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Canada’s Kim Boutin set a short track world record in the women’s 500-metre competition in the season-opening event in Salt Lake City on Sunday.

A lawyer for the whistleblower who raised alarms about U.S. President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine said Sunday his client is willing to answer written questions submitted by House Republicans.

McDonald's announced CEO Steve Easterbrook's departure Sunday, saying he demonstrated poor judgment. The fast-food giant forbids managers from having romantic relationships with direct or indirect reports.

McDonald's chief executive officer has been pushed out of the company after violating company policy by engaging in a consensual relationship with an employee, the corporation said Sunday.

Whatsapp is suing the Israeli spyware company NSO Group for allegedly using its platform for espionage. But NSO disputes the allegations. The Weekly’s Wendy Mesley speaks to Citizen Lab’s John Scott-Railton about his organization’s research and what it reveals about the future of espionage.

Canada suffered heartbreak in an Olympic women's field hockey qualifier Sunday, losing 4-3 to Ireland in a penalty shootout with a berth in the 2020 Tokyo Games on the line.

Former U.S. national security adviser Susan Rice, who is promoting a new book, says the U.S. president's days in office are numbered and that Canada's decision to arrest Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the behest of the United States — which sparked the diplomatic row with China — was the right thing to do.

California is the hub of some of the smartest and richest people in the world: Silicon Valley. So why aren't they investing more to fight climate change as wildfires burn in their backyards year after year?

California is the hub of some of the smartest and richest people in the world: Silicon Valley. So why aren't they investing more to fight climate change as wildfires burn in their backyards year after year?

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to cut federal funding to California for aid during wildfires that have burned across the state during dry winds this fall.

The death of a 40-year-old male right whale found floating in U.S. waters was caused by entanglement in Canadian fishing gear. That is the finding of a necropsy performed by the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society.

The government of Nunvaut's communications system was the victim of a ransomware attack early Saturday morning, and as of Sunday night officials still did not know when systems would come back online.

The Government of Nunavut network has been hit by a ransomware attack, according to posts made to social media sites Saturday.

Hong Kong anti-government protesters crowded a shopping mall in running clashes with police on Sunday during which a man with a knife slashed several people and bit off part of a local politician's ear.

A knife-wielding man slashed several people and bit off part of the ear of a pro-democracy politician in Hong Kong on Sunday, as riot police stormed several malls to thwart protesters who have been demanding government reforms for nearly five months.

A well-rested Denis Shapovalov put forth a competitive effort against Novak Djokovic but it wasn’t enough to deny the world No. 1 his fifth Paris Masters title on Sunday.

A bombshell TV documentary filmed while Prince Harry and Meghan were in Africa fuelled more speculation around a persistent storyline following the royal couple: Might they just pick up and leave the U.K. for a protracted period of time?

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

Illegal loggers in the Amazon ambushed an indigenous group that was formed to protect the forest and shot dead a young warrior and wounded another, leaders of the Guajajara tribe in northern Brazil said on Saturday.

Hydro-Québec is continuing its effort to restore power to thousands of customers after Friday’s storm wreaked havoc on the province’s electrical grid. Meanwhile, municipal officials are calling on Quebec to quickly repair flood-damaged roads.

Saudi Arabia formally began an initial public offering Sunday of a sliver of oil giant Saudi Aramco after years of delay, hoping international and local investors will pay billions of dollars for a stake in the kingdom's crown jewels.

The so-called Hamburglar is still at large, infiltrating customers’ McDonald’s app accounts and ordering food on their dime. For some victims, their troubles didn’t end there as they were unhappy with how McDonald’s handled their cases.

Section 91 of the Canada Elections Act came into force temporarily during the last election campaign. It bans the spreading of false information about candidates and politicians, even when a person is not aware the information is false.

This year is the 100th anniversary of the former prime minister's birth, and it's important to sort fact from fiction when it comes to his legacy, says Donald Wright.

Almost 13,000 people died in 2018, the vast majority from illicit fentanyl use. However, medicinal dependency on opioids has also been a problem for a long time. Many doctors have prescribed them for patients who suffer from chronic pain — an affliction that affects one in five Canadians. Doctors have started to reduce the pills, but it may leave some sufferers feeling stigmatized and in pain.

At least two federal government departments have introduced training so staff can identify and report on "insider threats," raising concerns from employees who don't want to spy on their colleagues.

There was little evidence of foreign interference on social media during the federal campaign, but news coverage suggested otherwise, researchers say.

What was once one of the largest translation firms in Canada says it's so deep in tax debt it can't pay hundreds of thousands of dollars owing to its freelance workers — but it is still soliciting them to take on new work, CBC News has found.

Hundreds of people rallied in Edmonton, Alta. on Saturday in support of the western provinces separating from Canada.

Authorities lifted evacuation orders for a farm community Saturday as firefighters make progress on a large wildfire in Southern California that continues to threaten about 2,500 homes and buildings.

A victory by Vino Rosso in the Breeders' Cup Classic was overshadowed by a fatal injury to a 15-1 long shot in the $6 million US race at Santa Anita on Saturday night.