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A B.C. wildlife group is asking residents to take down their backyard bird feeders to stop the spread of a deadly salmonella outbreak.

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As thousands of front-line workers remain susceptible to COVID-19, some researchers, public relations executives and hospital staff on leave have already been vaccinated as health officials speed up immunization efforts.

Quebec's supply of COVID-19 vaccines could take a hit if the province continues to follow a schedule that isn't recommended by its maker, provincial leaders suggested Monday.

Miss Vickie's Canada says some of its potato chips that were part of a recall in Eastern Canada earlier this month due to possible glass contamination were inadvertently shipped to Alberta.

Worried about funding your retirement? You may want to consider delaying CPP/QPP benefits past age 60. CTV News' Chief Financial Commentator Pattie Lovett-Reid explains why in her weekly column for CTVNews.ca.

New research suggests that infectiousness peaks early in COVID-19 patients, highlighting the need to quickly identify and isolate cases before the virus spreads.

He introduced his national security team on Tuesday, his first substantive offering of how he'll shift from Trump-era "America First" policies by relying on experts from the Democratic establishment to be some of his most important advisers.

Just in time for holiday travellers, England is cutting the two-week quarantine facing people arriving from regions not on Britain's coronavirus safe list, reducing it to as little as five days if they test negative for COVID-19.

Albertan junior and high school students are being sent home to learn and the province is introducing stricter gathering limits in hopes of curbing the spread of COVID-19.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed 'global challenges' with a handful of members of a Paris think-tank Saturday at the start of a seven-country tour of Europe and the Middle East, travels that were certain to be awkward since all the nations on his schedule have congratulated President-elect Joe Biden for winning the White House.

Government responses to COVID-19 have become a disjointed game of catch-up and confusion, Don Martin writes in his latest column for CTVNews.ca.

Health officials announced another 941 cases of COVID-19 in British Columbia on Tuesday, shattering the province's previous record for daily infections.

New national pandemic modelling set to be released on Friday shows that on nearly every metric, the COVID-19 crisis is worsening, according to a copy of projections obtained by CTV News.

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The Canada Energy Regulator says reaching net-zero emissions over the next 30 years will to require a much more aggressive transition away from oil and gas.

The goal here is to investigate a streamlined procedure, relative to that which is typically done in public health settings, where the subject self-samples -- just drools into a tube -- and we test that sample and get the results back to the individual in a day."

Paolo Gabriele, the Vatican butler who was convicted of stealing and leaking Pope Benedict XVI's private papers in 2012, has died. He was 54.

The latest product hard to find because of the pandemic is ... chicken wire?

The province attributed the rise partly to snowstorms earlier this week, resulting in fewer people going for testing, and some delays in getting samples from remote locations to the provincial labs.

Canada's top doctor says the country's hospitals are facing growing pressure as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to climb in much of the country.

Polling places opened on election day in New Zealand on Saturday as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern seeks a second term.

WHO Europe's Regional Director Hans Kluge stressed that lockdowns should be a "last resort," and urged the public to follow guidance to help to prevent deaths.

The Oxford English Dictionary was unable to select one word for their 'word of the year' for 2020. John Vennavally-Rao reports.

She recently performed a few of her old songs 'just for the fun of it,' and was pleased to learn her famous pipes are still humming.

Shattered window panes, doors ripped off their hinges and a caved-in roof is all that remains of one building in the military hospital complex in the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region after recent shelling. The medical facility was struck this week as part of fierce clashes between Armenian separatists and Azerbaijan forces over the disputed province that erupted late last month.

'Saturday Night Live' returned to a live studio audience after months away because of coronavirus, and the show didn't waste any time. The show opened with a sketch taking on this week's presidential debate between U.S. President Donald Trump, played by Alec Baldwin, and former Vice President Joe Biden, played by Jim Carrey.

'Grow up and stop going out there and giving people COVID': Man. Premier Pallister blasted those ignoring medical advice as cases in the province surge. More here: ctv.news/I6fhRcL

The illegal killings began in 2009, with the majority occurring in 2012 and 2013. Australian Defence Force Chief Gen. Angus Campbell said some in the Special Air Service encouraged "a self-centred, warrior culture."

The Duchess of Sussex was advised by two senior members of Britain's royal family to write a letter to her estranged father that a British newspaper later published in part, court papers filed Wednesday show.

A German man has apologized to the descendants of a Jewish store owner who was forced to give up his business to the man's Nazi grandfather.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a closed-door meeting with his opposition counterparts to receive a briefing from Canada's top public health officials on Thursday. What federal party leaders heard seem to have raised alarms in regards to the state of the COVID-19 crisis in this country.

A California police officer reunites a family with their dog Rocky, found wandering after it went missing nearly a year ago.

Paris is undertaking an unusual fashion season for Spring-Summer 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The nine-day calendar is flitting between 16 ready-to-wear runway collections with masked guests in seated rows, 20 in-person presentations and several dozen completely digital shows streamed online.

Atlanta police announced Friday that they have made an arrest in the shooting death of actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd.

The all-shares deal by Cenovus Energy Inc. to buy Husky Energy Inc. for about $3.8 billion will likely spark more mega-mergers among Canadian oil and gas majors, according to a veteran oilsands analyst.

Police say a 74-year-old man faces charges in connection with a violent clash last month at a lobster pound in southwestern Nova Scotia.

