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Bombardier plans to cut several hundred jobs at its Thunder Bay, Ont., facility, provincial Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney has confirmed.

Bombardier plans to cut several hundred jobs at its Thunder Bay, Ont., facility, according to federal and provincial government sources. 

A Halifax surgeon called before a provincial health committee to speak about improvements to hip and knee surgery wait times ended up delivering a mostly dire message on Tuesday.

Researchers with the Centre for Whale Research spotted J pod and K pod in Haro Strait over the weekend, but two orcas, J17 and K25, weren't with their families.

Canadian security agencies haven't seen any direct threats to the 2019 election so far, but a government official says hostile foreign actors are positioning themselves already to insert themselves into the campaign.

The Quebec government can’t “with a straight face” claim its new religious symbols law won’t have any harmful effects, a Superior Court judge was told Tuesday. 

Peavey Marts across Canada will be updating their store safety policies after a 12-year-old boy was locked in a gun safe in Saskatoon for roughly 20 minutes on Monday afternoon.

The chief executives of major oil companies are questioning why so many oil rail cars are sitting idle in Alberta, while the provincial government is still limiting oil production.

A unit of Novartis AG has said it will make partner Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp's emergency allergy shots immediately available in local pharmacies across the United States, amid a U.S. shortage of Mylan NV's rival product, EpiPen.

Forty-six people have been taken to hospital, including 15 in critical condition, after a carbon monoxide leak at the Super 8 Motel West on Portage Avenue, near the Perimeter Highway.

All 46 people who went to hospital after a carbon monoxide leak at a Winnipeg motel on Tuesday have survived and most have been released, according to a city health official. 

A 27-year-old man accused of murder in Texas is the subject of a Canada-wide warrant after crossing the border into Manitoba last month, say RCMP.

The chair of the House of Commons public safety and national security committee says it will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the massive personal data breach at the Desjardins Group, but concedes there's "no magic fix."

Former prime minister Jean Chrétien is receiving treatment for a kidney stone in Hong Kong after falling ill there, says a spokesman.

Former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien has been taken to a hospital in Hong Kong, according to organizers of a trade conference there.

The Chilcotin River below Big Creek and its tributaries are roaring with brown, stirred-up rainwater after seeing 90 millimetres of rain over the past four days.

Edmontonians are being asked to keep watch for the dreaded emerald ash borer, a deceptively beautiful beetle which threatens to devour the city’s canopy of urban trees. 

Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model this week at its plant in Puebla, Mexico, in what will seemingly be the end of the road for a vehicle that has symbolized many things over it history dating back to 1938.

The federal government is calling on all provincial governments to stop conversion therapy while it reviews Canada's Criminal Code reforms.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls for President Donald Trump's Labour secretary, Alexander Acosta, to resign amid renewed concerns over his handling of sex abuse charges involving wealthy U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein.

U.S. Labour Secretary Alexander Acosta on Tuesday defended the way he handled a decade-old sex abuse case against wealthy businessman Jeffrey Epstein as a growing chorus of Democratic politicians called for his resignation, a potential new headache for the White House.

Matthew Jefferson walked 8,275 kilometres with a 25-kilogram bag on his back. But he's not done.

The Edmonton Police Service is conducting a criminal probe into an arrest by its officers that was captured on video and shared online, and involved an alleged truck thief who was Tasered, kicked repeatedly, slammed headfirst into a brick wall and then thrown against a cruiser while he was handcuffed.

The two contenders to replace U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will square off today in their only head-to-head debate in the campaign.

Brexit details and the diplomatic row involving comments made by the British ambassador to the U.S. about President Donald Trump in leaked cables were among the main issues discussed during a televised debate between the two contenders to replace U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May.

A 60-year-old Saskatchewan Roughriders fan is drawing some second looks, thanks to an eye-popping tribute to the team.

A 60-year-old Saskatchewan Roughriders’ fan is drawing some second looks, thanks to an eye that’s something of a spectacle.

In an effort to maintain access to the lucrative United States seafood market, Canada will submit a 'progress report' to the U.S. government outlining steps to protect whales and other marine mammals that interact with more than 200 Canadian fisheries.

An online poll that surveyed 1,377 youth reports that 73 per cent of Indigenous youth and 68 per cent of non-Indigenous youth said they are somewhat or very optimistic that there will be meaningful reconciliation in their lifetime.

Resolving divisive issues like the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline would be made easier if Indigenous people had a seat at the table, Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde said Tuesday.

Davenhill Senior Living has been sold, and now elderly residents have to be out by the end of the year.

If the job of British ambassador to the U.S. Kim Darroch isn't in immediate jeopardy following the leak of cables slamming the American president, his expected successor's looks to be. Possibly to the delight of pro-Brexit forces.

The federal government will announce financial support for Canada's first home designed specifically for homeless veterans Tuesday, a month before construction is scheduled to start.

The federal government will announce financial support for Canada's first shelter designed specifically for homeless veterans Tuesday, a month before construction is scheduled to start.

Family physicians are concerned that terminology associated with their profession — such as "family medicine" — could be misused by people who are not medical doctors, according to the results of an informal internal poll by the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

The Attawapiskat band council declared a state of emergency Sunday after tests showed the water coming out of the taps had potentially harmful levels of trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids —  byproducts of the disinfection process.

The Assembly of First Nations will attend a meeting of Indigenous leaders and premiers Tuesday, ending a boycott it launched in 2017.

Murray Naswell was lost for five days after a hike in Strathcona Provincial Park went bad, but managed to survive after finding a well-stocked cabin on a lake.

Toronto Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr., impressed the crowd at Progressive Field by setting a new Home Run Derby record for dingers in a single round. And to prove it wasn't a fluke, he did it again his second time up.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday the effort to amend an extradition bill was dead, but it wasn't clear if the legislation was being withdrawn as protesters have demanded.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday the extradition bill that sparked the Chinese-ruled city's biggest crisis in decades is dead, but critics have accused her of playing with words.

Nik Wallenda has broken his own world record for the longest urban high-wire walk at the Calgary Stampede.​​​​​​​

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is abandoning plans to launch a legal challenge of the federal carbon tax but said he will continue to intervene in Saskatchewan's ongoing legal challenge to the federal carbon pricing backstop.

The man who accused Kevin Spacey of groping him at a Massachusetts resort island bar in 2016 has asserted his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and will not testify after being questioned about a missing cellphone