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Police have released the names of three men who were arrested after the shootings at Monday's celebration of the Toronto Raptors' NBA Championship, two in connection with the gunfire.

Toronto police have released the names of three men arrested after gunfire erupted as at least a million people gathered in the city's downtown core to celebrate the Toronto Raptors' NBA Championship.

Police have released the names of three men who were arrested after the shootings at Monday's celebration of the Toronto Raptors' NBA Championship, two in connection with the gunfire.

Medical, ethical, distribution issues on safety, effectiveness and distribution of a medication that reverses overdoses need to be addressed, a national network says.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's climate proposal would change emissions thresholds to capture more large-scale polluters and compel those companies to invest in clean energy technology if they exceed emissions standards.

John Horgan added that Ottawa has the authority to give the greenlight, and he’ll focus on making sure B.C. can protect its territory from the impact of a spill.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet have again approved the Trans Mountain expansion project, a crucial next step for the much-delayed pipeline project designed to carry nearly a million barrels of oil from Alberta’s oilpatch to the B.C. coast.

An Edmonton man has been sentenced to 26 years in U.S. prison for supporting a group of jihadists who committed a 2009 suicide attack that killed five American soldiers in Iraq.

A lawyer for a sheriff's deputy involved in an altercation with Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri as he tried to join his team on the court to celebrate their NBA championship said his client suffered a concussion and is on medical leave.

A lawyer for a sheriff's deputy involved in an altercation with Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri as he tried to join his team on the court to celebrate their NBA championship said his client suffered a concussion and is on medical leave.

Conservative MP Michael Cooper made comments deriding "goat herder cultures" during a discussion about Islam's compatibility with Canadian democracy when he was a law student at the University of Alberta a decade ago, according to two lawyers who have come forward to talk about the incident.

Job vacancies rose nearly 10 per cent between the first quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2018, a new Statistics Canada report has found.

Acting U.S. Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn from consideration to head the U.S. military amid reports of domestic violence in Shanahan's family nine years ago, including between his ex-wife and his son and another account of violence between him and his ex-wife.

Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., will re-investigate the deaths of nine Indigenous people with the help of outside agencies, the service's chief said at Tuesday's meeting of the city's police services board.

Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., will re-investigate the deaths of nine Indigenous people with the help of outside agencies, the service's chief said at Tuesday's meeting of the city's police services board.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: Facebook has some big-money backers for its new cryptocurrency; Canada faces big challenges in closing the gap between its emissions and its climate change targets.

Representatives from the city and a new studio group have announced plans to build a massive film and TV hub on the Barton-Tiffany Lands in central Hamilton.

A plane flying from Montreal to Toronto experienced a hydraulic issue and had to make an emergency landing in Hamilton that caused several of its tires to pop.

A once-in-a-lifetime celebration for Toronto Raptors fans on Monday was not without organizational problems, as millions of people waited to greet the NBA champions for the first time since their historic win.

About 2000 evacuees from Pikangikum First Nation have received the green light to return home, as the forest fire that threatened their community has been listed as under control as of Friday night.

The governing body of track argued in court that Caster Semenya is "biologically male," and that is the reason she should reduce her natural testosterone to be allowed to compete in female competitions.

A mother says her four-year-old daughter ingested meth after finding it at a campground.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has jolted northwestern Japan, and officials are warning of a tsunami of up to one metre high along parts of the coast.

An earthquake jolted northwestern Japan late Tuesday, prompting officials to issue a tsunami warning along the coast which was lifted about 2½ hours later.

A Canadian soldier has died during a parachuting accident in Bulgaria. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan extended sympathies to Bombardier Patrick Labrie's family and comrades.

A Canadian soldier has died during a parachuting accident in Bulgaria. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan extended sympathies to Bombardier Patrick Labrie's family and comrades.

The fire now covers around 300,000 hectares of boreal forest — and despite the best efforts of the 890 firefighters working to extinguish it — the fire is expected to grow in size and intensity.

Boris Johnson has increased his vote share in his bid for the leadership of Britain's Conservative Party in the second round of voting on Tuesday, while former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab's campaign to succeed Theresa May as prime minister has ended.

Canadian companies avoided paying up to $11.4 billion worth of taxes in 2014, the federal tax agency says.

China will halt imports from a Canadian company after food safety issues were detected in one batch of pork, the Xinhua state news agency reported Tuesday, a move likely to fuel speculation China is retaliating for the arrest in Canada of a Chinese tech executive.

The Alberta government has reinstated pay and overtime exemptions for fire lookout observers, ending arbitrarily imposed interim rules the observers’ union said had led to several undetected fires and increased the risk to public safety and property.

Researchers have confirmed that a pair of fossilized teeth found in northern Yukon in the 1970s are from a genus of hyena that made its way into North America during the last ice age.

Iran will not wage war against any nation, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday in a speech broadcast live on state TV.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has apologized for an extradition bill that set off massive protests and indicated it is unlikely to be revived.

The federal cabinet will decide today on whether to give approvals to the Trans Mountain expansion. The company building the pipeline — now a Crown-owned entity — has already received some 30 per cent of the pipe needed to build the much-delayed project.

U.S. President Donald Trump has never really stopped campaigning since winning the presidency in 2016. Nonetheless, he will officially kick off his re-election bid at a rally in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday. As Lyndsay Duncombe explains, Trump's campaign has a few key things working in its favour.

Only one U.S. president in recent history had lower approval ratings than Donald Trump at this point in his first term, and that president lost his re-election bid. As Trump kicks off his own campaign Tuesday, CBC's Lyndsay Duncombe explains what he has working in his favour.

If Justin Trudeau and the Liberals hadn't trounced the NDP in 2015, the New Democrats would surely not have released the sort of platform they did on Sunday — a platform that practically boasts of the billions in new revenue an NDP government would raise.

Catherine McKenna just confirmed that the carbon tax will stop once it reaches a piffling $50 a tonne, three years from now. Why? Because Justin Trudeau wants to be re-elected.

The Canadian and Ontario human rights commissions have taken the exceptional step of joining forces to urge Facebook to stop Canadian employers from being able to post job ads that discriminate against some workers on the basis of age. It's the first step in a series of actions that could make its way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Canadian and Ontario human rights commissions have taken the exceptional step of joining forces to urge Facebook to stop Canadian employers from being able to post job ads that discriminate against some workers on the basis of age. It's the first step in a series of actions that could make its way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

During the winter, residents of Dawson City use an ice bridge to connect the communities on either side of the Yukon River. But the river hasn't been freezing like it used to, threatening to cut off an already-isolated West Dawson from the rest of the community.

Canadians are deeply concerned about climate change and are willing to make adjustments in their lives to fight it — but for many people, paying as much as even a monthly Netflix subscription in extra taxes is not one of them, a new poll suggests.

With the federal government expected to announce its decision on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion on Tuesday, Janice Antoine, a resident of the Coldwater reserve in B.C., wants to know when contamination from the pipeline discovered on her property five years ago will be cleaned up.

Quebec is a different place after the Coalition Avenir Québec government adopted two laws reshaping the province's immigration system and imposing new rules on people who wear religious symbols. Here's a guide to what happened, and what's next.

A Christchurch businessman who shared a video of worshippers being slaughtered at a New Zealand mosque was sentenced on Tuesday to 21 months in prison.

The federal Liberal government is teetering on a tightrope this week as it attempts to prove it can balance economic development with environmental protection during the final sitting of Parliament before the fall election.

The federal Liberal government is teetering on a tightrope this week as it attempts to prove it can balance economic development with environmental protection during the final sitting of Parliament before the fall election.

Whether you're a lifelong basketball fan, a bandwagoner or don't know the first thing about the game, there's no denying the Raptors' NBA Championship win has brought the country together in a way unlike almost any other.

Despite delays, hordes of people squeezed into Toronto on Monday, waiting patiently to catch a glimpse of the Raptors victory parade motorcade that slowly crawled through the city's downtown core.