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White supremacism and Islamophobia are among "the gravest threats" facing the world, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told the United Nations Thursday.

A Niagara-area police officer has been charged with attempted murder, after another officer was shot at a rural crossroads in November.

The Ontario town of Innisfil will soon begin accepting cryptocurrencies as payment for its property taxes, starting with Bitcoin.

French marine researchers say an unusually high number of dead dolphins have washed up on France's Atlantic coast beaches since January. The dolphins' bodies were horribly mutilated, with their fins cut off.

The Windsor Assembly Plant is returning to a two-shift production in September.

About 1,500 people will be out of work starting Sept. 30, once Fiat Chrysler Automobiles terminates its third shift at the Windsor assembly plant. It's a shift that's been in place since 1993, according to Unifor Local 444 president Dave Cassidy.

Rhoda Grant says nothing has changed since an image of DeeAnn Fitzpatrick, originally from Bell Island, N.L., gagged and taped to a chair, shocked Scotland.

SNC-Lavalin warned federal prosecutors last fall about a possible plan to split the company in two, move its offices to the United States and eliminate its Canadian workforce if it didn't get a deal to avoid criminal prosecution, newly obtained documents show.

Newly obtained documents show SNC-Lavalin warned federal prosecutors last fall about a possible plan to split the company in two, move its offices to the United States and eliminate its Canadian workforce if it didn't get a deal to avoid criminal prosecution.

The Coalition Avenir Québec government has tabled its long-awaited secularism bill, laying down proposed ground rules it says will ensure the religious neutrality of the state. Here's what's in it.

The Coalition Avenir Québec government has tabled its long-awaited secularism bill, laying down proposed ground rules it says will ensure the religious neutrality of the state. Here's what's in it.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: fortifying schools against shooters becoming big business; steady leak of information connected to SNC-Lavalin affair not slowing; Indian Navy captain believes it was his destiny to help people in Mozambique.

Canada’s transportation safety watchdog is issuing a warning following Via passenger trains in Nova Scotia and Ontario were damaged by material deliberately left on the tracks.

The Venezuelan government on Thursday said it has barred opposition leader Juan Guaido from holding public office for 15 years, though the National Assembly leader responded soon afterward that he would continue his campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

The Canada Revenue Agency says its investigators executed two search warrants on two properties in Vancouver — part of an effort to find further evidence in a $77 million tax evasion case related to the Panama Papers.

CBC News reported on March 15 that the RCMP was investigating irregular campaign donations related to the leadership race, but this is the first time the UCP has confirmed the force is in contact with the party. 

A 60-page memo about Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's breach of trust case — written by the country’s top federal bureaucrat to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — has been delivered to Norman's lawyers with its contents almost completely blacked out.

A special prosecutor has approved a charge of sex assault against Port Moody Mayor Robert Vagramov.

A special prosecutor has approved a charge of sex assault against Port Moody Mayor Robert Vagramov.

The Supreme Court of Canada says making an accused person wait in jail before trial should be the exception, not the rule, in a decision that affirms a key legal safeguard intended to ensure speedy justice.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today condemned leaks to the media about a highly confidential Supreme Court appointment process and denied his office was the source of the information.

A calf born north of Edmonton last Monday weighed a whopping 208 pounds.

The UN expert investigating the brutal killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi is calling on the government of Saudi Arabia to make public the names of the accused and the evidence against them — and to open the secretive hearings to independent observers.

The gender diversity of Canada's corporate boardrooms continues to lag that of the U.S., and "stronger headway" needs to be made in the country's resource sectors and small firms, a Toronto-Dominion Bank economist says in a new report.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologized for how he responded to a protester Wednesday evening who was advocating on behalf of a northern Ontario First Nation struggling with health effects linked to historical industrial dumping upstream from the community.

