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A group of volunteers from the Queen Alexandra neighborhood are spearheading a community league project to help residents during the pandemic. The Queen Alexandra COVID-19 Response is dedicated to connecting residents and helping those who need it with ev...

I stayed alone with my axe and my thoughts. But I never felt alone. All around me, the forest slowly stirred to life...

Britain's Prime Minister was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he expects the government to announce aid for post-secondary students who do not qualify for the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit in the next few days....

A fatigued army of workers have suddenly been thrust onto the front lines of the outbreak in New York, where the staggering death toll from coronavirus has surpassed 4,000....

OTTAWA — The number of people killed by the coronavirus in Canada has jumped by just over 20% to 258 in a day, officials said on Sunday, while Ottawa offered full-time jobs to reservists in the armed forces. By 11:05 eastern time (1505 GMT), the tot...

Sixteen of P.E.I.'s 22 confirmed cases COVID-19 reside in Queen's County, according to government data released Friday....

SHERBROOKE, Que. — A Walmart security guard from southern Quebec was fighting for his life on Sunday morning after being struck and dragged by a driver who was allegedly enraged by social distancing policies aimed to curb the spread of COVID-19, loc...

Illinois sophomore guard Alan Griffin has committed to transfer to Syracuse. The 6-foot-5 native of Ossining, N.Y., will have two years of eligibility with the Orange. "The main reason was that their plan matched mine," Griffin wrote in the text m...

Applications for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit will be accepted starting tomorrow, offering Canadians who have lost their jobs because of the crisis $2,000 a month...

Former NFL kicker Tom Dempsey died late Saturday at the age of 73 while struggling with complications from the new coronavirus, his daughter said....

LONDON — Tighter rules further restricting Britons' ability to leave their homes during the coronavirus pandemic are not likely soon, health minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday, after earlier in the day warning that a ban on outdoor exercise wa...

An employee at the CIBC call centre at King's Place in Fredericton has tested positive for COVID-19, the company confirmed Sunday....

LONDON — Britain should not start to lift restrictions on social contact until it is clear that coronavirus transmission is in retreat, otherwise a second wave could occur, England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jenny Harries said on Sunday. ...

Wentworth Lodge has become the third Hamilton long-term care home to have an outbreak of COVID-19....

Paul James and Bob Dylan struck a chord while the legendary Toronto bluesman was actually changing chords.It was 1986 when the Juno Award-winning James jumped off the stage with his wireless guitar......

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of U.S. lenders are struggling to access the technology system for distributing $349 billion of government rescue loans, while the pot of money is insufficient and will soon be expended, a top banking group warned over the week...

NEW DELHI/DHAKA — India is restricting the export of most diagnostic testing kits, as coronavirus cases in the South Asian nation topped 3,350 on Sunday despite a three-week nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the respiratory disease. India, w...

The majority of the deaths in Alberta have been in continuing care homes and there are currently nine outbreaks in seniors' homes across the province....

While the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, many frontline health-care workers are forced to isolate as they care for patients infected with the virus. See how Dr. Kanna Vela is coping with being away from her family as she treats patients in Ajax and Scarboroug...

ATHENS — Greece has quarantined a second migrant facility on its mainland after a 53-year-old man tested positive for the new coronavirus, the migration ministry said on Sunday. The Afghan man lives with his family at the Malakasa camp, just north o...

KNIGHTS BACKSTOP BASHES HOMELANDVegas Golden Knights goalie Robin Lehner is giving his native country of Sweden a big meatball for their response to the deadly coronavirus.The Scandinavian socialis......

JERUSALEM — Franciscan friars wearing surgical masks and gloves made house calls in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, delivering olive branches to Christians who are self-isolating as a precaution against the coronavirus. One of the friars used a loud-haile...

The B.C. Residential Tenancy Branch ruled in favour of Greg and Karona Doubroff, long-term residents at the Peace Arch RV Park in Surrey....

April is here, and springtime weather means springtime photos! Take a look at our favourites in our gallery of your best submitted shots of the week....

CAIRO — Mahmoud Jibril, who abandoned Muammar Gaddafi to become Libya's rebel prime minister during the 2011 revolution, died on Sunday after contracting the novel coronavirus, an aide and his party said. Jibril was interim leader until the coun...

GUAYAQUIL — Ecuador's government has begun storing the bodies of victims of the coronavirus in giant refrigerated containers as hundreds of deaths in the city of Guayaquil, the center of the country's outbreak, have already filled morgues an...

The government says the sector has been experiencing low markets for lumber, oriented strand board and pulp due to the pandemic...

From Europe to South America, U.S. allies are complaining about the superpower's "Wild West" tactics in outbidding or blocking shipments to buyers who have already signed deals for vital medical supplies....

Another resident of a Bobcaygeon, Ont. seniors' residence has died as a result of COVID-19 as the death toll for the facility climbs to 23....

WASHINGTON — A top official at the U.S. Federal Reserve said on Sunday the $2.3 trillion economic relief bill approved by Congress was appropriately sized and that a further relief effort may not be needed if support efforts are well executed. "...

Many are asking how the economy can be restored without greenhouse gases tagging along...

Former Oilers head coach Ed Biles has died at 88, the Houston Chronicle reported on Sunday. Per John McClain of the Houston Chronicle, Biles had been battling leukemia for some time prior to his death. Biles served as a freshman coach (1956-61) and later ...

The union representing guards says at least four inmates of Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener, Ont., are infected...

New York state reported 594 deaths from the coronavirus and 8,327 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, increasing the numbers to 4,159 dead and 122,000 cases since the outbreak began, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday. But he said there w...

LONDON — Police issued a warning to Scotland's Chief Medical Officer Catherine Calderwood on Sunday after she broke her own advice on social distancing to slow coronavirus spread when she visited her second home this weekend and last. Photograph...

Contact tracing by public health officials had linked 143 known cases to the funeral home cluster as of Friday...

Digital tools are only part of the remote learning picture in rural communities with slow internet and scores of students who lack access to computers or internet at all. Teachers are finding creative ways to reach these students as the COVID-19 pandemic ...

OTTAWA — The number of people killed by the coronavirus in Canada has jumped by just over 20% to 258 in a day, official data posted by the public health agency showed on Sunday. By 11:05 eastern time (1505 GMT), the total number of those diagnosed w...

Former New Orleans Saints kicker Tom Dempsey has died at the age of 73 after contracting COVID-19, the NFL team said on Sunday. Dempsey, who was born without toes on his right foot, joined the Saints out of college in 1969 and in November 1970 set a recor...

As Nova Scotia wraps its second week under a state of emergency, cases of COVID-19 at two hospitals have caused an undisclosed number of health-care workers to stop working and self-isolate....

The second anniversary of a devastating Saskatchewan bus crash will be a quiet one for the still-mourning families as the COVID-19 crisis holds the country in its grip....

DUBAI — Kuwait supports Saudi Arabia's call to renew talks on cutting oil supply due later this week and hopes for a successful outcome to stabilize the oil market, Kuwait's oil minister said on Sunday. OPEC and allies led by Russia, a group...

WASHINGTON — A top official at the U.S. Federal Reserve said on Sunday the $2.3 trillion economic relief bill approved by Congress was appropriately sized and that a further relief effort may not be needed if support efforts are well executed. "...