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The U.S. Justice Department said Friday it will press its search for legal grounds to force the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, hours after President Donald Trump said he is "very seriously" considering an executive order to get the question on the form.

Canadian airlines are among hundreds of carriers asking the Federal Court of Appeal to quash new rules that beef up compensation for passengers subjected to delayed flights and damaged luggage.

Many countries are seeing wages become increasingly unequal, with the middle class losing ground, but Canada bucks that trend, according to the International Labour Organization.

The longest day in the history of the Alberta legislature wrapped up just before noon on Friday after NDP MLAs filibustered through two straight all-nighters. 

The UN Security Council is condemning a deadly attack on a detention centre for migrants near Libya's capital and is calling on the warring parties to urgently de-escalate fighting and commit to a ceasefire.

The UN Security Council is condemning a deadly attack on a detention centre for migrants near Libya's capital and is calling on the warring parties to urgently de-escalate fighting and commit to a ceasefire.

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander threatened on Friday to seize a British ship in retaliation for the capture of an Iranian supertanker by Royal Marines in Gibraltar.

The Ontario Liberals are calling on Premier Doug Ford to suspend Ottawa-area MPP Lisa MacLeod from caucus after a report that she swore at the owner of the Ottawa Senators NHL franchise during a Rolling Stones concert.

Caitlan Coleman's mother told an Ottawa courtroom today she hardly recognized her daughter when she and her then-husband Joshua Boyle returned from captivity in Afghanistan in 2017.

Details about what prosecutors have called one of Britain's largest-ever modern day slavery rings have emerged with the conviction of eight people originally from Poland.

The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a trillion of them, maybe more, according to a new study. And there's enough room, Swiss scientists say.

Three earthquakes registering between 4.5 and 5.6 magnitude were detected off the coast of B.C. Friday morning, a day after Southern California experienced a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. A geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey said the two quakes are not related.

A young man who said Kevin Spacey groped him in a Nantucket, Mass., bar in 2016 has dropped his civil lawsuit against the Oscar-winning actor, who still faces criminal charges of indecent assault and battery over the alleged encounter.

Ottawa and the P.E.I. government have committed to building a climate change research centre and school in the North Shore community of St. Peters Bay.

It's parade day. The Calgary Stampede event officially kicks off the annual 10-day celebration of cowboy culture. Watch the parade LIVE here at 9 a.m. MT.

The Calgary Stampede parade officially kicked off the annual 10-day celebration of cowboy culture Friday morning as hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets. Watch the full parade here.

Canada's economy lost 2,200 jobs in June, and the jobless rate ticked up to 5.5 per cent because more people were looking for work, according to Statistics Canada.

Milos Raonic is off to the round of 16 at Wimbledon for the fifth time in his career, but he won't be joined by fellow Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Milos Raonic is off to the round of 16 at Wimbledon for the fifth time in his career, but he won't be joined by fellow Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Canada's Milos Raonic is off to the round of 16 at Wimbledon. The No. 15 seed from Thornhill, Ont., defeated American Reilly Opelka 7-6 (1), 6-2, 6-1 in a third-round match on Friday.

Billionaire coal tycoon and Republican donor Chris Cline, as well as his daughter, were among seven Americans killed in a helicopter crash in the Bahamas, a spokesperson for the entrepreneur's lawyer confirmed Friday.

Scientists in Dartmouth, N.S., are gearing up to head out an mission to study climate change in Canada's North, an area for which there is little or no baseline information.

When it comes to being found mentally fit to stand trial, the bar is set so low that some people can't stop tripping over it.

From Taylor Swift's scuffle with Scooter Braun over her masters, to Universal music's fire that destroyed many masters to iconic works, musicians are as concerned about who owns their original recordings as they've ever been.

A 21-year-old man is suing the B.C. government for its delay in providing an expensive drug that he claims could have saved him from permanent disability.

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Last week, the RCMP launched a hate crime investigation into the leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party. Now, they’re going after the budding political party for violating their intellectual property.

From Taylor Swift's scuffle with Scooter Braun over her masters, to Universal music's fire that destroyed many masters to iconic works, musicians are as concerned about who owns their original recordings as they've ever been.

The community was named by English explorer Luke Fox, some 400 years ago. Its Inuktitut name is Kinngait, but Inuit say it was previously known as Sikusiilaq.

The problem is that the veterinary profession serves two masters: clients and animals. If the client is a factory farm or a rodeo, the animals will always come second.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we explore how you go about growing your own food in an apartment, the biggest green energy jobs and the backstory to an iconic climate change cartoon.

Donald Trump injecting himself in the annual July Fourth celebrations had some observers expecting the president to deliver a divisive speech. Instead, he delivered a non-partisan address that focused on American achievement in general, with a heavy emphasis on the military.

An African Union envoy says Sudan's ruling military council and the country's pro-democracy movement have reached a power-sharing agreement, including a timetable for a transition to civilian rule.

An African Union envoy says Sudan's ruling military council and the country's pro-democracy movement have reached a power-sharing agreement, including a timetable for a transition to civilian rule.

Saskatoon police are asking for the public's help finding a missing 18-month-old girl. Police believe Itzel Delreal-Daniels is with her father, Juan Pablo Carmona-Real, 35.

Saskatoon police have asked for the public's help finding a missing 18-month-old girl. Police believe Itzel Delreal-Daniels is with her father, Juan Pablo Carmona-Real, 35, but that she is not in danger.

Police did not believe the girl was in danger.

More than a century ago, the federal government destroyed the Blood Tribe's cattle industry, and today, the southern Alberta reserve signed a $150 million agreement to settle the historic claim.

Student unions from two Hong Kong universities said Friday that they have turned down invitations from city leader Carrie Lam for talks about the recent unrest over her proposal to allow the extradition of suspects to mainland China.

As a means of helping Indigenous people reclaim their ancestral names, residential school survivors and their families in Nova Scotia will soon be able to have the fees waived when they legally change their name.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government will spend $2.5 million on a provincial inquiry into "foreign-funded special interests" and their campaigns to stop development in the oilsands.