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OTTAWA - A new poll suggests the proportion of Canadians planning to get vaccinated for COVID-19 is on the rise after encouraging initial results from Pfizer's vaccine trial. Sixty-nine per cent of re...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX's newly launched capsule with four astronauts arrived Monday at the International Space Station, their new home until spring. The Dragon capsule pulled up and docked late...

BEIJING - Chinese tech giant Huawei is selling its budget-price Honor smartphone brand in an effort to rescue the struggling business from damaging U.S. sanctions imposed on its parent company. The mo...

IOWA CITY, Iowa - With Iowa hospitals filling up, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds dropped her longtime opposition to a statewide mask mandate and enacted a limited version of one on Monday. Reynolds sign...

EDMONTON - Alberta's chief medical officer of health says the province is at a dangerous plateau, with almost 3,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last three days, 20 new deaths and overwhelmed contact tra...

The head of the Saskatoon lab working toward a COVID-19 vaccine hasn't seen the data behind the promising claims being made by a U.S. pharmaceutical company.On Monday morning, Moderna announced its va...

EDMONTON - Shalaina Arcand's siblings were asleep in another room when the five-year-old was hit in the head so hard that she died in hospital four days later, a trial judge heard Monday. The girl's m...

WINNIPEG - Every resident of a long-term care home on a northern Manitoba reserve where the number of infections almost doubled in a day has tested positive for COVID-19, says the Indigenous community...

Canada reached a troubling milestone on Monday, surpassing 300,000 total COVID cases since the pandemic began earlier this year, and health experts are alarmed - but not surprised - by the rapid growt...

When we last heard from Bianca Andreescu on the tennis court, a left knee injury forced her to withdraw from the WTA Finals. That capped a breakthrough but injury-plagued 2019 season that saw her make...