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U.S. authorities have laid four more charges against Xiaoning Sui alleging she paid $400,000 in bribes to get her son into UCLA.

The City of Whitehorse voted on Monday to declare a climate change emergency, but shied away from promising a 'carbon budget' to better track the city's emissions. 

CDC believes probably hundreds more cases of vaping-related illness have come in since last week's numbers.

Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead's finest songs, has died at age 78.

A Thunder Bay police officer will face disciplinary proceedings under the Police Services Act after an altercation with an Indigenous teenager who was on a stretcher, in an incident that was captured on video late last year.

Police believe the toddler was attacked by one or more dogs after wandering from his home in Gods Lake Narrows.

A two-year-old Gods Lake Narrows boy has died from injuries after being attacked by several dogs, police say.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is promising "next steps" will be revealed soon in the case of a known sympathizer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who is now that country's honorary consul in Montreal.

Justin Trudeau is promising that every Canadian will have access to necessary medicines, a family doctor and mental health services. But getting there would take billions of dollars more than budgeted — and the help of the provinces.

Thousands of automotive workers across Ontario are temporarily out of work as a strike at General Motors in the U.S. stretches into its ninth day.

Kevin O'Leary's wife, Linda, is facing a charge over a boat crash in Muskoka last month that left two people dead.

Kevin O'Leary's wife, Linda, is facing a charge over a boat crash in the Muskoka area last month that left two people dead.

The U.S. House of Representatives will launch a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump over the Ukraine affair, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Waseem Ramli, a Montreal businessman, is clear in his support for Syria's president. His outspokenness has sparked fear in Quebec’s Syrian community, members say.

The Federal Court has suspended Alberta's turn-off-the-taps legislation related to the Trans Mountain pipeline extension, granting British Columbia a temporary injunction blocking the law until there's a full constitutional review.

A former neurologist who worked in a Kitchener, Ont., hospital has been charged with 34 counts of sexual assault involving 34 of his patients.

A former neurologist who worked in a Kitchener hospital has been charged with 34 counts of sexual assault involving 34 separate alleged victims — all of whom were his patients.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is pledging to repeal changes to the tax system that led to a near war between small business and the Liberal government two years ago.

International airlines meet today in Montreal to discuss a global carbon offsetting plan that would cap CO2 emissions from air travel at 2020 levels. Here's how the plan would work.

German prosecutors have brought criminal charges of stock market manipulation against Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess, former CEO Martin Winterkorn and chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch in connection with the carmaker's emissions cheating scandal.

If you buy a container of plant food or a bag of Miracle-Gro for the tomatoes in your garden, chances are the nitrogen in it was made from natural gas.

The Liberals are promising to push Canada to net-zero emissions by 2050, joining the European Union and countries making the same pledge at the United Nations in New York City this week.

Theresa Cormack says she's relieved to know her son Adam's killer will be in jail for many years — but she says still feels 'uneasy' around Whitehorse.

A re-elected Liberal government would halve the corporate tax rate for companies that develop or manufacture products with zero emissions, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau announced today as part of the party's plan to move to net-zero emissions by 2050.

Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning for all of P.E.I.

Some Charlottetown streets turned into rivers Tuesday morning, as a quick and powerful thunderstorm struck the Island capital. 

In a major blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the U.K.'s highest court has ruled his decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks in the crucial countdown to the country's Brexit deadline is "unlawful."

In a major blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the U.K.'s highest court ruled Tuesday his decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks in the crucial countdown to the country's Brexit deadline is illegal.

The Globe and Mail's health reporter, Andre Picard, on what we know, and what we don’t, about vaping and health after one Canadian was put on life-support, and eight Americans died from vaping-related illnesses.

CBC News has collected aerial images from eight decades, dating back to the 1930s. The images confirm the Trans-Canada Highway was built over a sinkhole.

Google won its fight against tougher "right to be forgotten" rules after Europe's top court said on Tuesday it does not have to remove links to sensitive personal data worldwide, rejecting a French demand.

Few Haudenosaunee went out to the polls in 2015. Why doesn't the First Nations group vote in federal elections? The reason is political and historical, going back to a 17th century treaty.

Andrew Scheer's pitch to Canadians in 2019 reads an awful lot like the proposals his old boss Stephen Harper used to great effect in past elections. But if the Conservative leader is campaigning to keep his party's base intact, will that be enough to put him over the top?

Despite pressure from vaping industry members, London, Ont.'s medical officer of health says he won't release the name of the brand used by a high school student who was on life-support after using a vaping device, the first such reported case linked to the practice in Canada. 

Despite pressure from vaping industry members, London, Ont.'s medical officer of health says he won't release the name of the brand used by a high school student who was on life-support after using a vaping device, the first such reported case linked to the practice in Canada. 

A review of patient records published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine has found 64 per cent of Ontario seniors who received vitamin B12 shots had no evidence of B12 deficiency. The unnecessary shots cost the provincial health-care system $45.6 million a year.

Andrew Scheer's pitch to Canadians in 2019 reads an awful lot like the proposals his old boss Stephen Harper used to great effect in past elections. But if the Conservative leader is campaigning to keep his party's base intact, will that be enough to put him over the top?

Busker Owen Sinclair earned a permit to perform in Ottawa's ByWard Market at the age of eight, but there's still one trick his mom won't let him do.

Navigating a troubled era's choppy waters, world leaders gather for their annual meeting at the United Nations on Tuesday to grapple with climate change, regional conflicts and a dispute in the Middle East that could ripple across the entire planet.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the 74th United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with a "state of the world" speech that painted a grim picture of an assortment of challenges that could only be confronted by collaboration, a notion largely rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Here's what you need to know about where the leaders of Canada's political parties are on Day 14 of the election campaign.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she'll look into why Ottawa signed off on a sympathizer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as that country's honorary consul in Montreal.

The B.C. government announced an extra $3.5 million in funds to fight the overdose crisis, with an emphasis on new programs in small to mid-sized communities across B.C. 

The B.C. government is redirecting money earmarked to help rural communities across the province into a new forest worker support program in the province's Interior, leaving some small-town leaders wondering if the decision is more about optics than actually supporting B.C.'s resource communities.

Supreme Court justices were on the hot seat Monday, facing a barrage of tough questions from Winnipeg high school students on issues ranging from First Nations land claims to the essence of legality and morality.

Justin Trudeau mentioned Doug Ford by name 14 times on Monday, hoping to link Andrew Scheer to the Ontario premier. But Scheer hopes he can use the same tactic, by trying to tie Trudeau to former Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne.

CBC News has obtained a statement of claim filed in court in Wetaskiwin, Alta., against Sen. Paula Simons. The former caregivers of a four-year-old girl named Serenity, who died of head trauma in 2014, allege Simons republished defamatory information about the case on social media.

Lawyers for Canada's attorney general claim Meng Wanzhou's legal team is on a "fishing" expedition in its attempts to prove Canadian and U.S. authorities colluded in the arrest of the Huawei executive.

Nick Griffiths of Bolton, England, lost three toes to frostbite last year after participating in a backcountry race in Yukon. Now, one of his amputated toes is the key ingredient in Dawson City's famous "Sourtoe Cocktail."

The people who loved Amanda Martin are searching for answers after she, her fiance and their five-year-old son ended up in the Niagara River on Friday. But the man who pulled her and her son from the water say she died trying to save her child.