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A misleading video claiming to show Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bragging about bribing Canadian media has been viewed more than 250,000 times online.

A convicted murderer who went missing in August from a halfway house in Moncton, N.B., was located Friday in Nova Scotia. 

A government of Canada team says it identified a number of suspicious social media accounts and cases of disinformation in the run-up to the Alberta election — and is warning that similar tactics could be used this fall during the federal campaign.

A government of Canada team says it identified a number of "inauthentic" social media accounts and cases of disinformation in the run-up to the Alberta election — and is warning that similar tactics could be used this fall during the federal campaign.

Hurricane Dorian is on its way and although its exact landfall location remains uncertain, Nova Scotia can expect to be lashed with heavy rain and powerful winds.

Hurricane Dorian is on its way and although its exact landfall location remains uncertain, Nova Scotia can expect to be lashed with heavy rain and powerful winds.

Hurricane Dorian is on its way and although its exact landfall location remains uncertain, Nova Scotia can expect to be lashed with heavy rain and powerful winds.

Hurricane Dorian is on its way and although its exact landfall location remains uncertain, Nova Scotia can expect to be lashed with heavy rain and powerful winds.

One way or another, tennis history will be made Saturday in New York City. Get up to speed before the U.S. Open women's singles final between Canada's Bianca Andreescu and the great Serena Williams.

As the season for Atlantic hurricanes starts in earnest, people who live on the border between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are hoping critical transportation links won't take a direct hit this year.

Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson approved the permits for the move under exceptions to a new law that bans the import and export of live whales, dolphins and porpoises.

Hudson's Bay Co. says it will close the last two Zellers locations at the start of next year.

A Canadian pharmaceutical lobby group and 16 of its members have filed a lawsuit against Ottawa's overhaul to how it regulates the costs of patented medicines.

Canada has requested a formal meeting with China before the World Trade Organization to resolve a Chinese ban on Canadian canola shipments.

Tomasz Szauksztel was near the summit of Alberta’s Caldron Peak mountain when the air around him began to hiss.

The investigation into a lung illness tied to vaping now includes up to 450 cases of serious lung illness in 33 U.S. states and one territory, health officials said Friday.

A third death linked to e-cigarette use has been reported in the U.S., in an investigation that now includes up to 450 cases of serious lung illness in 33 U.S. states and one territory, health officials said Friday.

A group of outraged protesters and a long line of adoring fans welcomed a controversial U.S. fast-food chain to Toronto on Friday, the first franchised Chick-fil-A in Canada.

Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray on Friday to clear protesters outside a subway station on the densely populated Kowloon peninsula, the latest clash in 14 weeks of sometimes violent anti-government demonstrations.

The anti-abortion organization RightNow is recruiting and training activists to volunteer for 50 candidates in the upcoming federal election, and a former chief electoral officer believes that raises questions. 

After some uncertainty, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday agreed to participate in a French-language debate hosted by TVA alongside the leaders of the Conservative, NDP and Bloc Québécois parties.

A meteor streaked across the sky above Edmonton on Saturday night. And rock hunters are now looking for any trace of the space rock that fell possibly southeast of the city.

A meteor streaked across the sky above Edmonton on Saturday night. And rock hunters are now looking for any trace of the space rock that fell possibly southeast of the city.

The company operating a government-funded ferry service to Indigenous communities in Labrador has been ordered to discontinue searching luggage following accusations that they were racially motivated.

The CEO of the company providing freight and passenger services to coastal Labrador says safety concerns prompted an alcohol ban and controversial dockside searches.

Ottawa must pay tens of thousands of dollars to every First Nations child who was placed in the on-reserve child welfare system, following a Friday ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that also provides compensation to some of their parents and grandparents. 

Ottawa must pay tens of thousands of dollars to every First Nations child who was placed in the on-reserve child welfare system, following a Friday ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that also provides compensation to some of their parents and grandparents. 

Ottawa must pay potentially billions of dollars in compensation to First Nations children harmed by the on-reserve child welfare system, following a Friday ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that also called for payments to some of their parents and grandparents. 

Canada's economy posted a job surge last month of 81,100 net new positions, the bulk of which were part time, in the services sector and picked up by young people.

As the Bahamas takes stock of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Dorian, two very different portraits of recovery: Houston, Texas and the Caribbean island of Dominica, each rocked by hurricanes in 2017.

Toufik Benhamiche has returned home two years after he was first charged with criminal negligence in a boating accident that killed Jennifer Ann Marie, a mother of three from Woodstock, Ont.

Toufik Benhamiche has returned home two years after he was first charged with criminal negligence in a boating accident that killed Jennifer Ann Marie, a mother of three from Woodstock, Ont.

An almost three-decade old missing persons case near Revelstoke, B.C., has been solved in part because of a curious 13-year-old boy and his GoPro camera.

U.S. shark researchers will face new restrictions when they return to Nova Scotia this fall to tag great white sharks, including a condition that prohibits the use of chum within 5.5 kilometres of land.

Late summer is usually a beautiful time to get married in Nova Scotia, but not this weekend.

Late summer is usually a beautiful time to get married in Nova Scotia, but not this weekend.

Six of 12 appeals of the Trans Mountain pipeline extension project have been cleared to go ahead - largely because the federal government declined a chance to defend its consultation process in court. The reasons might be obvious.

Alberta's sputtering economy has slowed in the last year and any growth over the next 18 months will be minimal, predicts the chief executive of ATB Financial, an Alberta bank owned by the provincial government.

It's true that in this case, as in so many peacekeeping missions, "success" is hard to measure. But that doesn't mean Canada should just sit on the sidelines and let someone else take on the risk.

Regular exposure to e-cigarette vapours disrupts the protective layer in the lungs, according to a study using lab mice that comes amid a U.S. investigation into 215 human cases of severe respiratory problems possibly linked to vaping.

As early as next year, Toronto police could start tracking and reporting the races of individuals involved in certain encounters with officers, if a "historic" new policy drafted for Canada's largest force is passed, but the move to use "disaggregated, race-based data" is drawing both praise and calls for caution.

Inebriated raccoons have been spotted stumbling around Stittsville and sleeping off their hangovers in broad daylight, residents say.

We worried about artificial intelligence taking over the world. What about it emptying your bank account?

We worried about artificial intelligence taking over the world. What about it emptying your bank account?

Rather than be tied to the uncertainties of an isolated U.K. post-Brexit, some in Scotland are pushing for another referendum on independence.

As Hurricane Dorian heads for Atlantic Canada, special measures are being put in place to help reduce its impact on the coastal provinces.

Rather than be tied to the uncertainties of an isolated U.K. post-Brexit, some in Scotland are pushing for another referendum on independence.

After triggering tornadoes in South Carolina, Hurricane Dorian was closing in for a possible direct hit Friday on North Carolina's Outer Banks, a string of low-lying islands.

A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a fury that took even storm-hardened residents by surprise. Hundreds were feared trapped by high water, and neighbours used boats to rescue one another.

Dorian hit North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday, lashing the low-lying barrier islands as a weakened Category 1 hurricane.