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Jean Chrétien is willing to go to China to negotiate an end to Canada's diplomatic impasse with Beijing if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asks him, according to the former prime minister's spokesman.

Jean Chrétien is willing to go to China to negotiate an end to Canada's diplomatic impasse with Beijing if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asks him, according to the former prime minister's spokesman.

Linda Fairstein has been dropped by her publisher as fallout continues for the former Central Park Five prosecutor over the wrongful conviction of five teens for the 1989 rape and beating of a female jogger.

The shove of Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry by Golden State Warriors minority shareholder Mark Stevens during Game 3 of the NBA Finals not only set off a debate about courtside behaviour, it's also put the spotlight back on simmering tensions between players and owners.

At the end of this season, the Golden State Warriors will leave behind the old arena they've called home full time since 1971 and head across the bay to San Francisco. Oracle Arena has been host to some of basketball's lowest lows and, more recently, its highest highs.

The president of Winnipeg's St. Boniface Hospital is apologizing after the hospital accidentally switched the remains of two babies, resulting in a Nunavut family burying the wrong baby.

A Senate committee is urging the government to delay implementation of a controversial change to Canada's asylum laws for one year in order to limit harm to the most vulnerable refugees.

Two women were punched and robbed in what police on Friday called a disgusting homophobic assault on a London bus.

114-year-old Ellen “Dolly” Gibb, Canada’s oldest person, died Wednesday at a long term care home in North Bay.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: The number of Venezuelans fleeing the country's political and economic chaos has topped 4 million; The Handmaid's Tale has hit a nerve with women’s rights activists, but can it translate into political change?

The ship left Sligo, Ireland,172 years ago carrying 180 passengers fleeing the Potato Famine. It sank off the coast of Cap-des-Rosiers, in Gaspé, Que., killing an estimated 120 to 150 people.

If we’ve learned anything through this Raptors' playoff run, it’s momentum doesn’t exist. Every game looks different. Every quarter looks different. Still, three things have remained relatively consistent through three games. How will they affect Game 4?

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A 12-hour evacuation alert for the Town of Slave Lake has been lifted as of 9:45 a.m. Friday.

The provincial Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry continues to battle a 3,800-hectare forest fire near a northwestern Ontario First Nation.

Teachers at a western Quebec university say a video advising them how to dress on campus is condescending and sexist.

Teachers at a western Quebec university say a video advising them how to dress on campus is condescending and sexist.

The failure to notify First Nations of a rare artifact discovery in central Saskatchewan violates international law, says an academic.

Adrian Johnson and his wife Rebecca were aboard the European river cruise ship that collided with a smaller tour boat on the Danube river last Wednesday. Nineteen people were killed and searchers are still looking for more bodies.

Brent Holder was sitting in his truck in a parking lot checking in his email, when he heard a woman "screaming for her life."

Four million Venezuelan refugees and migrants have fled economic and humanitarian crisis in their homeland, all but 700,000 of them since the end of 2015, UN aid agencies said on Friday.

A Toronto man has survived a skydive plunge from high above the Hamilton airport on Thursday after his parachute became tangled, police say.

The Canadian economy added 27,700 jobs in May, enough to push the jobless rate down to 5.4 per cent — its lowest level since 1976.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is leaving Paris with a concrete guarantee that France will proceed with ratification of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) this summer.

After China banned Canadian exports of recyclables, municipalities like Lethbridge have had to secure other buyers with sometimes more stringent requirements, including demands for materials that aren't mixed with shards of glass.

When the latest pathway opens next year in Lethbridge, Alta., dog walkers and runners will be tromping over a dump site of beer bottles and pickle jars.

To get cancer treatment, a B.C. senior will soon have to take an eight-hour ferry trip across often stormy seas and then a two-hour car trip each month. And she's not alone. Patients on Haida Gwaii are set to lose intravenous chemotherapy in just two weeks.

Cannabis retailer Tweed has cut 12 per cent of its Manitoba workforce in a round of layoffs the Ontario-based brand describes as a result of learning how to operate legal weed storefronts.

Chelsea Brent blames changes to B.C.'s emergency dispatch policy for it taking the ambulance crew 35 minutes to get into her dying mother's apartment last November. The province's health minister has ordered a review of the case.

A Nova Scotia family is taking the long way to relocate to B.C., and has travelled to places including Mexico, Fiji and New Zealand. After seven years on a 14-metre boat, they're ready to once again call Canada home.

A Nova Scotia family is taking the long way to relocate to B.C. and has travelled to places including Mexico, Fiji and New Zealand. After seven years on a 14-metre boat, they're ready to once again call Canada home.

A Saskatoon mother tells how her nine-year-old son prevented a possible abduction by jumping from a moving SUV Monday.

Even some of the Ontario premier's supporters question whether Doug Ford can get his populist mojo back as his government moves forward with more austerity measures.

Poasie Aniniliak says he's been denied programming and spends most of his time in segregation at the Nunavut jail.

The ground rules for Atlantic Canada's Ocean Supercluster project are now in place and will allow for more than $300 million in spending between the federal government and the private sector on ocean-related projects over the next four years.

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is releasing a national climate change strategy Friday afternoon in Inuvik, N.W.T. It not only aims to help Inuit adapt and thrive in a time of rapid warming, but to become leaders in developing climate policy and research.

House prices may be as high as ever in many parts of the country, but Canadian homebuyers are being offered some of the lowest mortgage rates seen in years as lenders battle to drum up new business.

After years of leaning on downtown's office towers to cover a healthy chunk of municipal tax revenue, Calgary's politicians are facing tough decisions thanks to a large number of vacancies.

If Andrew Scheer's Conservatives want to win in Ontario, they'll need to do better than the numbers put up by Doug Ford's PCs in 2018.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we examine how some Canadian cities are converting food waste into a form of natural gas and why fast fashion is a problem for the planet.

The broad political support greasing the wheels of C-101, Finance Minister Bill Morneau's new legislation to change Canada's trade safeguard rules, may obscure the calculated risk the Liberal government is taking with its strategy to protect the steel industry.

Christine Sinclair is arguably the greatest soccer player in Canadian history. Now she's entering the women's World Cup tournament four goals shy of becoming the greatest international scorer ever. But she's not focused on the record. Instead, she's spent her entire career putting the team first.

The steps of the Crestview Fellowship Church in St. James is as far as the Kargbo family can go while they face a lengthy legal process to stay in Canada and avoid deportation.

D-Day veteran Fred Barnard had been worrying that everyone had forgotten about his service. As communities across Canada marked the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, the 98-year-old got his answer.

Legislation overhauling Canada's assessment of major energy projects is back in the hands of Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, albeit looking a lot different than when she introduced it.

About 115 million boys were married off as children, with one in five wed before they turned 15, according to the first United Nations study to track the prevalence of child grooms.

Vancouver police are searching for a man who is the subject of an unprecedented court order to take medication for HIV.

Dr. John, the New Orleans musician who blended black and white musical styles with a hoodoo-infused stage persona and gravelly bayou drawl, died Thursday, his family said. He was 77.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and hazardous substances says Canada's Indigenous people are disproportionately affected by toxic waste.

It's a fight that could change his life. Boxer Steve Rolls started his career in Chatham, Ont., but now he's gearing up to square off against a former world champion on Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.