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Marineland and the Vancouver Aquarium are shipping beluga whales out of the country just as the federal government sets its sights on stopping the import and export of cetaceans. A new federal law would ban exports on marine mammals.

Education Minister Zach Churchill has ordered the Nova Scotia School Athletic Federation to reinstate rugby at high schools across the province.

As weather in British Columbia begins to heat up, the spectre of another potentially destructive wildfire season is on the horizon.

Moosehead Breweries says the company will be removing the phrase "asking forgiveness, not permission, since 1937" from its branding for Alpine Lager in response to complaints.

Retired lieutenant-general Andrew Leslie — who this week announced he's retiring from the federal Liberal caucus — is expected to testify for the defence in Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's breach of trust trial, CBC News has confirmed.

For The 410 showrunner and star Supinder Wraich, creating a series centred on one cultural community's struggles meant crafting complex and flawed South Asian characters.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo; how a remarkable survivor of the Poway synagogue mass shooting is coping; this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover has people talking.

The Commissioner of Canada Elections says he has never experienced attempts by "any elected official or political staffer" to influence or interfere with his investigations into possible violations of electoral law.

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Ottawa in the legal dispute between the provincial and federal governments over the constitutionality of the carbon tax.

Canada's digital economy is growing much faster than the rest of the economy and is already bigger than staple industries such as mining, forestry and oil and gas.

Britain's Prince Harry, whose wife Meghan is due to give birth, will delay a trip to the Netherlands by one day until May 9, cancelling engagements planned in Amsterdam for the previous day, a palace official said Friday.

Thousands of Alberta students — carrying signs like "Hey, Kenney, leave us alone: The Gays" and "Are your tax cuts more important than queer youth?" — walked out of their classes Friday morning to protest the new UCP government's position on gay-straight alliances.

Thousands of Alberta students — carrying signs like "Hey, Kenney, leave us alone: The Gays" and "Are your tax cuts more important than queer youth?" — walked out of their classes Friday morning to protest the new UCP government's position on gay-straight alliances.

An Alberta man has won an appeal to serve his sentence in the community after he accidentally shot and injured his girlfriend during sex.

The Registry Theatre in Kitchener is investigating an incident on Wednesday where an audience member yelled Islamophobic comments at Muslim comedian Nour Hadidi.

Today marks the third anniversary of the wildfire that devastated Fort McMurray in 2016. The community has been working to rebuild ever since the fire burned down about 15 per cent of the community’s structures.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief, council, and provincial leaders from northwestern Ontario are offering their condolences to the residents in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI), after an early morning house fire on Thursday claimed the lives of five people in the community.

Ontario's chief coroner says a team of investigators was en route Friday to Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug to find out more about a deadly house fire the day before, while Indigenous leaders and federal and provincial government officials all offered their condolences over the blaze that killed five.

Indigenous leaders, as well as federal and provincial government officials in northwestern Ontario are all offering their condolences to the residents in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI), after an early morning house fire on Thursday claimed the lives of five people in the community.

When Saskatchewan announced this week it has started covering the cost of a new multiple sclerosis drug, at least 50 people in the province who previously had zero Health Canada-approved treatment options were already using it.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford will meet with newly elected Alberta Premier Jason Kenney at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto today.

Saskatchewan's highest court is set to release its decision Friday regarding the federal carbon tax. The province's lawyers argued in February that the federally imposed tax was unconstitutional.

A new Canadian immigration screening requirement is worsening a chronic labour shortage at Maritime lobster and snow crab processing plants this spring.

It's too early to know if Stephen Saunders has been cured of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but he's in remission thanks to a treatment not yet available in Nova Scotia.

For years, Mexican seasonal workers were welcomed by Maritime communities. Now, employers are scrambling as more of their workers are being turned away under Canada-U.S. deal.

A new Canadian immigration photo and fingerprint requirement is worsening a chronic labour shortage at Maritime lobster and snow crab processing plants this spring.

U.S. military intervention in Venuzuela is highly unlikely, say Latin America scholars. They cite the risks of entering a protracted conflict, igniting a civil war, angering Venezuelans seeking self-determination, and drawing international condemnation.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was in Ottawa this week to attack the federal Liberals' environmental assessment bill, accuse the federal government of driving a national unity crisis - and give Justin Trudeau a concession he badly needed.

If the goal is really to end white supremacy and white nationalism — rather than score cheap political points — we should be applauding conservatives who speak out against white nationalism and white supremacy, and encouraging others to do the same.

Cellphone manufacturers are selling more ‘water-resistant’ models. But as some users have found out the hard way, that that promise isn’t exactly water-tight.

Top Democrats are calling Attorney General William Barr a liar and demanding he resign. But that probably won't phase President Donald Trump's appointee to the top job at the Justice Department. Barr has been here before, Keith Boag writes.

The federal government's plan to boost interest-free loans for canola farmers has left Canada's soybean sector wondering when it might get similar help.

The Sarnia, Ont., case of a drug dealer charged with manslaughter after a customer died from taking cocaine laced with fentanyl raises questions about the legal and moral implications of such charges. 

Chinese displeasure over the possible extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou appears to be threatening the Canadian economy, not to mention the lives of four Canadians being held in China. But will political tensions between Beijing and Ottawa be enough to alter the proceedings?

Representatives of Canada's oil and gas industry are headed east this month as the sector looks to rally support among business and municipal leaders. The effort comes as the sector faces increasing scrutiny due to concerns over its environmental impact.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was in Ottawa this week to attack the federal Liberals' environmental assessment bill, accuse the federal government of driving a national unity crisis - and give Justin Trudeau a concession he badly needed.

The father of the seven-year-old Granby girl who died after being found in critical condition in her home by police this week defended his girlfriend in court last year, when the woman was granted a full discharge after pleading guilty to assaulting his daughter. 

The father of the seven-year-old Granby, Que., girl who died after being found in critical condition in her home by police this week defended his girlfriend in court last year, when the woman was granted a full discharge after pleading guilty to assaulting his daughter.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we examine the sustainability of meat, the U.S. Climate Alliance and the eco-friendliness of meal kits.

Olympic runner Caster Semenya's battle against rules that would require women to lower naturally elevated testosterone levels in order to compete has reignited debates over how much the hormone can enhance athletic ability. 

There's another victim in Alberta of the persistently low oil and gas prices after Trident Exploration ceased operations this week and several other companies could suffer the same fate.

Cyclone Fani tears through India's eastern coast on Friday as a Grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and wind gusting up to 205 km/h, and affecting weather as far away as Mount Everest.

Cyclone Fani made landfall on India's eastern coast on Friday as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and wind gusting up to 205 km/h.

A powerful cyclone lashed coastal areas of eastern India on Friday with torrentialrain and winds gusting up to 200 kilometres per hour, but there were no early reports of casualties with a million people evacuated before it made landfall.

A First Nation declared extinct by the federal government over 60 years ago has won yet another court battle to have its existence recognized — this one in the province's highest court.

More Canadians say they've used cannabis recreationally since it was legalized last fall, particularly those aged 45 to 64 and males, according to Statistics Canada. 

A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions of dollars in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray is convicted in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance.

Three of six men convicted of manslaughter and extortion in a brutal kidnapping and double slaying were forced to consider the impacts of their actions as loved ones of the victims presented a B.C. Supreme Court judge with impact statements.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said Thursday she would back off plans to replace two key policies that have for decades directed the path for First Nations to move beyond the Indian Act.

A European study of nearly 1,000 gay male couples who had sex without condoms — where one partner had HIV and was taking antiretroviral drugs to suppress it — has found the treatment can prevent sexual transmission of the virus.