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Reggie Jackson has been ice fishing for years. Never did he expect to see a large moose stranded in water. He and another ice fisherman rescued the animal with ropes and a ski doo at Wildnest Lake in Saskatchewan.

New Zealanders gathered for nationwide prayers to mark one week since mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch killed 50 worshippers.

New Zealanders were preparing for nationwide prayers Friday to mark one week since a mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch killed 50 worshippers.

New Zealanders gather for nationwide prayers to mark one week since mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch killed 50 worshippers.

The Florida man who sent several pipe bombs to critics of U.S. President Donald Trump and to CNN pleaded guilty Thursday.

The Florida man who sent several pipe bombs to critics of U.S. President Donald Trump and to CNN pleaded guilty Thursday.

An Ontario Provincial Police constable at a detachment in Ottawa has taken his own life, the 13th reported suicide of an active or retired member of the police force since 2012.

Family of a 10-week-old baby girl whose apprehension by Manitoba child protection workers was shared widely on social media say their prayers were answered when her custody was returned to them on Thursday — but they want to see changes to how the system deals with families like theirs.

Family of a 10-week-old baby girl whose apprehension by Manitoba child protection workers was shared widely on social media say their prayers were answered when her custody was returned to them on Thursday — but they want to see changes to how the system deals with families like theirs.

Sitting on a $2.5 billion surplus, the Coalition Avenir Québec government used its first budget to strike a delicate balance between expensive tax cuts and new money for the province’s health and education systems.

The proponent of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says legislation proposed by British Columbia is targeting the project and would significantly impact it.

Air Canada says it has additional safety systems installed on all of their Boeing 737 Max jets after media reports suggest that Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines jets that recently crashed didn't have the most upgraded safety features.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: U.K.'s full Brexit crisis plan, known as Operation Yellowhammer, scheduled to go into effect on Monday; the temperature around the SNC-Lavalin affair is rising.

Legal experts question Crown prosecutor Thomas Healey's reasoning that truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu should receive a 10-year prison sentence related to the Saskatchewan crash that killed 16 people and injured 13 on the Humboldt Broncos bus nearly a year ago.

Facebook said there is no evidence its employees abused access to this data, and that the passwords were stored on internal company servers, where no outsiders could access them. But the incident reveals a huge oversight for the company amid a slew of bruises and stumbles in the last couple of years.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists he did not shuffle Jody Wilson-Raybould over the SNC-Lavalin matter, contrary to former top minister Jane Philpott's argument that there was "a reason" for dropping her from the justice and attorney general posts.

The Great Lakes region is warming faster than the rest of the U.S., which likely will bring more flooding and other extreme weather such as heat waves and drought, according to a scientific report.

The Great Lakes region is warming faster than the rest of the U.S., which likely will bring more flooding and other extreme weather such as heat waves and drought, according to a scientific report.

​​​​​​​The RCMP officer who was shot by a man while responding to a report of a break-in last summer in western Manitoba says he feels angry, but fortunate to be alive.

There were 48 high temperature records set in B.C. on the first day of spring, bringing the total to 122 broken records this week.

A U.S. judge on Wednesday questioned how the government would be able to properly attend to Central American asylum seekers forced to live in Mexico while their claims are processed, on the same day the government expanded the program to El Paso.

Schitt's Creek fans: Prepare to say goodbye to the Rose family. Father-and-son co-creators Eugene Levy and Daniel Levy have announced the story will come to an end next year.

The Conservatives' marathon vote protest got an added boost this morning with Jane Philpott's interview in Maclean's magazine in which she says there's "much more to the story" when it comes to the SNC-Lavalin affair.

The Conservatives' marathon vote protest in the Commons that ended just before 1 a.m. ET in Ottawa got an added boost from a Maclean's magazine interview with Jane Philpott, who said there's "much more to the story" of the SNC-Lavalin controversy.

The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight did not practice on a new simulator for the Boeing 737 Max 8 before he died in a crash with 157 others, a pilot colleague said.

The accused in a shooting this week on a Dutch tram that left three people dead is believed to have acted with terrorist intent, and authorities are also investigating whether he had other personal motives, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Rachel Notley and the NDP have plenty of ground to make up in the next several weeks if they're going to make the Alberta election race competitive with Jason Kenney's United Conservatives.

Two families were forced from their homes overnight when a transit bus slammed into two houses in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, causing extensive damage to both.

The death toll after a powerful cyclone in Mozambique stood at 217 and around 15,000 people still needed to be rescued, the Minister of Land and Environment Celso Correia said on Thursday.

A priest has been suspended from his ministerial duties and ordered to return to Portugal after the Diocese of Hamilton became aware of reports he allegedly had a sexual relationship with a minor before later fathering a child with her.

It's difficult to find any statistics on it, but Canadians have likely encountered the "one issue per visit" rule in a doctor's office or know of someone who has.

The trucker who caused the Humboldt Broncos bus crash is expected to be sentenced to prison this week. But four drivers who also caused fatal collisions say the true punishment is a lifetime of remorse. They share their experiences living with the consequences of their actions.

After decades of poaching and habitat loss pushed the Siberian tiger population toward extinction, the symbol of Russian pride is making a comeback through conservation efforts and a crackdown on illegal hunting.

Wondering how the government's budget measures will affect the housing market? You're not alone.

Prime Minister Theresa May was trying to persuade European Union leaders on Thursday to delay Brexit by up to three months, with her plans to leave the bloc in chaos just eight days before Britain's scheduled departure.

European Union leaders meeting for a Brexit summit are likely to grant Britain a short extension, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday, if the British government can win parliamentary support next week for its divorce deal.

European Union leaders have offered Britain a choice of short delays to its departure from the European Union, postponing Brexit, due March 29, until at least mid-April.

An ordained minister described as a leader in Calgary's Chinese community has replaced the star United Conservative Party candidate who resigned earlier this week after controversial messages she sent came to light.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says military style semi-automatics and assault rifles will be banned under stronger new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country's worst mass shooting.

The B.C. government seems to have both solved a housing problem and escalated a dispute with the City of Maple Ridge. 

If it's convicted of fraud and bribery charges, SNC Lavalin could end up being taken over by another company and its 9,000 jobs in Canada could move abroad, the company's CEO told Radio-Canada in an interview.

If convicted of fraud and bribery charges, SNC-Lavalin could end up being taken over by another company, and its 9,000 jobs in Canada could move abroad, the company's CEO told Radio-Canada in an interview.