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NEW YORK - The NHL playoffs will resume with three games on Saturday after all games Thursday and Friday were postponed in the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, i...

FREDERICTON - Health care continues to be a major issue on New Brunswick's election campaign trail. Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers said today in Fredericton if his party forms government,...

MONTREAL - Quebec is reducing the mandatory isolation period required for people infected with COVID-19 from 14 days to 10. Health authorities said today the change was made in response...

KAMLOOPS - As we head into the weekend, there are 48 fires burning in the province, up 5 in the past two days. Most of the fires, 25 of them, are burning in the southeast Fire Centre, 11 in the Kamloo...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. EDT on Aug. 28, 2020: There are 126,848 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 62,056 confirmed (including 5,750 deaths, 55,...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the economy posted its steepest decline on record in the second quarter as the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of non-essential businesses and slowed the economy t...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumers increased their spending by 1.9% last month, a dose of support for an economy struggling to emerge from the grip of a pandemic that has held back a recovery and kept roughl...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Israel has listed an El Al flight taking off Monday for Abu Dhabi, which would be Israel's first commercial passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates after the two cou...

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 Aug. 28 ... What...

OTTAWA - Daljit Nirman's message was clear: Before the Ottawa police could better meet a diverse community's needs, they must take meaningful steps to ensure their own ranks are fr...