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Members of the group that sponsored the Barho family's move to Canada in 2017 as Syrian refugees are grieving the loss of seven children after a fire tore through the Halifax home where they were living.

Doug Ford admonished protesting students for their "filthy" mouths on Tuesday after a group decrying cuts to post-secondary grants disrupted a session at Ontario's legislature by shouting obscenities at the premier.

A former Associated Press photographer in Florida who covered more than 100 space shuttle launches, the Elian Gonzalez saga, and the presidential recount, has died.

It’s a crowd-pleasing party trick: Cut a grape in half, pop it in the microwave, hit “start” then sit back and watch the dazzling “grape balls of fire.” Now a team of Canadian scientists has figured out how grapes generate plasma in your kitchen.

Stéphane Roy, a former vice-president of SNC-Lavalin, was facing charges of fraud and bribing a foreign public official in connection with the company's dealings with the regime of the late Libyan dictator, Moammar Gadhafi.

Former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould will be called to testify before a parliamentary committee probing the SNC-Lavalin scandal — but opposition critics are furious that no past or current aides in the prime minister's office will be invited to appear.

Former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould will be called to testify at a parliamentary committee probing the SNC-Lavalin scandal — but it's not yet clear how much she'll be able to reveal publicly because she's bound by client-solicitor privilege.

Calgary police say they’re not treating the death of a man whose body was found inside a house that exploded early Sunday morning as suspicious.

Canada is facing renewed pressure to keep its military helicopters in Mali until a relief force of Romanian aircraft arrives in October.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: the draw of Parliament Hill for protests; what we know about the Mueller investigation into election interference; a trip to a Dutch produce factory underscores Brexit concerns in mainland Europe.

Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould today called on a Commons committee to look at the possibility of the Canadian government imposing new rules on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter in the lead-up to the next federal election.

Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould today called on a Commons committee to look at the possibility of the Canadian government imposing new rules on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter in the lead-up to the next federal election.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is set to update the progress of negotiations to buy thousands of railcars to help transport the province's oil to market.

The Alberta government has signed contracts with Canadian National and Canadian Pacific to lease 4,400 rail cars to take oilsands crude to American and international markets.

Payless Shoes is going into creditor protection in the U.S. and Canada, and will likely close its about 2,500 stores in North America.

The Speaker of the House of Commons condemned publicly today a "racial profiling" incident involving a group of black visitors to Parliament Hill — and said an apology isn't going to be good enough.

Calvin Kenny, 27, was serving a 12½-year sentence at Atlantic Institution in Renous, N.B., for the 2016 death of Steven Miller.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer welcomed a controversial convoy bringing a pro-pipeline message to Ottawa today, assuring participants that "we've got your back."

After nearly five days of driving from Alberta, a convoy of hundreds of pro-pipeline supporters has reached Ottawa for a mass protest against the Liberal government's energy and environmental policies.

A convoy of hundreds of pro-pipeline supporters has started the final leg of its destination for a mass protest in Ottawa later today against the Liberal government's energy and environmental policies.

New subsidies for families and the elimination of interest on students loans were the big announcements in what was primarily a status-quo budget delivered by the B.C. government on Tuesday.

New subsidies for families and the elimination of interest on students loans were the big announcements in what was primarily a status-quo budget delivered by the B.C. government on Tuesday.

New subsidies for families and the elimination of interest on students loans were the big announcements in what was primarily a status-quo budget delivered by the B.C. government on Tuesday.

The B.C. government is expected to announce another surplus and a new round of spending plans when it presents its budget today.

"Perhaps the hunt for such a fix is, itself, a problem — one that blinds us to a need for a multiplicity of smaller solutions."

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday he is running for president in 2020.

German designer Karl Lagerfeld, artistic director at Chanel and an icon of the haute-couture industry for over half a century, has died at age 85, according to the French fashion house.

The climb may be called High Anxiety, but Terry Day is anything but anxious as he hauls the gear he needs from his Jeep to climb 40 metres of solid ice.

A house fire on Quartz Drive in the Halifax community of Spryfield has left multiple people dead.

The early-morning fire on Quartz Drive in the Halifax community of Spryfield is the deadliest house fire in recent Nova Scotia history.

Seven children, ranging in age from four months old to 14 years old, are dead following a fire early Tuesday — the deadliest house fire in recent Nova Scotia history.

An early-morning house fire on Quartz Drive in the Halifax community of Spryfield has left multiple people dead. A next-door neighbour says a family of nine lived in the home.

Seven children are dead following a fire early Tuesday that swept through the Halifax home of a Syrian refugee family, the deadliest house fire in recent Nova Scotia history.

It was a well-paying job that many workers thought would last until retirement. Now, it's gone.

Climate change should not be a left-right issue, but by refusing to tackle the issue, the U.S. president has given the Democrats plenty of room to manoeuvre.

Since Feb. 7, protests have erupted across Haiti over billions of dollars in allegedly misappropriated government dollars and a devaluation of the Haitian currency, the gourde. More than 10 gunshot victims from those protests were treated at Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince.

The arrest warrant for Johannes Rivoire, an Oblate priest accused of abusing children in Nunavut, has been stayed by the government of Canada, documents obtained by CBC News reveal.

City council in Brampton, Ont., will hold a vigil on Tuesday night for 11-year-old Riya Rajkumar, whose body was found at a home last Thursday following an Amber Alert. Her father has been charged with first-degree murder.

Friends, family, and members of the community gathered at a candlelight vigil in Brampton for 11-year-old Riya Rajkumar, whose body was found at a home last Thursday following an Amber Alert. The girl's father, Roopesh Rajkumar, 41, faces a first-degree murder charge.

Friends, family, and members of the community gathered at a candlelight vigil in Brampton for 11-year-old Riya Rajkumar, whose body was found at a home last Thursday following an Amber Alert. The girl's father, Roopesh Rajkumar, 41, faces a first-degree murder charge.

The power of this story, of this “narrative arc,” to use a term Trudeau himself is fond of, is the snatching away of Trudeau’s feminist/Indigenous advocate mantle by an Indigenous feminist — Trudeau being hoisted by his own moralizing petard.

A day after the bombshell departure of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's closest adviser, the SNC-Lavalin affair shows no sign of abating as the opposition parties cast his resignation as a sign there may be more to the scandal than initially thought.

A day after the bombshell resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's closest adviser, the SNC-Lavalin controversy shows no sign of fading as opposition parties in the House of Commons unite to demand a public inquiry.

Prime Minister Imran Khan says Pakistan would retaliate if India were to attack in response to a bombing in the disputed Kashmir region, which India blamed on Pakistan, while adding he wants to co-operate in investigating the blast.

Pakistan's foreign minister appealed to the United Nations Secretary General on Tuesday to help ease tension with India that has escalated sharply following a suicide bomb attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir that India blamed on Pakistan.

Parents fear their baby — who was born a month premature — might have been exposed to measles during a visit to B.C. Children's emergency room on the first day of February.

Parents fear their baby — who was born a month early and is turning a year old today — might have been exposed to measles during a visit to BC Children's Hospital emergency room earlier this month. The family is in isolation in their home on a day they wanted to greet people for Max Seccia-Smith's birthday celebration.

At least 16 states — led by California — have joined to sue the Trump administration over the U.S. president's declaration of a national emergency to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

A convoy of angry Albertans and other westerners rolls into Ottawa Tuesday for a mass protest against federal energy and environmental policies that has also become a magnet for extremist, anti-immigrant elements.

The climate scientist who popularized the term "global warming" has died. Wallace Smith Broecker was 87.