recurrence of breast cancer.

OTTAWA — Wide-scale destruction of nature is raising the risk of future pandemics and is making climate change worse, the heads of the United Nations biodiversity office cautioned Thursday.

OTTAWA — Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay is standing firm in the face of anger and frustration at the Liberal government over ongoing delays, backlogs and staff shortages and a call for his resignation.

QUEBEC — The Quebec Liberal Party has named veteran member Marc Tanguay as interim leader days after the previous leader stepped down.

OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says the Canadian economy would contract slightly in 2023 if central banks raise interest rates more than anticipated.

SHERBROOKE, Que. — A coroner's report into the death of a Quebec woman whose body was mistaken for a mannequin says police and firefighters have received training to help them avoid making similar errors.

WASHINGTON — A lawyer for the Montreal-area woman accused of mailing poison to former United States president Donald Trump says she is likely to accept a plea deal. Federal public defender Eugene Ohm told a Washington D.C.

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OTTAWA — The story of Pte. James Peter Robertson was well-known in Peter Harris’s family. During the First World War, the Canadian soldier singlehandedly took out a German machine-gun nest at Passchendaele.