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Strategic Group has put 50 properties, with mortgages totalling nearly $651 million, under creditor protection.

It took Transport Canada a decade to launch an investigation into claims that a song parody with "racist" and "violent" lyrics about turban-wearing travellers was shared within the department that oversees Canada's no-fly list.

Harvey Weinstein and the board of his bankrupt film studio have reportedly reached a tentative $25 million US settlement with dozens of women who accused the former Hollywood producer of sexual misconduct.

Suicide bombers struck the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring scores of others in a major attack that could derail plans to revive peace talks between the United States and the Taliban.

An investigation by the State of Maine says Cooke Seafood corrected problems that were revealed in a hidden-camera exposé done by an animal rights group. Video showed salmon being smashed against posts, stomped on and discarded at a Maine hatchery.

YouTube is taking another step to curb hateful and violent speech on its site. The video streaming company said it will now take down videos that lob insults at people based on race, gender expression, sexual orientation or other "protected attributes."

The creche displayed outside the Eastminster United Church features an infant Jesus alone in a cold steel cage and swathed in a solar blanket.

The creche displayed outside the Eastminster United Church features an infant Jesus alone in a cold steel cage and swathed in a solar blanket.

One person is dead and stretches of the westbound Highway 401 between Napanee and Brockville, Ont., are closed Wednesday afternoon as police deal with multiple weather-related collisions.

Stretches of westbound Highway 401 between Napanee and Brockville, Ont., were closed Wednesday afternoon as police deal with multiple weather-related collisions.

One person was killed and several more injured Wednesday after a series of weather-related collisions closed stretches of the westbound Highway 401 between Napanee and Brockville, Ont.

One person is dead and stretches of the westbound Highway 401 between Napanee and Brockville, Ont., were closed Wednesday as police dealt with multiple weather-related collisions.

The federal government has accepted New Brunswick's proposal for a carbon tax on consumers, making it likely that drivers in the province will pay less at the pumps starting next April 1.

Watch live at 11:30 MT as Premier Jason Kenney officially launches his government's $30 million war room to fight what it calls misinformation about the province's energy industry.

The Saudi kingdom has been talking about selling some shares of its prized oil giant for years. But the Saudi Aramco IPO comes during a rough time for global oil producers.

John Ilett and his colleagues were working at a fish farm off the coast of northern Vancouver Island this week when they spotted a bald eagle in the death grip of an octopus and filmed the unfolding drama.

Last year's NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard drew a crowd in his return to Toronto on Wednesday. While downtown billboards heralded him coming back for the first time as a Los Angeles Clipper, the 28-year-old faced a media throng at the morning shootaround.

At long last, the Raptors put a ring on it. 2019 Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard received his championship ring in a pre-game ceremony on Wednesday, just minutes before his first appearance in Toronto as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Canadian Pacific Railway said all cars on the train meet Transport Canada standards.

A 74-year-old man from Whitehorse says he’s going to stay in the city for his final days, foregoing life-saving hemodialysis available to him in Vancouver, to inspire the government to offer the treatment close to home.

A 74-year-old man from Whitehorse says he’s going to stay in the city for his final days, foregoing life-saving hemodialysis available to him in Vancouver, to inspire the government to offer the treatment close to home.

The pilot killed in a twin-engine plane crash in southwest B.C. on Tuesday night has been identified as a flying instructor Alex Bahlsen.

The pilot killed in a twin-engine plane crash in southwest B.C. on Tuesday night has been identified as a flying instructor and former examiner with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.

RCMP have confirmed there are no survivors among those on board a plane that crashed onto an island in southwest B.C.

The pilot killed in a twin-engine plane crash in southwest B.C. on Tuesday night has been identified as a flying instructor Alex Bahlsen.

The man and woman who stormed a Jewish market in a deadly shooting in Jersey City clearly targeted the place, the mayor said Wednesday, while other officials said the killers are suspected in a separate homicide days earlier.

A pair of armed people targeted a New Jersey kosher grocery in an attack that killed six people including the shooters, though the motive of the attack remains unclear, public safety officials say.