Israeli researchers say they have surveyed what they now believe to be the world's longest salt cave, a network of twisting passageways at the southern tip of the Dead Sea.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the Department of Justice will review the case of actor Jussie Smollett, who was charged with staging a fake hate crime in Chicago before prosecutors abruptly dropped the case this week.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday he is seeking to have Empire actor Jussie Smollett reimburse Chicago $130,000 US for the costs of the investigation into his reported beating, which police say was staged.

The lawyer of a wrongfully convicted Halifax man says his client suffered "every single day" as he waited to be exonerated for a murder he didn't commit — a wait that was prolonged for months as his case sat on former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould's desk.

A leaked cache of documents revealed extensive collaboration between two campaigns in Alberta — and the United Conservative Party and its leader Jason Kenney are still facing the political fallout.

A Maltese special operations team on Thursday boarded a tanker that had been hijacked by migrants rescued at sea, and returned control to the captain before escorting it to a Maltese port.

A Maltese special operations team boarded a tanker and took back control of it Thursday after the ship was hijacked by migrants it had rescued at sea. Italy's hard-line interior minister described the migrants as pirates, but aid groups said they acted in self-defence.

A Maltese special operations team boarded a tanker and took back control of it Thursday after the ship was hijacked by migrants it had rescued at sea. Italy's hard-line interior minister described the migrants as pirates, but aid groups said they acted in self-defence.

Over the last 12 years, a Vancouver group has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from the B.C. government, while screening anti-vaccination movies, sharing content from anti-vaccination websites and complaining about "censorship" that blocked anti-vaccination propaganda.

It's been about 25 years since residents in a fly-in Ojibway community in northwestern Ontario have been without clean, safe drinking water. It looks like they might have to wait at least a couple more years to have the longest standing boil water advisory in Canada lifted.

A Langley, B.C., mother is filing a human rights complaint because she says the Fraser Health Authority won't provide funding for her to look after her epileptic daughter at home, but instead only offers government care.

The ongoing mould crisis in Canada’s First Nations communities stems from how construction materials are being shipped and stored, according to multiple experts with first-hand knowledge.

Government wants to double food production by 2022 — these are some of the people working on it.

Icelandic budget airline WOW Air says it has ceased operations, stranding passengers across two continents.

Icelandic budget airline WOW Air says it has ceased operations, stranding passengers across two continents.

A family from Lively is frustrated that messaging about the dangers of impaired driving still isn't getting across. 18-year old Noah Pasivirta was injured Mar. 23 in a head-on collision in Lively. Breath tests show the other driver was almost three times over the legal limit of alcohol in his system.

The Coalition Avenir Québec government is set to introduce its long-awaited legislation today aimed at ensuring the religious neutrality of the state. The premier says he hopes it will allow the province to "turn the page" on the contentious issue.

Cancer patients who've been hospitalized for mental health problems before their cancer diagnosis face a higher risk of dying from the malignancy, say medical researchers in Canada and the United States.

An English same-sex couple cherishes the twin toddlers they have as the result of an arrangement involving a Canadian surrogate and Canadian surrogacy laws they feel are more progressive than those on the books in the United Kingdom.

A SNC Lavalin contract with the Department of National Defence worth half a billion dollars comes up for renewal next year — when the Montreal-based engineering giant is expected to be on trial over corruption charges.

A SNC Lavalin contract with the Department of National Defence worth half a billion dollars comes up for renewal next year — when the Montreal-based engineering giant is expected to be on trial over corruption charges.

The Coalition Avenir Québec government is proposing a new law that would prohibit public workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols such as a hijab, kippa or turban. 

The proposed Quebec law would prohibit public workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols such as a hijab, kippa or turban. 

The Coalition Avenir Québec government is set to introduce its long-awaited Quebec legislation today aimed at ensuring the religious neutrality of the state. If it passes, it promises to move the crucifix that hangs in the province's National Assembly.

An Alberta Indigenous group is optimistic about its chances of one day owning the Trans Mountain oil pipeline after a private meeting with the federal finance minister.