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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is going through a "deliberate process" to airlift nearly 200 Canadians out of the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, while other countries continue to get their citizens home.

The Canadian government is rolling out information rather than surgical masks and thermal scanners to try to keep the country safe from a virus that has already killed more than two dozen people in China and left hundreds more sick.

Minutes after scaling the snowy wooden staircase that leads into the Alfred-Kelly nature reserve, the air grows fresh and still as the sounds of the city give way to those of chirping birds. The trail is lined with birch and maple trees, as snowshoers and hikers wind their way up the path that soon turns down again, towards snowed-covered Lake Paradis.

Tired of having his town associated with a cancer-causing mineral responsible for killing tens of thousands of people globally, the mayor of Asbestos, Que., says it's time for a name change.

Protesters against Quebec's secularism law said on Sunday, October 27, 2019, that they aren't giving up the fight to overturn Bill 21, with or without politicians on their side.

Police in Montreal say a man was gunned down on Monday, October 21, 2019, outside a business in the city's west end in a slaying that appears to be linked to organized crime.

Four days before Canadians go to the polls, the leaders of Canada's three largest federal parties argued on Thursday, October 17, 2019, over how the country will be governed if there is no clear winner on election day.

The fate of Ugo Fredette, a Quebec man charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his ex-wife and a stranger he met at a highway rest stop, is now in the hands of a jury.

The battle for the hearts and votes of Quebecers took centre stage on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, as Liberal, Conservative and New Democrat leaders wooed voters in a province that could determine the outcome of Monday's federal election.

Demonstrators gathered in Montreal on Saturday, October 12, 2019, to protest Turkey's incursion into northeast Syria, warning of humanitarian disaster and U.S. strategic folly.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has announced that's she's going to Alberta.

Party leaders entered the home stretch of the federal election campaign on Friday, October 11, 2019, picking up the pace of their cross-country travel as they confronted listless poll numbers and a shrinking number of days left to inspire Canadians before they cast ballots on Oct. 21.

The Conservatives aren't saying whether they're talking about immigration and the border on the federal campaign trail today, October 9, 2019, but leader Andrew Scheer is gathering reporters for a field trip starting just a couple of kilometres from the spot in Quebec where thousands of irregular migrants have crossed into Canada.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is touting his party's climate-change policies in Iqaluit today, October 8, 2019, the first party leader to go to the North in this federal election campaign.

A wave of protests is being mounted by XR chapters in more than 60 cities worldwide, including Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, over the coming two weeks.