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A man who was shot in the shoulder deep in the northern Manitoba wilderness is alive to tell the tale after walking for more than two days in sub-zero conditions.

Blues general manager Doug Armstrong gave an update on Jay Bouwmeester's condition on Wednesday before their game Thursday against the Golden Knights.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was briefly blocked from entering Halifax city hall on Wednesday by demonstrators in support of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was briefly blocked from entering Halifax city hall on Wednesday by demonstrators in support of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation.

"Aggressive" migration policies imposed by the Untied States and Mexico are trapping Central American migrants and refugees in a "vicious cycle" of violence, sexual assault, kidnappings and ill treatment from border authorities, a new report from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says.   

Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri says a lawsuit filed against him by a northern California sheriff's deputy is "malicious."

Canada will add a huge share of the land that becomes climatically suitable for growing crops as the world's temperatures rise, a new study says. But the study also finds that growing crops on that land could have many negative environmental impacts — including even more greenhouse gas emissions.

Amid suggestions that Quebec aerospace giant Bombardier may be poised to announce the sale of its rail division, Quebec Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon was tight-lipped Wednesday about what’s in store. 

NATO defence ministers agreed today to expand the Canadian-led military training mission in Iraq and take over some of the activities currently being carried out by the anti-Islamic State coalition of allies.

The top official with U.S. Customs and Border Protection has admitted border officers wrongly held and interrogated Iranian-born travellers — many of them Canadian and American citizens — at the Canada-U.S. border after military tensions with Iran escalated last month.

The Mercer sisters put Horwood on the map Tuesday night with their $10,000 win on the Canadian edition of the long-running game show.

'It's too fantastic,' says 'Major Bill' after he got 70,000 Valentine cards from around the world.

Ahead of a meeting today between the Alberta Premier and the province's chiefs, the Alberta government is going on the attack against a First Nation that accuses the province of sabotaging the Teck Resources Frontier oilsands project.

The president of Unifor Local 594 is pleased with the province's decision to bring in a special mediator to end a more-than-two-month lockout at Regina's Co-op Refinery.

Premier Scott Moe is speaking to reporters about the decision to appoint a special mediator to end a two-month lockout at the Co-op Refinery.

Premier Scott Moe is hopeful that the decision to appoint a special mediator will end a two-month lockout at the Co-op Refinery.

Ontario's four largest teachers unions say they will stage a joint one-day strike across the province on Feb. 21 if there's no breakthrough in contract talks with the Doug Ford government.

Ontario's four largest teachers' unions say they will stage a joint one-day strike across the province later this month if there's no breakthrough in contract talks with the Doug Ford government.

In the hours before Lionel Desmond killed his family and himself, he called his therapist and told her that his wife had asked for a divorce, the inquiry into their deaths heard Wednesday.

Two nurses who saw Lionel Desmond described a very patient who left an Antigonish, N.S., hospital on Jan. 2, than did the psychiatrist who treated him days before he would kill his family and himself. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he plans to speak with members of his cabinet Wednesday to discuss "next steps" in the ongoing anti-pipeline protests that have hamstrung the country's rail network.

Shopify Inc. reports a profit of $771,000 US in its latest quarter, compared with a loss of $1.5 million in the same quarter a year earlier, as its sales rose 47 per cent.

Shopify Inc.'s stock shoots to a record high after the e-commerce company reports 47 per cent revenue growth compared with the same quarter last year.

The coronavirus’s epicentre may be a thousand kilometres south in the province of Hubei, but the nervousness has spread to China's capital, Beijing, and engulfed the whole country, writes Saša Petricic.

The rate of vaping among Alberta high school students jumped dramatically from eight per cent in 2014-15 to 22 per cent two years later. 

The Quebec-born Blatchford, who worked at the National Post, Globe and Mail and both the Toronto Sun and Star, was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer in the fall of 2019.

The Quebec-born Blatchford, who worked at the National Post, Globe and Mail and both the Toronto Sun and Star, was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer in the fall of 2019.

Zoey Cotton’s fundraiser for Australian wildfire aid efforts had been going exceptionally well — until the money disappeared from the GoFundMe account.

Zoey Cotton’s fundraiser for Australian wildfire aid efforts had been going exceptionally well — until the money disappeared from the GoFundMe account.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today visited one of the most notorious entrepôts of the African transatlantic slave trade.

Breanna Gray still can't believe the pizza box-folding abilities she honed as a teenager are now part of movie history. 

Breanna Gray still can't believe the pizza box-folding abilities she honed as a teenager are now part of movie history. 

Leeland Hill Beck, 9, charmed people around the world with his wish to meet his great-grandmother at a puppy party and a call for letters with photos of people's pets. He died at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax on Saturday.

Rick McKie can no longer drive his 9-year-old son, Jackson, to a medical specialist in Halifax for regular appointments or haul seafood to New Brunswick.

Doctors and other health-care workers fighting the coronavirus outbreak in China don't have any specific treatments to use against this new virus. When they try to treat severe cases, they're walking a tightrope aiming to find just the right level of immune response to kill the virus without setting off other problems. 

Doctors and other health-care workers fighting the coronavirus outbreak in China don't have any specific treatments to use against this new virus. When they try to treat severe cases, they're walking a tightrope aiming to find just the right level of immune response to kill the virus without setting off other problems. 

A renowned Canadian doctor and emergencies specialist is leading a team of international experts investigating the coronavirus outbreak on the ground in China.

There are growing calls from University of Ottawa students to increase mental health resources on campus in the wake of recent student deaths, including one over the weekend.

There are growing calls from University of Ottawa students to increase mental health resources on campus in the wake of recent student deaths, including one over the weekend.

Men take their own lives three times more than women and they're much less likely to talk about their mental health struggles, so the Heads Up Guys website is trying to reduce the stigma around reaching out to others.

Over about 24 hours, a natural phenomenon near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, developed from a minor inconvenience into a potentially life-threatening hazard.

Is Sanders really a socialist? Is billionaire Michael Bloomberg really an oligarch? Does any of that matter for the November election?

A group of HIV/AIDS organizations is hoping to establish a new legal precedent that would keep people with HIV from facing criminal charges for non-disclosure if they use a condom during sex.

Canada’s new air passenger regulations mandating compensation for delayed or cancelled flights are off to a bumpy start. CBC News has been flooded with emails from passengers questioning why they were denied compensation.

Andrew Leach and Martin Olszynski lay out the facts and legal context surrounding the massive project, so you can come to your own, informed view about the federal cabinet's looming decision on the future of the proposed mine.

The Trudeau government has made its case for why a country like Canada should win a seat on the United Nations Security Council. There hasn't been any discussion of the drawbacks.

Alberta's Siksika Nation is lobbying a British museum to return clothing and other items that once belonged to Chief Crowfoot, who signed the historic Treaty 7 between Alberta First Nations and the Crown in 1877.

More than a dozen bison from Elk Island National Park will soon be on the move to northwestern Alberta. 

St. Louis defenceman and Edmonton native Jay Bouwmeester was hospitalized and undergoing tests early Wednesday after suffering a cardiac episode and collapsing on the bench during the first period of the Blues' game against the Ducks on Tuesday night.

The City of Calgary's integrity commissioner has recused himself from an investigation into a city councillor's expenses, because he said he dined with the councillor and the meal was expensed without his knowledge.