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A cross-party group of MPs is asking the federal Liberals to create a new housing stipend to help thousands of this country's veterans get off the streets.

A prominent technology investor is adding his voice to those calling on Toronto to abandon the proposed Sidewalk Labs development on the city's waterfront. Roger McNamee said it would give too much power and control to the project's backer Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google.

A new study published in the journal, Addiction, found that as the overdose crisis ramped up in 2016-2017, harm reduction efforts in B.C. can be credited with preventing more than 3,000 overdose deaths.

Kawhi Leonard scored 30 points, and Danny Green had six three-pointers and 18 points to lead the Toronto Raptors to a 123-109 victory over the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday.

Ontario's government has introduced legislation to cap public sector wage increases at an average of one per cent annually for the next three years.

Ontario's government has introduced legislation to cap public sector wage increases at an average of one per cent annually for the next three years.

The lawsuit filed this week by Kawhi Leonard against Nike, which centres around the Toronto Raptors star's "Klaw" logo, comes down to one key question: Does the sneaker giant's design simply build off of Leonard's or is it a new design?

Lu Shaye, the Chinese ambassador to Canada who has been a combative presence throughout a serious and ongoing dispute between the two countries, is expected to depart soon for a new posting, CBC News has confirmed.

A family from Nunavut say they were given the wrong body by a Winnipeg hospital after the death of their baby, and had to hold a second funeral once they received the right remains.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: report warns of a "consistent and ominous" pattern of rights being eroded around the world; some who worked in the Allied intelligence apparatus kept their vows of secrecy long after the end of the Second World War.

Today, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale unveiled the names of the people who will serve on an external board of civilian advisers to strengthen oversight of RCMP management - an announcement years in the making.

YouTube says it is cracking down on hate speech on its platform, banning videos that promote neo-Nazi ideology or claim that events like the Holocaust never took place.

Seventeen people are archiving 75,000 hours of recorded stories and legends, all collected over six decades by the CBC in Gwich'in, Inuvialuktun, Tlicho, North Slavey, South Slavey, Denesuline Yatie, Cree and Inuktitut.

Some 2,000 people have left Pikangikum First Nation since a forest fire broke out a week ago near the fly-in community about 500 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont.

Some 2,000 people have left Pikangikum First Nation since a forest fire broke out a week ago near the fly-in community about 500 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont.

A Calgary mother and father whose toddler died of a staph infection because they refused to take him to a doctor until it was too late have each been sentenced to 32 months in prison.

Alberta Legislature members voted Tuesday night to pass the bill that repeals the carbon tax, and it has been signed into law, opening the door to Ottawa imposing its tax as it has with four other provinces.

The High Level fire chief is breathing a sigh of relief as people return to his community amid the biggest firefight of his career.

Otto Hansen was a teenager when he arrived in the remote wild of southern Alberta in the 1920s. The Danish immigrant had come from Saskatchewan where he had heard cheaper land was on offer if he travelled farther west.

Police raided the offices of Australia's national broadcaster on Wednesday over allegations it had published classified material, the second raid on a media outlet in two days, prompting complaints the "outrageous" searches damaged media freedom.

Police raided the offices of Australia's national broadcaster on Wednesday over allegations it had published classified material, the second raid on a media outlet in two days, prompting complaints the "outrageous" searches damaged media freedom.

Saskatchewan's Amber L’Heureaux became the first woman to compete in the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association's circuit this past weekend.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the United Kingdom with U.S. President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Theresa May and other world leaders today to begin two days of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

The Queen was joined today by world leaders including the U.K.'s Theresa May, Canada's Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Donald Trump and Germany's Angela Merkel to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, paying tribute to the veterans of the largest seaborne invasion history that helped end the Second World War.

Historians have been debating the exact meaning of the word 'genocide' since it was coined in the shadow of the Holocaust. Now it's being applied to Canada.

North America's largest shellfish company showcased some of its advanced ocean mapping technology Tuesday at an Oceans Week conference in Dartmouth, N.S., illustrating how it is making the industry more efficient and sustainable.

Police agencies have long said human traffickers are moving people — mostly young girls — from Nova Scotia and the Maritime provinces to Montreal and Toronto. But it's difficult to analyze the pattern in those stories as there is no national data collection mechanism for human trafficking.

Sonya d’Artois parachuted into occupied France under the cover of darkness in late May 1944, and along with hundreds of other female agents working in secret, helped the Allied forces make their D-Day landings and ultimately win the Second World War.

Sonya d’Artois parachuted into occupied France under the cover of darkness in late May 1944, and along with other female agents working in secret, helped the Allied forces make their D-Day landings and ultimately win the Second World War.

The Raptors are Canada's must-see team, setting ratings records at home. But the NBA team still has an oft-dismissed status south of the border, where it can be a challenge in some U.S. markets to even find a bar willing to put the games on with volume.

The CBC's Matthew Halton filed a dramatic account of the Canadians who went ashore at Juno Beach on D-Day.

On Feb. 12, 2000, in Oakland's Oracle Arena, the awkward, less-than-ferocious dinosaurs known as the Toronto Raptors bolted onto the basketball scene because of a dunk that shocked the world.

A Saskatchewan road construction project is set to begin June 10 despite the discovery of Indigenous artifacts up to 10,000 years old.

Amid calls for arena managers to address discrimination in hockey, Quebec's education minister says that sporting federations must come up with a plan by 2020.

Amid calls for arena managers to address discrimination in hockey, Quebec's junior education minister says that sporting federations must come up with a plan by 2020.

The federal government is putting up $15 million over four years to rescue the 50 Million Tree Program which was cut by the Ontario government of Doug Ford in its last budget, CBC News has learned. 

Is a global conflict really a thing of the past, 75 years after Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy? Military and defence experts are stark in their assessment of what a world war could look like now, former CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge writes.

The rate of violence against Indigenous women and girls continued unabated during the mandate of the national inquiry created to investigate the root causes of the issue, according to figures in two separate databases provided to CBC News.

As Republicans move to block U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on Mexico and the Federal Reserve says it is ready to step in, Canada holds its breath. The battle lines are familiar to economists and historians, but this time there are differences.

Live coverage from Europe and Canada of all the D-Day commemorative events.

With an estimated 90 per cent of the world's shark population depleted after decades of over-fishing, the federal Liberal government is poised to ban shark fin imports in Canada.

A disjointed and politically distracted collection of allied nations, including Canada, will gather in Britain Wednesday to kick off a series of commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 D-Day landings.

Sudan's military ruler on Wednesday offered to resume a dialogue on a transition todemocracy, one day after he scrapped all agreements with an opposition alliance.

Sudan's military ruler has offered to resume talks with opposition groups without conditions, but the apparent olive branch was rejected, as the death toll estimate from violence this week rose.

Sudan's military ruler has offered to resume talks with opposition groups without conditions, in an apparent olive branch two days after security forces mounted a deadly raid on a protest camp in central Khartoum.

San Francisco lawmakers have passed a controversial pilot project that would allow the city to force some homeless people with addiction or mental illness into treatment.

Lawyers for the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency claim agents have never examined electronic devices belonging to Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou.