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Women who are pregnant or may become pregnant should avoid the wakefulness-promoting drug modafinil, sold as Alertec, to prevent serious harm to the fetus, Health Canada warns.

Alberta will ask the province's Court of Appeal to rule on the constitutionality of the federal carbon tax.

Elections Canada has abandoned a plan to use social 'influencers' to encourage young people to register to vote in the upcoming federal election.

Elections Canada has abandoned a plan to use social influencers to encourage young people to vote in the upcoming federal election.

A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: politicians are grappling with everything from the Trans Mountain Pipeline decision to the new NAFTA deal; new First Nations solar farm will be Manitoba's largest.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are the only MPs left standing in the race to replace Theresa May as Britain's Conservative leader and prime minister, and they both face the same, seemingly insurmountable, challenge: delivering Brexit.

The Tampa Bay Rays have received permission from Major League Baseball to explore playing some of its home games in Montreal, commissioner Rob Manfred said on Thursday.

The Tampa Bay Rays have received permission from Major League Baseball to explore playing some of its home games in Montreal, commissioner Rob Manfred said on Thursday.

The Tampa Bay Rays have received permission from Major League Baseball to explore playing some of its home games in Montreal, commissioner Rob Manfred said on Thursday.

The information of 2.9 million Caisse Desjardins members, including 173,000 businesses, has been shared with people outside the organization because of a data breach by an employee, the Quebec-based co-operative said Thursday.

An employee with "ill-intention" at Desjardins Group collected information about nearly three million people and businesses and shared it with people outside the Quebec-based financial institution, officials revealed Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he would "think about" inviting the NBA championship Toronto Raptors to the White House. He made the comment at a news conference Thursday following a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Washington.

On the latest episode of The Pollcast, Salimah Shivji, John Paul Tasker and Aaron Wherry join host Éric Grenier to break down a busy last week on Parliament Hill.

The ruling from the Quebec Court of Appeal the latest in a long-running legal battle that has reached the country's highest court.

U.S. President Donald Trump said today that he'll do whatever he can to help Canada in its ongoing diplomatic dispute with China. Trump made the remarks during a meeting in the Oval Office with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today in advance of talks on ratifying the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement.

A year after Canada and the United States seemed poised to descend into an all out trade war Prime Minister Justin Trudeau boasted that he had completed a successful trip to the U.S. in which both countries agreed to work together in a number of key areas.

After a series of late-night sittings over the last month, the House of Commons has passed the vast majority of outstanding government legislation and has wrapped up for what could be the last time before the fall election.

Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Richard Wagner says legal aid is "essential" to ensuring the justice system is fair and efficient.

Modern DNA technology has confirmed a strange-looking whale skull with weird, twisted teeth collected by a hunter decades ago belongs to the offspring of a narwhal mother and beluga father.

A bid by Conservative senators to investigate the handling of the criminal case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman sputtered to a conclusion on Thursday, after the government leader in the Senate rejected a call for an extended schedule of summer hearings.

Anderson Whitehead, an 11-year-old from Ontario, was reduced to tears when he was reunited with Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price on stage in front of thousands Wednesday during the NHL awards gala in Las Vegas.

Mark Warawa, the Conservative MP for the B.C. riding of Langley—Aldergrove, died Thursday morning at age 69, according to his official Facebook page.

Some of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's most high-profile cabinet ministers have been moved out of their posts as part of a major shuffle that comes amid slumping poll numbers for the premier and controversies on several important files.

Britain's governing Conservatives picked the two candidates Thursday who will square off to become the next prime minister of the U.K. to replace Theresa May. The party will now choose between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt.

Canada admitted the largest number of refugees who were resettled last year and had the second highest rate of refugees who gained citizenship, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency's global report.

A Calgary mom was unnerved to find out she and her two young children may have been drinking and bathing in lead-contaminated water at their home for the past year — and hundreds of other Calgarians are in the same boat.

Authorities announced details Thursday of a years-long investigation into what they describe as an Ontario-based online "big box store" for child pornography.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam ignored a Thursday deadline set by some protesters to withdraw an extradition bill that she promoted then postponed, setting the stage for a new wave of demonstrations.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, meeting in Pyongyang with Chinese President Xi Jinping, said Thursday that his country is waiting for a desired response in stalled nuclear talks with the United States.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told North Korean leader Kim Jong-un the international community expects the U.S. and North Korea to restart a productive dialogue, Chinese state media said.

The leaders of China and North Korea were talking in the North Korean capital Thursday, with stalled nuclear negotiations with Washington expected to be on the agenda.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. drone on Thursday amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over its collapsing nuclear deal with world powers, American and Iranian officials said, while disputing the circumstances of the incident.

When it comes to artificial intelligence technology, 'there's no putting the genie back in the bottle,' says a MUN scientist.

When it comes to artificial intelligence technology, 'there's no putting the genie back in the bottle,' says MUN scientist.

The Trudeau government believes that it's in a relatively benign moment of its complicated relationship with the Trump administration, with both sides pulling in the same direction on NAFTA ratification.

The latest film of Pixar's beloved Toy Story series follows cowboy toy Woody as he attempts to safeguard Forky, their owner's newest plaything. Tony Hale and French Canadian comic François Bellefeuille trade notes on how they voiced the unusual new character.

More than a dozen residents at a Chinese nursing home in Toronto are part of the fastest growing age group in Canada — people 100 years old and older.

Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer released a plan to tackle climate change this week that talks a lot about technology and home renos - and offers a lot of hand-waving on the details.

A victim of a sexually abusive Montreal priest says he's still shaken by what happened after he took his complaint to police in 2016: invited to a meeting at the same building where he'd been molested as a child, nine clergymen grilled him for hours, some trying to poke holes in his story.

A victim of a sexually abusive Montreal priest says he's still shaken by what happened after he took his complaint to police in 2016: invited to a meeting at the same building where he'd been molested as a child, nine clergymen grilled him for hours, some trying to poke holes in his story.

Fisher River Cree Nation is aiming to generate clean power and an ongoing source of revenue from a new one megawatt solar farm, the biggest 'utility scale' array in Manitoba.

Syrian refugee Anas Nabulsi and his family hope to leave Lebanon and arrive in Canada this summer, where he will have a job waiting as the result of a new initiative that matches skilled refugees with employers and firms willing to hire and sponsor workers from abroad.

Drivers are far too trusting of self-driving technology, making them too comfortable with distractions behind the wheel, a new report says. And a major reason why seems to be the names that car companies give to their rudimentary autonomous systems.

Over the last few weeks, one YouTube channel has posted multiple deepfakes of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer and Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Climate change is expected to raise sea levels by two metres by 2100, which could force millions from their homes. As the second-largest country in the world, Canada is in a far better position than many others will it comes to dealing with those effects. Does that mean these climate refugees could make Canada their home?

After repeatedly ignoring President Donald Trump's imprecations Federal Reserve's Jay Powell concedes that interest rate cut may be coming. But Canada seems to be heading in the opposite direction.

Most Canadians see fighting climate change as a top priority for government. But most of those who don't are voting Conservative.

Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer released a plan to tackle climate change this week that talks a lot about technology and home renos - and offers a lot of hand-waving on the details.

Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse says a meeting is in the works with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but he hasn't heard from Washington about a congratulatory visit to the White House.

Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse says a meeting is in the works with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but he hasn't heard from Washington about a congratulatory visit to the White House.