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YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories says two recently announced infections have been identified as the COVID-19 variant first identified in the United Kingdom.

VANCOUVER — Canadian officials have new leverage as they urge Washington to negotiate a solution to the long-standing dispute over U.S. duties on softwood lumber, Canada's ambassador to the United States said Thursday.

OTTAWA — Advocates are calling for fundamental reforms to the process for reporting sexual violence in the Canadian Armed Forces, deeming decades-old patterns of misconduct a "national embarrassment" amid a broken military justice system.

TORONTO — The federal government's proposed gun-control laws are "toothless and cowardly," victims of gun violence in Ontario said Thursday.

MONTREAL — Over the past two to three weeks, Dr. Francois Marquis, head of intensive care at Montreal's Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital, says he started noticing the average age of COVID-19 patients dropping.

OTTAWA — The head of the Canadian Museum of History has resigned following reported allegations of workplace harassment at the national institution.

OTTAWA — Groups representing thousands of doctors and nurses are asking the federal Liberals to help Canada's strained health-care system in their upcoming budget, flagging concerns about lack of access to family doctors as well as chronic staff shor

MONTREAL — A 44-year-old man arrested for allegedly uttering death threats to a woman of Asian origin on Montreal's subway system is due back in court April 14, police said Thursday.

OTTAWA — Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is calling on the federal government to recharge Quebec’s forestry sector with an eye to its energy potential.

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