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Ellie the pig was missing for two months, but completed her return trip home on Tuesday.

A fossil from Ethiopia is letting scientists look millions of years into our evolutionary history — and they see a face peering back.

Apple is apologizing for allowing outsiders to listen to snippets of people's recorded conversations with its digital assistant Siri, a practice that undermined its attempts to position itself as a trusted steward of privacy.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson seems determined to imitate Caesar, who once wrote, "I am prepared to resort to anything for the sake of  the republic." By the republic, he also meant himself.

A Winnipeg man is asking for the public's help after a precious family relic, a Juno award, was stolen from his van while he was in the process of moving.

The Court of Appeal for Ontario has nearly doubled the sentence for Kenneth Kormendy, a man convicted of attempted murder for setting his girlfriend's house on fire and trying to trap her and two of her children inside.

The Canadian military plans to send a team back to Mali next month to work with Romanian peacekeepers and minimize a gap in providing medical evacuations to United Nations and Malian forces and civilians.

The Ontario government has filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada to re-examine a ruling by the province's top court that found the federal price on carbon is constitutionally sound.

Two years after a brain cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy left her with a compromised immune system, student and hockey player Marissa Gootjes hopes New Brunswick will make measles vaccinations mandatory for everyone.

Two years after a brain cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy left her with a compromised immune system, student and hockey player Marissa Gootjes hopes New Brunswick will make measles vaccinations mandatory for everyone.

RCMP are searching for Patrik Mathews, whose alleged ties to a Neo-Nazi group led to his ejection from the Armed Forces this week.

RCMP are searching for Patrik Mathews, whose alleged ties to a Neo-Nazi group led to his ejection from the Armed Forces this week.

SpaceX has made another leap in its plans to head to Mars, with another successful test of its Starhopper rocket.

A 16-year-old Swedish climate activist has crossed the Atlantic on a zero-emissions sailboat to attend a conference on global warming.

A 16-year-old Swedish climate activist has crossed the Atlantic on a zero-emissions sailboat to attend a conference on global warming.

An experienced hiker and former Amazing Race Canada contestant has died after falling more than 250 metres from the peak of a popular mountain near Slocan, B.C.

An experienced hiker and former Amazing Race Canada contestant has died after falling more than 250 metres from the peak of a popular mountain near Slocan, B.C.

An experienced hiker has died after falling more than 250 metres from the peak of a popular mountain near Slocan, B.C.

CBC meteorologist Ryan Snoddon says Erin will bring heavy rain to some parts of the Maritimes. Gusty winds are on the way too.

Businessman Kevin O'Leary, formerly with TV's Dragon's Den and now on the U.S. show Shark Tank, has confirmed he was a passenger in a boat involved in a fatal crash in Ontario cottage country on Saturday night. A man from Florida died the night of the crash, and an Ontario woman who was injured died late Tuesday.

Businessman Kevin O'Leary, formerly with TV's Dragon's Den and now on the U.S. show Shark Tank, has confirmed he was a passenger in a boat involved in a fatal crash in Ontario's cottage country Saturday night. A man from Florida died the night of the crash, while an Ontario woman who was injured died late Tuesday.

When police pull over suspected gangsters in flashy cars, they are often accompanied by women or girls in the passenger seat. Detectives say the women are assumed to be naive bystanders, but know many of them are more deeply involved in gang crimes.

Every week for more than 30 years, Bon Truong played the same lottery numbers. And for 305 days, the Edmonton landscaper sat on a $60-million secret.

The Hudson's Bay Company has struck a deal with fashion rental chain Le Tote that will see HBC sell its Lord & Taylor unit to Le Tote for $100 million US.

The Hudson's Bay Company has struck a deal with fashion rental chain Le Tote that will see HBC sell its Lord & Taylor unit to Le Tote for just under $100 million.

Benjamin Tomlin, sentenced to 10 years in a Cuban prison, says he is not guilty, and his lawyer says his client was likely set up following a night of partying in a seaside town outside the popular resort destination of Varadero.

