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It's time to bid farewell to the ArriveCan app, say border-city mayors, tourism industry leaders and others who complain Canada's stringent COVID-19 rules for international travellers are encouraging would-be U.S. visitors to spend their tourist dollars at home.

The new rules will come into effect on June 20, though the requirements for foreign nationals coming to Canada will not change.

COVID-19 restrictions at the border will remain in place for at least another month, the Public Health Agency of Canada reported on Tuesday, May 31, 2022.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney quashed speculation on his immediate political future on Saturday, May 21, 2022, when he explicitly stated he would not be running in the race to pick a new leader for his United Conservative party.

The fall of Jason Kenney, a juggernaut of conservatism in Canada, has prompted many federal Tories to consider the future of the party, which is in the midst of being decided in a leadership race seen as a fractious fight for its soul.

While remaining unvaccinated against COVID-19 is often framed as a personal choice, those who spurn the vaccines raise the risk of infection for those around them, a new study suggests.

People saying nice things about Justin Trudeau doesn’t get clicks in our current media landscape, and it doesn’t drive the kind of anger that plays so well on social media, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

What will it take for the federal government to lift COVID-19 vaccine mandates? Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says it's complicated.

Rookie Ontario MP Leslyn Lewis is taking a second run at the Conservative leadership.

Several Canadian universities are maintaining COVID−19 precautions such as vaccine mandates and masking for in−person classes even as governments roll back pandemic restrictions.

A criminal anthropologist suggests looking to the West to find the heart of protests and blockades that gripped the nation for more than a month.

"Even though the blockades are lifted across border openings right now, even though things seem to be resolving very well in Ottawa, this state of emergency is not over," Trudeau said at late morning news conference.

Forty-three per cent of Canadians surveyed by Leger identified their feelings about the current state of the pandemic as "prudent" — the most popular answer of four options — saying they did not want to lift restrictions too quickly.

OTTAWA — Ontario Superior Court Justice Hugh McLean has granted a 10-day injunction to prevent truckers parked on city streets in downtown Ottawa from honking their horns incessantly.

But as of Sunday afternoon, there were no arrests related to incidents of physical violence during the demonstrations, a police spokeswoman said, though a statement issued that evening said "confrontations and the need for de-escalation has regularly been required."