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WHITEHORSE — Rising vaccination rates and low numbers of infections mean several COVID-19 restrictions are expected to be lifted next month, the Yukon government says. Acting chief medical health officer Dr. Catherine Elliott said starting Aug.

KELOWNA, B.C. — An evacuation order has been lifted in an area around the British Columbia construction site where five people died after a crane collapsed.

WASHINGTON — Canada's bilateral overtures to fully vaccinated American visitors went unrequited Wednesday as the Department of Homeland Security formally extended its travel restrictions at the Canada-U.S. border for at least the next 30 days.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has nominated David Cohen, a tech executive who once served as chief of staff to the mayor of Philadelphia, to be his ambassador to Canada.

OTTAWA — The fight within the Green party has spilled over to the courthouse.

VANCOUVER — A B.C.

MONTREAL — A $14-billion project that would have seen natural gas from Western Canada exported to Europe and Asia through Quebec has been rejected by the Quebec government.

MONTREAL — Researchers in Quebec have developed a new warning system for heat waves that they say is more precise and better adapted to climate change.

OTTAWA — Canada has quietly made another multimillion-dollar payment toward development of the F-35 stealth fighter despite uncertainty over whether it will buy the aircraft and calls from some prominent Canadians not to purchase any new fighter jets

OTTAWA — A planned review of the sprawling and antiquated employment insurance system will go ahead even if the country is plunged into a federal election campaign, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough says.