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VANCOUVER - When Caroline Colijn sees the daily numbers of new cases of COVID-19 in Canada, she looks for certain things. As a disease modelling expert, she says the effects of the measures we're taki...

VANCOUVER - The public health communication about COVID-19 that's aimed at Indigenous communities should be tailored and take into account Indigenous experiences, say a health official and a researche...

Thousands of scientists around the world are working on problems raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is a summary of some recent research from peer-reviewed academic journals and scientific agencies...

OTTAWA - For one traveller returning to Toronto from Vietnam, the way officials handled arrivals to Canada was startling when compared to strict COVID-19 guidelines in the southeast Asian country...

Some Canadian organizations are asking the federal government to focus any bailout of the oil industry on workers and families, not corporations. The request comes in an open letter to Prime Mini...

TORONTO - Each morning when Dr. Seema Marwaha is preparing for work, she thinks about her husband, her 15-month-old son and the possibility she could bring home a dangerous virus. Like health-care pro...

MONTREAL - Police forces in Canada are getting extra powers, more flexibility and even help from citizens reporting on one another as governments seek to enforce decrees aimed at stoppi...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests one in five Canadians weren't taking the deadly COVID-19 pandemic seriously as recently as last weekend.In a Leger poll conducted between Friday and Sunday, 16 per cent of...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons sits today to deal with an emergency bill to spend billions of dollars to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and cushion some of its economic harms. The opposition parties have ...

BANGKOK - Thailand's prime minister says his government has agreed to declare a state of emergency to implement stricter measures to control the coronavirus outbreak. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha ...