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There will be a public vigil in Hamilton this weekend to remember a local family of five — including a nine-month-old baby and her two siblings — who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash.

Health Canada is starting to publish the clinical trial data used to approve pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices. This was information the department used to release only selectively to researchers. Health Canada says it's responding to 2014 transparency legislation known as Vanessa's Law.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario will not be investigating complaints made against Dr. Najma Ahmed after an organization she is a part of, called for a national ban on privately owned guns and rifles.

The chief executives of Canada's five largest banks collectively earned roughly $63.2 million in total compensation during the 2018 financial year, up about 12 per cent from the previous year.

The chief executives of Canada's five largest banks collectively earned roughly $63.2 million in total compensation during the 2018 financial year, up about 12 per cent from the previous year.

The Liberal Party says it has contacted "appropriate authorities" in its review of an alleged assault against a First Nations woman by a man during a climate change rally featuring Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on March 4 in Toronto.

Actress Lori Loughlin is in custody and expected to appear in a Los Angeles court today, accused along with dozens of other wealthy parents of trying to bribe their children's way into elite colleges. Emmy Award winner Felicity Huffman, also among those charged, has posted a $250,000 US bond.

A federal judge says Full House actress Lori Loughlin was ordered released after posting $1 million US bond in a case in which she and her husband are accused of paying bribes to get their daughters into college. 

Actress Lori Loughlin is in custody and expected to appear in a Los Angeles court today, accused along with dozens of other wealthy parents of trying to bribe their children's way into elite colleges. Emmy Award winner Felicity Huffman, also among those charged, has posted a $250,000 US bond.

A Toronto-area tow truck driver says he’s lucky to be alive after a small plane slammed across a road and just missed him near Buttonville Airport in Markham, Ont. on Tuesday afternoon.

Two young men, wearing hoods and carrying several weapons, opened fire at a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing eight people before taking their own lives, the governor of Sao Paulo said.

Two young men wearing hoods and carrying several weapons opened fire at a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing eight people before taking their own lives, the governor of Sao Paulo said.

Two masked men armed with a gun, knives, axes and crossbows descended on a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing five students and two adults before one killed the other and then himself, authorities said.

Two young men wearing hoods and carrying several weapons opened fire at a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing eight people before taking their own lives, the governor of Sao Paulo said.

Calgary has secured the exclusive Canadian rights to host the X Games for a minimum three-year run.

Calgary has secured the exclusive Canadian rights to host the X Games for a minimum three-year run that would start in late February or early March of 2020, depending on corporate sponsorship.

Watch live now as Minister of Science and Sport Kirsty Duncan announces more measures to address abuse in sport, including an independent investigation unit and a national toll-free confidential helpline.

One month after a CBC News and Sports investigation revealed at least 222 coaches involved in amateur sports over 20 years have been convicted of sexual offences, Minister of Science and Sport Kirsty Duncan announced more initiatives to end what she calls “dirty secrets” in the country’s athletic landscape.

Maeve Field was struck by an out-of-control car Saturday. Her family says her life has been forever changed. Now they're asking for help.

Aurora Cannabis shares are up following news that it has appointed U.S. billionaire Nelson Peltz as a strategic adviser and given him the option to buy a stake in the company.

A federal U.S. judge has sentenced former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort to more than 3½ additional years in prison, on top of the roughly four-year sentence he received in a separate case in Virginia last week.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of 7½ years in prison Wednesday after a federal judge rejected his appeal for no additional time and rebuked him for his crimes and years of lies. 

Premier Doug Ford railed against federal climate action at a press conference in Cambridge, Ont., on Wednesday, but did not reveal any new policies or plans surrounding environmental planning.

Dozens of children are feared trapped after a building containing a school collapses in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos.

Dozens of children are feared trapped after a building containing a school collapses in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos.

The Ethiopian Airlines pilot of the jet that crashed, killing 157 people, had reported flight-control problems, the company says as it prepares to send the black boxes to Europe from a disaster that has rocked the global airline industry.

Canada is grounding all of its Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft and banning the jet from entering its airspace until further notice as safety concerns continue to mount following two deadly crashes.

Transport Minister Marc Garneau this morning will address mounting questions about Canada's plans for its Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in the wake of the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed all 157 people, including 18 Canadians, who were on board. Garneau speaks in Ottawa starting at 11:30 a.m. ET, and CBCNews.ca will carry it live.

The UN's sixth Global Environment Outlook paints a dire picture of a planet where environmental problems interact with each other to make things even more dangerous for people. But it says changes in the way the world eats, buys things, gets its energy and handles its waste could fix the problems.

Canada is grounding all of its Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft and banning the jet from entering its airspace until further notice as safety concerns continue to mount following two deadly crashes.

City councillors in Weyburn have voted to reject the construction of a group home for people with disabilities in a new subdivision, citing safety concerns and a potential impact on property prices.

City councillors in Weyburn have voted to reject the construction of a group home for people with disabilities in a new subdivision, citing safety concerns and a potential impact on property prices.

Britain's Parliament has voted to reject the country leaving the European Union without a divorce agreement, a decision that lessens but does not remove the chance of a chaotic "no-deal" Brexit.

Former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy will lead Canada’s election observation mission to Ukraine as concerns mount that Russia may interfere in the country’s democratic process, CBC News has learned.

After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s apology to Inuit last week, Sonny MacDonald wants the government to acknowledge the mistreatment and disappearance of hundreds of Dene and Métis of the Northwest Territories at TB hospitals.

Lung transplants are not performed in Atlantic Canada. Patients from the region are selling their homes and liquidating savings in order to move to Toronto for the life-saving surgery.

Opposition MPs will make another bid to bring Jody Wilson-Raybould back to testify before the Commons justice committee today — and they warn that Canadians will see any attempt by the Liberals to block them as evidence of a "coverup."

There are concerns that Ontario's intention to ban the use cellphones in classrooms will be ineffective and nearly impossible to enforce. The province announced Tuesday that it would direct schools to ban phones to help students "focus on their learning."

Executives from a pair of Canadian oilsands companies extolled the virtues of a carbon tax this week at CERAWeek, a conference sometimes dubbed the Super Bowl of the global energy sector.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has weighed in against market domination by tech giant Google, proving Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign is not just a left-wing project.

Mayors from Canada and the United States have called again for immediate action to fight the threat of Asian carp in the Great Lakes waterways. 

Opposition MPs erupted into angry claims of a "coverup" today after Liberals used their majority to shut down an emergency session to debate whether Jody Wilson-Raybould should return to testify in the SNC-Lavalin affair.

A relatively unknown Ontario company with no national offices won a $10.3 million contract to help veterans find jobs in the civilian world. An opposition MP (and former veterans minister) is questioning how that happened, and what Agilec has accomplished since it was hired.

Five groups of Canadians connected to victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash have now arrived in Addis Ababa, a senior Canadian government official told CBC News on Wednesday.

Boeing has grounded its entire fleet of 737 Max aircraft in a move expected to cause significant disruptions for domestic airliners now forced to scramble to rebook thousands of Canadian passengers.

Veterans and their families need to tell the story of how they have been repeatedly stigmatized, marginalized, betrayed and abandoned by the government system they were willing to die defending.

Boeing has grounded its entire fleet of 737 Max aircraft in a move expected to cause significant disruptions for domestic airliners now forced to scramble to rebook thousands of Canadian passengers.

The Ethiopian Airlines crash site outside Addis Ababa has been a mix of mourners, retrieval specialists and investigation crews — from Ethiopia and around the world — and all of them are looking for their own kinds of answers.

Two artists, one from Toronto and another from Montreal, say a former gallery owner sold their paintings without telling them, and never paid them their cut of the sale.

Two artists, one from Toronto and another from Montreal, say a former gallery owner sold their paintings without telling them, and never paid them their cut of the sale.