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In an apparent bid to kick-start the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline, U.S. President Donald Trump issues a new presidential permit for the project, two years after he first approved it and more than a decade after it was first proposed.

A pair of combat boots has been loaded on a train in Vancouver to begin a cross-country journey symbolizing the thousands of Canadians who travelled to Halifax during the Second World War before they embarked for Europe.

Liam Neeson is again apologizing for revealing that he wanted to kill a random black person nearly 40 years ago after a close friend had been raped by a black man.

Two 13-year-old boys have been charged with assaulting a teacher at a public school in downtown Toronto last week after a video of an attack inside a classroom surfaced online.

Read the materials submitted to the Commons justice committee by former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, released Friday by the Commons justice committee.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the Trudeau government will not extend Canada's peacekeeping mission in Mali despite a UN appeal for it to stay longer.

Canada arrived, chequebook in hand, for this week’s United Nations ministerial peacekeeping conference in New York — a meeting which may have demonstrated to the Trudeau government that money cannot buy happiness.

It's estimated the wall is more than 18 feet high.

Caitlan Coleman, the estranged spouse of former hostage Joshua Boyle, testified in graphic detail Friday about two sexual assaults and another assault allegedly involving Boyle, one in which she was left tied up afterward.

Former hostage Joshua Boyle wrote up a list of rules his now-estranged spouse Caitlan Coleman had to live by, including that she please him sexually twice a day, and that she refer to their children as sir and madame to remind her of her lowest place in the family.

U.S. Congress should expect to receive a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation by mid-April, Attorney General William Barr said Friday.

Father Claude Grou presided over mass at Saint Joseph’s Oratory, where he is rector, Friday, a week after he was stabbed while delivering the homily.

He's been bumped around through foster families and government care, living on reserves and in urban communities, but Xavier Kennedy has finally found a place he belongs — the keys of a piano.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to close the nation's Mexican border — or large sections of it — next week, if Mexico doesn't immediately stop illegal immigration.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: a really long-distance call to David Saint-Jacques; property-dispute nightmare in B.C.; hockey broadcast legend Bob Cole.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: a really long-distance call to David Saint-Jacques;property-dispute nightmare in B.C.; hockey broadcast legend Bob Cole.

A Toronto-based filmmaker says she was accepted and then rejected from a major Chinese film festival, with organizers in Beijing blaming "political reasons."

A growing number of Liberal MPs say they're prepared to boot Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from caucus next week, according to a survey of dozens of Liberal MPs by CBC News.

Acoustic telemetry is helping scientists monitor the massive goldfish taking over Hamilton's Harbour and posing a potential threat to other Great Lakes.

The House of Commons agriculture committee in Ottawa is debating a Conservative motion to compel testimony from Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, International Trade Minister Jim Carr and Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau to address what they say is a broader political crisis with China that's affecting the livelihoods of Canadian farmers.

Two people are dead after a hostage-taking that began late Thursday and ended Friday morning at a home in a residential neighbourhood in Surrey, B.C. CBC News has learned the identity of one of the deceased.

Two people are dead after a hostage-taking that began late Thursday and ended Friday morning at a home in a residential neighbourhood in Surrey, B.C. CBC News has learned the identity of one of the deceased.

Two people are dead after a hostage-taking that began late Thursday and ended Friday morning at a home in a residential neighbourhood in Surrey, B.C.

A hostage-taking that began late Thursday and ended Friday morning at a home in a residential neighbourhood in Surrey, B.C., has left two people dead.

New York is suing the billionaire family behind the company that created OxyContin, seeking to hold not only the firm but its owners accountable for the opioid crisis in the U.S.

Materials submitted to the Commons Justice Committee indicate Jody Wilson-Raybould recorded at least one of the contentious conversations at the heart of the SNC-Lavalin affair, multiple sources tell CBC News.

The country's top bureaucrat warned Jody Wilson-Raybould that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was "quite determined" to prevent SNC-Lavalin's criminal trial from leading to job losses — and wanted to know why the then-justice minister hadn't used a new legal tool to allow the company to avoid a criminal trial.

The country's top bureaucrat warned Jody Wilson-Raybould that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was "quite determined" to prevent SNC-Lavalin's criminal trial from leading to job losses and wanted to know why the then-justice minister hadn't used a new legal tool to allow the company to avoid a criminal trial.

A Government of Canada job posting went viral Thursday for seeking individuals for 'various administrative wizardry positions.'

Canada's economy grew by 0.3 per cent in January, fully offsetting the small declines in the previous two months.

An industry spokesperson says all tactics are being cancelled after a driver harmed himself on live television, raising concerns about the health and safety of operators.

Pope Francis has issued sweeping new sex abuse legislation for Vatican personnel and Holy See diplomats overseas, requiring the immediate reporting of abuse allegations to Vatican prosecutors, a policy shift aimed at being a model for the Catholic Church worldwide.

People responsible for cleaning up riverbanks and forests want to get tougher with dumpers.

Prime Minister Theresa May puts a stripped-down version of her Brexit divorce deal to a vote in Parliament today in an attempt to break the impasse over the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.

Prime Minister Theresa May puts a stripped-down version of her Brexit divorce deal to a vote in Parliament on Friday in an attempt to break the impasse over the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.

British lawmakers again voted to reject, this time by a margin of 344-286, Prime Minister Theresa May's EU withdrawal agreement at a special sitting Friday.

Lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal for a third time on Friday, sounding its probable death knell and leaving Britain's withdrawal from the European Union in turmoil on the very day it was supposed to leave the bloc.

Some Iqaluit residents go to creative lengths to avoid buying food at the grocery store — where a 24-pack of bottled water can cost $29.99. Marketplace explores why people in the North still pay so much more despite the fact the grocery industry there receives millions in federal subsidies.

More than a week after the Senate Ethics Officer ordered Non-affiliated Ontario Sen. Lynn Beyak to take down letters posted to her website that have been condemned by politicians of all stripes as racist and hateful, the correspondence is still featured prominently on her taxpayer-funded page.

One week after special counsel Robert Mueller handed in his work to the U.S. attorney general, it still seems impossible for the Justice Department to give a straight answer to the most elementary question: How many pages is it?

Canada is considering new ways to retaliate against the United States in the hopes of getting steel and aluminium tariffs lifted.

Status of Women Minister Rochelle Squires is the spokesperson on the file, even though abortion is health care.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the pros and cons of nuclear power and what you can do to make better sustainable living choices.

Transport Canada says it will evaluate so-called 'hyperloop' technology — a prototype transportation system meant to move people and freight at very high speeds through a pneumatic tube.

Premier François Legault thinks his government can settle Quebec's reasonable accommodation debate in a matter of months. Here's why that may be overly optimistic.

Canada has asked the United Nations for an extension of two weeks to decide whether to keep its peacekeepers and helicopters on the ground in Mali beyond its July 31 departure date.

Canada has asked the United Nations for an extension of two weeks to decide whether to keep its peacekeepers and helicopters on the ground in Mali beyond its July 31 departure date.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is backing off his budget request to eliminate funding for the Special Olympics. He's reversing course on a proposal that was unlikely to be approved by Congress after days of bipartisan criticism.

The Health Action Network Society (HANS) has received $428,500 in Community Gaming Grants since 2007, the earliest year included in online records for the program.

The digital comedy series "How to Buy a Baby" won a top prize at Thursday's Canadian Screen Awards gala honouring digital storytelling.