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The federal government is battling First Nations organizations before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to avoid compensating First Nation children who went through the on-reserve child welfare system.

The federal government is battling First Nations organizations before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to avoid compensating First Nation children who went through the on-reserve child welfare system.

Employees at a Truro carpet plant say they're trying to figure out what comes next after their employer announced it will be moving operations to the U.S.

Penticton RCMP haven’t yet identified the victims of Monday’s shooting spree, in which four people were killed, but CBC News has confirmed, based on interviews with friends of the deceased, the identities of three.

​​​​​​​They knew it had to exist, but they just couldn’t find evidence of it. Now, after decades of searching, astrophysicists have found verification of the first molecule that formed after the Big Bang.

Some of Canada's largest cities are not getting the money they were promised from taxes on cannabis, despite the increased costs they face from dealing with legal recreational marijuana use in their communities.

Although Jason Kenney appealed in French to Quebec in his victory speech to help Alberta get its oil to market, Quebec Premier François Legault isn't playing.

One day after Alberta voted in a premier who promised that his first act in office would be to repeal his province's carbon pricing plan, Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna reminded Jason Kenney that fighting climate change is as much his responsibility as it is hers.

Southern Ontario Library Service says its budget will be reduced by just over half, as well as the Ontario Library Service-North.

At least 28 people were reported killed and others injured after a tourist bus overturned in a coastal town on the Portuguese island of Madeira on Wednesday.

As Canadian museums grapple with how to best make space for Indigenous voices and perspectives, a new initiative is aiming to give them a boost. Canadian Heritage has announced more than $680,000 to fund a national review of museum policies to ensure they line up with the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People.

Liberal Leader Dwight Ball and PC Leader Ches Crosbie exchanged jabs at brief rallies during Wednesday-evening news shows.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: Mueller report will mark beginning of new phase of Trump presidency; why Crimea is playing a central role in Ukraine's presidential election.

Scientists restored some activity within the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered hours before, raising hopes for some medical advances and questions about the definition of death.

Surprise album drops aren't new for Beyoncé fans, but the pop star managed to catch music lovers unaware again on Wednesday by debuting an unexpected live concert album as a companion to the highly anticipated film of her famed Coachella gig.

Canada is "deeply disappointed" with the Trump administration's decision to allow lawsuits against foreign firms operating on properties Cuba seized from Americans after the 1959 revolution, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says.

Canada is "deeply disappointed" with the Trump administration's decision to allow lawsuits against foreign firms operating on properties Cuba seized from Americans after the 1959 revolution, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says.

A young Florida woman who travelled to Colorado and bought a shotgun for what authorities feared would be a Columbine-inspired attack just days before its 20th anniversary has been found dead in an apparent suicide after a nearly 24-hour manhunt.

Denver-area public schools were closed Wednesday as authorities search for a young Florida woman who flew to the city and bought a gun after becoming "infatuated" with the mass shooting at Columbine High School.

Peru's former president Alan Garcia fatally shot himself in the head early Wednesday after police arrived at his home in the capital Lima to arrest him in connection with a bribery investigation, a police source said.

The cost of living went up at a 1.9 per cent annual pace in March, Statistics Canada says, as increases in the price of food, rent and mortgages were slightly offset by cheaper gasoline.

The U.S. Attorney General on Tuesday struck down a decision that had allowed some asylum seekers to ask for bond in front of an immigration judge, in a ruling that expands indefinite detention for some migrants who must wait months or years for their cases to be heard.

Notre-Dame's rector says the Paris cathedral will be closed for five to six years, while the Paris prosecutor's office says investigators looking into the causes of the fire have still not been able to look inside the cathedral as it remains unsafe.

Notre-Dame's rector says the Paris cathedral will be closed for five to six years, while the Paris prosecutor's office says investigators looking into the causes of the fire have still not been able to look inside the cathedral as it remains unsafe.

Notre-Dame's rector says the Paris cathedral will be closed for five to six years, while the Paris prosecutor's office says investigators looking into the causes of the fire have still not been able to look inside the cathedral as it remains unsafe.

It was a law designed to help vulnerable women. But according to a B.C. judge, in practice, part of the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act would have had the opposite effect.

They ran low on shotgun shells trying to scare away the aggressive bear.

A lawyer for Saskatchewan says Ottawa's carbon-pricing law amounts to Big Brother forcing its will on the provinces.

The federal government has to tackle climate change given the catastrophic impact unchecked global warming will have on Canada's Indigenous people, Ontario's top court heard on Wednesday. 

On the third day of the province's legal challenge, the five-judge panel will hear from environmental, Indigenous and taxpayers' groups.

One minute they were close to winning $100,000, and the next they were at an ATM being ordered by guards to take out thousands of dollars.

If you received a piece of registered mail from a movie studio looking to sue you for illegally downloading a TV show such as Game of Thrones, a Canadian privacy lawyer in Nova Scotia says you need to take it seriously.

A father and daughter from the United Kingdom say they feel "threatened" and "scared" after being evicted from a Niagara Falls hotel because they supported striking workers at the city's Rainforest Cafe while on vacation.

A father and daughter from the United Kingdom say they feel "threatened" and "scared" after being evicted from a Niagara Falls hotel because they supported striking workers at the city's Rainforest Café while on vacation.

The rebuilding of Notre-Dame won't be your typical renovation project. It's not often that the restoration of a building whose origin dates back centuries has to be contemplated.

Even the staid economists at CIBC seem ambivalent about government attempts to withdraw the inadvertent effects of low interest rates on Canadian house prices.

It's exactly what many oil and gas companies wanted to see, despite how much credit they give Rachel Notley for her performance during her single term in power.

The New Democrats' defeat in last night's Alberta provincial election marked the end of a remarkable chapter in the province's politics — Alberta's first-ever NDP government. The arrival of a new provincial conservative government, meanwhile, could mark the start of a new chapter in federal politics.

Details, details. That's what anyone awaiting U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election will be seeking when the document goes public on Thursday. Here are a few key questions it could answer.

More than 360 teachers with the Peel District School Board have learned they will no longer have permanent positions heading into the new school year.

With the Presidents’ Trophy winning Tampa Bay Lightning out of the playoffs, the path for an upstart team in the East to reach the Stanley Cup final is now slightly easier.

A statement posted late Tuesday afternoon on the Hospital for Sick Children's website says funding through grants and donations has dropped to zero over the last three years, forcing SickKids to shut down its Motherisk helplines for pregnant women and new mothers.

The Tampa Bay Lightning ended up on the wrong side of NHL history, getting swept in the first round of the playoffs after one of the best regular seasons ever.

Vancouver Coastal Health has confirmed another case of measles in the Lower Mainland, marking the 27th case in B.C. this year.

Century-old love letters are being returned to a family after they were uncovered by a construction crew working on a historic building in Manitoba.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes questions at town hall event in Cambridge.