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A Nobel laureate, a former prime minister and a Hollywood director are just a few of the 120 additions announced in for the New Year’s Day Order of Canada appointments.

Friends are remembering a Toronto woman who was killed on Sunday as an outspoken advocate for transgender rights and a strong voice against the violence that impacts her community.

A retired judge will have to decide anew whether to keep secret a hearing that will decide if police officers should face disciplinary proceedings for their investigation into the death of an Indigenous man, Ontario's top court ruled on Friday.

Russia's defence minister reported to President Vladimir Putin that a new hypersonic weapon of intercontinental range became operational Friday following years of tests.

The owners of a British Columbia facility where about 21,000 of Atlantic salmon escaped following a fire said it is likely predators ate most of the fish.

A young girl died after she went into cardiac arrest on a plane flight to Seattle from Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.

The United Nations said 235,000 civilians had fled their homes in rebel-held northwestern Syria during a Russian-backed campaign of airstrikes and shelling this month.

Kelly Fraser, a Juno Award-nominated Inuk singer-songwriter originally from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, who had been living in Winnipeg, has died at age 26.

A close adviser to Boeing's ousted CEO is retiring. Mike Luttig was Boeing's general counsel from 2006 until this spring, and later was assigned to head legal strategy and advise the board.

Gov. Gen. Julie Payette today encouraged Canadians to get outside and enjoy the winter in her annual New Year's message.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads into 2020 promising to chart a path to Canada's most ambitious greenhouse-gas emissions target yet: getting to a point within 30 years where Canada is adding no emissions that will stay in the atmosphere.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads into 2020 promising to chart a path to Canada's most ambitious greenhouse-gas emissions target yet: getting to a point within 30 years where Canada is adding no emissions that will stay in the atmosphere.

Armando Perez was only three months old when he got itchy.

Armando Perez was only three months old when he got itchy.

The wreckage of a helicopter carrying seven people to one of the most rugged and remote coastlines in Hawaii has been found Friday in a mountainous area on the island of Kauai, authorities said.

A search is underway for seven people aboard a tour helicopter that disappeared in Hawaii, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The remains of six people have been found after a helicopter heading to one of the most rugged and remote coastlines in Hawaii crashed at the top of a mountain on the island of Kauai, authorities said.

A cold and blustery winter storm unleashed downpours and extensive snowfall on Southern California, triggering a tornado and snarling post-Christmas travel on major routes Thursday.

The commercial features three different actors portraying Gretzky throughout his life, and shows Number 99 practicing on a backyard rink, skating through opponents, riding a bus to games and ultimately showing off an autograph from the real Tim Horton. 

When 75 passengers got stranded in Deer Lake, N.L., on Dec. 25, Brian Snow helped pull the community together in something he calls Come From Away: Christmas Day.

Russia confirmed that it will appeal against its four-year Olympic ban for manipulating doping data. The case now heads to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The estate of a former New Brunswick RCMP officer says it “has no knowledge” of claims made by a woman who says he sexually assaulted her at her workplace.

Canada's truck driver shortage will grow by half in less than a decade as the industry grapples with an aging workforce and difficulties recruiting young people and women.

While it is unlikely that people will be huddled around their TVs to watch the power to these incredible machines being switched-on, the scientific discoveries that follow the debut of exascale super computers promise to change our lives in unimaginable ways.

A Saskatchewan priest has joined the growing chorus demanding the Catholic church release all names of sexual abusers within its ranks.

Sen. Peter Harder, Trudeau's outgoing point-man in the upper house, said the Conservatives' loss in the last election has secured the Senate's future as a more independent chamber free of partisan politics. But he'd like to see more appointees with actual political experience.

While it is unlikely that people will be huddled around their TVs to watch the power to these incredible machines being switched on, the scientific discoveries that follow the debut of exascale supercomputers promise to change our lives in unimaginable ways.

While it is unlikely that people will be huddled around their TVs to watch the power to these incredible machines being switched on, the scientific discoveries that follow the debut of exascale supercomputers promise to change our lives in unimaginable ways.

While there’s no crystal ball to tell us what the next amazing new discoveries will be in 2020, there are some events that you can look forward to in space. Here are just a few to mark on your astronomy calendars for next year.

A cup of coffee will soon cost a little bit more in one California city with a history of starting environmental trends. Beginning Jan. 1, businesses in Berkeley must include a charge of an extra 25 cents US for every to-go coffee cup — part of a growing worldwide movement against single-use items. 

Political donations flooded into Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative Party in 2019, despite his government's controversies and his own drooping poll numbers.

A cup of coffee will soon cost a little bit more in one California city with a history of starting environmental trends. Beginning Jan. 1, businesses in Berkeley must include a charge of an extra 25 cents US for every to-go coffee cup — part of a growing worldwide movement against single-use items. 

"At first the left wing jolted really hard, then the right," passenger Aslan Nazaraliyev says in recalling the moments before a Kazakhstan plane with 98 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff Friday, killing at least 12 people and putting dozens in hospital.

A plane with 95 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near Almaty on Friday, the airport of Kazakhstan's biggest city said. At least nine people were killed, according to local authorities.

A Kazakhstan plane with 98 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff early Friday, killing at least 12 people, while 49 were hospitalized with injuries, Kazakh officials said.

"At first the left wing jolted really hard, then the right," passenger Aslan Nazaraliyev says in recalling the moments before a Kazakhstan plane with 98 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff Friday, killing at least 12 people and putting dozens in hospital.

A plane with 95 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near Almaty on Friday, the airport of Kazakhstan's biggest city said. Nine people were reportedly killed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won a landslide victory in a primary election for leadership of the ruling Likud party. Official results showed Netanyahu capturing 72 per cent of the votes, compared with 28 per cent for challenger Gideon Saar.