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Freedom Mobile says a recent security breach involved the data of some 15,000 customers — far fewer than an outside research firm's estimate.

Nova Scotia's Justice Department is trying to muzzle the inquiry into the death of an Afghan war veteran who killed his family and himself more than two years ago, a senior lawyer says.

James Morton, who has law offices in Nunavut and Ontario, has pleaded guilty to forging divorce documents and illegally married a second woman when he was already married.

Voters in Denver are deciding whether to make it the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin — the psychoactive substance in "magic mushrooms."

The Edmonton Oilers have confirmed that owner Daryl Katz has been battling a potentially life-threatening infection over the past few years.

In an effort to save Ryan Jones' life, doctors at Vancouver General Hospital tried an experimental medical technique called the brain bolt. He's now the subject of an article in the Critical Care Medicine Journal. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will later this month exonerate a First Nations chief who was wrongly convicted of treason-felony after leading his warriors in battle against Canadian forces in 1885.

Canada has used a major World Trade Organization gathering to demand China deliver evidence that Canadian canola is contaminated.

Venezuela's pro-government Supreme Court has opened a criminal investigation against seven opposition lawmakers in the aftermath of a failed attempt to spark a military uprising against President Nicolas Maduro.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: prospect of the other two superpowers teaming up in the Far North has clearly spooked Washington; meat-free is going mainstream, and it's big business.

B.C. Premier John Horgan has asked the B.C. Utilities Commission if it will consider investigating why gas prices in the province have soared in comparison to the rest of the country.

Less than 20 per cent board directorships in Canada are held by women, according to new data released by Statistics Canada.

Alberta's new environment minister says he will scrap the previous government's proposed plan for protected areas in western Alberta.

Former self-help guru Keith Raniere was a "predator" who preyed on young women, including a 15-year-old girl, and turned them into sex slaves as part of a cultlike organization, a federal prosecutor tells a jury at the start of his trial.

Former self-help guru Keith Raniere was a "predator" who preyed on young women, including a 15-year-old girl, and turned them into sex slaves as part of a cultlike organization, a federal prosecutor tells a jury at the start of his trial.

'It's just straight out ridiculous,' says OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer delivered a hard-hitting speech Tuesday that sought to outline his foreign policy priorities while laying Canada's perceived failures on the file squarely at the prime minister's feet.

Two days after their father was killed by a police officer during a hostage situation in Regina, the children of Geoff Morris called for more training for officers, saying their father was in the midst of a mental health breakdown.

High school rugby players in Nova Scotia will get to finish their season, the province and the school sports federation announced Tuesday.

A Calgary man, Robert Leeming, has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Jasmine Lovett and her toddler, Aliyah Sanderson, who had been living at his townhome.

Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are among the companies racing to tap into the massive U.S. market of meat eaters by more closely mimicking the taste of beef than vegetarian patties of the past. So are the plant-based patties better for you or for the planet?

Lawmakers in Quebec City have begun two weeks of public hearings into a bill that, if passed, would bar large numbers of civil servants from wearing religious symbols at work. 

Quebec's hearings into a controversial secularism bill opened Tuesday morning with testimony claiming that Muslim women who refuse to take off their hijab at work are "fundamentalists.­"

After spending all day hearing from defenders of his secularism bill, Quebec Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette was confronted Tuesday evening with a challenge from a wispy-haired, 87-year-old philosopher.

Half of the 16 million Canadians who tried to reach an actual agent when contacting a government call centre in 2017-18 could not get through, says a report released Tuesday by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada.

Paul Manly's byelection win for the Green Party in British Columbia was a shot across the bow of both the New Democrats and Liberals, two parties that took significant hits in support as the Greens leapfrogged from fourth to first.

Jean Vanier, whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled in Canada and multiple other countries over the past half-century, has died at 90.

CBC defence reporter Murray Brewster on the upcoming trial of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, and why it might turn into a political circus, right before the next federal election.

Guns were drawn. A plastic bag containing $100,000 in bills was stolen. And police interviewed seven witnesses. But who was the actual victim?

The Arctic is melting, but don't ask U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to talk about climate change, or to agree on a text that mentions it.

Canada is holding out hope it can collaborate with the Trump administration on Arctic challenges even though the United States has blocked the Arctic Council from issuing a unanimous declaration acknowledging climate change.

British Columbia voters sent a message that Canadians are deeply concerned about the environment and climate issues will be at the forefront in October's federal election campaign, jubilant Green Party supporters said Monday night.

When the whale scientists dug into the data, they found the animals were still faring poorly, 40 years after the end of whaling.

For more than two years, Shelly Boileau lived with a cancer diagnosis that completely changed her life — only to discover that she didn't have cancer at all.

Would you eat green crab pizza? A Fortune Bay fisher hopes so. She's cooking up creative cuisine to battle an invasive species destroying her lucrative lobster fishery.

All three Marine Stewardship Council-certified herring fisheries in Atlantic Canada have lost their MSC-sustainability certification as the forage fish continues to struggle.

China confirmed Tuesday its economy czar will go to Washington for trade talks despite fears he might cancel after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to escalate a tariff war over Beijing's technology ambitions.

A C.D.Howe Institute report says that in Canada 99 per cent of money launderers are never punished. But beneficial ownership rules and prison penalties could change that.

Canada's asylum seeker caseload faces a mounting backlog, with a processing system that has chronic delays and lax criminality checks, according to a new report from the federal spending watchdog.

Monday's UN report on biodiversity startled many when it said one million species are threatened with extinction across the globe. It's important to remember that Canada is not immune from losing its own biodiversity, experts say.

Ottawa's official spending watchdog is releasing a series of reports today on a wide range of topics — everything from how well the RCMP equips its officers to how efficiently the government processes asylum claims. The Auditor General's office will table five reports at 10 a.m. ET today.

Andrea Katelnikoff has created her own Barbie world. She and her husband built a second floor onto their house to store her collection of 3,000 dolls.

A snapshot of the mental and physical well-being of Canada's top athletes reveals toxic relationships with coaches, where athletes say intimidation, verbal abuse and humiliation are not uncommon.

I walked through the doors of the Citizen in 1976 as a student, and strutted out half an hour later as a newspaperman.

Legislative hearings into the Quebec’s government’s secularism bill begin Tuesday amid concerns that lawmakers will be hearing little from the religious groups who are in the crosshairs of the legislation.

As spring flooding plagues communities in Eastern Canada and the spectre of wildfires looms again over Western provinces and territories, an internal audit says one of the government departments that plays a "significant" role during natural disasters isn't testing its emergency plans to make sure they work.

Some polls suggest two-thirds of all Canadians want more gun controls to address firearm-related violence, but others say this approach won't to anything to prevent crime.

Canada's asylum seeker caseload faces a mounting backlog, with a processing system that has chronic delays and lax criminality checks, according to a new report from the federal spending watchdog.

Since Vancouver began enforcing its short-term rental rules in September, the number of listings in the city has decreased by about 40 per cent from its peak. 

Polls have closed in the Nanaimo–Ladysmith byelection on Vancouver Island.