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Justin Bieber is joining the ranks of other musicians-turned-fashion mavens, Kanye West and Beyoncé, with a new fashion label called Drew House.

Last summer, an Ontario judge ruled Canada's charity law restricted freedom of expression by imposing a limit on charities' political activities. The Liberal government launched an appeal of the ruling even as it amended the Income Tax Act to conform with it - saying it had to oppose an error in law. On Thursday, it dropped the appeal, saying nothing would be gained.

CFIB blames oil-price differential for biggest plunge in its 'business barometer index' since late 2014.

Two senior members of the federal NDP caucus warned NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh back in June that he won't be able to hang on as party leader if he loses next month's byelection in Burnaby South, CBC News has learned.

"I don't think there is Islamophobia in Quebec, so I don't see why there would be a day dedicated to Islamophobia," the premier said Thursday.

Canada's Competition Bureau said Thursday it has closed its investigation into Ticketmaster's secret scalper program, and concluded the company's TradeDesk software does not break federal competition legislation.

Several major government figures at the centre of the criminal case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman have not searched their personal email and phones for any correspondence relevant to the case, despite the instructions of court-ordered subpoena.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: France, Germany and Britain are setting out to help European businesses skirt U.S. sanctions on Iran; Jaskirat Singh Sidhu sentencing; Ottawa tries to get relations with China back on track.

​There are parallels to be drawn between the growing influence and availability of Netflix programming around the world and the colonialism of the British and French empires, CBC president Catherine Tait said Thursday.

The Halifax Public Gardens' agave plant may be dead, but its legacy has the potential to live on in 158 seeds scattered among fans.

The Ontario NDP says it has obtained a draft of a government bill that would dissolve the province's Local Health Integration Networks and create a "super agency" to oversee the health system.

The Ontario NDP says it has obtained a draft of a government bill that would dissolve the province's Local Health Integration Networks and create a "super agency" to oversee the health system.

Two French police officers from an anti-gang unit were found guilty on Thursday in Paris of raping a Canadian tourist, according to local media reports.

Ontario is considering allowing realtors to tell prospective home buyers the prices of other offers in bidding wars. The government launched a consultation Thursday looking at the Real Estate and Business Brokers Act, and that's one rule they're looking at changing.

Therae Racette-Beaulieu was charged last August with two counts of attempted murder as well as two counts of break and enter, possession of property obtained by crime and weapons-related offences.

Bundle up, Alberta! Temperatures are expected to plunge from a high of 6 C in some areas of the province on Thursday to lows of –30 C on the weekend and as much as 50 centimetres of snow in some regions.

Rita's Tea Room, a small town Cape Breton attraction that once drew tens of thousands of visitors a year on the star power of owner and singer Rita MacNeil, is closing.

A week after opposition leader Juan Guaido proclaimed himself Venezuela’s new president, his rival, Nicolas Maduro, remains in control of most of the levers of power. This scenario suits Russia just fine, writes Chris Brown.

The federal Liberal government may have overpaid for the Trans Mountain pipeline project by up to $1 billion, the parliamentary budget officer estimates, and there's a risk its value could decline further if there are any other delays in the building timeline.

Canada's Supreme Court rules provincial environmental rules trump bankruptcy laws in the energy sector, overturning lower court decisions that said creditors should get paid back first — before cleaning up old wells.

The Transportation Safety Board has deployed a team of investigators to look into the disappearance of a charter flight in the Northwest Territories, but the fate of the plane and the only two people aboard, the two pilots, has not been confirmed.

Two pilots who have been missing since their charter flight went down over the Northwest Territories are now confirmed dead, the RCMP says.

Two pilots who have been missing since their charter flight went down over the Northwest Territories are believed to be dead, according to the RCMP.

Two pilots who have been missing since their charter flight went down over the Northwest Territories are now confirmed dead, the RCMP says.

The Transportation Safety Board has deployed a team of investigators to look into the disappearance of a charter flight in the Northwest Territories, but the fate of the plane — and its pilots — has not been confirmed.

Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president, Juan Guaido, says agents from a feared special police unit had called at his home, a sign of increasing pressure on the opposition leader trying to replace socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

The European Parliament has recognized Venezuela's self-declared interim president Juan Guaido as de facto head of state, heightening international pressure on the OPEC member's socialist president, Nicolas Maduro.

The truck driver who pleaded guilty in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash told families and friends of the victims that he was sorry during the final day of a sentencing hearing in a Melfort, Sask., courtroom.

The Crown prosecutor in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash case is asking for a 10-year sentence for truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu with a further 10-year driving prohibition after that.

Canada's gross domestic product declined by 0.1 per cent in November as industries as diverse as manufacturing, construction, oil and gas, and finance all shrank.

Thanks in large part to the creation of a ski hill a decade ago, the demographics of Revelstoke have changed — and the issues new councillors have to deal with have a big-city feel to them.

The Transportation Safety Board is recommending that the layout of two runways at Canada's busiest airport be changed to lessen the risk of collisions between aircraft.

The Transportation Safety Board is set to release a new report on its investigation into a series of runway incidents at Canada's busiest airport.

The CBC's Susan Ormiston reports from the Humboldt Broncos bus crash sentencing hearing in Melfort, Sask. She talks about how the victims' families are feeling about the possibility of some closure and explains how complicated it could be for the judge to decide truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu's punishment.​

The head of a Red Deer organization for refugees suggested in a 2017 Facebook post that Muslim women should not fully cover their faces in public.

The number of employees working in head offices in Calgary has dropped, as has the number of headquarters that call Calgary home.

NATO's chief has called on China to treat detained two Canadian citizens "fairly and with due process."

NATO's chief weighs in on the diplomatic spat between China and Canada, calling on Chinese officials Thursday to treat two Canadians detained in the country "fairly and with due process."

Thousands of years ago, a stretch of land connected the continents of Asia and North America, in the place the Bering Strait now occupies.

Scott Thomas waited 10 months to meet the man who caused the death of his son, Evan and on Wednesday he got that chance.

Increasing the number of beds in Ontario's health-care system won't on its own solve the problem of hospital overcrowding, says a report that will shape Premier Doug Ford's reforms.

This has been going on for decades, writes Mary Rogan: back in 1975, I was 14 when my Catholic high school in Connecticut put hundreds of students on buses headed to Washington for the March for Life.

Technology makes it possible to be a digital nomad, earning a living while travelling the world. But that life is not without its challenges.

Like a whisperer of wild animals, a tired-looking U.S. central banker seems to have developed a knack for soothing skittish markets.

Frigid temperatures descending across much of Canada and parts of the U.S. Midwest may have left people wondering what ever happened to global warming. The fact is, it's climate change that's behind this extreme cold.

It was a very chilling, brave lesson for Laurentian University students this week in Sudbury.

CBC News has learned new details about a London Police Service investigation into an additional attack by serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer through documents filed in court.

Despite allegations of sex abuse, a police investigation and an arrest, child welfare officials allowed children to remain in the home of a foster father who is now convicted of sex crimes against foster children.

Efforts to secure humanitarian support from the UN, IMF and other international organizations are paralyzed so long as the international community remains divided over Venezuela's legitimate head of state.

The episode is yet another reminder of how even algorithms with the best of intentions can unwittingly fuel the spread of misinformation online.