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TORONTO - A WestJet flight from Toronto to Jamaica was forced to turn back after the airline says a passenger made an "unfounded claim regarding coronavirus." The airline says in a statement that...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office says most Canadian households will receive more money back from the federal government's carbon-tax scheme than it will cost them. The assertion is contained i...

Ontario's chief medical officer of health says the province's new coronavirus investigations seem to be tapering off. Dr. David Williams says while many cases have developed between seven and nine day...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 4 ... What ...

OTTAWA - How governments fund the country's fight against the opioid crisis might explain "a lack of progress" on the issue, say newly disclosed documents on an alte...

VANCOUVER - The Federal Court of Appeal is set to release its decision on the latest challenge of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion today. Four First Nations from British Columbia filed court chal...

OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to slap visa restrictions on six new countries could affect immigration flows to Canada, if history is any indication, as those caught up in the changes...

SOOKE, B.C. - The RCMP in British Columbia say a pickup truck that three missing men were travelling in was found in the Sooke River on Sunday. Cpl. Chris Manseau says there is no indication of a...

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - An inquiry investigating why a mentally ill Afghanistan war veteran fatally shot three members of his family before killing himself has heard from an emergency room ...

OTTAWA - Canada's seniors minister says work to update the computer system handling old-age security payments to a new platform is on track to be done by the end of the year. Deb Schulte says the...