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Hundreds of thousands of employees in the health and education sectors will be off the job starting Friday. The walkout is set to overlap with other strikes by nurses and teachers.

MPs voted late Wednesday to have the House procedures committee examine Speaker Greg Fergus’ appearance in a video shown at the Ontario Liberal leadership convention last weekend.

It took a record 15 votes over four days early this year for McCarthy to line up the support he needed to win the post he had long coveted, to only be ousted in October.

The number of Canadian spies with permission to break the law is rising, according to an internal memorandum. The memo, marked secret, provides a glimpse into a murky world of how operatives can ignore normal rules with prior approval.

Only two countries – Brazil (3,081) and hosts U.A.E (4,409) – had more representatives than the oil and gas industry, a new report says.

Canada's financial intelligence agency has levied a $7.4-million penalty against the Royal Bank of Canada for non-compliance with anti-money laundering and terrorist financing measures.

The grave of a previously unknown First World War soldier has been identified, the Department of National Defence said Monday.

The lawyer for the families of two of Paul Bernardo's victims is calling on prison transfer rules to be changed to account for inmates who pose no chance of rehabilitation.

Bernadette Jordan, a former Liberal member of Parliament who served in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet, has been named Canada's new consul general in Boston.

The letter from the White House's budget director represents the starkest warning yet that existing U.S. funding for Ukraine is running dry.

New Democrat MP Alistair MacGregor says he has reviewed the major grocers' plans to stabilize prices and he's not impressed by what's in them.

The top executive at Sobeys asserted on Monday that Canada has one of the most competitive grocery retail sectors on the planet, even as Canadians continue to feel the bite of higher prices and Ottawa looks for solutions.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio-Canada announced Monday that it plans to cut about 10 per cent of its workforce and axe some programming to cope with a $125 million budget shortfall.

The Conservatives and Bloc Québécois are calling on House Speaker Greg Fergus to resign after he appeared in a video message played at the recent Ontario Liberal leadership convention.

Fergus delivered the apology after the Conservatives said they planned to raise the issue in Parliament, given the Speaker is supposed to serve an explicitly non-partisan role.

'Virtually all of Canadian facilities handling natural gas will be covered' under the proposed measures, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said.

Thousands of pro-Israel demonstrators from across the country gathered on Parliament Hill Monday to show solidarity with the country as it takes on Hamas in Gaza — and to call for an end to antisemitism in Canada.

Dozens of buses left the Toronto area early Monday destined for a national rally on Parliament Hill to show support for Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza and denounce a wave of antisemitism in Canada.

The proposed regulations are similar to those announced in recent days by the United States and are designed to help Canada reach and exceed its 2030 target of slashing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by at least 75 per cent below 2012 levels.

Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne handed down a mandate requiring the CRTC to prioritize consumer rights, affordability, competition and universal access.

Global Affairs Canada says the death of the Canadian citizen was in Lebanon, but offered no further details in an update Sunday evening.

Scientists and conservationists fear more mining exploration in the far north will lead to ‘irreversible damage’ to the peatlands.

Assembly of First Nations chiefs will try to move past years of top-level turmoil this week in Ottawa when they meet to elect a new national chief — and with the recent leadership controversy throwing the storied, 55-year-old organization’s credibility into question, much will be at stake.

A stark warning from Canada’s top military brass that the CAF are not ready to operate in an increasingly dangerous world. Will the warnings prompt action?

A new 15-minute video released by Pierre Poilievre once again highlights the intense political battle over housing policy in Canada.

The Moncton Jewish Community said the city's mayor cited a Supreme Court of Canada ruling to justify not setting up the Menorah outside city hall for the first time in decades.

Speaker of the House Greg Fergus says his video message to an Ontario Liberal leadership convention was personal in nature, but acknowledged some could see it in another way and promised to be "more diligent" in the future.

Canada's heritage minister says it would be within the spirit of the government's digital news law if CBC/Radio-Canada were to receive money from Google — but suggested its share of the $100-million fund may be capped.

In the current climate of heightened interest rates and high-cost housing all generations are struggling with the dreams of retirement and home ownership.

The Canada Border Services Agency has denied entry to dozens of senior Iranian regime officials and is investigating about 100 people with status in Canada for potential ties to the regime in Tehran.

Canadian Iranian human rights activist Hamed Esmaeilion — who lost his wife and child in the destruction of Flight PS752 by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — says his parents have now been banned from leaving Iran, despite their permanent resident status in Canada.

Bonnie Crombie, the Mississauga mayor and former Liberal MP wins election after three rounds of ballots, defeating Nate Erskine-Smith, Yasir Naqvi and Ted Hsu.

Bashir Ahmad Azizi, a former Canadian Armed Forces military interpreter, has been arrested by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, CBC News has learned. Azizi and his family have been in hiding for two years as they await immigration paperwork that would allow them to come to Canada.

Randy Boissonnault, the federal minister of employment and official languages, is accusing certain provincial premiers of standing in the way of Canada's "ambition."

The federal government says Canada’s promised oil and gas emissions cap framework could drop any day. Here's what we know about it.

Future investments could be on the line, a Windsor union president warns, as a result of the political turmoil over the temporary hiring of South Korean workers for the NextStar EV battery factory. 

CSIS says it has launched a workplace assessment of its B.C. office over "serious allegations" raised by whistleblowers who say they were sexually assaulted and harassed.

The Liberal government had to delay its long-promised regulations to cap emissions from oil and gas production in Canada because of two recent court decisions forcing Ottawa to tread more carefully on climate policy affecting provinces, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Friday.

This week, Google struck an agreement with the federal government that will see it pay $100 million in financial support to news outlets across the country. Detailed regulations on how the money will be managed and distributed have not yet been published. Here is what we know so far.

International climate talks turned to a power game on Friday as dozens of world leaders took turns bemoaning the pain of an overheating planet.

The Department of Canadian Heritage has taken legal action to recoup funds it paid to a consultant accused of posting antisemitic material online, Deputy Minister Isabelle Mondou said Thursday.

The procurement department has stated that Boeing's off-the-shelf reconnaissance plane is the only currently available aircraft that meets Royal Canadian Air Force needs.

The commander of the Royal Canadian Navy has released a new video warning the force is in a "critical state," with ships that are beyond their life cycles and a severe shortage of sailors to operate them.

Tim Danson, the lawyer representing the families of Paul Bernardo’s murder victims, will speak to MPs Wednesday about the transfer of inmates.

Spyware normally associated with the intelligence world is being used by 13 federal departments and agencies, Radio-Canada has learned, but none of them are conducting privacy assessments despite a government directive. 

As a deal remains off the table, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are threatening to strike for a full week in December.

For as long as people have been proposing action to combat climate change, there have been people arguing the proposed actions are too rash or risky. For even longer, Alberta premiers have been seizing every to opportunity to object to federal climate policies.

Paul Bernardo has been serving a life sentence for the kidnappings, tortures and murders of teenagers Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy in the early 1990s.

If the federal Conservatives maintain their fundraising pace, they could have their best-ever year relative to the governing Liberals and even crack the all-time annual party fundraising record.

Justice minister considers options raised by independent adviser on unmarked graves, who says Indigenous leaders want Canada to move on criminalizing residential school denialism.