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Three hundred kilometres below the surface of the moon lurks something massive — and scientists aren’t completely sure what it is.

Three hundred kilometres below the surface of the moon lurks something massive — and scientists aren’t completely sure what it is.

Provincial energy ministers from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario are in Calgary to share their reactions to what amendments the federal government has accepted to Bill C-69.

Beijing ignored a personal attempt by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this year to arrange a conversation with China's premier in order to intervene on behalf of Canadians detained in China, CBC News has learned.

Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant says he has a ruptured Achilles and underwent surgery Wednesday.

The distraught father of an eight-year-old murder victim asked a courtroom full of onlookers to place themselves in his shoes Wednesday as his ex-wife faced sentencing for killing their daughter. "What would you not endure to save the life of your child?" Gabe Batstone asked.

Leaders with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation say a 16-year-old girl who was killed early Wednesday morning in Cochrane, Ont., when she was hit by a vehicle was an evacuee from a northwestern Ontario First Nation threatened by a forest fire.

A conservation charity said it's concerned by what it calls a "growing trend" of wild fish killed by the salmon farming industry on British Columbia's coast.

The Canada Border Services Agency launched an investigation after the licence plate reader system it uses became the target of a malicious cyberattack in the U.S.

A new study has found Canadians between the ages of 25 and 34 are stuck in a market where earnings aren't rising enough to keep pace with housing prices. The report said the chasm between money made and money needed is widest in B.C. and Ontario, particularly in Vancouver and Toronto.

A B.C. nurse who lost his job when he refused to attend a 12-step program for addiction will get a chance to argue he was discriminated against as an atheist.

Marijuana chemical residue has been found in incense burners apparently used during funerary rites at a mountainous site in western China in about 500 BC, providing what may be the oldest evidence of smoking cannabis for its mind-altering properties.

Watch live coverage now of the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors speaking to the media a day before Game 6 of the NBA Finals.

Rogers is introducing unlimited data plans with no overage charges starting Thursday. Plans will start at $75 and include 10 gigabytes per month at full data-transmission speeds and unlimited data at reduced speed after that.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: tens of thousands rally in Hong Kong; as U.S. schools are 'hardened' against attacks, a Columbine survivor helps put the issue into perspective; touring the Massey Hall renovations with Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy.

Canada's Northern regions have been neglected, overlooked, and passed by for far too long, according to a report released Tuesday by a Senate special committee.

A registered nurse fired for stealing opiates and shooting up fentanyl in a hospital washroom should get another crack at showing why she should get her job back, an Ontario court has ruled.

Canada Revenue Agency investigators and RCMP officers raided 15 locations across Ontario and Quebec today as part of a criminal probe into international tax evasion, the CRA said in a statement.

Southern Alberta's Blood Tribe, the country's largest reserve, has won part of its 40-year land claim battle against the federal government.

The federal Liberal government has accepted some substantial Senate changes to its environmental assessment overhaul legislation — but has rejected 90 per cent of those proposed by Conservative parliamentarians that environmental groups warned would weaken the review process.

The federal Liberal government has accepted some substantial Senate changes to its environmental assessment overhaul legislation — but has rejected 90 per cent of those proposed by Conservative parliamentarians that environmental groups warned would weaken the review process.

In the wake of condemnation over the behaviour of Toronto Raptors fans who cheered the injury of Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant in Game 5, new video has emerged showing fans heckling the parents of Stephen Curry.

In the wake of condemnation over the behaviour of Toronto Raptors fans who cheered the injury of Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant in Game 5, new video has emerged showing fans heckling the parents of Stephen Curry

Thousands of people from Lake St. Martin, Little Saskatchewan, Dauphin River and Pinaymootang First Nations are beginning to see compensation this week from a $90-million settlement from the federal government.

Netflix has announced new partnerships with three Indigenous cultural organizations in Canada to help foster and develop screen talent.

One of the most high profile companies in the fast-growing business of plant-based meat alternatives has struck a deal with one of Canada's biggest coffee chains to sell meat-free breakfast sandwiches across the country.

Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final will be an opportunity for the St. Louis Blues to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history. The Boston Bruins have a chance to claim their first championship at home since 1970. Regardless of the outcome, Wednesday night's clash (CBC, CBCSports.ca 8 p.m. ET) will be the most physical game yet in this fabulous back-and-forth series.

About 20 people were on the bus when the shootings occurred following a verbal dispute.

A 29-year-old Barrie, Ont. woman is seriously injured after a wheel came off a car and smashed through the windshield of the car she was driving on Highway 400 near Innisfil on Wednesday.

The Liberal government's advisory council on national pharmacare will release its final report today, setting the stage for an election campaign debate over prescription drug coverage in Canada.

An advisory council appointed by the Liberal government is recommending the establishment of a universal, single-payer public pharmacare system.

An advisory council appointed by the Liberal government is recommending the establishment of a universal, single-payer public pharmacare system.

In 1969 Niagara's American Falls were "turned off" so engineers could study the effects of rock falls on the flow of the water.

Husky Energy is going to have to pay a total penalty of $3.8 million after pleading guilty to permitting the spill of 225,000 litres of "heavy crude oil in water frequented by fish."

Husky Energy has pleaded guilty nearly three years after 225,000 litres of oil and other fluids leaked from a damaged pipeline and into the North Saskatchewan River.

Federal and provincial Crown prosecutors are asking for a total penalty of $3.8 million from Husky Energy after a large pipeline spill into the North Saskatchewan River in 2016.

The minister responsible for replacing the federal government's disastrous civil-service pay system says a series of pay "experiments" will likely be tested alongside Phoenix.

A controversial road project in western Saskatchewan could face a First Nations blockade if construction is approved next month, the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations warns.

A 2012 report by the National Indigenous Economic Development Board set 2022 as the target for economic parity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians, but at the current pace, Canada is falling short.

Two Canadian women abducted this month in Ghana have been rescued, and the non-governmental organization they volunteer for says it's "very relieved" about the release of Lauren Tilley and Bailey Chitty. Ghana's Information Ministry will hold a news conference later today about the rescue operation.

Two University of New Brunswick students abducted this month in Ghana while volunteering with Youth Challenge International have been rescued, and five Ghanians and three Nigerians are in police custody.

Authorities say two Canadian women who were abducted earlier this month in Ghana have been rescued.

The DNA history of all right whales sampled since the 1980s was recently packed up into a rented minivan and driven 1,700 kilometres to its new home at Saint Mary's University in Halifax.

A new report from The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto says manufacturers and users of so-called stalkerware apps are potentially breaking a variety of laws, but so far police and prosecutors have turned a blind eye.

A new report from The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto says manufacturers and users of so-called stalkerware apps are potentially breaking a variety of laws, but so far police and prosecutors have turned a blind eye.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre has been taking shots at what he calls the "Liberal lapdogs" at Elections Canada. It's a risky tactic.

A chemical discovered in fungus from the bottom of Frobisher Bay, Nunavut, has shown promise in killing drug-resistant strains of malaria.

A Canadian flag was removed from a woman's home as a kind gesture — but it caused devastation.

The RCMP has downplayed the threat posed by the Soldiers of Odin in Dawson Creek, B.C., but anti-hate activists are not convinced.

Before Maxime Bernier left to form the People's Party, his riding was a top fundraiser for the Conservative Party — thanks largely to donors who lived elsewhere.