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O'Rourke was urged to run for president by many Democrats who were energized by his narrow Senate loss last year in Texas, but he struggled in the presidential primary and both his polling and his fundraising dwindled significantly in recent months.

The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co.'s $1 billion US acquisition of the U.S. social media app Musical.ly, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Strong winds and rains during Thursday night's storm have moved the historic iron scow at the top of Canada's Horseshoe Falls, which had been stuck in the same place for more than 100 years — and now, it's closer to the edge. 

A coalition of climate-change advocates is urging the new Parliament to prevent anxieties in the oilpatch from threatening progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

The mother of Capt. Matthew Dawe, who was killed 12 years ago in Afghanistan, has been given the honour by the Royal Canadian Legion and will lay a wreath at the National War Memorial on Remembrance Day.

A request from the Bloc Québécois for a recount in a Quebec City riding was approved in Quebec Superior Court Friday. Judicial recounts will now be held in three ridings, following allegations of discrepancies in the results of the Oct. 21 federal vote.

One of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren's key proposals is a tax on the ultra-rich to pay for some of her big-ticket promises. The idea has support but also a long line of critics who question whether it's practical, effective and even legal.

A London, Ont. judge has found a police officer guilty of criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide the necessaries of life in the death of a First Nations woman who died shortly after being arrested in 2016.

Nick Noorani was chosen to be an Honorary Witness at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. His role included hearing stories of residential school survivors, first hand.

A motion to declare an opioid overdose crisis in northern Ontario has been voted down at Queen’s Park.

A holiday can't be moved, says a mom who took her son trick-or-treating Halloween night. But climate change means we have to adapt to extreme weather, counters a dad.

A holiday can't be moved, says a mom who took her son trick-or-treating Halloween night. But climate change means we have to adapt to extreme weather, counters a dad.

It's unusually warm in some Arctic communities in the Beaufort Delta region of the Northwest Territories.

Desjardins Group says the theft of member data announced in June is far larger than initially thought and affects all 4.2 million members of the credit union.

Desjardins Group said Friday that a major breach of member data, first reported in June, actually affected 4.2 million members of the credit union.

Desjardins Group says the theft of member data announced in June is far larger than initially thought, affecting 4.2 million members of the credit union.

Transit users who take the bus or SeaBus in Metro Vancouver are likely to see some form of delay Friday as transit operators across the region begin the first phase of job action.

Under pressure to reduce environmental waste from single-use containers, major consumer companies including Procter & Gamble Co, Unilever Plc and The Body Shop are rolling out more products, from shower gel to face cream, in refillable form.

Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews didn’t wear a costume for Halloween on Thursday, but that didn't make him any less frightening for public sector workers.

The power company Southern California Edison said Friday that it re-energized a 16,000-volt power line minutes before a nearby hilltop exploded into a blaze that is threatening thousands of homes.

Fierce, dry Santa Ana winds off the Southern California mountains eased early Friday,helping firefighters make progress in corralling major wildfires that have displaced thousands of residents.

A fast-moving scrub fire threatened orchards, oil fields and homes while displacing thousands of residents in Southern California on Friday, even as diminishing winds helped fire crews tame a rash of wildfires elsewhere across the state.

Passengers who spent up to $30,000 USD for upcoming voyages with a troubled Squamish, B.C.-based expedition cruise company worry their dream vacations are gone with their money.

A three-year-old boy stabbed multiple times while sleeping in his Winnipeg home, leading to a man being charged with attempted murder, will be taken off life-support, according to his aunt.

General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota and 10 smaller automakers are siding with the Trump administration in a lawsuit over whether California has the right to set its own greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards.

Turkey and Russia launched joint patrols Friday in northeastern Syria, under a deal that halted a Turkish offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters who were forced to withdraw from the border area following Ankara's incursion.

Howling winds ripped the façade off a house in Montreal's Ville-Saint-Pierre neighbourhood, destroyed a gas station in Saint-Hyacinthe and deprived hundreds of thousands of people of electricity across Quebec on Friday.

