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Vaccinated travellers will no longer need a molecular COVID-19 test to enter Canada starting Feb. 28 because the COVID-19 situation in Canada has improved, the federal health minister announced Tuesday.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino made the announcement following the resignation of Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly

It points to Beijing and Moscow as the most sophisticated cyberthreat actors targeting the government, while Iran and North Korea have moderately advanced capabilities and pose less of a danger.

The downtown university’s business incubator launches a free online version of its Launchpad curriculum to expand its reach to entrepreneurs unable or not yet ready to access in-person startup coaching.

If Canada wants to be a credible climate leader, it needs to align its export credit agency with the Paris Agreement goals immediately, says a new report from a leading international think tank.

Sri Lankan beaches buried in pellets are only the "tip of the iceberg" of environmental harm after analysis of nurdles from burning ship.

Canada’s four main fossil fuel-producing provinces shelled out $4 billion in subsidies for the industry from April 2020 to the end of last year, a new report reveals.

Seniors can breathe a sigh of relief after going through "unnecessary ordeal," says NDP seniors critic Rachel Blaney.

It was a mild day in February 2018, Valentine’s Day, when Shailla Manitowabie made her way to 40 College St. in Toronto. Hundreds of people gathered under the pink granite pillars in front of the 12-storey headquarters of the Toronto Police Service on a busy downtown street in Canada’s largest city.

Saskatchewan residents also started the day with relaxed measures as the province lifted its proof of vaccine or a negative test requirement to enter most businesses as of midnight.

The government will use that act to force towing companies to remove big rigs and other vehicles that are blocking highways and other critical infrastructure, establish zones where public assembly is not allowed, and require banks to suspend or freeze accounts suspected of supporting the blockades, including those belonging to companies whose trucks are part of the convoy.

"Environment Canada got pushback," said Bill Donahue, an environmental scientific consultant and former head of monitoring for the Alberta government. "It dramatically reduced the proposed standards in terms of their stringency."

Scientists and governments will meet on Monday, February 14, 2022, to finish a major United Nations report on how global warming disrupts people's lives, their natural environment and the Earth itself. Don’t expect a flowery valentine to the planet: instead an activist group predicted “a nightmare painted in the dry language of science.”

The military is moving troops out of Ukraine in one of the strongest signals yet that a Russian invasion is imminent.

Ottawa's mayor has set a deadline of noon today for truckers encamped in the capital's core to move out of residential streets in a bid to pare down the size of the protest's footprint.