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British scientist Michael Houghton, who works at the University of Alberta, and Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

OTTAWA — Since the start of the pandemic, parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux's office has been pumping out reports about government finances and emergency aid measures at a pace that is as unprecedented as the pandemic itself.

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Those wondering whether Indigenous women's rights are still being violated need only look to the death of Joyce Echaquan for their answer, advocates said Sunday as they participated in an annual vigil for missing and murdered Indigenous women and gir

Plan ahead to make sure this year's Thanksgiving holiday is safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's top public health officer urged on Sunday as case counts continued to soar in several parts of the country. Dr.

MONTREAL — A public inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman who filmed herself being insulted by Quebec hospital staff hours before she died will be launched as soon as possible, the province's chief coroner announced.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:22 p.m. EDT on Oct. 4, 2020: There are 166,160 confirmed cases in Canada.

The leader of a First Nation in southern Cape Breton that has started Nova Scotia's second self-regulated commercial Indigenous fishery says it has created a mood of excitement and optimism in his small community.

VICTORIA — It's still a long way from election day in British Columbia, but one thing is certain after the Oct. 24 vote, there will be at least 15 new faces in the legislature.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — In the midst of the summer scramble to get courses online at Memorial University in St. John’s, Sonja Knutson realized there were political implications to remote learning she hadn’t considered.