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As tensions in Venezuela mount ahead of a Saturday showdown over humanitarian aid, both sides are digging in, highlighting how the South American nation's crisis has become the latest fault line in a battle for global influence by former Cold War adversaries.

This week, we talk to Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia about what effect the SNC-Lavalin controversy involving the PMO and former attorney general is having on his party's caucus.

About half of Canada's inmates were abused as children, suggests a study out of McMaster University that's in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says an Alabama woman who left home to join ISIS in Syria is not a U.S. citizen and will not be allowed to return to the United States.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says an Alabama woman who left home to join ISIS in Syria is not a U.S. citizen and will not be allowed to return to the United States.

New rules are needed to prevent telecom companies from using aggressive and misleading sales practices that harm consumers — particularly seniors and other vulnerable Canadians — to an "unacceptable degree," the CRTC says.

New rules are needed to prevent telecom companies from using aggressive and misleading sales practices that harm consumers — particularly seniors and other vulnerable Canadians — to an "unacceptable degree," the CRTC says.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: financial worries about Brexit start to bite in Britain; families of the Ukrainian sailors detained by Russia are growing impatient with the courtroom delays and want their loved ones back.

The number of hate groups operating in the United States rose seven per cent to an all-time high in 2018, reflecting an increasingly divisive debate on immigration and demographic change, the Southern Poverty Law Centre said on Wednesday. White House has repeatedly rejected charges of bias levelled at U.S. president

The number of hate groups operating in the United States rose seven per cent to an all-time high in 2018, reflecting an increasingly divisive debate on immigration and demographic change, the Southern Poverty Law Centre said on Wednesday.

The federal Liberal government says its consultation teams have met already with more than three-quarters of all Indigenous communities affected by the planned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, according to the latest statistics supplied to CBC News.

Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Randy Hillier has been suspended indefinitely from the Ontario PC caucus after making "disrespectful comments to parents of children with autism," Leader Doug Ford said Wednesday.

It may be a faint, fuzzy dot, but this little moon is a happy new addition to Neptune’s family.

Jody Wilson-Raybould spent more than two hours waiting outside the cabinet room on Tuesday while her former colleagues hotly debated her request to address them about the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Jody Wilson-Raybould told the Commons today she wants to tell her side of the SNC-Lavalin scandal now consuming official Ottawa, but she can't "waive" solicitor-client privilege on her own.

Jody Wilson-Raybould told the Commons today she wants to tell her side of the SNC-Lavalin scandal now consuming official Ottawa, but she can't "waive" solicitor-client privilege on her own.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a public inquiry isn't necessary now to get to the bottom of the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized to Jody Wilson-Raybould today for what he called "absolutely unacceptable" comments and cartoons about the former justice minister linked to the swelling SNC-Lavalin scandal.

Another foreign oil company says it's getting out of the Canadian oilsands.

Devon Energy will sell its facilities in Alberta before the end of the year after operating in the oilsands for more than a decade.

Devon Energy will sell its facilities in Alberta before the end of the year after operating in the oilsands for more than a decade.

The CRTC says an inquiry has confirmed allegations Canada's telecommunications industry used unacceptable sales practices that misled consumers and harmed vulnerable members of the public.

Cultured meat production could spur global warming more in the long term than some types of beef cattle farming, a new study suggests.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sternly warns the United States against deploying new missiles in Europe, saying Russia will retaliate by fielding new weapons that will take just as little time to reach their targets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sternly warns the United States against deploying new missiles in Europe, saying Russia will retaliate by fielding new weapons that will take just as little time to reach their targets.

A Steinbach, Man., business owner has located the family of two soldiers connected to a 102-year-old letter found in a pile of papers.

The ice may be virtual, but Justin "Regs" Reguly's competitive gaming success is anything but.

After the breakneck speed of announcements over their first 18 months in power, the NDP presented a budget that shows them settling into their role — content with the path they’ve charted out for the foreseeable future.

'A number of consumers' from the Toronto area say they paid thousands of dollars to a woman claiming to be a travel agent for international trips they never received, Ontario's travel regulator says.

The Alberta government has once again intervened in the energy sector, signing contracts to spend $3.7 billion to ship more oil out of the province by rail, but industry experts say the plan is risky.

The Senate Ethics Officer didn't publish a single inquiry report last year, prompting some senators to wonder exactly what the office (which has a $1.2 million budget) has been up to — and why it's taking so long to finish investigations that have been underway for months.

To Russia, they’re criminals, but to their families, 24 young Ukrainian sailors are hostages and pawns in Russia’s latest confrontation with the West.

Few weeks in federal politics get off to a more theatrical start than this one did - thanks to Jody Wilson-Raybould dropping in on a cabinet meeting and being confirmed as a Commons justice committee witness. But are we any closer to getting to the bottom of the SNC-Lavalin affair?

A growing number of companies are building their business models around the selfie, attracting people with destinations that beg visitors to take out the phone and snap away.

"They [politicians] took this money and just spent it on houses, on boats ... This is nonsense," said Gilbert Mirambeau Jr., a 35-year-old Haitian-Canadian, who posted a photo of himself on Twitter last summer which helped to kick-start today’s movement.

"They [politicians] took this money and just spent it on houses, on boats ... This is nonsense," said Gilbert Mirambeau, a 35-year-old Haitian-Canadian, who posted a photo of himself on Twitter last summer which helped to kick-start today’s movement.

A ready-to-eat salad kit recalled in Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and Ontario due to possible Listeria contamination has also been spotted in an Alberta grocery store.

A ready-to-eat salad kit recalled in Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and Ontario due to possible Listeria contamination has also been spotted in an Alberta grocery store.

A First Nation woman who attended one of Canada's most notorious residential schools is in Rome this week in hopes of getting the chance to meet with Pope Francis and personally demand he apologize for the abuse suffered by Indigenous children in the church-run schools.

A residential school survivor attending a Vatican summit on sexual abuse says the Pope's decision not to meet with victims Wednesday shows he isn't committed to dealing with the root causes of the systemic problems afflicting the Catholic Church.

NASA's newest lander is offering daily reports on the red planet's frigid winter. The space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is posting the highs and lows online, along with wind speed and atmospheric pressure from the InSight lander. In its most recent update, InSight recorded a high of -17 C and a low of -95 C.