Joe Biden will be tested more frequently for COVID-19 and intends to move forward with in-person campaigning, following news of U.S. President Donald Trump and several individuals in his orbit testing positive.

A dashcam video shows the moment when an angry woman throws a hot cup of coffee at a McDonald's drive-thru worker in Nanaimo, B.C. More on this story: https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

The problem of abandoned seafarers has become more severe during the COVID-19 pandemic as global maritime commerce has ground to a halt. Investigative journalist Ian Urbina explores the problem in his Canadian exclusive published on CTVNews.ca. Read the report here: http://ctv.news/UKayv3W

The province also announced eight deaths on Thursday, including a man in his 30s in the Edmonton zone.

With her win of Green Party leader Saturday night, Annamie Paul became the first Black leader of a major federal Canadian political party, something she says should’ve happened much earlier.

Women who enrolled in the RCMP's job-sharing program while raising young children were unfairly denied the chance to bolster their pensions, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

Backed into a corner and facing financial strains, U.S. President Donald Trump went after his opponent's family and defended his own struggle to contain the pandemic on Friday as he fought to energize his sagging reelection bid in the nation's Sunbelt.

Parents of children suffering from anxiety, depression and substance use say the pandemic has made their symptoms worse -- and COVID-19 restrictions have curtailed or even eliminated desperately needed help.

A fisherman from a Mi'kmaq community in Cape Breton says he intends to plead not guilty to charges of illegal fishing after his lobster traps were seized last year by federal fisheries officers in southwestern Nova Scotia.

Our people don’t deserve to be treated in such a way in our own hospitals and our own lands and that’s what happened.

A dramatic increase in the number of opioid-related deaths in Lethbridge, Alta. during the COVID-19 pandemic has advocates calling for the provincial government to offer more safe injection sites.

Pfizer Inc. cannot request emergency authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine before the third week of November -- and that's if everything goes well, the company's CEO announced Friday.

A new study suggests a link between artificially sweetened beverages and poor heart health.

This homemade plasma sword retracts like the lightsabers in the movies and burns at 2,200 C.

Canadians should accept that their old way of life is gone for the foreseeable future in order to make decisions that will help reduce the transmission of COVID-19, one public health expert warns.

More students of a Catholic high school in Pickering, Ont. have come forward saying their yearbook quotes were tampered with, police say.

A French doctor warned Monday that his country has 'lost control of the epidemic,' a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases as nations across Europe enact more sweeping restrictions to try to slow surging infection rates.

There's a new made-in-Canada effort to create a COVID-19 vaccine on our tracker, following the announcement of a boost from the federal government.

In his new book, Nick Nurse chronicles his childhood as the youngest of nine kids growing up in Carroll, Iowa, and his 28 years of coaching before being named head coach of the Toronto Raptors in 2018.

Noticed anything extra special on Twitter today? A politician, an author and an environmental activist are among those in the LGBTQ community showcasing their gay pride in an effort to reclaim the term #proudboys

Experts will know by early December whether a potential coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective, but widespread availability will probably not happen until next year, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday.

A New York tabloid's puzzling account about how it acquired emails purportedly from Joe Biden's son has raised some red flags. One of the biggest involves the source of the emails: Rudy Giuliani.

The House of Commons ethics committee has voted against a motion to obtain all records related to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau’s speaking engagements since October 14, 2008, when the prime minister became an elected official.

Deadly wildfires in California have burned more than 4 million acres this year -- more than double the previous record for the most land burned in a single year in the state.

Armenian and Azerbaijani forces exchanged rocket fire as fighting intensified over Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, with the breakaway region's capital and Azerbaijan's second-largest city bombarded.

Clashes erupted after a pro-Trump rally encountered counter-protesters in Times Square leading to fights and arrests.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr will self-quarantine "for now" but is expected to return to work this week, according to a Justice Department spokesperson.

With new COVID-19 protocols, parents want to know about their kids' day at school this year more than ever. However, getting more than a one word answer may be difficult. CTV’s Your Morning discusses how to rework ‘How was your day?’ with child development and parenting expert Caron Irwin. Read more: http://ctv.news/eNp6BmZ

'Saturday Night Live' returned to a live studio audience with Alec Baldwin playing Donald Trump as he took on Jim Carrey as Joe Biden. Read more: http://ctv.news/6LhIx1e

Melbourne, Australia has gone 24 hours without a single new COVID-19 case, and that means its nearly four-month lockdown is about to end.

Jonathan "Bear" Yeung has reached his goal of being able to replace a family’s car following a major crash on the Sea to Sky Highway last month.

U.S. President Donald Trump made a surprise visit outside the hospital where he is staying. Trump waved to supporters from his motorcade. WATCH: https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2049113

A new study out of Norway suggests that handwriting and drawing engages the brain far more than typing on a keyboard, after measuring the brain activity of children and young adults performing these tasks.

U.S. President Donald Trump briefly left the hospital Sunday in his car to wave to supporters gathered outside.

Prince Edward Island is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to three.

Archeologists in Egypt have unearthed 59 well-preserved ancient coffins, some with mummies inside, that date back more than 2,500 years. Read more: http://ctv.news/AU4ikGO

Saskatchewan reported on Sunday five new cases of COVID-19.

Canada's top public health officer is urging people to plan ahead to make sure this year's Thanksgiving holiday is safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.