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William O'Sullivan has been protesting in front of a Welland church every Sunday for a year. He wants an apology from the Diocese in St. Catharines for survivors of sexual abuse.

In this week’s Canada Votes newsletter: is the battle for third place is heating up between the NDP and the Greens? Also: How exactly does the Poll Tracker calculate a party’s probability of winning?

In this week’s Canada Votes newsletter: is the battle for third place is heating up between the NDP and the Greens? Also: How exactly does the Poll Tracker calculate a party’s probability of winning?

After Hurricane Dorian devastated large parts of the Bahamas, killing at least 44, community members and international organizations are struggling to rebuild. At the same time, some who survived the storm complain there has been a lack of aid.

On Sunday, Leader Jagmeet Singh unveiled the party's tour bus — covered with photos of Singh and accented in the traditional orange of the party — before departing for an event in Toronto. The day before was the opening of the NDP campaign headquarters in Ottawa. 

McLeod spoke with CBC News for a wide-ranging exit interview, reflecting about his time in politics, some of his achievements, and where he sees the future of the Northwest Territories.

Cellular companies are working to fix network problems now that Dorian has left Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia Power is working to restore power to its customers following Dorian. At one point, there were about 400,000 customers without power at the peak of the outages.

All Nova Scotia public schools will be closed Monday as a result of the damage left behind by Hurricane Dorian, a powerful Category 2 hurricane that became a post-tropical storm as it swept through the region on Saturday.

The U.S. Coast Guard says rescuers are searching for four crew members of a cargo ship that overturned and caught fire near a port on the Georgia coast.

The U.S. Coast Guard says rescuers are searching for four crew members of a cargo ship that overturned and caught fire near a port on the Georgia coast.

Hurricane Dorian has passed, but the hard work is just starting for those dealing with the damage left by the storm.

Hurricane Dorian has passed, but the hard work is just starting for those dealing with the damage left by the storm.

Nova Scotians were dealing Sunday with streets littered with massive downed trees, branches and snapped power lines in the wake of Dorian — a powerful storm that battered the province with torrential rain and hurricane-force winds.

The Toronto Raptors are adding Brittni Donaldson to their bench in a coaching shuffle, with Eric Khoury moving to the club's 905 squad to serve in a more significant assistant role.

Advocate Kattrina Horner is part of the Red Deer Animal Save group and says the incident, which happened on Aug. 19 near Olymel Cornwall Bacon Plant, has caused her a great deal of shock.

Prince Harry launched a program to promote sustainable tourism, but he's also been branded a hypocrite for taking private jet flights, and there is no sign the scandal surrounding Prince Andrew's friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Espstein is going away.

CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.

It’s the final weekend before the Manitoba provincial election, a time which one political scientist says it is a critical time for parties to make a final push to get their message out, identify their voters and make sure those voters will show up on Sept. 10.

A family moves from Toronto to London only discover they aren't alone in their new home.

The Ontario and federal governments say they have reached an agreement on jointly funding a proposed French-language university that Premier Doug Ford's government had previously scrapped.

The Maritimes are recovering from Hurricane Dorian on Sunday, which hit as a strong Category 1 hurricane between Sambro and Terence Bay, N.S., on Saturday, downing trees, power lines and a construction crane in Halifax. 

Dorian has been downgraded to a post-tropical storm, but parts of Newfoundland remain under weather warnings as the storm makes its way through the west coast, up to the Northern Peninsula, through Sunday.

Dorian has been downgraded to a post-tropical storm, but parts of Newfoundland remain under weather warnings as the storm makes its way along the west coast, up to the Northern Peninsula, through Sunday.

A senior minister who quit British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet says the government is making little or no effort to secure a Brexit agreement with the European Union, despite Johnson's insistence that he wants a deal.

Dorian has been downgraded to a post-tropical storm, but parts of Newfoundland remain under weather warnings as the storm makes its way along the west coast, up to the Northern Peninsula, through Sunday.

Experts in psychology and education share what makes students thrive during the difficult transition to a higher level of schooling.

Experts in psychology and education share what makes students thrive during the difficult transition to a higher level of schooling.

I swear Lola gazes at us with utter trust. She has no idea what's coming. For now, I take her to the beach every day, and she takes long swims in the warm September river water and glories in fighting Charley for sticks, but she yips in pain sometimes.

From scouring social media sites to conducting criminal and bankruptcy checks, political parties are using increasingly scrupulous screening practices to stop damaging revelations about candidates from surfacing during the upcoming campaign.

While the strip club setting is a familiar one in Hollywood, Hustlers offers a fresh take seen through an all-female lens, thanks to writer-director Lorene Scafaria and its diverse cast of women.

Joshua Wong, one of the leaders of the pro-democracy "Umbrella" movement five years ago, was re-arrested at Hong Kong's airport on Sunday on return from Germany and the United States for breaching bail conditions, he said.

Demonstrators in Hong Kong marched to the U.S. Consulate on Sunday, urging U.S. President Donald Trump to "liberate" them as they press for more democratic freedom in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he cancelled a secret weekend meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghanistan leaders after a bombing in the past week in Kabul that killed 12 people, including an American soldier, and has called off peace negotiations with the insurgent group.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the Taliban "overreached" with a car bomb attack in a diplomatic area near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, killing an American soldier and leading the U.S. president to pull back from planned Afghanistan peace talks at Camp David.

There couldn't have been more pressure on Canada's Bianca Andreescu. With tennis legend Serena Williams mounting a memorable comeback in the second set and more than 23,000 fans inside Arthur Ashe Stadium going crazy, the Canadian teenager was feeling the pressure. It's exactly where Andreescu wanted to be.

In her Grand Slam debut, Bianca Andreescu defeated American tennis legend Serena Williams in straight sets to win Canada's first U.S. Open title in front of a hostile crowd openly rooting against her.

A relative of NBA star Kawhi Leonard has confirmed his sister is one of two women accused of robbing and killing an elderly woman at a Southern California casino.

Long before she ever became a household name, Bianca Andreescu had her sights set on greatness — quite literally, with the words "I won" written on her hand before taking to the court.