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MONTREAL — Random police stops should be banned for all of Quebec's police forces and patrol units should include social workers who can de-escalate tensions during interventions, the province's anti-racism task force said Monday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Canadian government says it will spend $3.16 billion to plant two billion trees over the next ten years. Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan made the funding announcement Monday at a tree nursery in St.

TORONTO — The man who killed 10 people in Toronto's van attack compartmentalized thoughts of his victims like a pedophile, court heard Monday. Dr.

VANCOUVER — A security analyst who monitors emails to and from the RCMP says a senior Mountie emailed the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation the day after a Huawei executive was arrested at Vancouver's airport. Jayson Allen told a B.C.

MONTREAL — It was declared a "historic" day in Quebec as the first COVID-19 vaccines were given Monday to residents of two long-term care homes in the province.

OTTAWA — Canada is helping fund the creation of a new international system to help distribute any extra COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries, says International Development Minister Karina Gould. “Canada is really is leaning into this space.

Wildfires have taken over from industry as a major source of a group of cancer-causing chemical toxins in the air, Environment Canada says.

A COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer has arrived in Ontario and Quebec, with the first inoculations rolling out Monday in Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City. Canada is set to receive 249,000 doses of the drug from the U.S.

TORONTO — Ontario will administer the province's first COVID-19 vaccination today, with a health-care worker set to receive the dose in Toronto.

OTTAWA — The year 2020 will go down as the worst for refugee resettlement in recent history, says the UN refugee agency's Canadian representative.