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Calling it a “Canadian New Deal” Jagmeet Singh teased the party’s 2019 election climate plan that the NDP Leader will unveil Friday morning.

Senate bureaucrats approved a sole-sourced contract — now worth as much as $95,000 — to hire people to hold doors in the Senate's new building because there aren't enough automatic door openers in place, the internal economy committee heard Thursday.

A Vancouver Island whale watching group caught photos of a young, rare white killer whale swimming in the waters off Nanaimo, B.C. Marine naturalists say it's been a decade since an orca like that has been seen in B.C.

Statistics Canada has released data showing life expectancy stopped increasing for the first time in four decades as young men and women died at higher rates, mostly due to opioid-related overdoses in British Columbia and Alberta.

Life expectancy at birth did not increase for the first time in four decades and Statistics Canada calls the drug overdose crisis a major contributing factor.

Sixty-nine shipping containers of fetid Canadian trash are being loaded onto a container ship in the Philippine port of Subic. They are expected to arrive in B.C. in a month.

Sixty-nine shipping containers of fetid Canadian trash are on board a container ship that has left the Philippine port of Subic. They are expected to arrive in B.C. in a month.

Prosecutors in Chicago have charged R&B singer R. Kelly with 11 new sex-related counts, including some that carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

Leon Redbone, the acclaimed singer and guitarist who performed jazz, ragtime and Tin Pan Alley-style songs, died Thursday, according to a statement released by his family.

Waneek Horn-Miller from Kahnawake, Que., is being inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame this year, along with Métis Paralympian Colette Bourgonje.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: Kremlin-commissioned polls suggest growing dissatisfaction with Putin's policies; police using family trees, DNA to track down killers; there's lively debate around how effective an independent MP can be.

The Kluane ice cave, a popular attraction near Haines Junction, Yukon, has collapsed. Jeff Bond, a geologist with the Yukon Geological Survey, estimates the large ice formation caved in within the last few days.

In a first for the Greater Sudbury Police Service, a manslaughter charge has been laid after a death caused by an opioid overdose.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appealed to U.S. Democrats in Congress today to pass the new North American trade deal, insisting it includes progressive provisions on labour and the environment on which they're aligned with Canadian Liberals.

U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stayed firm throughout tough negotiations to reach a new NAFTA deal. Pence is in Ottawa pushing for ratification of the new North American trade pact.

Thousands of tufted puffins in the Bering Sea are dead partly because of starvation and stress brought on by changing climate conditions, researchers say.

Rui Pacheco, a retired OPP sergeant, was found guilty of assaulting a man while he was off-duty in 2016.

The Canada Revenue Agency has once again made a secret out-of-court settlement with wealthy KPMG clients caught using what the CRA itself had alleged was a "grossly negligent" offshore "sham" set up to avoid detection by tax authorities, CBC News has learned.

Less than three hours after it began, a lockout affecting thousands of longshore workers in B.C. is over.

Longshore workers say a lockout has begun after overnight negotiations between their union and the association representing port employers failed to reach a deal before the lockout deadline passed Thursday morning.

People in a remote area 128 kilometres west of Fort McMurray have been ordered to leave their homes because of an approaching wildfire.

Following similar statements by Walt Disney Co. and Netflix this week, WarnerMedia says it would reconsider Georgia for any new productions if the state's new abortion law takes effect.

Walt Disney Company chief executive Bob Iger told Reuters on Wednesday it would be 'very difficult' for the media company to keep filming in Georgia if a new abortion law takes effect because many people will not want to work in the U.S. state.

The White House wanted the U.S. navy to keep a warship named for the late Sen. John McCain out of President Donald Trump's view during his trip to Japan, three U.S. officials said.

A Canadian military aircraft was dispatched Thursday to begin removing evacuees from Pikangikum First Nation in northern Ontario as a large wildfire burning near the community prompted a state of emergency.

A Canadian military aircraft was dispatched Thursday to begin removing evacuees from Pikangikum First Nation in northern Ontario as a large wildfire burning near the community prompted a state of emergency.

A Canadian military aircraft was dispatched Thursday to begin removing evacuees from Pikangikum First Nation in northern Ontario as a large wildfire burning near the community prompted a state of emergency.

