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Ashley Holland managed to haul her 4-year-old daughter, Macy, free from a sinking car and swim her to safety.

The reaction to the viral video of the standoff between Covington Catholic High School students and Indigenous Americans at a D.C. demonstration ought to be one hell of a wake-up call for journalists, some of whom prematurely blew up a two-minute clip into an international scandal.

Starting in April, the federal government will take a new approach it says will mean a more predictable base of money for First Nations elementary and secondary schools.

Charges have been laid nearly five years after a two-year-old was poisoned and killed by snake venom in North Vancouver.

Brandon Truaxe, the founder of Canadian skin care company Deciem, has died.

A new study suggests Greenland ice has hit a new tipping point with unprecedented melting since the early 2000s — and this will have consequences for East Coast cities.

A group of 140 academics, former diplomats, and others from around the world are urging China to immediately release of two detained Canadians, warning the situation is causing a chill on China's relations around the world.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: the U.S.-Russia INF nuclear treaty's days seem numbered; poor sleep could be affecting your memory; resident-on-resident violence in Ontario long-term care homes has become a 'critical situation.'

Brayden Bushby was initially charged with aggravated assault, accused of throwing a metal trailer hitch from a moving vehicle which struck 34-year-old Barbara Kentner. Kentner died in July and Bushby's charge was subsequently upgraded to second degree murder.

It won’t happen again for two years. The moon, Earth and sun came together to create a the only lunar eclipse of 2019 on Sunday evening — and it was a super blood wolf moon to boot.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer attempted to revive his party's fortunes in Quebec Monday by declaring his openness to the provincial government's immigration demands. But he avoided questions about whether he would back efforts to build a new pipeline that would cross Quebec.

Two men in Africa's Ivory Coast have been charged for attempting to blackmail Canadian MP Tony Clement by posing as a woman online and demanding money after Clement shared explicit sexual images with them.

The premier of Ontario says a federal carbon tax will plunge the country into recession.

The mother of former Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe was found dead of hypothermia outside a Montreal seniors' residence on Sunday.

The mother of former Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe was found dead of hypothermia outside of a Montreal senior residence on Sunday.

A federal inmate who says he was shackled in a cramped transport van for almost eight hours — despite a heart condition and other ailments — is suing the government for compensation.

A Halifax man who was the first person charged with violating Canada's economic sanctions against Syria is now accused of violating the European Union's as well.

Moose Jaw's Mac the Moose wants to be the world's largest moose statue again.

Two senior B.C. Legislature officials who were suspended two months ago are being investigated for allegedly fraudulent and flagrant overspending, "lavish" trips overseas, inappropriate expense claims, cash payouts and misappropriating liquor from the legislature.

A 76-page report says two senior B.C. Legislature officials who were mysteriously suspended two months ago are being investigated for allegedly fraudulent and flagrant overspending, inappropriate expense claims, cash payouts and misappropriating liquor from the legislature.

A woman who started a petition demanding national training standards for semi drivers after her husband's death in a crash in 2017 says she’s grateful for the support from across Canada, and hopes transport ministers meeting in Montreal today will "pull together" to take action.

A woman who started a petition demanding national training standards for semi drivers after her husband's death in a crash in 2017 says she’s grateful for the support from across Canada, and hopes transport ministers meeting in Montreal today will "pull together" to take action.

The remains of two of the last members of an extinct Newfoundland people will be sent from Scotland to the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa.

Kamala Harris, a first-term U.S. senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump's nominees, on Monday entered the Democratic presidential race.

When Angela Pauls screamed for someone to rescue “her baby” from her burning home in December, firefighters had no idea she was referring to a pet pot-bellied pig.

The Blood Tribe says it reached a tentative, $150-million settlement with the federal government — its largest ever deal with Ottawa — over a historic claim that federal officials mismanaged the band’s cattle industry in the early 20th century.

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday attempted to resuscitate her rejected European Union divorce deal, setting out plans to get her Brexit agreement approved by Parliament after securing changes from the EU to a contentious Irish border measure.

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is unveiling her new plan to break Britain's Brexit deadlock — one expected to look a lot like the old plan decisively rejected by Parliament last week.

Prime Minister Theresa May is set to unveil her new plan to break Britain's Brexit deadlock — and it's expected to look a lot like the old plan decisively rejected by Parliament last week.

A Winnipeg man says he's being forced to find a way out of Cuba after a Sunwing Vacations agent accidentally ripped his passport and left him alone to deal with it.

The student who stared and smiled at an elderly Indigenous protester drumming in his face outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., as his schoolmates chanted and laughed says he did nothing to provoke the man in the videotaped confrontation and was only trying to calm the situation.

The student who stared and smiled at an elderly Indigenous protester drumming in his face outside the Lincoln Memorial as his schoolmates chanted and laughed says he did nothing to provoke the man in the videotaped confrontation and was only trying to calm the situation.

What is being billed as an emissions "fix" for affected Volkswagens has created new issues, according to owners of vehicles who say they lag at acceleration and then surge forward, causing safety concerns even after a class action lawsuit was settled.

Long-time Inuit advocate Mary Simon has started a campaign to get the number of deaths by suicide in Nunavik recognized as a crisis by Canada and Quebec.

A winter storm that pummelled Atlantic Canada over the weekend and into Monday morning has caused flash freeze warnings and flooding, as temperatures have dropped across the region, and Ontario and Quebec are both under extreme cold warnings.

Recommendations made by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), the agency responsible for protecting Canadians in planes, trains and watercraft, are routinely ignored and in some cases take decades to be addressed.

Three months after ordering his department to take a "fresh look" at Transport Canada’s no-seatbelt position, Transport Minister Marc Garneau has announced the creation of a task force to look into the possibility of outfitting school buses with the devices.

Three woman who worked for the RCMP are going public with allegations of sexual assault in the 1980s at the hands of an RCMP doctor that they say multiple agencies covered up.

She was sitting near the front of the upper level of the double-decker bus that crashed into Westboro station last week, but Kathryn Rose survived with only minor bruises. More than a week later, she's struggling with guilt.

Three months after ordering his department to take a “fresh look” at Transport Canada’s no-seatbelt position, Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau has strongly signalled that a decision to implement safety restraints on school buses is imminent.

For the first time, scientists say they have grown human blood vessels from scratch in the lab that look and behave like the ones in our bodies.

Holy grail of power generation, commercial nuclear fusion could be "a decade away" creating a new disruption not just for fossil fuels but for traditional carbon free energy systems.

The Canadian military is being accused of dragging its feet to prevent a human rights complaint from being heard regarding the case of a former naval officer who was told to choose between her child and her career.

The vicious beating of a teenager in Nova Scotia is renewing calls for the definition of torture to be expanded in Canada's Criminal Code to allow those other than officials acting on behalf of the state to be charged with the crime.

The Canadian military is being accused of dragging its feet to prevent a human rights complaint from being heard regarding the case of a former naval officer who was told to choose between her child and her career.

Canada's Milos Raonic need just under two hours to defeat Alexander Zverev of Germany 6-1, 6-1, 7-6 (5) to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open.

On Sunday night, the moon, Earth and sun lined up to create the eclipse, which was visible throughout North and South America, where skies were clear.

On Sunday night, the moon, Earth and sun lined up to create the eclipse, which was visible throughout North and South America, where skies were clear.

Health of people who are transgender, a community that sees high rates of depression, focus of Canadian medical journal's special issue.

Israel has struck in Syria as part of its increasingly open assault on Iran's presence there, shaking the night sky over Damascus with an hour of loud explosions in a second consecutive night of military action.