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Transport Canada has introduced more measures to protect the endangered mammals, including expanding speed restrictions for vessels, adding more aerial surveillance and funding for initiatives to enhance marine mammal response.

Sarah Cotton recounted for a B.C. jury the moment on Christmas Day 2017 police told her that her two young daughters were dead. "I screamed like never before," she said.

A prominent Canadian aid worker convicted of sexually assaulting children in Nepal has been jailed for 16 years, one of his lawyers said on Monday.

A prominent Canadian aid worker convicted of sexually assaulting children in Nepal has been jailed for 16 years, one of his lawyers said on Monday.

Thunder Bay is ready to host up to 200 evacuees from northern communities threatened by forest fires, the city's deputy fire chief said.

Randall Pitman bought this Ford Model T truck at an auction when was 17. At 87, he's still driving it.

Opponents of Bill 21 now have to confront the following question: How do you argue a law is unconstitutional without appealing to Charter?

Opponents of Bill 21 now have to confront the following question: How do you argue a law is unconstitutional without appealing to Charter?

Casey Lee Martin says learning her passenger was Kawthar Barho is a reminder that you never know what people are going through.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says a government led by him would scrap what he has dubbed a "secret fuel tax" — a plan by the Liberal government to improve fuel standards through regulatory changes that have not yet been finalized.

Passengers planning to take Swoop Airlines flights from airports across Canada and the U.S. face lengthy delays and nearly a dozen outright cancellations because of unscheduled maintenance.

Don Cherry is staying put as the colourful host of Coach's Corner on Hockey Night in Canada, saying he was told by his bosses shortly after the end to the Stanley Cup playoffs he'd return next season.

A one-year-old girl apparently slipped from her grandfather's hands and fell to her death from the 11th storey of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico, police said Monday.

A one-year-old girl apparently slipped from her grandfather's hands and fell to her death from the 11th storey of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico, police say.

Ontario's Health Minister Christine Elliott has announced an additional $28 million this year for midwifery services across the province. The announcement was made Monday in St. Jacobs.

After winning the first two sets, Canadian Milos Raonic couldn’t finish the job as he was eliminated from Wimbledon by Argentine Guido Pella 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (3), 6-8 on Monday.

Three years after settling a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit with female officers for $100 million, the RCMP has reached a second settlement — for about another $100 million — with women who worked for the force in non-policing roles.

British Airways faces a £183-million ($303-million Cdn) fine over a breach that compromised information on half a million customers — the biggest penalty to date under new, tougher British regulations, and one likely to be seen as a test case for companies that fail to secure big data caches.

What's in store for the abandoned park's future? Nobody knows.

A Canadian cannabis company has been found non-compliant by Health Canada for growing pot in greenhouse rooms that didn't have a licence to operate at the time.

Twitter says British Columbia isn't the proper place for a West Vancouver businessman to sue the social media giant over a string of "defamatory and malicious" tweets posted to discredit him because of his work with Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The Campobello Whale Rescue Team from New Brunswick is heading out today to work at disentangling three North Atlantic right whales in southern waters off the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The U.K. government promised Monday it would investigate leaks of memos in which its ambassador to the U.S. described President Donald Trump's administration as "dysfunctional."

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is "appalled" at the conditions in which the United States is keeping detained migrants and refugees, including children, her office said in a statement on Monday.

Federal prosecutors in New York City have announced sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges against wealthy businessman Jeffrey Epstein, who pleaded not guilty when he appeared in a Manhattan federal court Monday.

Federal prosecutors in New York City have announced sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges against wealthy businessman Jeffrey Epstein.

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association has released thousands of heavily redacted documents by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in regards to allegations the agency had spied on peaceful protesters of the now-defunct Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project.

Canada's spy service routinely welcomed reports from the energy industry about perceived threats, and kept such information in its files in case it might prove useful later, newly disclosed documents reveal.

The International Criminal Court on Monday convicted a rebel commander known as The Terminator of 18 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes including murder, rape and sexual slavery for his role in a bloody ethnic conflict in a mineral-rich region of Congo from 2002-2003.

Some of Canada's major mobile service providers say they're working to fix widespread network outages to voice services that some customers have been experiencing since Sunday afternoon.

Canadian wireless networks have been hit by major outages that started Sunday and are still resulting in dropped calls and other voice network problems across the country.

Canadian wireless networks have been hit by major outages that started Sunday and are still resulting in dropped calls and other voice network problems across the country.

Canfor's recent announcement that it will be curtailing operations at two more mills this summer in Prince George, adds to an ever-growing list of more than 20 temporary and indefinite curtailments at sawmills across the province. 

Markham is poised to restore an industrial area to its natural state in a project designed to prevent flood damage.

New measures aimed at reducing the walleye catch on Lake Winnipeg have led commercial fishers to stop co-operating with Manitoba on species management and hire their own scientists to combat what they call dubious data.

A local music festival in Detroit has moved away from ticket prices based on race after drawing international attention when a rapper pulled out of the show over the price difference.

A couple from London, both family doctors, are packing up their lives and moving their two young children to Nova Scotia at the end of August. They say it's appealing to move to a place where family doctors are needed and appreciated.

North Korea has long flummoxed successive U.S. administrations, due in no small part to the doctrinal paralysis and lack of imagination among U.S. policymakers. Perhaps, then, Trump's outreach to Kim Jong-un should not be discounted out of hand. 

The village of Clayton, Ont., is just 20 kilometres from the nation's capital, but try getting a cell signal there.

The mother of a 48-year-old man who burned to death in a car fire outside her home in Cincinnati, Ohio, is joining automobile safety advocates in calling for two car giants to come clean about potential safety issues that can cause some engines to fail at high speeds or burst into flames.

Iran threatened on Monday to restart deactivated centrifuges and sharply step up its enrichment of uranium to 20 per cent purity as its next potential big moves away from a 2015 nuclear agreement that Washington abandoned last year.

Iran says the last chance for saving its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers will pass after a 60-day deadline.

Iran says the last chance for saving its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers will pass after a 60-day deadline.

Iran on Monday began enriching uranium to 4.5 per cent, just breaking the limit set by its nuclear deal with world powers, while still seeking a way for Europe to help it bypass U.S. sanctions amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.

Storm clouds may be gathering but so long as good times persist markets seem to expect the Bank of Canada, and even the Fed, to wait a little longer before cutting rates.

The seasoned ACMG guide was leading a group of students up a multi-pitch ice climb on the north side of Mount Athabasca, about 105 kilometres southeast from the Jasper town site.

Dozens of people from two Manitoba First Nation communities affected by forest fire smoke are being flown to Winnipeg.

The Canadian men's rugby sevens team booked its ticket to the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday, defeating Jamaica 40-5 in the final of a regional qualifying tournament.