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$76.2 million announced to bring more life-saving measures to underserved communities and mitigate the impacts of the illegal drug supply

Prosecutors dropped a case Wednesday accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a resort island bar in 2016, more than a week after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellphone the defence said contains information that supports the actor's claims of innocence.

A flood of pictures on social media of computer-aged celebrities, including Drake and Stephen Colbert, has boosted the popularity of the "FaceApp Challenge," but also has privacy experts raising concerns about the image-altering service's expansive terms of use.

The University of Manitoba is recommending faculty avoid unnecessary travel to China in light of an RCMP investigation involving two microbiology researchers and a possible “policy breach” at the National Microbiology Lab.

Winnipeg police are apologizing after one of their officers took a photo last Friday of a vulnerable man who was intoxicated while a first responder crew was helping him.

Almost seven dozen shipping containers sitting in a Cambodian seaport that were found to be filled with plastic waste came from the United States and Canada, the Southeast Asian country's Environment Ministry said Wednesday.

The World Health Organization has deemed the Ebola outbreak in Congo a public health emergency of international concern.

The World Health Organization has deemed the Ebola outbreak in Congo a public health emergency of international concern.

The World Health Organization has deemed the Ebola outbreak in Congo a public health emergency of international concern.

Hibernia's operator says it is monitoring the discharge of oil and water into the ocean that happened Wednesday morning on its platform southeast of St. John's.

The Conservative Party is re-editing its fundraising pitch video attacking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the case of the two Canadian men detained in China after one of their families complained about the clip.

The Conservative Party is re-editing its fundraising pitch video attacking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the case of the two Canadian men detained in China after one of their families complained about the clip.

Four oil and gas companies are expected to answer questions today about how they use the Trans Mountain pipeline, how refinery closures affect their prices and other factors that could contribute to British Columbia's volatile prices at the pump.

One of the largest fuel companies in British Columbia says there's no retail market more competitive than gasoline in Canada and denies any price setting between competitors.

Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives introduce bills to keep tight restrictions on Huawei Technologies, amid concern about U.S. President Donald Trump's easing of curbs on the Chinese firm.

Joaquin Guzman, the Mexican drug lord found guilty of running a murderous criminal enterprise that smuggled tons of drugs into the United States, says his confinement amounted to "mental torture" as a U.S. judge sentenced him to life in prison plus 30 years.

Mere days after being erected by Parks Canada, a wooden fence blocking the view of St. John's from a spot on historic Signal Hill will be torn down after public outrage. 

Mere days after being erected by Parks Canada, a wooden fence blocking the view of St. John's from a spot on historic Signal Hill will be torn down after public outrage. 

Liberal MP Nick Whalen said he wasn't consulted, nor was anybody else, when Parks Canada decided to build a fence to block a view on Signal Hill, the historic hill overlooking St. John's.

Before flying to Washington to climb the steps of Congress and testify to a crowd of aviation experts and lawmakers this week, Paul Njoroge spent a desolate weekend packing away toys his children would never play with again.

Before flying to Washington to climb the steps of Congress and testify to a crowd of aviation experts and lawmakers this week, Paul Njoroge spent a desolate weekend packing away toys his children would never play with again.

Despite the loss of four horses at the Calgary Stampede, Neil Salmond says he has no plans to reconsider his participation in the sport of chuckwagon racing as he believes people are doing everything they can to make the sport safe.

An FBI analysis of crudely made pipe bombs mailed to prominent critics of U.S. President Donald Trump has concluded they wouldn't have worked, according to a report made public Tuesday.

Canada's consumer price index rose at a two per cent annual pace in June, as the price of just about everything except energy went up.

Lawmakers in France begin their ratification of the comprehensive trade agreement between the European Union and Canada as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomes the leaders of the 28-country bloc to Montreal today.

In interviews with nearly 50 voters across seven states, many people — most of them Democrats — found Trump's willingness to lodge racial attacks appalling and unforgivable. For many others, particularly Trump voters, the tweets were a mere sideshow.

Toronto police are investigating after a man who was found to pose a "significant threat to the safety of the public" in April boarded an international flight and left Canada earlier this month.  

A man found not criminally responsible in a 2014 stabbing death left Canada on an international flight earlier this month while on an unaccompanied community pass, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto has confirmed.

The search for the four people missing after a fatal plane crash in a remote area of northern Labrador is now a recovery and not a rescue mission, police say.

Two Newfoundlanders, one Quebecer and four Americans are believed dead after a float plane crashed into Mistastin Lake.

All the residents of a Charlottetown apartment building got out safely when a fire destroyed their homes early Wednesday morning.

All the residents of a Charlottetown apartment building got out safely when a fire destroyed their homes early Wednesday morning.

All the residents of a Charlottetown apartment building got out safely when a fire destroyed their homes early Wednesday morning.

Firefighters are on the scene of a major apartment building fire in Charlottetown.

Saskatoon software company Vendasta has signed a deal for $40 million in growth capital and plans to expand its workforce in the next three years to 650 people from 285.

The superhero with X-ray vision who can see through buildings is probably guilty of substantial privacy violations, and the same applies to technology superpowers. Here's how a hot email startup offering users 'superhuman' abilities created a privacy controversy.

This is the third time in eight months that an Eat Smart product has been recalled in Canada because of Listeria, one of the most dangerous foodborne pathogens.

Since the 1960s, Hinterland Who’s Who has been featuring iconic Canadian wildlife. Now it has vignettes on the common raven available in six Indigenous languages.

The commercialization of space involves some staggering numbers, much as $1 trillion US per year by some estimates. Canada is finding lucrative off-earth business opportunities.

Amid shocking declines in the health of the world's ecosystems and species, a new report from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) says the federal government must now commit to much more ambitious targets to protect the country's land and water to have any chance of staving off what they call a 'nature emergency.'

Canada's largest underwater volcano is off the coast of British Columbia and, over the next two weeks, a team of national scientists will be doing a deep-sea exploration mission of the area.

Just a small portion of federal candidates go through competitive nomination contests, according to a new report from the Samara Centre for Democracy describing the nomination process as "a weak point in our democratic infrastructure."

John Paul Stevens, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court for nearly 35 years and became its leading liberal, died Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after suffering a stroke on Monday. He was 99.

Five Quebecois music acts, whose albums span from avant-garde funk to glitchy club beats, are among the finalists for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize.

Tasha Brown says she is preparing herself for an emotional reunion after European authorities located her daughter, who was allegedly abducted three years ago by Brown's estranged wife.

Indigenous cultures converged at a Saskatchewan powwow when a New Zealand softball team performed the haka, a traditional dance of that country's Māori people.

Hassan Diab and his supporters are calling for the immediate release of the findings of an external review into the Ottawa university professor’s extradition to France over his alleged involvement in a 1980 bombing outside a Paris synagogue.