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OTTAWA — The 2021 flu season will go down in history as the epidemic that never was. By this time of the year, Canada has normally logged an average of more than 43,000 confirmed cases of influenza.

TORONTO — A new influenza vaccine facility will be built in Toronto to help bolster Canada's biomanufacturing capacity, the federal government said as it announced the new project Wednesday.

TORONTO — Quebec moved to place three cities into lockdown and Ontario weighed stricter public health measures Wednesday as the two provinces hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic sought to combat a recent surge in cases.

A new survey suggests grizzly bear numbers in Alberta's central Rocky Mountains have doubled since 2005.

OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee is ordering the Public Health Agency of Canada to turn over all documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada's highest-security laboratory and the earlier transfer of viruses to China's Wuhan Instit

WASHINGTON — U.S.

OTTAWA — A Canadian warship sailed through sensitive waters near China this week amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

TORONTO — About 100 million litres of fresh water flows west to the city of Winnipeg every day but the struggling Indigenous people who live on the shores of Shoal Lake say no benefits have ever flowed east to them.

OTTAWA — The federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic should send the deficit to $363.

MONTREAL — Lawyers for residents and families suing a Montreal-area long-term care home ravaged by the pandemic's first wave said Wednesday they had reached a $5.5-million settlement with the facility's owners.