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LONDON (AP) — The Queen tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday and is experiencing mild, cold-like symptoms, Buckingham Palace said, adding that she still plans to carry on working.

MONTREAL — Police in Laval, Que., are investigating the deaths of a man and a woman in their 70s. Police in the Montreal suburb say the couple's son called 911 shortly after 7:30 p.m. Saturday, after finding the bodies of his parents in their home.

HALIFAX — A public inquiry into the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history is set to begin hearings this week in Nova Scotia.

VANCOUVER — Some of the most high-profile organizers of protests against government and COVID-19 mandates in Ottawa are facing charges that include mischief and counselling to commit mischief.

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $15 million jackpot in Saturday's Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was won by a ticket holder in British Columbia. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Feb.

The latest developments on ongoing protests against COVID-19 restrictions and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, in Ottawa and various locations across Canada, on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. All times eastern: 11:45 p.m.

OTTAWA — Police officers donned helmets, wielded batons and deployed pepper spray in downtown Ottawa on Saturday as they tried to clear out protesters putting up what the city's interim police chief described as a "barrage of resistance" to ending th

COUTTS, Alta. — A protest that closed the main crossing between Alberta and the United States may have ended this week, but there's some concern it has created a different kind of division in the border community caught in the middle of the dispute.

OTTAWA — Canada's foreign affairs minister says she plans to travel to Asia and elsewhere for some first-hand research before she releases the government's much-anticipated new policy on China.

Montrealer Claudia Hébert says she started to feel extreme fatigue and to get fevers three weeks after returning from Senegal in March 2020, with only a few months left to a complete her Université de Montréal veterinary medicine program.