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A new study from the University of British Columbia finds cobalt-blue spinel, a mineral prized by jewellers and collectors, on Baffin Island.

Opponents of the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline asked a U.S. federal court Friday in a lawsuit to declare President Donald Trump acted illegally when he issued a new permit for the project in a bid to get around an earlier court ruling.

The former actor has agreed to settle lawsuits filed by seven women who say he defamed them when he accused them of lying about sexual misconduct allegations.

Saudi Arabia detained 12 people, including two dual U.S.-Saudi citizens, in a new round of arrests in the kingdom targeting individuals supportive of women's rights and those with ties to jailed activists, people with knowledge of the apprehensions said Friday.

The U.S. has added two oil-sector companies and 34 vessels to a sanctions list aimed at forcing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to step down.

Federal Conservatives made a pitch Friday — in the wake of the SNC Lavalin affair — to turn the criminal case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman into the spinoff political scandal of the spring.

The UN Security Council expressed concern on Friday about military activity near Libya's capital Tripoli, warning that it threatens the country's stability, and called on Libyan National Army (LNA) troops commanded by Khalifa Haftar to halt all military movements.

SNC-Lavalin, the company at the centre of a national political storm, underscores what it calls new and troubling facts in a fresh court bid for a special agreement to avoid prosecution on corruption charges.

Canada's director of public prosecutions cited the "nature and gravity" of SNC-Lavalin's alleged corruption in Libya in making a preliminary decision not to negotiate a special plea agreement on the criminal charges it faces, the company says in a new court filing.

A representative for Mick Jagger said on Friday the Rolling Stones front man has successfully undergone medical treatment and is "expected to make a full recovery." 

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: why leaving your lunch unattended at work might not be wise; climate change as a federal election issue; changing traffic patterns drive Detroit to make its infrastructure smarter.

On the latest episode of The Pollcast, the CBC's Kim Trynacity discusses Thursday's debate with host Éric Grenier.

The B.C. government said Friday that all public schools in the province must provide free menstrual products for students in school bathrooms by the end of 2019.

The B.C. government said Friday that all schools in the province must provide free menstrual products for students in school bathrooms by end of 2019.

Health Canada says it will launch a consultation process on setting a maximum level of arsenic allowed in food, including baby cereal.

A week after tabling the legislation, the Coalition Avenir Québec government is facing mounting, increasingly organized opposition to its plan to ban public workers from wearing religious symbols.

Opposition to the Coalition Avenir Québec government's plan to ban certain public workers from wearing religious symbols is growing more organized — and more vitriolic.

As the Commons committee studying the SNC-Lavalin affair seems to have been put on ice, the Senate is wrestling with whether it should launch its own inquiry on the matter.

Jody Wilson-Raybould says she never tried to meddle in the SNC-Lavalin file after she was shuffled out of the attorney general's job. In an interview with CBC Radio Vancouver's The Early Edition, Wilson-Raybould denied reports she demanded her successor as attorney general be directed not to override an independent prosecutor's decision to make SNC-Lavalin face a criminal trial.

Australia's Parliament has passed legislation that could imprison social media executives if their platforms stream real violence such as the New Zealand mosque shootings.

London police say two people died Thursday and three over the weekend from suspected drug overdoses.

Canada’s foreign minister said on Friday it was likely that foreign actors would meddle in the country’s October elections, and her British counterpart said a deterrent to stop countries like Russia from interfering was critical.

Canada's job market shrank by 7,200 positions in March, but the jobless rate held steady at 5.8 per cent.

Canada's job market shrank by 7,200 positions in March, but the jobless rate held steady at 5.8 per cent.

A provincial memo lays out the Ford government's plans to cut thousands of full-time teaching positions over a four-year period, resulting in $851M in savings.

The fallout from Saudi Arabia's move to punish Canadian companies was felt within a month of the countries' sudden diplomatic feud last summer, leading to visa rejections, a government ban on food from Canada and a blockage of shipments at the kingdom's ports.

A longtime Fredericton radio host is accused of arranging a sexual encounter with an undercover FBI agent whom he believed to be a 13-year-old girl.

A longtime Fredericton radio host is accused of arranging a sexual encounter with an undercover FBI agent whom he believed to be a 13-year-old girl.

Winnipeg-based online delivery service Skip the Dishes is moving out of the U.S. market.

The medical director of Nova Scotia’s critical care organ donation program weighs in on everything from a family's input to concerns presumed consent means "Big Brother" will control people's bodies.

The two correctional officers charged after the death of Matthew Hines while he was in the custody of Dorchester Penitentiary will not stand trial, a judge ruled Friday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is requesting that the deadline for her country to leave the European Union be extended until June 30.

Veterans Affairs has apologized to a former reservist with PTSD whose wife received a letter expressing its condolences over her husband's death.

The Trudeau government is defending its commitment to reconciliation as a growing number of Indigenous leaders and youth say they're discouraged by his decision to eject two key figures on the file from the Liberal caucus.

The former CEO of SNC-Lavalin has lashed out at allegations made by an unnamed company insider, denying taxpayer-backed loans from Canada were ever used to pay bribes under his watch.

It may be tempting to cast Quebec’s law as an aberration, but in reality, governments in Canada have a long history of obstructing equality in the places we work.

Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O'Regan says every penny of the $12.8 million meant to rebuild and renovate dilapidated and mould-infested homes in Cat Lake First Nation will go toward housing in the community, not to a consultant who claims he's owed a 10 per cent fee.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at technology aimed at stopping deadly hurricanes and why Canada is getting hotter more quickly than the rest of the world.

Humboldt Broncos team chaplain Sean Brandow was thrust into the national spotlight last year when he shared humour, helplessness, and hope during a televised vigil for victims of the crash. He will deliver a sermon in another televised service to mark the one-year anniversary.

The former CEO of SNC-Lavalin has lashed out at allegations made by an unnamed company insider, denying taxpayer-backed loans from Canada were ever used to pay bribes under his watch.

The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and a group of law firms from across Canada are fighting to overhaul the proposed Indian Day School Settlement Agreement. They're applying for intervener status to argue against the proposed agreement in Federal Court.

The chief of Cat Lake First Nation is "adamantly denying" claims his band will pay consultant Gerald Paulin $1.2 million for his role in helping to secure emergency federal housing money for the remote community in northwestern Ontario.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at technology aimed at stopping deadly hurricanes and why Canada is getting hotter more quickly than the rest of the world.

Thursday's protests against high school cutbacks and other recently successful initiatives have been spurred by a generation of teen activists. Using social media to mobilize, they're bringing forward issues they feel are being ignored and are eager to dismiss the notion they are lazy or apathetic about their futures.

Nine out of 10 respondents to a survey about the impact of plastic waste on the environment say they are concerned or very concerned about the problem, and 82 per cent say they believe that government should be doing more to tackle it.

Japan's space agency said its Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully dropped an explosive designed to make a crater on an asteroid and collect its underground samples to find possible clues to the origin of the solar system.