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After taking hit after hit all week for putting limits on its Quebec Experience Program, which gives foreign students and temporary workers a fast track to permanent residency, the Quebec government is putting those immigration reforms on hold.

A massive leak of posts and messages from a neo-Nazi message board that went offline two years ago offers clues to identify its Canadian members, including some who claimed to serve in the Canadian Armed Forces. 

Former cabinet minister John Baird's external review of the Conservative Party of Canada's election performance is just one part of what Conservatives are calling a sweeping effort to get at the reasons behind the party's recent defeat.

U.S. health officials reported a breakthrough Friday in their investigation into the cause of a mysterious outbreak of vaping illnesses.

Cameron Ortis, the senior RCMP official accused of preparing to leak sensitive information, has been ordered back to jail.

Cameron Ortis, the senior RCMP official accused of preparing to leak sensitive information, has been ordered back to jail.

For Edmonton baker Nataliia Shevchenko, victory was as sweet as her personal specialty, honey cake. 

Saskatoon police confirm they are investigating after the body of a dead newborn was found in a recycling bin Friday morning, and they're urgently searching for the baby's mother. 

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister said he offered Prime Minister Justin Trudeau some "friendly advice" today on how to deal with mounting frustration in the west, noting the federal election exposed deep regional rifts in the country.

Small-aircraft operators in Canada have fallen into a trap of accepting too many safety risks and it has to stop before more people are killed or injured, the Transportation Safety Board warned Thursday.

Small-aircraft operators in Canada have fallen into a trap of accepting too many safety risks and it has to stop before more people are killed or injured, the Transportation Safety Board warned Thursday.

As crime surges in Winnipeg, the city's police service is realigning several units to boost the number of officers and investigators available to deal with the ongoing problem.

Police in Guelph say a man and a woman allegedly called in a fake cop shooting in an attempt to get officers to leave their hotel.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts fell in October as the pace of new construction of apartment, townhouse, condo and other types of multiple-unit housing projects slowed.

Alberta’s sugar beet harvest has been called off, making this the worst harvest in decades. 

Mexican anthropologists say they have found two human-built pits dug 15,000 years ago to trap mammoths.

From an early age, Deborah Kinisky faced sexual abuse more than a dozen times. She's sharing her story now in hopes of bringing awareness to human trafficking.

The world's richest people became a little less well off last year, according to a report by UBS and PwC, as geopolitical turmoil and volatile equity markets reduced the wealth of billionaires for the first time since 2015.

If you woke up Thursday to a weird text that seemed totally out of place, you aren't alone. A mysterious wave of missives swept phones in Canada and the U.S. overnight, delivering largely unintelligible messages from friends, family and the occasional ex.

The number of people working in Canada edged slightly lower in October as the manufacturing and construction sectors lost jobs, while the unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 per cent.

A legislature meeting on budget numbers got personal Thursday, when Premier Jason Kenney accused NDP Leader Rachel Notley of being ignorant to Alberta's plight and Notley questioned his loyalty to Canada.

The Scottish National Party launched its campaign for Britain's Dec. 12 election on Friday, urging Scots to send its lawmakers to London in order to bring Scotland a step closer to independence.

The largest piece of cultivated land for sale in Canada isn't in B.C.'s Fraser Valley, southern Alberta or the land of the living skies — it's in northern Manitoba's Carrot River valley.

The Reserve Mines Fire Department in Cape Breton was on its way to winning $5,000 in a Facebook contest when the chief noticed something he liked even more.

The Reserve Mines Fire Department in Cape Breton was on its way to winning $5,000 in a Facebook contest when the chief noticed something he liked even more.

The government of Nunavut is checking every individual computer in Iqaluit for the ransomware virus. A spokesperson said the computers will be collected and worked on at Community of Government Services warehouse. 

Change is blowing through the halls of Alberta's oil and gas regulator — but what should it look like?

Health Canada has banned the sale of a natural health care product that is marketed as a way to "detox" vaginas following an investigation by CBC's Marketplace.

Health Canada has banned the sale of a natural health care product that is marketed as a way to "detox" vaginas following an investigation by CBC's Marketplace.

Employers and recruiters are seeing more candidates not showing up for interviews and new hires not reporting to work on for their first day on the job — all without explanation. It seems Canada’s hot job market has shifted the balance of power in many sectors from employers to employees.

There are numerous parallels between the Nixon and Trump impeachment probes — and the televised hearings that are about to begin next week are just one item on the list of similarities.

CBC News reviewed more than 50 criminal cases over the past five years where judges found that police officers had given false or misleading testimony, and the case against the accused fell apart.

A rare event will take place on Monday — Mercury will pass in front of the sun, an event called a "transit" that will be visible across the country, should the weather comply.

The man who ran Montreal for nearly three decades corresponded with some of the 20th century's biggest stars, including actors Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and MLB's Jackie Robinson. Twenty years after his death, Jean Drapeau's archives are now open to the public.

CBC News reviewed more than 50 criminal cases over the past five years where judges found that police officers had given false or misleading testimony, and the case against the accused fell apart.

Eighty-eight-year-old Karolina Rybka, of Kelowna, was one of the 1,000 Polish children adopted by the Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji of Nawanagar, in India, after they were released from Siberian camps during the Second World War.

What started as several frustrating phone calls to TD Bank’s customer service line, ended with some surprising online payback for a small business owner, who says a bank employee posted a negative review of his business.

Martin Scorsese’s new film The Irishman is the latest battle in the fight for the future of cinema. Major movie chains don't want to let streaming services open movies and then release them online shortly after, but industry watchers say the fight is hurting movie fans and leaving money on the table.

A forthcoming book by an anonymous author identified only as "a senior official in the Trump administration" describes U.S. President Donald Trump as volatile, incompetent and unfit to be commander in chief, according to excerpts published by The Washington Post.

Candlelight vigils in Hong Kong mourning a student who died on Friday after a high fall during a pro-democracy rally quickly spiraled into street fires, bursts of tear gas and cat-and-mouse clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police.

A student at a Hong Kong university who fell during protests at the weekend has died, marking the first student death during the anti-government demonstrations that have roiled the city and set the stage for fresh unrest.

Former U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions said on Thursday he was seeking the Republican nomination to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama in 2020, a position he resigned to join the Trump administration.

A former commissioner from the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is urging institutions that received referral letters from the inquiry to reach out to grassroots organizations and Indigenous groups to figure out how to take action. 

It's an idea from an older era suddenly receiving renewed attention: what if Alberta withdrew from the Canada Pension Plan in favour of a provincially-run alternative?

People from surrounding First Nations stood outside the St. Paul, Alta., courthouse on Thursday to rally against what they’re calling a hate crime after threats were made to 'shoot up' a school.