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A mediation circle involving two non-Indigenous women who were charged after posting racist comments on Facebook is being called a precedent-setting and ground-breaking example of restorative justice.

Student organizations say the Ontario government's decision to allow college and university students to opt out of the fees that fund campus groups, student newspapers and clubs will make the province's post-secondary institutions less transparent.

The president of Huawei Canada says it will be getting a piece of the $2 billion US that its global Chinese parent will spend over five years to hire more software engineers to make its equipment more secure, resilient and efficient.

A snapped tree fell on Alex Higden's flatbed truck during the severe storm in B.C. on Dec. 20. It broke part of his back, but Higden's father said he's already set his sights on going home.

Sharon McIvor, who petitioned the UN committee in November 2010 with her son Jacob Grismer, says the decision is 'a game changer for a lot of women.'

China's envoy to Canada on Thursday warned Ottawa of possible repercussions if it banned technology firm Huawei Technologies from supplying equipment to Canadian 5G networks, the latest blast in a deepening bilateral dispute.

B.C.'s naturopathic college is promising immediate action against practitioners who make false claims and spread anti-vaccination disinformation after finding an "unacceptable" number of violations of its policies.

Scott Wellenbach had quite a run at a poker tournament that wrapped up Wednesday night in the Bahamas and the 67-year-old plans to donate all of the winnings.

Scott Wellenbach had quite a run at a poker tournament that wrapped up Wednesday night in the Bahamas and the 67-year-old plans to donate all of the winnings.

The United Conservative Party will make Albertans pay tolls on the province's highways if they form government Premier Rachel Notley claimed in a partisan speech to an industry convention in Edmonton Thursday.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: killing of Canadian mining executive highlights rising terrorism problem in Burkina Faso; from cabinet-shuffling to upheaval in a high-profile by-election race, it's been a week of Canadian political surprises.

U.S. President Donald Trump is postponing what he's calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "seven-day excursion" to Egypt, Afghanistan and Brussels in apparent payback for Pelosi asking him to reschedule his state of the union address because of the partial government shutdown.

U.S. President Donald Trump is postponing what he's calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "seven-day excursion" to Egypt, Afghanistan and Brussels and cancelled the U.S. delegation's trip later this month to an economic forum in Davos.

The death of Canadian Kirk Woodman in Burkina Faso has highlighted the growing instability in the Sahel region of West Africa, where Islamist militancy is rapidly on the rise.

Prince Philip was uninjured in a car crash on Thursday near the Royal Family's Sandringham Estate in eastern England, according to Buckingham Palace.

Former Liberal candidate Karen Wang caps off a bizarre day with an even more bizarre media scrum in a Burnaby, B.C., parking lot.

The Liberal Party says Karen Wang's resignation as its candidate in next month's Burnaby South byelection will not be reversed.

Federal and Quebec officials will meet in two weeks to hammer out an immigration plan for the province that Premier François Legault says must include cuts to the number of newcomers and compensation for the costs of asylum seekers.

A Toronto-area woman who admitted to attacking workers at a Canadian Tire store with a golf club and butcher knife in an effort to help ISIS has been found guilty of several terror charges.

Gymboree has filed for bankruptcy protection for a second time in as many years, but this time the children's clothing retailer will begin winding down operations for good.

A former lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data "at the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump.

Dmitry Kiselyov's Sunday-night TV program is one of the most influential sources of news in Russia. And last weekend, the Kremlin-friendly broadcaster focused his ire on Ukrainians living in Canada.

Facebook says it has removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts that it says were part of two big disinformation operations, in its latest effort to fight fake news.

A whopping 58 per cent of all food produced in Canada – 35.5 million tonnes – is lost or wasted, according to a new report, and about a third of that wasted food could be “rescued” and sent to communities in need across the country.

A missing 71-year-old pilot was rescued after being found stranded and dehydrated on a frozen Manitoba lake.

A bathroom break turned into a missing person report for a 72-year-old pilot, who became stranded on a remote, frozen northern Manitoba lake.

Canada's biggest bank has cut its five-year fixed-term mortgage rate, a move other banks are likely to try to match in short order.

Canadian Olympic snowboarder Max Parrot announced Thursday he has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The 24-year-old from Bromont, Que., captured slopestyle silver at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, and was diagnosed with cancer last month after undergoing a biopsy.

A Canadian kidnapped in Burkina Faso has been found dead, says his family, two days after he was abducted by gunmen.

A Canadian kidnapped in Burkina Faso has been found dead, says his family, two days after he was abducted by gunmen.

Bruce Porter watched in shock as his snowmobile raced away from him and directly towards his house, where he knew his wife was.

Toronto police issued a warning on Thursday about an alleged ongoing taxi fare scam that has already led to the arrests of five people who now face more than 260 charges for identity theft.

A hearing date has been set for certification of a class action lawsuit representing thousands of residential school survivors who are seeking tens of millions of dollars in compensation.

Canada's top military officer admits there has been slower progress than expected to get more women into the Canadian Forces.

The Cape Breton Mi'kmaw community is in mourning after what the band council calls multiple 'expected and unexpected' deaths. They say the band's crisis centre workers are exhausted and more staff is needed.

Nova Scotia's largest Mi'kmaw community said in a statement yesterday the community in eastern Cape Breton is going through a difficult time.

Sublocade, a monthly injectable alternative to the widely used opioid treatment Suboxone, has been approved by Health Canada after a small but so far successful run in the U.S.

Sublocade, an injectable alternative to Suboxone, has been approved by Health Canada after a successful run in the U.S. The treatment is administered once a month and is highly touted by many American physicians.

A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against the federal government over the $165-million accounting blunder at Veterans Affairs Canada, CBC News has learned.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his revamped cabinet meet in Sherbrooke, Que., the start of a three-day retreat to deal with pressing economic, environmental and international issues while setting the Liberals on course for this year's federal election.

The Zika virus should remain a concern for some Canadians planning winter vacations in sunny climes, doctors say.

Air-traffic controllers at Reagan National Airport can peer down at Washington's centres of power from their high-tech perch. Yet these days, even from their elevated fishbowl, the people who direct the nation's skies are feeling powerless while on the job.

A pattern is emerging: the government studies an issue for more than a year, finds a solution that will improve access to medicines and lower costs, then cancels any real change when industry objects.

Some oilpatch CEOs are supporting a bid by Indigenous groups in Western Canada to purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline and the proposed expansion project.

In what would be its first major move to restructure Ontario's health system, the Doug Ford government is considering a sharp cut to the bureaucracies that are supposed to co-ordinate health care services at the local level.

The company behind a bomb-defusing game for children has offered an apology following complaints from parents that it's inappropriate and insensitive. YULU also says it will stop shipping the item to North American markets.

Air-traffic controllers at Reagan National Airport can peer down at Washington's centres of power from their high-tech perch. Yet these days, even from their elevated fishbowl, the people who direct the nation's skies are feeling powerless while on the job.

The case of Saudi teen Rahaf Mohammed who was granted asylum in Canada after a fleeing her allegedly abusive family is shining a spotlight on a rarely used urgent protection program for refugees in particularly dire straits.

In what would be its first major move to restructure Ontario's health system, the Doug Ford government is considering a sharp cut to the bureaucracies that are supposed to co-ordinate health care services at the local level.

Brexit offers an economic warning to Canadians trying to benefit by stoking anger and division.