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Draft revisions to the Canadian Judicial Council's ethical principles for judges urge former federally appointment judges to use caution when providing legal advice in high-profile and politically contentious matters.

Conversion therapy is widely-condemned practice that aims to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, seeking to "convert" them to heterosexual or cisgender, which means identifying with the sex assigned to them at birth.

A jury has awarded more than $9 million in damages to a man and woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, who were struck by an 18-wheeler truck while riding their bikes along Interstate 84 in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.

A jury has awarded more than $9 million in damages to a man and woman from Vancouver who were struck by an 18-wheeler truck while riding their bikes along Interstate 84 in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.

A jury has awarded more than $9 million in damages to a man and woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, who were struck by an 18-wheeler truck while riding their bikes along Interstate 84 in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.

A jury has awarded more than $9 million in damages to a man and woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, who were struck by an 18-wheeler truck while riding their bikes along Interstate 84 in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.

Carolanne Riggs and her family in Burin will have some special visitors this Christmas, brought together by her daughter’s tragic death and a message that floated across the Atlantic Ocean.

If you saw a crocodile crossing Jarry Street on Sunday afternoon, you weren't imagining things.

If you saw an alligator crossing Jarry Street on Sunday afternoon, you weren't imagining things.

Chinese television pulled coverage of Arsenal's Premier League match against Manchester City after Mesut Ozil, a forward for the London club, criticized Beijing's brutal mass crackdown on ethnic Muslims in the country.

Tremaine co-hosted Halifax's Information Morning from 1971 until he retired in 1987. He was also known as the announcer for several years on Don Messer's Jubilee.

A Windsor resident who asked spammers to add her number to a do-not-call-list says she's received over 500 phone calls and more than 100 text messages after spammers decided to spoof her number instead.

The Hallmark Channel will reinstate same-sex marriage commercials that it pulled from the network, according to a company statement sent Sunday. An ad for wedding planning site Zola featuring two brides kissing at the altar was pulled following a complaint from the conservative group One Million Moms.

The Hallmark Channel will reinstate same-sex marriage commercials that it pulled from the network, according to a company statement sent Sunday. An ad for wedding planning site Zola featuring two brides kissing at the altar was pulled following a complaint from the conservative group One Million Moms.

A jury convicted former SNC-Lavalin executive Sami ​​​​​​​Bebawi, 73, on all five counts he was facing, which included fraud, corruption of foreign officials and laundering proceeds of crime.

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

Alberta's Wheat and Barley Commissions say the CN strike cost farmers their reputations in an international market. And the groups are turning to the government for a permanent fix.

The bank is taking Kaleena Carriere’s home. Dealing with financial pressures, she decided to stop making mortgage payments after she learned her condo insurance would cost her an extra $6,000.

The bank is taking Kaleena Carriere’s home. Dealing with financial pressures, she decided to stop making mortgage payments after she learned her condo insurance would cost her an extra $6,000.

Marathon international climate talks ended Sunday with negotiators postponing until next year a key decision on how to regulate global carbon markets.

Eric Melillo, the new Conservative MP for the Ontario riding of Kenora, made history in October as the youngest Conservative MP ever elected.

Premier Jason Kenney's $30-million energy "war room" is open for business, aiming to tell a "positive" narrative about the oilpatch.

More than 150 people have visited Windsor emergency rooms due to opioid poisoning in the first six months of the year. 

The Canadian women's rugby sevens team captured the bronze medal in extra time on Sunday at the HSBC World Series Rugby Sevens event in Cape Town, South Africa.

A second land search of New Zealand's volcanic White Island on Sunday failed to locate the bodies of the last two victims of an eruption that has now claimed 16 lives, most of them tourists.

A second land search of New Zealand's volcanic White Island on Sunday failed to locate the bodies of the last two victims of an eruption that has now claimed 16 lives, most of them tourists.

New Zealanders observed a minute's silence on Monday at the moment that a volcano erupted a week earlier, killing at least 16 people and leaving others with severe burns.

A question on the province's tourist exit survey elicits complaints about the weather, roads and prices — and lobster served with margarine.

The unrelenting tide of anti-government violence in Iraq — including targeted killings of protesters and gruesome reprisals — hasn't derailed Canadian and NATO military training missions in the country, but it has made them more challenging, a top Canadian general told CBC News.

Margaret Thatcher, Leonardo da Vinci, even Winston Churchill indulged in napping. It's good for the ticker, and for the mind. Now napping is becoming a popular feature in universities and businesses, but too much of a good thing could also be risky.

The Canada Revenue Agency lost a bin containing Canadians' tax information after the truck hired to transport the documents was involved in a highway accident earlier this year.

Travellers on their way from Canada into the United States should be aware that changes to the Canada-United States Preclearance Agreement, ostensibly enacted to increase the efficiency of travel and trade across the boundary, give U.S. officials dangerously extended power on Canadian soil.

A 10-year-old boy at the forefront of a fight to solve the problem of innocent Canadians ending up on the so-called no-fly list has once again found himself red-flagged. And now the federal government says a solution isn't expected until late 2020, something the family says is news to them.

A 10-year-old boy at the forefront of a fight to solve the problem of innocent Canadians appearing on the country's so-called no-fly list has once again found himself red-flagged, amid promises from the federal government that a fix is on the way.

Caitlin Nash and Natalie Corless made luge history Saturday, becoming the first female team to compete in a World Cup doubles race.