A 42-year-old woman and her two young boys, ages two and four, were found dead Wednesday in a home in the east-end Montreal neighbourhood of Pointe-aux-Trembles.

A 42-year-old woman and her two young boys, ages two and four, were found dead Wednesday in a home in the east-end Montreal borough of Pointe-aux-Trembles.

Premier Jason Kenney’s much-anticipated two-day visit to Ottawa this week ended with a 'frank' but civil chat with Prime Minister Trudeau, and an assurance that the federal government will take Alberta’s requests under advisement.

Greta Thunberg, the teen activist from Sweden who has urged immediate action to address what's being called a global climate crisis, on Wednesday was named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019.

Greta Thunberg, the teen activist from Sweden who has urged immediate action to address climate change, on Wednesday was named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019.

Proposed changes to family medicine in Alberta will incentivize doctors to see patients for just 10 minute appointments in order to maintain or maximize revenue, one Calgary doctor says.

"Increased volcanic activity" on White Island is holding New Zealand police back from recovering the bodies of those presumed dead in Monday's eruption.

"Increased volcanic activity" on White Island is holding New Zealand police back from recovering the bodies of those presumed dead in Monday's eruption.

Israel's parliament has passed its first reading of a bill to dissolve itself, putting the country on the verge of its third national election in under a year.

Israel's parliament on Wednesday dissolved after failing to meet a midnight deadline for forming a new government, triggering an an unprecedented third election in a 12-month period while giving scandal-plagued Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a welcome break as he fights to save his political career.

The Squamish Nation in B.C. voted last night to approve one of the largest real estate projects run by a First Nation in Canada.

A series of unlikely events helped uncover what happened in 1962 to two newborns in Come By Chance, N.L. — but it might have remained unknown if someone hadn't asked questions and connected the dots. "It's so hurtful. It's like your heart is broken all of the time," says one of the men.

Canadian soldiers spent a dozen years fighting a war in Afghanistan. Almost 160 of them lost their lives to that mission. A new report out of Washington says the war failed to achieve its aims. So why aren't our MPs asking questions?

A conversation between allies long ago — one the participants themselves may have forgotten by now — neatly but indirectly summed up Canada’s experience in the Afghan war.

Karel Pekarek's terminal cancer went undiagnosed after two visits to two emergency rooms in B.C.'s Lower Mainland in June. His family knows an earlier diagnosis may not have saved his life, but they say it could have eased his pain as he died.

Canada has again joined Mexico and the U.S. to sign on to the final — and this time they really mean final, apparently — text to improve the North American free trade agreement. What do these changes mean for Canada?

An estimated 33,000 young men in Alberta are looking for work but not finding it. That number has doubled in the span of seven months, putting the unemployment rate for males under the age of 25 at nearly 20 per cent, roughly twice the rate of their female peers.

Police organizations are attempting to recruit more women, but a key consideration of how to best support and retain women who are already in uniform is being overlooked, write Souhila Baba and Andréanne Angehrn.

The Conservatives underestimated turnout in October's federal vote, missing the emergence of a bloc of voters that cemented both the Liberals' election-winning hold on Ontario and Quebec and their rejection in Alberta and Saskatchewan, according to Conservative campaign manager Hamish Marshall.

While Alberta Premier Jason Kenney calls on the federal government to approve the Teck Frontier Mine — a proposed open-pit oilsands mine, the largest ever — one First Nation is accusing him of indirectly sabotaging the project by neglecting to address lingering environmental concerns.

While Alberta Premier Jason Kenney calls on the federal government to approve the Teck Frontier Mine — a proposed open-pit oilsands mine, the largest ever — one First Nation is accusing him of indirectly sabotaging the project by neglecting to address lingering environmental concerns.

British Conservative Leader Boris Johnson, a politician known as much for making off-colour comments and headline-grabbing gaffes as winning elections, has been on his best behaviour during the Brexit election. If the polls are any indication, it's working.

Health-care professionals who work in Vancouver-area hospitals and medical clinics will no longer be required to attend 12-step programs if they want to keep their jobs after being diagnosed with addiction.