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OTTAWA — Canada is the latest country to investigate how to stretch vaccine doses as far as possible, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have tragic consequences all around the world. Dr.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak in Latvia, where an unspecified number of troops have tested positive for the illness while guarding against Russian aggression in the region.

OTTAWA — Rear Admiral Craig Baines is being tapped as the Royal Canadian Navy's new commander. Outgoing chief of the defence staff Gen.

MONTREAL — The worker at a Quebec City long-term care home who died of COVID-19 on Jan. 2 was one of the thousands of people who answered the province's call to be trained as patient attendants over the summer, a union official said Tuesday.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut's chief public health officer says first doses of a vaccine against COVID-19 are to be given Wednesday to residents at Iqaluit's elders home.

MONTREAL — Quebec's human rights and youth rights commission is launching an investigation into the death of a seven-year-old girl found Sunday north of Montreal. The commission said in a statement that youth protection in Laval, Que.

OTTAWA — Nunavut's sole MP says she is back on the job after several months away from work due to what she described as "extreme burnout, depression and anxiety.

OTTAWA — A new survey suggests nearly half of Canadians visited with family or friends over the winter holiday period.

The natural regions Canada protects don't line up that well with where Canadians actually need them, research suggests.

Several politicians have admitted to leaving the country over the December holiday period, even as their constituents hunkered down at home, following public health guidance meant to curb the spread of COVID-19.