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Canadian Blood Service is opening three new collection sites — in Sudbury, Ont., Lethbridge, Alta., and Kelowna, B.C. — over the next year to supply plasma for therapy to more patients domestically.

Police in Manitoba believe they have found the bodies of the two B.C. fugitives, Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky, in northern Manitoba. 

Police believe they have found the bodies of fugitives Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky in northern Manitoba, ending a cross-Canada search for the men suspected of killing three people in B.C. 

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has unveiled a multi-pronged plan to help workers in the gas and oil sector transition to a renewable energy economy, including skills retraining programs and massive retrofit projects designed to create jobs.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has unveiled a multi-pronged plan to help workers in the gas and oil sector transition to a renewable energy economy, including skills retraining programs and massive retrofit projects designed to create jobs.

Pakistan says it will expel the Indian ambassador as it downgrades diplomatic relations and suspends bilateral trade with India after New Delhi stripped the region of Kashmir of special semi-autonomous status.

Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc, who stepped back from his cabinet duties earlier this year to focus on his non-Hodgkin lymphoma treatment, has made his first public appearance in months, telling reporters he intends to be in "fighting form" on the campaign trail.

Scientists have discovered the fossils of what may be the biggest parrot that ever lived — it would have stood as tall as an average three-year-old child, weighed about twice as much as an average house cat and possibly could have been a carnivore.

Sexual assault charges against a teen from a private school in Toronto have been withdrawn.

The police chief of Galveston, Texas, apologized after two white male officers mounted on horseback led a black, handcuffed trespassing suspect by a rope through downtown streets.

U.S. President Donald Trump was once again greeted by protesters as he arrived in Texas on Wednesday during a visit to one of two mass shooting sites where more than 30 people were killed over the weekend.

President Donald Trump claimed there is a "very strong" political appetite in Congress for bipartisan legislation that would address background checks or some restrictions for gun users as he got set to visit the sites of two recent mass shootings on Wednesday.

The team was responding to a call in the northern community of Buffalo Narrows when the historic flight took place.

Today on Front Burner, in the wake of Toni Morrison’s death, two Canadian poets explain the importance of her legacy, and share why they’re among the countless writers inspired by her work.

RCMP stumbled upon 100 unsecured guns earlier this week while checking on a home in Nova Scotia's Yarmouth County after the resident misdialled 911, police say.

RCMP stumbled upon 100 unsecured guns earlier this week while checking on a home in Nova Scotia's Yarmouth County after the resident misdialed 911, police say.

Cyntoia Brown, who was convicted in 2006 for killing a Tennessee real estate agent, received clemency earlier this year and is scheduled for release this week.

Cyntoia Brown, who was convicted in 2006 for killing a Tennessee real estate agent but received clemency earlier this year, has been released from prison.

Police from across Ontario are set to provide details Wednesday of a 14-month investigation into a drug-trafficking network involving members of outlaw motorcycle gangs.

Police from across Ontario are set to provide details Wednesday of a 14-month investigation into a drug-trafficking network involving members of outlaw motorcycle gangs.

Dubbed project Skylark, a 14-month investigation involving police from Niagara, Sudbury and Ottawa in Ontario has resulted in the arrests of 15 people linked to a drug network that sold cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine.

Dubbed project Skylark, the 14-month investigation involving police from Niagara, Sudbury and Ottawa netted 15 people connected to a drug network that sold cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine.

A seemingly haphazard museum in Nova Scotia has a stunning and unexpected importance: the adjacent beach is one of only two places in the world where the oldest fossilized land animals on Earth can be found.

A seemingly haphazard museum in Nova Scotia has a stunning and unexpected importance: the adjacent beach is one of only two places in the world where the oldest fossilized land animals on Earth can be found.

A weekend of extreme violence in Toronto has renewed calls for a national ban on handguns. But the federal Liberals are deferring action until after the fall election.

Receiving a phone call or visit from Canada's spy agency or law enforcement is an increasingly familiar experience for many Muslim students on campus.

For the first time since its creation three years ago, Quebec police officers have been charged following an investigation by the province’s independent police oversight body.

A weekend of extreme violence in Toronto has renewed calls for a national ban on handguns. But the federal Liberals are deferring action until after the fall election.

Gun control advocates say the twin mass shootings in the U.S. over the weekend won't be a sudden turning point, but rather another tragic signpost in the long struggle to achieve stricter measures. Few are optimistic that short-term fixes will be passed as a result of 31 people dying in two separate events.

Nick Helliwell was two when he and his four-year-old brother Anthony Stonechild were separated and adopted into white families as part of the Sixties Scoop. On Tuesday, they saw each other for the first time in 50 years at the Regina International Airport.

El Paso City Representative Cassandra Hernandez told CBC News that Donald Trump's planned visit to the city after a deadly mass shooting will only be fruitful if it is accompanied with "meaningful change," including a change in tone from the president himself.

Canada's quest to qualify for basketball at the 2020 Olympics starts Wednesday night with an exhibition game against Nigeria — just two days into training camp and ahead of next month's World Cup in China. 

It's not that Canada doesn't have racists and criminals with guns. We just don't elect racists to lead the country, or enshrine a legal right to buy unlimited combat guns that can kill 20 or 30 people in 60 seconds.

Financial fraudsters often try to target the elderly or otherwise vulnerable — but one recently picked the worst possible target.

A wildfire in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley that has residents under an evacuation alert and dealing with air quality warnings is showing no signs of letting up.

A wildfire in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley that has residents under an evacuation alert and dealing with air quality warnings is showing no signs of letting up.

Three southern resident killer whales are missing and presumed dead as of July 1, according to the U.S.-based Center for Whale Research.

Three southern resident killer whales are missing and presumed dead as of July 1, according to the U.S.-based Center for Whale Research.

Online message board 8chan's fortunes worsened Tuesday, as the site was once again made homeless by a technical services provider and its owner was called totestify before the U.S. Congress.

A harmful algal bloom now extends all the way to Colchester Harbour.

Time is critical to find a solution to a massive obstruction in British Columbia's Fraser River as 90,000 salmon wait downstream and an estimated two million more sockeye are about to arrive, federal Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Tuesday.

Two people have died after a small plane crashed on a mountainside near Mayo Lake, in Yukon, on Tuesday, according to the airline.