As the forest fire continues to grow in Pikangikum First Nation, officials at the City of Thunder Bay are preparing to host approximately 300 people from the northwestern Ontario First Nation community over the next 48 hours.

Calgary Stampeder Mylan Hicks was a dream chaser with grit, a young man who never uttered a disrespectful word to his family and was the love of his mother's life, a judge heard at the sentencing hearing for the man who murdered the young football player.

An area of old-growth forests and richly diverse wildlife is a bad place to put an open pit mine, says the Nova Scotia Nature Trust and one of its land donors, Paul Sobey.

An area of old-growth forests and richly diverse wildlife is a bad place to put an open pit mine, says the Nova Scotia Nature Trust and one of its land donors, Paul Sobey.

Jim Patten said he was at the top of B.C.'s transplant list in 2012, but a life change brought him home to Newfoundland that same year — and he's been waiting for a new kidney ever since.

Robert Mueller, who avoided the media during his probe of 2016 election interference, finally appeared before cameras Wednesday. What he said wasn’t new — but by underlining the necessity and purpose of the investigation, and spelling out its conclusions, he was clearly trying to turn attention back to Congress.

Robert Mueller, who avoided the media during his probe of 2016 election interference, finally appeared before cameras Wednesday. What he said wasn’t new — but by underlining the necessity and purpose of the investigation, and spelling out its conclusions, he was clearly trying to turn attention back to Congress.

The NBA Finals are an all-too-familiar experience for the Golden State Warriors. It couldn't be more different for the Toronto Raptors.

A new national analysis of hospital stays and visits shows that many Canadians are stuck in hospital longer than they need to be while waiting for home care, and nearly 10 per cent of people who seek substance use and mental-health services in emergency rooms do so repeatedly.

A new Heritage Minute honours the wartime contributions of New Brunswick's storied North Shore Regiment, with a focus on Maj. Archie MacNaughton, in time for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

A new Heritage Minute honours the wartime contributions of New Brunswick's storied North Shore Regiment, with a focus on Maj. Archie MacNaughton, in time for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

The NBA Finals are an all-too-familiar experience for the Golden State Warriors. It couldn't be more different for the Toronto Raptors.

Rescue workers scoured the Danube River in downtown Budapest Thursday for 21 people missing after a sightseeing boat carrying South Korean tourists sank after colliding with a larger cruise ship during an evening downpour. Seven people are confirmed dead and seven were rescued, Hungarian officials said.

Genetic genealogy has helped police to crack dozens of cold cases in the U.S., including the decades-long search for the Golden State Killer. Now, Vancouver police are the first force in Canada to confirm it's using the same technique to try to solve an old homicide.

The rise of big box stores and online shopping has made it hard for businesses in downtown Clinton, Ont. to stay afloat. So the community held a Dragon's Den-style competition and awarded winners a years' worth of free retail space to get their businesses off the ground.

Across Canada, people accused of petty crimes like shoplifting, minor assault and fraud are walking free — because the justice system doesn't have time to deal with their cases, as it struggles to move more serious crimes through the courts.

Basketball fans in Canada are about to witness history — again — as Toronto's team makes its first appearance at the NBA Finals.

Only a lucky 19,800 or so basketball fans will get to watch the Raptors-Warriors game inside Toronto's Scotiabank Arena Thursday. Here's a viewing guide for the rest of you.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's speech this week on immigration suggested a man trying to walk a tightrope between two constituencies: Conservative supporters and Canadians at large.

As anyone who has worked in an open plan office where people cannot control temperatures will know, women seem to complain more about it being too cold. Now, science has confirmed the anecdotal evidence.

Canada is funding a justice system in El Salvador that takes a remarkably illiberal approach to enforcing its very strict abortion law.

The federal government made a secret settlement to quash two lawsuits that claimed its contentious online application process to reunite immigrant families was flawed and unfair, CBC News has learned.

Only a lucky 19,800 or so basketball fans will get to watch the Raptors-Warriors game inside Toronto's Scotiabank Arena Thursday. Here's a viewing guide for the rest of you.