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LONDON — Britain’s newly established quarantine hotels received their first guests on Monday as the government tries to prevent new coronavirus variants from derailing a fast-moving vaccination drive that has delivered more than 15 million shots in t

The suburbs surrounding Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver's are fueling an uptick in homes beginning construction and properties ready for occupancy, says Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales rose 0.9 per cent to $54.2 billion in December, led by sales of wood products, transportation equipment, and petroleum and coal products.

MOSCOW — An unmanned Russian cargo ship launched successfully Monday with a load of supplies for the International Space Station. The Progress MS-16 cargo ship blasted off as scheduled at 9:45 a.m.

CANBERRA, Australia — Seven West Media has become the largest Australian news media business to strike a deal with Google to pay for journalism in a partnership announced Monday before the nation's Parliament considers draft laws to force digital gia

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine government's approval of the reopening of many movie theatres , video game arcades and other leisure businesses shut since last year was postponed at least another two weeks after mayors feared it will bring new c

WINDHOEK, Namibia — The government of Namibia has closed the southern African country's state-owned airline, Air Namibia, saying that it can no longer afford the financial losses.

The city of Halifax had about 11.21 per cent of its residents receiving the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) last year.

The city of Regina had about 10.54 per cent of its residents receiving the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) last year.

The city of Fredericton had about 9.19 per cent of its residents receiving the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) last year.