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Public Safety Minister Bill Blair spoke with RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki about systemic racism in Canada’s federal police force one day after she struggled to define the term and dodged questions about whether it existed within her organization, CBC News has learned.

The death of Rodney Levi of the Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation in an RCMP shooting Friday night in New Brunswick continues to put the focus on police relations with Indigenous communities in Canada.

Anti-racism protesters lined up along the east and west ends of the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts early Saturday morning for a rally in support of Black Lives Matter and defunding police forces.

Anti-racism protesters lined up along the east and west ends of the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts early Saturday morning for a rally in support of Black Lives Matter and defunding police forces.

Metepenagiag First Nation Chief Bill Ward is demanding answers after a member of the community in New Brunswick, 48-year-old Rodney Levi, was shot and killed by the RCMP on Friday evening. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a group of young lawyers to launch a project to offer free legal advice remotely to anyone in the country.

Sprinter Andre De Grasse was the recipient of two Athletics Canada awards Saturday, including the Jack W. Davies Trophy as 2019 athlete of the year. He was also named top track athlete while pole vaulter and Canadian-record holder Alysha Newman is field athlete of the year.

The federal government should consider Criminal Code amendments on how jury trials function to deal with the massive caseload backlog caused by COVID-19 disruptions, Canada's top judge told CBC News.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, solidarity demonstrations were being held in a number of cities around the world on Saturday.

Hundreds of far-right activists scuffled with police in central London's Parliament Square on Saturday while holding a counter-protest to a demonstration supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.

Far-right activists scuffled with police and other protesters Saturday in London and Paris as more demonstrations in support of Black Lives Matter unfolded across Europe. In the U.S., a police shooting drew people to the scene where a man was killed outside an Atlanta fast-food restaurant.

After a wet, late spring and an early, snowy fall, farmers last year were turning to grain-dryers more than usual and upped their lobbying efforts to get grain-drying exempted from the carbon tax.

Longtime hunter Jamil Gotmy isn't surprised when he hears more Albertans are taking up hunting than anywhere else in Canada or the U.S.

Healing walks are being held across New Brunswick this weekend in memory of Chantel Moore, the 26-year-old Indigenous woman shot and killed by police in Edmundston.

Healing walks are being held across New Brunswick this weekend in memory of Chantel Moore, the 26-year-old Indigenous woman shot and killed by police in Edmundston.

Hundreds gathered in cities across New Brunswick and in Halifax on Saturday afternoon to take part in a healing walk in honour of Chantel Moore, the 26-year-old Indigenous woman shot and killed by police in Edmundston, N.B.

Several neighbourhoods near a market in Beijing are in lockdown after a new cluster of novel coronavirus infections. Here's what's happening with COVID-19 around the world.

The novel coronavirus has infected more than 7.7 million people worldwide and killed more than 426,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Here's what's happening with COVID-19 around the world.

Island mothers share their experiences of the joys and heartbreaks of raising biracial daughters in a world that doesn't always accept them.

Speaking out in the wake of her son Tyler Pittman's death, Helen Pittman shares the struggle of caring for a loved one with mental illness.

Following weeks of anti-racism protests, rallies and vigils across Canada and around the world, libraries in Nova Scotia say they're seeing a big increase in demand for anti-racism books.

Testing negative for the coronavirus isn't a guarantee that you don't have COVID-19, and experts say the high rate of false negatives could mean many cases aren’t being caught.

As more people begin to spend time outdoors, the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting the need for more public washrooms in communities across Canada.

U.S. President Donald Trump turned to a timeworn playbook as race-related unrest swept the streets, down to tweeting old Richard Nixon catchphrases about law and order. But the old playbook isn't working. His poll numbers are down. And the country has changed since 1968.

Canadians have been grappling with the question of how the law should tackle hatred for more than half a century. If the courts are any indication, they’ve yet to come up with a consistent answer.

Some student groups say their members have questions about which emergency benefits they're eligible for, while others may not even realize they can apply.

As protests calling for police reform and an end to systemic racism continue, activists and community leaders say the energy on the streets is shifting into local grassroots organizing focused on changing policies.

We're all in this together. That's what we've told ourselves. But it's becoming increasingly clear that the pandemic's effects are not being borne equally by all Canadians — and the working poor are taking the brunt.

As the film and television industry reopens across the country, production companies are initiating new safety protocols. Face shields, frequent testing and worker pods are all on the table to protect casts and crews from COVID-19.

After a Belleville, Ont., police officer's photos with a Confederate flag sparked outrage earlier this month, some Ontario residents say it's time to ban the racist symbol altogether.

Canada's first parliamentary budget officer says the Liberal government has no good reason to withhold a fiscal update — not even the economic uncertainty generated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to [email protected] and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday online and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network.

When it comes to the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, the comparison between Canada and Australia is shocking. Australia has suffered four deaths per million residents compared to more than 212 in Canada. 

The chief of a Mi'kmaq First Nation in New Brunswick says an RCMP officer fatally shot one of his community members Friday evening.

The Ontario government is set to provide funding to cash-strapped child-care centres, which were given the green light to reopen as of Friday as the province continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Officers across the U.S. have used tear gas, pepper spray and other less-lethal weapons against crowds that have demonstrated against racism and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

CBC is suspending the remaining season of the news program The Weekly following host Wendy Mesley's suspension for an "incident" during an editorial discussion about race.

CBC is suspending the remaining season of the news program The Weekly following host Wendy Mesley's suspension for an "incident" during an editorial discussion about race.

While non-essential travel between Canada and the United States is presently closed, some Banff residents say they've seen Texas, California and even New York licence plates in town recently.

Thursday evening's weekly call between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers was marked by testy exchanges over the federal government's pledge of $14 billion to help provinces reopen their economies and the future of the military in Quebec's long-term care facilities, according to sources with knowledge of the call.

International movie theatre chain Cineworld PLC says its deal to buy Cineplex Inc. for $2.8 billion is off, claiming that "certain breaches" of the contract were made by the Canadian company.

U.K.-based Cineworld PLC says it has terminated its $2.8-billion takeover of Canadian movie theatre chain Cineplex Inc. after "certain breaches" of the acquisition deal.

A fly-in First Nation in northern Ontario has its second case of COVID-19, creating a "crisis within a crisis" in the community, which is already reeling from the deaths of three members since Sunday, according to the community's leadership.