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GlaxoSmithKline recalls the prescription heartburn medicine Zantac in all markets as a precaution days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finds 'unacceptable' levels of a probable cancer-causing impurity in the drug.

After 73-year-old Wendy Pellech’s husband died nine months ago, she began to cancel all his online accounts, including PayPal, assuming the online payment system would send her the balance.

A Canadian-made electronic tool is effective in safely reducing medication overload among seniors, researchers say.

A Syrian family says it is shutting down its Toronto restaurant after receiving death threats, a week after a relative was involved in a protest at a Maxime Bernier speaking event in Hamilton where a senior was blocked from entering.

On Monday, the activist group Extinction Rebellion blocked bridges across Canada in Halifax, Toronto, Kitchener, Ont., Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria. While the climate action group may have been relatively unknown until now, they’ve been rapidly expanding. 

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says that as prime minister, he would have to get involved in Quebec’s controversial secularism law if it makes it all the way up to the Supreme Court. But says he has no plans to intervene until then.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the pace of housing starts in September slowed compared with August. The agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate fell 2.5 per cent to 221,202 units in September compared with 226,871 in August.

Mirvish Productions says prices for 'Hamilton' tickets will range from $50 to $250, with a select number of premium seats available for roughly $500.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he would fund two major public transit projects to ease congestion and cut commute times in the Greater Toronto Area.

The application also challenges NunatuKavut's Indigenous identity under Canada's Constitution.

The State Department has barred Gordon Sondland, the U.S. European Union ambassador, from appearing Tuesday before a House panel conducting the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, his lawyer said.

The White House has declared it will not co-operate with what it termed an "illegitimate" impeachment probe by House Democrats, setting up a constitutional clash between U.S. President Donald Trump and Congress.

A 16-year-old boy newly arrived in Canada from China is facing a charge of public mischief after police say he "staged" his own kidnapping to get attention and cash from his parents.

The U.K. government says the chances of a Brexit deal with the European Union are fading fast, as the two sides remain unwilling to shift from their entrenched positions

An 18-year-old and a 14-year-old have been charged with first-degree murder after another 14-year-old was stabbed in front of Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in Hamilton. On Tuesday, police arrested two more teens, a male and a female.

An 18-year-old and a 14-year-old have been charged with first-degree murder after another 14-year-old was stabbed in front of Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in Hamilton.

Three environmental activists surrendered and were taken into custody after climbing Montreal's Jacques-Cartier Bridge in a protest Tuesday morning that prompted provincial police to close the structure off to traffic for about an hour.

A federal human rights complaint challenging Canada’s policy requiring gay men to observe a waiting period between having sex and donating blood has been referred to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal for an inquiry.

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Manitoba-born James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology,” and to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”

A five-year-old Regina girl's lungs collapsed while receiving oxygen after a routine dental surgery. The dental surgical centre investigated what happened, and confirmed to the parents that a mistake was made.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV announced it will no longer air NBA pre-season games set in China after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted an image that supported anti-government demonstrations in Hong Kong.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league is not apologizing for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey's since-deleted tweet showing support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, even after China's state broadcaster canceled plans to show a pair of preseason games in that country later this week.

It was just as well that Andrew Scheer and Justin Trudeau wound up next to each other in last night’s leaders’ debate because it became clear, right from the opening exchange, that each one intended to undermine the other.

Andrew Scheer has been making claims about a 'secret' Liberal plan to tax home sales for weeks. Even as Justin Trudeau and the Liberals swear they have no such intention.

Political parties aren't being sufficiently upfront about how they collect and use voter data, experts say, especially when it comes to their apps.

Many of us romanticize the idea of employing ourselves, but a new survey suggests small-business owners are working harder, taking fewer vacations and enjoying less downtime since leaving traditional employment to start their own ventures.

Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria have warned they'll have to limit the guarding of ISIS prisoners as the U.S. prepares to stand aside in the event of Turkish invasion of the region - leavING the fate of dozens of Canadian detainees up in the air.

A Mississauga small business owner is desperate for Canada Post to adopt “a better way” to deliver his company’s mail after his community mailbox was broken into for a third time.

In a statement released last week, Minister of Indigenous Services Seamus O'Regan said that Canada agrees with the tribunal that there has been discrimination and that there is a need for compensation. Yet it is challenging the order.

A Mississauga small business owner is desperate for Canada Post to adopt “a better way” to deliver his company’s mail after his community mailbox was broken into for a third time.

A Mississauga small business owner is desperate for Canada Post to adopt “a better way” to deliver his company’s mail after his community mailbox was broken into again last week.

The six major party leaders squared off in a debate Monday that saw Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer taunt each other as they jockeyed for the front-runner position.

A round up of fact checks on some of the most notable claims made during the debate.

The leaders' debate, perhaps the most-watched event of the 2019 federal campaign, was a six-way melee that repeatedly wandered off topic as the participants sought to land that elusive knockout shot.

After invoking emergency powers to ban people from wearing masks at rallies, Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam wouldn't rule out other measures including calling for Chinese intervention.

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, who is the only party leader pitching a new large energy project as part of his platform, doubled down on his opposition to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples during the federal election debate Monday evening. 

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, who is the only party leader pitching a new large energy project as part of his platform, doubled down on his opposition to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples during the federal election debate Monday evening. 

The screams of a 13-year-old girl echoed through a New Westminster courtroom Monday as the trial began for the complete stranger who stabbed her at an Abbotsford high school in 2016.

Giving people free medications helps makes them healthier, a Canadian randomized trial proves.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer came out swinging for the fences in the opening moments of the federal election debate tonight, calling Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau a 'fraud' who doesn't deserve to be prime minister. 

The six main federal party leaders battled it out in the English language debate in Gatineau, Quebec, Monday night exchanging answers and accusations as they looked to bust out from the pack in the final two weeks of the campaign. 

While Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government managed to reach a last-minute deal to avert a strike by school support workers, far tougher rounds of education bargaining loom ahead. 

While Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government managed to reach a last-minute deal to avert a strike by school support workers, far tougher rounds of education bargaining loom ahead.