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The cartoon depicts former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould in a boxing ring, clad in leather fringe and feathers while wielding a tomahawk.

Physicians who go on aid missions abroad want the federal government to review its funding of a program that sends homeopaths to Honduras because of the potential harm to local people.

Longtime NDP MP Nathan Cullen, among the party's most high-profile parliamentarians, is not running in the next federal election.

Actress Katherine Helmond, a seven-time Emmy Award nominee who played lusty matriarchs on the hit television sitcoms Soap and Who's the Boss? from the 1970s into the 1990s, died on Feb. 23.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: U.S. government is hunting for Osama bin Laden's son Hamza, identified as the 'emerging leader' of al-Qaeda; controversy around the Leaving Neverland documentary raises some complicated questions.

Canada has announced that an extradition hearing against Meng Wanzhou, the embattled executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei, can move forward. Ottawa had until midnight Friday — the three-month anniversary of Meng's Vancouver arrest — to make a decision.

It's been eight long years since astronauts launched from U.S. soil. Now, Elon Musk's SpaceX is readying for the test of a lifetime with the test launch of its new crew capsule.

An Edmonton police officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the 2017 arrest of a woman whose ear was bitten off by an EPS service dog.

Quebec's Crown prosecutors' office has decided not to charge police in the 2017 death of Pierre Coriolan, saying officers acted in accordance with the law.

Quebec's Crown prosecutors' office has decided not to charge police in the 2017 death of Pierre Coriolan, saying officers acted in accordance with the law.

Alberta Education will do inspections and ensure schools are complying with order issued by Education Minister David Eggen.

The CRTC is indicating the country's three dominant wireless carriers may be required to provide their smaller competitors with easier access to their national networks.

Father-daughter duo John and Libby Beeden touched dry land Friday for the first time in months, having completed a rowing trip across the Atlantic Ocean.

The Liberal government is moving on its plan to expedite the pardon process and waive the fee for Canadians with a past conviction for simple pot possession.

The Liberal government is moving on its plan to grant fast, free pardons for Canadians saddled with past criminal convictions for simple possession of pot.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday about American tariffs on steel and aluminum, Trudeau's office said on Friday, but well-placed sources said there was little sign of progress.

A serendipitous meeting between a professor and a colleague led to a treasure trove of historical maps that indicated kelp bed locations off British Columbia's coast, helping experts understand the changes in what are known as the "rainforests of the ocean."

A 17-year-old Manitoba boy who was barred from a paid meet-and-greet with former U.S. president Barack Obama, who stops in Winnipeg next week, is now cleared to attend.

A 17-year-old Manitoba boy is barred from a paid meet-and-greet with former U.S. president Barack Obama, who stops in Winnipeg next week, and his mom wants to know why.

YouTube said Thursday it will turn off comments on nearly all videos featuring kids — potentially affecting millions of posts on the site — after reports last week that pedophiles were leaving inappropriate comments on innocuous videos of children.

'I finally proved my innocence in a court of law,' says Glen Assoun, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1995 death of Brenda LeAnne Way. The federal justice minister today ordered a new trial for the Nova Scotia man, but the Crown isn't pursuing the case.

'I’m grateful for the outcome. I finally proved my innocence in a court of law,' said Glen Assoun, who was convicted of second-degree murder in death of Brenda LeAnne Way in 1995.

Canada's economy shrank by 0.1 per cent in December and got smaller in three of the previous four months.

Canada's economy shrank by 0.1 per cent in December and got smaller in three of the previous four months.

When Premier Rachel Notley appeared before the Senate committee reviewing the contentious federal Bill C-69 Thursday morning, she had plenty of facts and figures as well as a compelling argument. What she didn't have was an audience.

Three federal ministers have new job titles Friday morning as part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's efforts to shuffle his cabinet to fill the vacancy created by Jody Wilson-Raybould's resignation over the SNC-Lavalin controversy.

Three ministers are getting new job titles this morning in Ottawa as part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's efforts to shuffle his cabinet to fill the vacancy created by Jody Wilson-Raybould's departure over the SNC-Lavalin controversy, CBC News has learned.

The N.W.T.'s Liberal MP says former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould may have been ill-prepared for the sort of pressure she was subject to in the SNC-Lavalin affair. 'I've been in a position where the premier has pressured me to do certain things — so I know it happens,' said Michael McLeod.

Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld a Superior Court ruling in a pair of class-action lawsuits against tobacco companies awarding billions of dollars in damages to 100,000 people.

B.C. orthopedic surgeon Dr. Steve Mc Vicar spent six weeks in the war-ravaged city of Mosul in northern Iraq doing reconstructive surgery on more than 100 people injured during the 2017 liberation of the city from the militant group ISIS.

As Metro Vancouver contends with a spreading measles outbreak, Health Canada is looking into a handful of B.C. homeopaths who offer an unproven and unapproved treatment they claim can prevent infectious diseases.

China's Foreign Ministry grabbed a chance to question the state of judicial independence in Canada on Friday, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government faced accusations at home that it had tried to intervene to stop a corruption trial.

Olga Perlmutter was in her mid-20s when the Nazis captured her family, killed her siblings and forced her into slave labour at Auschwitz, but, looking back over the past century, she sees a life full of miracles.

Cindy Monk-Fuller says just hours after her father's death, a representative from the Toronto funeral home asked if he had ever had any kind of treatment for cancer where they used medical isotopes. She says they were initially told he couldn't be granted his final wish: to be cremated.

The Nova Scotia companies operated by three sisters and their mother had no employees, and in some cases no bank accounts. But they claimed tens of millions of dollars in sales, according to court records — transactions the Canada Revenue Agency says were fake.

Gord Osborne, the transportation technology teacher at Kingsville District High School, was a "motorhead" when he was a kid.

Oqittuq Etuq returned home to Iqaluit this week to die surrounded by friends and family after he’d spent 15 years alone in Ottawa receiving dialysis treatment. The medical care is not available in Nunavut.

Israel's attorney general is recommending bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The move instantly changes the longtime leader's fortunes as Israelis prepare to go to the polls in early April.

It's being called Ontario's biggest health system reform in 50 years. But what will the new system actually look like for patients?

Since marrying into the Royal Family, Meghan Markle has become one of the most watched women in the world, but now the scrutiny online has turned from a general interest in the new royal to unpleasant, distasteful and racist comments.

A CBC Marketplace-Radio-Canada investigation into baby cereals and snacks has found that the arsenic levels in two Canadian rice-based products would see them pulled off store shelves in Europe, according to one of the world's leading arsenic experts.

Public health authorities have assumed, incorrectly, that simply presenting medical facts would be enough to counter anti-vaccination misinformation, experts say.

Since marrying into the Royal Family, Meghan Markle has become one of the most watched women in the world, but now the scrutiny online has turned from a general interest in the new royal to unpleasant, distasteful and racist comments.

As the Conservatives make a formal request for the RCMP to launch a criminal investigation following Jody Wilson-Raybould's testimony in the SNC-Lavalin affair, the legal community remains mixed on whether there was actually an obstruction of justice.

Public health authorities have assumed, incorrectly, that simply presenting medical facts would be enough to counter anti-vaccination misinformation, experts say.

Researchers from the University of Guelph examined the conditions that inspire people to embellish, mislead during job interviews, and the findings are counterintuitive.

A CBC Marketplace-Radio-Canada investigation into baby cereals and snacks has found that the arsenic levels in two Canadian rice-based products would see them pulled off store shelves in Europe, according to one of the world's leading arsenic experts.

DND is extending the life of its stock of submarine escape suits as the federal government goes looking for brand new ones. The safety equipment procurement has rekindled the debate about the age of the navy's submarines and the Liberal government's unwillingness to replace them.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at proposed right to repair legislation, the eco-impact of styrofoam and a 12-year-old climate striker in Victoria, B.C.

As the Conservatives make a formal request for the RCMP to launch a criminal investigation following Jody Wilson-Raybould's testimony in the SNC-Lavalin affair, the legal community remains mixed on whether there was actually an obstruction of justice.