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Wesley Weber, one of the main players behind a high-profile chain of illegal Ontario pot shops, deserves another 15 to 16 months in jail for an unrelated conviction, Ontario's securities regulator says.

A new report that found Indigenous people face systemic discrimination in public services in Quebec doesn’t do enough to address the allegations of police abuse that led to the commission in the first place, an advocate says. 

A review board has ruled that a mentally ill man found not criminally responsible after killing five young people in Calgary in 2014 can be eased back into the community.

Niagara police are searching for a father who is believed to have abducted five children.

An Amber Alert issued for five children in Ontario has been cancelled, but the children are still missing and Niagara police are continuing to search for them and their father.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer sat down today with five undecided voters from across the country to answer questions about how he would tackle the issues that matter most to them.

Auston Matthews, John Tavares, Mitch Marner, Morgan Rielly and Frederik Andersen remain entrenched at the top of the Toronto Maple Leafs' roster. After that, some fans might need a program following a summer of upheaval.

Former congressman Chris Collins pleaded guilty Tuesday in an insider trading case, a day after he resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives and set off a scramble to fill his seat in his Republican-leaning district.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau had mayors from the Greater Toronto Area on hand Tuesday as he touted his party's promise to crack down on firearms — but all those assembled suggested the federal government should go beyond what Trudeau has promised.

Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian Americans in its admissions process, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit that reignited a national debate over affirmative action.

When election signs started sprouting in his neighbourhood, Stan Gallant decided to jump on the bandwagon. 

Laura Babcock’s federal election voter card showed up at her family’s Etobicoke home in Toronto Monday — even though she was murdered by convicted killers Dellen Millard and Mark Smich in 2012.

An independent investigator hired by the University of Ottawa to look into a carding incident involving a black student has found that both race and inadequate training played a role in the incident.

Ontario's top court has ordered a new trial for a young man convicted of first-degree murder in a highway crash that claimed the life of an Ontario police officer.

The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a glow-in-the-dark coin that captures the eerie scene more than 50 years ago when what has been officially documented as a UFO crashed into the waters off Shag Harbour in southwestern Nova Scotia.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says a New Democrat government would allow new parents to condense their Employment Insurance benefits so they can take shorter parental leaves while still receiving the full benefit.

London Mayor Ed Holder is calling out what he calls messages of "sexism, misogyny, and rape culture" on some of the large signs that hung from houses during Saturday's student street party on Broughdale Avenue.

Global trade is forecast to weaken this year to the slowest pace since the depths of the Great Recession due to the U.S.-China trade war. The World Trade Organization lowered its forecast for global growth Tuesday to the lowest level since 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday declared that House Democrats are trying to "intimidate, bully and treat improperly" five current and former career officials in demanding depositions related to the Ukraine matter.

Juul Labs Inc. has announced that it will stop supporting a ballot measure to overturn an anti-vaping law in San Francisco, effectively killing the campaign.

Juul Labs Inc. has announced that it will stop supporting a ballot measure to overturn an anti-vaping law in San Francisco, effectively killing the campaign.

A white former Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, has been found guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of her unarmed, black neighbour in his apartment.

Northern Harvest Sea Farms is busy cleaning pens of dead salmon, and the province's head aquaculture vet says higher-than-average water temperatures are to blame.

CHEO CEO has received an anonymous letter apologizing for homophobic vandalism to his election signs — 25 years ago.

The killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year draws renewed scrutiny to the kingdom, as his son and a UN investigator speak out ahead of the anniversary of his death.

Rick Schuh is warning visitors to Jasper National Park to be wary of moose on the road after one of the burly ungulates treated him to an unexpected car wash. 

Andre De Grasse earned a silver medal in the men's 200-metre final at the track and field world championships on Tuesday. Fellow Canadian Aaron Brown was sixth in 20.10 while world No. 1 Noah Lyles won in 19.83.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising to cut Canadian foreign aid by 25 per cent if he's elected. Scheer made the announcement during a stop in Toronto this morning.

Eating red meat is linked to cancer and heart disease, but are the risks big enough to give up burgers and steak? A team of international researchers, including the co-author from McMaster University in Hamilton, says probably not.

One in four Canadians aged 15 to 19 helps someone with challenges resulting from illness, disability or aging, according to research from the University of Alberta. Most of those young caregivers are in school, and 60 per cent of them also work.

An online training program is aiming to educate health-care professionals about biases Indigenous women may experience as highlighted by allegations of recent coerced sterilizations.

A Summerside man sailing around the world is taking shelter at a port in the Azores as Hurricane Lorenzo thunders toward the Portuguese islands.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh wraps up his week-long campaign in B.C. today after being confronted repeatedly by the same desperate plea: Do something to help end the opioid crisis that Vancouver police say claims one life a day in the city alone.

The sandpits by the Yellowknife airport have been excavated for decades, and may be nearing the end of their commercial use.

A Saskatoon man says he's been banned from entering the United States for five years after attempting to volunteer at an arts festival in Washington state last summer.

Governments in three Atlantic Canadian provinces say financial constraints should justify violations of minority-language education rights guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

A former customer of credit card company Capital One who hasn't had an account with the company for seven years wants stricter privacy laws after he learned his personal information was compromised in a massive data breach affecting about six million Canadians and 100 million Americans.

Here's what you need to know about where the leaders of Canada's political parties are on Day 21 of the election campaign.

In many communities, residents are asked to separate food waste into bins for municipal composting. Here's a closer look at what actually gets composted and how, what happens to the rest, and where it all ends up.

The University of Toronto's president says the school should have erected temporary safety barriers sooner in a computer science building where students and a union active on campus say a student died by suicide last Friday.

The Bloc Québécois seems to have managed to coast on the heels of a popular provincial government so far this campaign. But a French-language leaders' debate on Wednesday could provide some more scrutiny of the sovereigntist party's comeback effort.

The Liberals are promising to eliminate the fee for applying for Canadian citizenship, removing what some immigrant advocates have called a key barrier for many newcomers.

To spend or not to spend? Since 2008, the global consensus seems to be in favour of greater government engagement in the economy, especially spending that will result in economic benefit down the road.

An Ottawa couple is suing a former landlord after a hot water pipe burst in the pair's apartment, filling their closed bedroom with searing steam they say "boiled" their pets to death. But Minto has filed a counterclaim seeking damages of its own.

Foreign and defence policy experts are disappointed with the near total absence of debate about global unrest and uncertainty in the federal election campaign.

Riot police have fired tear gas to disperse pro-democracy protesters in several districts in Hong Kong amid multiple rallies challenging the Chinese Communist Party as it marks its 70th year of rule.

Fierce clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police broke out in multiple parts of Hong Kong on Tuesday, with at least one person shot and 31 wounded, in the most widespread violence challenging Chinese rule as the Communist Party celebrated its 70th year in power.

A towering bridge over a bay in eastern Taiwan collapsed Tuesday, sending an oil tanker truck falling onto boats in the water below.

A towering arch bridge over a bay in eastern Taiwan has collapsed, sending an oil tanker truck falling onto boats in the water below. An air force helicopter, fishing vessels and more than 60 military personnel, including divers are searching for possible victims.

A towering arch bridge over a bay in eastern Taiwan collapsed Tuesday, sending an oil tanker truck falling onto boats in the water below. An air force helicopter, fishing vessels and more than 60 military personnel, including divers were searching for possible victims.