Howling winds ripped the façade off a house in Montreal's Ville-Saint-Pierre neighbourhood, destroyed a gas station in Saint-Hyacinthe and deprived hundreds of thousands of people of electricity across Quebec on Friday.

Howling winds ripped the façade off a house in Montreal's Ville-Saint-Pierre neighbourhood, destroyed a gas station in Saint-Hyacinthe and deprived hundreds of thousands of people of electricity across Quebec on Friday.

Howling winds ripped the façade off a house in Montreal's Ville-Saint-Pierre neighbourhood, destroyed a gas station in Saint-Hyacinthe and deprived hundreds of thousands of people of electricity across Quebec on Friday.

Officials in Sherbrooke have opened an emergency response centre after water levels in the Saint-François River rose more than a metre in 30 minutes overnight.

Howling winds ripped the façade off a house in Montreal's Ville-Saint-Pierre neighbourhood, destroyed a gas station in Saint-Hyacinthe and deprived hundreds of thousands of people of electricity across Quebec on Friday.

Howling winds ripped the façade off a house in Montreal's Ville-Saint-Pierre neighbourhood, destroyed a gas station in Saint-Hyacinthe and deprived hundreds of thousands of people of electricity across Quebec on Friday.

The number of customers without power has been steadily increasing throughout the day — a situation for which Hydro-Québec said it was prepared, with a forecast predicting winds gusting to 100 kilometres an hour.

Members of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) have voted overwhelmingly in support of a possible strike.

Jacob Charendoff, who works in Toronto and is legally blind, has filed a human rights complaint after the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute denied some of the requests he said he needed met so he could write an exam on equal standing with other candidates.

Sen. Murray Sinclair, who is the former chief commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is this year's recipient of the Symons Medal on Friday.

The Saint John U-18 boys Division 1 soccer team is made up mostly of newcomers from 11 different countries. The club made history by winning the provincial championship for the first time.

While photos of charcoal-stained smiles are taking social media by storm, dental professionals are warning that the products could be hurting more than they are helping.

A prominent road safety advocate is pushing Ontario to implement a controversial technology that would allow police to test cellphones at the roadside to see if drivers are using them behind the wheel.

In Lloydminster, a city in the heart of Prairie oil country that straddles the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan, anger against the federal Liberal government is running high but there seems to be little appetite for separation.

Alberta could play a role in planned Indigenous rights-based court actions against Ottawa's environmental review and tanker ban laws, according to the CEO of an energy company that says it has the backing of 35 northern Alberta and B.C. First Nations for a new oil pipeline.

A high-level director at the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) awarded $240,000 worth of consulting contracts to his Concordia University doctoral supervisor while still his student, CBC News has learned.

The rise of the Bloc was the moment the dynamics of the election campaign changed and the blackface scandal was when voters tuned in, says Dan Arnold, the Liberal Party's pollster.

CBC News examined customer reviews posted on Amazon.ca in 2018-19 for various grocery items, and discovered numerous complaints about receiving food that was expired or past its best-before date. Amazon said the issue has been addressed.

As Justin Trudeau searches for ways to include Alberta and Saskatchewan in his new minority government, one person he might want to phone is the NDP’s newly elected Edmonton MP.

The most historic energy company in Canada decided on Thursday to fill out some forms and declare itself an American company.

CBC News examined customer reviews posted on Amazon.ca in 2018-19 for various grocery items, and discovered numerous complaints about receiving food that was past its best-before date. Amazon said the issue has been addressed.

Ukraine is keeping the option of a Canadian-led peacekeeping mission in its war-torn eastern districts in its back pocket as the country tiptoes towards peace talks with Russia, the country's deputy foreign minister says.

Ukraine is keeping the option of a Canadian-led peacekeeping mission in its war-torn eastern districts in its back pocket as the country tiptoes towards peace talks with Russia, the country's deputy foreign minister says.