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The family of a Canadian man detained in Egypt is calling for the highest level of intervention from the Canadian government after he disappeared from the Cairo airport on Monday.

The B.C. government's legal action against Alberta legislation that could allow the province to restrict oil and gas shipments to B.C. has been struck down.

Parks Canada spokesperson Jane Park says the plans are typically re-worked every 10 years and this is the first time the three parks will be combined for one plan.

Michel Cadotte, 57, admitted to suffocating Jocelyne Lizotte, who was in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease. The court heard she had lost complete physical and cognitive autonomy.

Hundreds of people filled an Ottawa church to capacity on Saturday to say their final goodbyes to former MP Paul Dewar, who died from brain cancer earlier this month.

People are gathering in Ottawa today for a memorial service celebrating the life of former Ottawa-Centre MP Paul Dewar, who died of brain cancer earlier this month.

Venezuelans are rushing to rescue boxes of emergency food and medicine from burning trucks stalled on a bridge to Colombia.

An aid convoy entered Venezuela from Brazil on Saturday, the same day three members of the Venezuelan national guard smashed barricades at a border crossing to get into Colombia.

Global Affairs Canada is funding a program to send Canadian homeopaths to Honduras, one of Latin America’s poorest and most dangerous countries, to offer unproven treatments for serious infectious disease.

There are only two institutions in Canada that offer an accredited horseshoeing program. One of them is facing the chopping block.

Educators and parents whose children have autism say they're worried that a reduction in home support through the recent overhaul of Ontario's autism program could spill into the classroom.

The seven young victims of Tuesday's fire are being remembered at a Halifax service that has been opened to the media and the wider community.

The seven young victims of Tuesday's fire were remembered at a Halifax service that has been opened to the media and the wider community.

The seven young victims of Tuesday's fire will be remembered at a Halifax service that has been opened to the media and the wider community.

R. Kelly, the R&B star who has been trailed for decades by allegations that he violated underage girls and women and held some as virtual slaves, is due in court Saturday after being charged with aggravated sexual abuse.

Prosecutors on Saturday painted a dark portrait of a manipulative and sometimes violent R. Kelly, describing how he repeatedly sought out underage girls for sex, including one he encountered at her 16th birthday party and another who met the R&B star while he was on trial for child pornography.

R. Kelly was ordered to pay $1 million US bond Saturday at his first court hearing since the R&B star was charged with sexually abusing four people, including three minors, in a case that seemed likely to produce another #MeToo trial involving a celebrity.

While some First Nations are reclaiming residential school buildings or the land on which they stood, other schools are disappearing with time, leaving little evidence of that period of history or recognition of the students.

We still haven't heard from the scandal's key player, but details are emerging of the internal government conversations about SNC-Lavalin that led to the resignation of Jody Wilson-Raybould.

It is fitting that the Orange Wave's last stand will begin Monday, with a byelection in the Quebec riding where it all started, Outremont.

With no clear front-runner, and audience favourites like Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book embroiled in controversy, the Oscars' best picture race has become a fierce and unpredictable campaign for the academy's top award. CBC talked to a pair of Oscar race experts to help break it all down.

With no clear front-runner, and audience favourites like Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book embroiled in controversy, the Oscars' best picture race has become a fierce and unpredictable campaign for the academy's top award. CBC talked to a pair of Oscar race experts to help break it all down.

As top bishops from around the world gather at the Vatican for a summit on preventing sexual abuse of minors by clergy, victims of abuse have poured into Rome, too. Among them are many women like Wagner, here to draw attention to the abuse of nuns.

At the Kumbh Mela festival, the transgender community believes it is reclaiming the lost place in Hinduism for India's "third gender," known as the hijras, worshipped as demi-gods for thousands of years.

The Department of Finance didn't inform the Canadian International Trade Tribunal investigating the merits of its emergency safeguards on foreign steel when it quietly signed an agreement to allow more Mexican steel to enter Canada without paying the surtax.

Both sides in the confrontation between Venezuela’s socialist government, led by Nicolas Maduro, and the opposition led by Juan Guaido know that today — Saturday, February 23 — could be the one that decides who rules Venezuela.

Jack Letts, the young British-Canadian man accused of travelling to Syria to fight for ISIS has told British broadcaster ITV News that he misses his mum, the TV show Dr. Who and the taste of English snacks.

Vancouver Coastal Health says there are now 10 confirmed measles cases in the current outbreak and there have been possible exposures in Vancouver, Richmond, Squamish, Whistler, and Steveston.

U.S. President Donald Trump has picked Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, as his nominee to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Canada and Israel have long had a close military relationship, but for some Jewish Canadians, that relationship is personal. More than 200 of them are enlisted in the Israel Defence Forces as so-called lone soldiers, serving anywhere from a few months to several years.