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WASHINGTON — The panel that evaluates international trade disputes in the United States has squashed a complaint about Canadian blueberries.

EDMONTON — Alberta is to expand the world's largest connected stretch of boreal forest preserve.

OTTAWA — Almost two in three Canadians surveyed recently said they trust COVID-19 vaccines to be both safe and effective. Proof Strategies conducts a survey every year to assess how much faith Canadians have in major institutions and authorities.

HOPE, B.C. — Police say a crash that killed one person and injured dozens more east of Vancouver on Wednesday began with a semi-truck stopped in the S-curves on a mountainous highway that was covered in glare ice.

Concern over the spread of COVID-19 has delayed some voting in the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election, postponed school holidays in Ontario and prompted Manitoba to seek vaccine from a Canadian supplier.

Ottawa can build a shared understanding of free, prior and informed consent with First Nations, Métis and Inuit into a new law to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Justice Minister David Lametti said Thursd

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is preparing to buy two million doses of a prospective Canadian-made COVID-19 vaccine without going through the federal government.

SAINT-ALPHONSE-RODRIGUEZ, Que. — Quebec police continued searching Thursday for a federal inmate serving a sentence for two murders who escaped a minimum security facility north of Montreal Wednesday evening.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador is entering uncharted legal territory as the province's chief electoral officer has called for Saturday's provincial election to be delayed in 18 ridings because of a sudden COVID-19 surge.

OTTAWA — Complaints of workplace harassment and violence have risen sharply at several federal departments and agencies in recent years, according to internal data.