Today on Front Burner, Globe & Mail sports columnist Cathal Kelly on star NFL quarterback Andrew Luck’s shock retirement, and how it might shape pro football.

Puerto Rico braces for the arrival of tropical storm Dorian, closing schools and diverting cruise liners even as it struggles to recover from back-to-back hurricanes in 2017.

Dorian became a Category 1 hurricane on Wednesday as it struck the U.S. Virgin Islands, with forecasters saying it could grow to Category 3 status as it nears the U.S. mainland as early as the weekend.

Dorian became a Category 1 hurricane on Wednesday as it struck the U.S. Virgin Islands, with forecasters saying it could grow to Category 3 status as it nears the U.S. mainland as early as the weekend.

Dorian became a Category 1 hurricane on Wednesday as it struck the U.S. Virgin Islands, with forecasters saying it could grow to Category 3 status as it nears the U.S. mainland as early as the weekend.

British opposition legislators reacted with fury Wednesday to news that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek a suspension of the U.K. Parliament to hamper efforts to quash a no-deal Brexit.

The Queen has approved Prime Minister Boris Johnson's request to suspend the U.K. Parliament next month, a move seen as his attempt to force through a no-deal Brexit.

A convicted murderer who failed to return to a halfway house in Moncton, N.B., last week fled twice before while on unescorted leave from prison, documents show.

A convicted murderer who failed to return to a halfway house in Moncton, N.B., last week fled twice before while on unescorted leave from prison, documents show.

The Grace I supertanker left Iran filled with 2.1 million barrels of crude in the spring. In July, it showed up at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea and has been at the centre of a diplomatic tempest as it tries to off-load its cargo.

In another universe, with a different electoral map, Trudeau would be harping on Quebec's secularism law at every opportunity, with every minister on board, and with the fury this sort of state-sponsored intolerance demands.

The privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into the Canadian Border Services Agency after the licence plate reader system it uses was targeted in a malicious cyberattack in the U.S.

An Oklahoma judge found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid crisis, ordering the company to pay $572 million US. But will that judgment have any impact on cases currently before the courts in Canada?

An Oklahoma judge found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid crisis, ordering the company to pay $572 million US. But will that judgment have any impact on cases currently before the courts in Canada?

The first systematic exploration of the interior of HMS Terror offers up the tantalizing prospect that well-preserved written documents might eventually be discovered within the Franklin Expedition wreck.

The most important international basketball tournament outside of the Olympics tips off Saturday. Here's how the FIBA Basketball World Cup works and what it means for Canada.

The Grace I supertanker left Iran filled with 2.1 million barrels of crude in the spring. In July, it showed up at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea and has been at the centre of a diplomatic tempest as it tries to off-load its cargo.

The first systematic exploration of the interior of HMS Terror offers up the tantalizing prospect that well-preserved written documents might eventually be discovered within the Franklin Expedition wreck.

A Winnipeg woman who spent the weekend in Kelowna for a bachelorette party says the trip turned sour when the group's flight home was cancelled and Swoop airline left her feeling frustrated with poor customer service.

A Winnipeg woman who spent the weekend in Kelowna, B.C., for a bachelorette party says the trip turned sour when the group's flight home was cancelled and Swoop airline left her frustrated over poor customer service.

A B.C. man who posted photos of himself feeding Timbits and hot dogs to bears along the Alaska Highway in northern B.C. has been fined $2,000 and ordered to stay 50 metres away from bears for six months.

An army reservist whose alleged links to a neo-Nazi group led to a raid on his rural Manitoba home last week has been fired, according to the Department of National Defence.

A village of 15 self-contained tiny homes for military veterans is one of four projects announced Tuesday as part of a federal strategy to help soldiers who have fallen on hard times.

Some Indigenous artists who travelled to Japan as part of an Indig Inc. trade mission, partly funded by a provincial grant, say the trip was "disastrous" and that they lost thousands of dollars.