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Michael Ferguson, Canada's auditor general, has died from cancer, according to a statement released on Saturday. Some of the issues he paid particular attention to during his seven years on the job were the Phoenix pay system, Indigenous services and sexual misconduct in the military.

Michael Ferguson, Canada's auditor general, has died, according to a statement from his office released on Saturday.

Stephan was scheduled to speak Saturday and Sunday at the event, being held at the BMO Centre on the Stampede grounds.

A Canadian citizen has died in Mexico, Global Affairs Canada confirmed to CBC News.

One of the Canadian men detained in China has been granted another consular visit from Canadian officials on Saturday.

Chris Attrell is bringing new life to old buildings around Saskatchewan with his photography.

Lelands Auction House's website showed Saturday morning that the ball, which was hit into the stands at Toronto's Rogers Centre by Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista in Game 5 of the 2015 AL Division Series against Texas, had sold for $28,252.80.

Mary Anowtalik has kept her story out of the public eye until now. She was a young girl when the Canadian government uprooted her life, destroying almost everything her family owned, and moved them to a barren land far from home.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Saturday resisted mounting pressure from his Democratic party that he resign, denying that he appeared in a racist yearbook photo while admitting he once wore blackface in a dance contest.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam continues to resist mounting pressure from his Democratic party to resign, after a photograph surfaced which he initially said showed him and another person in racist garb at a party decades earlier.

An international research project is trying to tackle a climate change contributor — burping cows. Here's how one Guelph researcher is making it happen.

The federal government has launched a new commemoration fund in honour of Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Built in 1904 by Enoch Samuel Sales, the house is now owned by the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation and has been boarded up for several years.

Does vaping help smokers butt out? A new study out this week suggests e-cigarettes work no better than other smoking cessation tools. And there is evidence that teenagers who vape could be at risk of becoming a new generation of cigarette smokers.

Does vaping help smokers butt out? A new study out this week suggests e-cigarettes work no better than other smoking cessation tools. And there is evidence that teenagers who vape could be at risk of becoming a new generation of cigarette smokers.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposed on Saturday bringing forward parliamentary elections to this year, as he seeks to crush the threat posed by the National Assembly's head, Juan Guaido, who has proclaimed himself legitimate head-of-state.

A high-ranking Venezuelan air force general says he has disavowed President Nicolas Maduro and now recognizes opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim head-of-state, according to a video circulating on Twitter on Saturday.

Wiarton Willie is predicting an early spring after the celebrity groundhog didn't see his shadow on Saturday morning. U.S.-based Punxsutawney Phil agrees, but Nova Scotia's Shubenacadie Sam has a completely different prediction.

Wiarton Willie is predicting an early spring after the celebrity groundhog didn't see his shadow on Saturday morning. U.S.-based Punxsutawney Phil agrees, but Nova Scotia's Shubenacadie Sam has a completely different prediction.

It's frigid out, but that didn't stop Shubenacadie Sam from stepping outside of his cosy hut to make his annual prediction.

Two lynx are caught on video after wandering onto a residential property in the Kam Lake neighbourhood of Yellowknife.

Following in the footsteps of the U.S., Russia will abandon a centrepiece nuclear arms treaty but will only deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles if Washington does so, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday.

"Our American partners have announced they were suspending their participation in the treaty, and we will do the same," Russian President Vladimir Putin says of the U.S. withdrawal from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty.

The Yukon Quest sled dog race leaves Whitehorse on Saturday. Over the next nine days, 30 teams will cover a gruelling 1,600 kilometres before reaching the finish line in Fairbanks, Alaska.

These are the incidents that are leading experts to believe that some form of upheaval is happening right now in Canada's criminal underworld.

Ali Imrie posted a video to Twitter showing her friend struggling to push her wheelchair along a snow-covered sidewalk on the York University campus. The school says it plans to "do better" when it comes to snow clearing.

Ali Imrie posted a video to Twitter showing her friend struggling to push her wheelchair along a snow-covered sidewalk on the York University campus. The school says it plans to "do better" when it comes to snow clearing.

One of Canada's top former diplomats says that Canadians shouldn't expect to see much more than a statement of principles coming out of an emergency Lima Group meeting on Venezuela that Ottawa is hosting Monday.

We've got Wyn, Bob and Merv — one a real woodchuck, one completely fictional, and the other a hand puppet, all of whom step into the spotlight once a year as the Manitoba delegation to the national roundup of groundhog weather specialists.

The Crown in Vice Adm. Mark Norman's case is going to great lengths to prevent the release of documents from the Harper government era - including Norman's own notes and documents.

The lead lawyer for the public inquiry into how former nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s attacks on patients went undetected for so long now concedes the inquiry has known for a year that the serial killer confessed to more crimes.

Spirited debate about the Super Bowl's halftime show are nothing new, but this year the conversation has taken a decidedly more serious tone. Entertainers taking part simply can't avoid the elephant in the room: the National Football League's treatment of former star player Colin Kaepernick after his protest against racial inequality.

Some WestJet passengers are crying foul after getting hit with a $30 checked bag fee charged in U.S. dollars. The fee works out to about $40.

The demise of a Cold War-era nuclear treaty is underway. Although Russia may have started the row by violating the deal in the first place, Washington’s termination of the treaty could play a broader destabilizing role in Europe and Asia, analysts said.

By pleading guilty Friday to helping a public servant commit a breach of trust, Pierre Duhaime has avoided a much-anticipated courtroom drama — allowing the storied corporation he once led to escape further embarrassment as it tries to win back investors' confidence.

Toronto and Ottawa had identical wind chill forecasts Friday morning, but one region got an extreme cold warning from Enviroment Canada and the other did not.

A pair of socks, a necklace, a door frame, an urn filled with ashes — families of those hurt or killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash spoke in court this week about their powerful emotional connections to these and other objects.

The Ontario government fines Costco more than $7 million after an investigation into allegations the bulk food giant asked for illegal kickbacks from a generic drug manufacturer.

A Toronto police officer is expected to be charged with two counts of professional misconduct in connection with the case of serial killer Bruce McArthur.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam apologizes for a racist photo in which he appeared more than 30 years ago, but says he does not intend to heed calls to resign from both Republicans and prominent fellow Democrats.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam acknowledges that he appears in a photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page that shows a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe.

Sunday's battle between the New England Patriots and the L.A. Rams could possibly be the last Super Bowl game to be available in Canada in its original form — ads and all — through American broadcasts.