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Ex-cabinet ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott are politicians who are being treated as though they aren't politicians — which is every politician's dream — despite executing a most politician-like attack on their party leader, Neil Macdonald writes.

A local artist who created Yes By pins is accusing a soft drink production company of manufacturing and distributing a similar version of his product.

Nicole Bade was riding the bus to Mohawk College when a man collapsed in front of her.

Chrystia Freeland left a meeting with United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer Monday sounding like a minister in no hurry to ratify the revised North American trade deal, so long as steel and aluminum tariffs continue to apply to Canada–U.S. trade.

Ontario's education minister says larger classes will help students who are lacking coping skills and resilience. But the best research on this topic is decidedly mixed.

Canada's public safety minister is offering reassurances to a community pushing back against the release of a sex offender convicted of crimes against young children.

Health officials have confirmed hundreds of cases of salmonella infections affecting people in every province and territory as part of a years-long inquiry into outbreaks of the illness.

Charest has appealed all 37 counts for which he was convicted, as well as his sentence of 12 years in prison, arguing the Crown itself has conceded 20 of the counts against him should be thrown out.

Three months after Ontario's police watchdog called for the reinvestigation of nine cases involving the deaths of Indigenous people, the families of the victims are still waiting to hear from the Thunder Bay police on what the service plans to do next.

More than 600 Ontarians died from opioid overdoses in the first six months of last year, new numbers reveal, as overdose prevention sites await word on whether they can continue to operate in the province beyond Sunday.

Sources have told Radio-Canada the provincial government's secularism bill, expected to be tabled this week, will go further than was initially expected.

Patients, plastic surgeons, makers of breast implants, regulators and Health Canada officials participate in two-day meeting hosted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Patients, plastic surgeons, makers of breast implants, regulators and Health Canada officials participate in two-day meeting hosted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is digging in his heels over a decision to limit the waiver permitting Jody Wilson-Raybould to speak out on the SNC-Lavalin affair as the Commons ethics committee prepares to debate a second parliamentary investigation of the scandal.

The father of one of the children killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School is found dead of an apparent suicide at his office in Newtown, Conn., police said.

For the first time in 27 years, Health Canada has updated its guideline for lead in drinking water — cutting the acceptable concentration of the metal in half.

U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden says he is relieved one of the families who helped hide him when he was on the run in Hong Kong in 2013 has been granted refugee status in Canada. 

Vanessa Rodel and her seven-year-old daughter housed Edward Snowden in Hong Kong when he was on the run from authorities in 2013. Now, they have been granted refugee status in Canada.

Jody Wilson-Raybould recommended in 2017 that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nominate a conservative Manitoba judge to be chief justice of the Supreme Court, even though he wasn't a sitting member of the top court and had been a vocal critic of its activism on Charter of Rights issues, The Canadian Press has learned.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: how Donald Trump's election fundraising campaign has reacted to the Mueller report; Mozambique's misery, witnessed by aid workers in Beira.

Global Affairs Canada says consular officials in China visited today with detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig today.

Global Affairs Canada says consular officials in China paid a visit Monday to detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig.

U.S. prosecutors on two coasts have charged Trump critic and attorney Michael Avenatti with extortion and bank and wire fraud.

U.S. prosecutors on two coasts have charged Trump critic and attorney Michael Avenatti with extortion and bank and wire fraud.

The University of Toronto is receiving the biggest donation in its history — money that will be devoted to studying artificial intelligence and how it affects society at large. 

Manitoba’s education minister has asked a school division to investigate after elementary school students were asked to show their underwear to their school’s vice-principal.

The trial of former hostage Joshua Boyle, charged with assault, sexual assault and other offences, began Monday with one of the alleged victims, his ex-spouse, electing to lift the publication ban on her identity.

The trial of former hostage Joshua Boyle, charged with assault, sexual assault and other offences, began Monday with one of the alleged victims, his estranged spouse, electing to lift the publication ban on her identity.

Winemakers are toasting a pledge in last week's federal budget to loosen interprovincial barriers around wine sales, while also hoping — with an election on the way — that the promise doesn't die on the vine.

The vehicle used in what police say was an "armed kidnapping" of a 22-year-old Chinese international student Saturday night in Markham, Ont., has been located in Toronto, police say.

A 22-year-old Chinese international student has been missing since Saturday night after what police say appears to be a violent, "armed kidnapping" in Markham, Ont.

Prime Minister Theresa May says there isn't yet enough support for her to put her Brexit deal to a vote in Parliament for a third time, but she will continue talks with lawmakers to try to get their backing.

British lawmakers seize a measure of control over the stalled Brexit process from Prime Minister Theresa May's foundering government, setting up a series of votes that could dramatically alter the course of the U.K.'s departure from the European Union.

The Canada Revenue Agency says its online systems have gone down, and it isn't saying when they will be back.

The Canada Revenue Agency says its online systems have gone down, and it isn't saying when they will be back.

The Canada Revenue Agency says its online systems have gone down, and it isn't saying when they will be back.

The Canada Revenue Agency says its online systems have been restored after being down for most of the day.

The city council of Weyburn, Sask., has reversed a controversial decision about a group home. Today council members voted unanimously to allow the home for people with physical and intellectual disabilities to be built in one of the city's newer neighbourhoods.

The leader of Alberta's United Conservative Party says many people in the province support secession from Canada, based on what he calls "a real tension that runs through the hearts of many Albertans."

Another UCP candidate is pulling out of the Alberta election, saying someone outside the party is threatened to release her social media posts about Europe's "Muslim migrant rape crisis" and transgenderism as "perversions."

Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr has completed his sentence, an Alberta judge ruled Monday.

Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr has completed his sentence, an Alberta judge ruled Monday.

Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr will find out today in an Edmonton court if the remaining 3½​​​​​​​ years of his sentence will be dismissed.

Records obtained by CBC reveal three dealers at Vancouver's recently opened Parq Casino were fired last year for "collusion" with players — giving them thousands of dollars worth of chips.

A coroner's inquest into the fatal stage collapse at a Radiohead concert nearly seven years ago began Monday in Toronto.

The coroner's inquest begins today into the death of Radiohead drum technician Scott Johnson during a 2012 stage collapse before the band was set to play in Toronto.

Danielle Moore’s family is visiting the plane crash site in Ethiopia where she was killed in search of closure, and hope the memorial fund they’ve created in her name allows her important work in the world to continue.

Sajia Yaqobi's son needs life-saving treatment in Boston, but she can't accompany him unless her citizenship is rushed.

With higher prices and relatively few locations, Ontario’s first batch of licensed cannabis stores may have a hard time luring customers away from the province’s thriving black market.

As Alberta goes to the polls and a federal election looms, a new pro-carbon tax report from a privately funded group faces a major challenge reaching Canadians with rational economic arguments, even as climate disasters worsen.