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Kim Boutin continued her dominant start to the short-track season by winning gold in the women's 1,000-metre at the ISU World Cup Saturday in Montreal.

The Keystone pipeline resumed moving crude oil Sunday after 1.4 million litres of oil were spilled in North Dakota in late October.

In the driver’s seat is Brad Parscale, Trump’s digital media director, who led the efforts to raise a record-breaking $125 million in just the last quarter, according to the New York Times. His ability to turn impeachment into this many millions is unprecedented. But the financial success didn’t come without significant spending either. 

The legendary singer-songwriter and proud Canadian says he passed a test in which he was asked many questions and answered truthfully, but was recently told he must do another test due to his use of cannabis.

The story is one of a nation that sent its best to fight a vicious enemy. Its best: from little prairie towns, and big urban centres. They were of all colours, from all cultures and all religions.

When the House impeachment inquiry of U.S. President Donald Trump begins its public phase on Wednesday, people will be watching on screens large and small.

As Spaniards voted Sunday in the country's fourth election in as many years, a leading leftist party pledged to help the incumbent Socialists in hopes of staving off a possible right-wing coalition government that could include a far-right party.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists won Spain's national election on Sunday, but large gains by the upstart far-right Vox party appear certain to widen the political deadlock in the European Union's fifth-largest economy.

Polls closed in continental Spain in the country's national election on Sunday, where left-wing and right-wing parties are fiercely competing to see who can form the next coalition government.

Preliminary results in Spain's national election showed the ruling Socialists winning, but the ballot won't immediately clear up the country's political deadlock amid a surge from the far-right Vox party.

Sportsnet, as well as Hockey Night in Canada host Ron MacLean, both apologized Sunday after commentator Don Cherry complained on national television on Saturday that he rarely sees people he believes are immigrants wearing poppies ahead of Remembrance Day.

Sportsnet has apologized after hockey commentator Don Cherry complained on national television that he rarely sees people he believes are immigrants wearing poppies ahead of Remembrance Day.

Speaking Saturday, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney laid out measures that will be explored by what's being called the Fair Deal Panel, including the possibility of opting out of the Canada Pension Plan. Pension experts explain what that would take.

A strong cyclone lashed northeastern India and Bangladesh on Sunday, killing several people in both countries after more than two million moved to shelters across Bangladesh's vast coastal region, officials and news reports said.

Bolivian President Evo Morales agreed on Sunday to hold new presidential elections after a damning report from the Organization of American States (OAS) found serious irregularities in an Oct. 20 vote won by the leftist leader.

Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Sunday he would submit his resignation as the South American country's leader after the military suggested he step down and allies resigned amid a fierce backlash to a disputed election last month.

Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Sunday he would resign after the military called on him to step down and allies tumbled away amid a fierce backlash over a disputed election that has roiled the South American nation.

Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country's south with over 50 billion barrels of crude oil, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country's proven reserves by a third as it struggles to sell energy abroad over U.S. sanctions.

This week, Hydro-Québec officials and Quebec premier François Legault announced the renaming of a dam and generating station in honour of former Quebec premier Bernard Landry. Some Cree leaders support the re-dedication, but for others, it is a painful reminder of all that development has cost.

Margaret Houghton arrived in Moose Jaw, Sask., on Aug. 16, 1946. Having travelled from her small town in England, she was finally going to see her husband, Arthur Houghton, again — and she would not only meet his family for the first time, but would also introduce Arthur to his six-month-old son.

The government of Premier Doug Ford is proposing changes to the rules at Queen's Park that would give it the power to pass bills into law more quickly. 

A Chinese woman trying to gain permanent residency in Canada through the purchase of a unit in a wholesale mall on the outskirts of Regina found herself caught in a tangled web of false promises and dubious practices.

A Chinese woman trying to gain permanent residency in Canada through the purchase of a unit in a wholesale mall on the outskirts of Regina found herself caught in a tangled web of false promises and dubious practices.

The Greens won three seats elsewhere in Canada in October's federal election, but not a single riding in Quebec. Could having a Quebecer at the helm change that?

Flight Sergeant Arnold Graham and his cousin's husband, Mark Bredin, flipped a coin. The Royal Canadian Air Force had ordered the two men to split up, saying relatives could not serve on the same Lancaster bomber. Bredin lost the toss and went to join another crew.

Raising awareness about the dangers students face is much simpler than grappling with why Canadian schools are falling short in addressing the chronic problem of violence, bullying, and sexual harassment in the first place.

A little more than a month out from a verdict in the sexual assault trial of Joshua Boyle, CBC’s The Fifth Estate takes a look back at some of the pivotal details of the closely watched case and the ways in which it tested new rules for how courts treat sexual assault complainants.

John Durrant has served as Russia's honorary consul in St. John's for a decade. This week he was feted by President Vladimir Putin.

A Toronto man is calling for stricter regulations after a fraudster locked down his laptop, accessed his personal files and threatened to release intimate videos, just by using his cellphone number. It had been fraudulently “ported” — transferred from his Rogers account to a Bell prepaid customer.

People trying to preserve the memories of the Holocaust are in a race against time, while the numbers of young Canadians who are unaware what happened are high. The answer might lie in new technology and media.

As part of CBC’s Remembrance Day special programming, Canadian war veterans and their families read portions of letters sent home from the front lines.

A St. John's professor of Russian literature is one of the few Canadians getting face time with Vladimir Putin these days. While Canada has frozen most of its high-level contacts with Russia, John Durrant, an honorary consul in St. John's, received one of the country's highest civilian awards in Moscow this week.

A Toronto man is calling for stricter regulations after a fraudster locked down his laptop, accessed his personal files and threatened to release intimate videos, just by using his cellphone number. It had been fraudulently “ported” — transferred from his Rogers account to a Bell prepaid customer.

Don Cherry is in the limelight again, this time complaining during Saturday night's Coach's Corner segment on Hockey Night in Canada that he rarely sees people he believes to be new immigrants wearing poppies ahead of Remembrance Day.

Australian firefighters raced on Sunday to contain widespread bushfires that have left three people dead, and braced for worse conditions in coming days as they warned the blazes will stretch their ability to protect people.

Kim Boutin continued her dominant start to the short-track season by winning gold in the women's 1,000-metre at the ISU World Cup Saturday in Montreal.

The Royal Canadian Legion is trying to reach young people they say are becoming more disconnected with veterans and war history — and it's using the wildly popular video game Fortnite to get its message across.

The Royal Canadian Legion is trying to reach young people they say are becoming more disconnected with veterans and war history — and it's using the wildly popular video game Fortnite to get its message across.

Three decades ago Saturday, the Berlin Wall opened up. Today, Sabine Sparwasser keeps a small part of it on her desk as a reminder that great change is always possible.