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Vina Nadjibulla said Monday that the year-and-a-half ordeal involving the detention of her husband Michael Kovrig in China had reached a point where "words are no longer enough."

Justin Bieber is denying allegations he sexually assaulted a woman in 2014. The Stratford, Ont.-born musician took to Twitter to defend himself as the allegations spread online.

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Joel Schumacher, the flamboyant journeyman director who dressed New York department store windows before shepherding the Brat Pack to the big screen in St. Elmo's Fire and steering the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, has died.

Audrey MacKinnon, of Brantford, won Canada's Junior Chef Showdown.

A group of community organizations are demanding the firing of a Peel Regional Police officer who fatally shot a 62-year-old man in a mental health crisis over the weekend.

A law that could warn people about a partner's violent past will come into force in Saskatchewan next Monday but the RCMP said they won't be taking part due to federal privacy concerns.

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says the central bank expects to see growth in the third quarter of this year as people are called back to work and households resume some of their normal activities with COVID-19 restrictions easing, but that recovery won't be straightforward.

While the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, health care professionals in Thunder Bay, Ont., are still dealing with a different, deadly public health issue - the opioid crisis.

The provincial government plans to build outdoor, all-season shelters at personal care homes to allow residents to safely visit their loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The latest migrant worker to die from COVID-19 on a southwestern Ontario farm has been identified as a 55-year-old father of four from Mexico.

At least five Edmonton restaurants have voluntarily closed their doors after staff or customers recently tested positive for COVID-19.

With much of the country struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still some good-news stories to report. Here's a brief roundup.

Tech-savvy groups opposing the president, including teens, TikTok users and fans of K-pop music, say they mobilized for more than a week to reserve tickets for Donald Trump's first campaign rally in three months — an event they had no intention of attending.

U.S. and Canadian energy firms cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating to a record low even as higher oil prices prompt some producers to start drilling again.

U.S. and Canadian energy firms cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating to a record low even as higher oil prices prompt some producers to start drilling again.

Kevin Parkinson, a wildfire operations officer in Alberta, ignites slow-burning forest fires with a special kind of ammunition — thousands of tiny fireballs shot from the air.

Archeologists have discovered a wide circle of deep pits surrounding an ancient settlement near Stonehenge, opening up new lines of investigation into the origins and meaning of the mysterious, prehistoric monument.

The English town of Reading held a minute's silence on Monday for the victims of a stabbing that killed three people including an American in the latest terrorism-linked attack.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today Canada will continue to link Beijing's decision to charge two Canadians with spying to the arrest of a Chinese tech executive, hours after China chided him to "stop making irresponsible remarks."

China's government has said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should "stop making irresponsible remarks" after he said Beijing's decision to charge two Canadians with spying was linked to Canada's arrest of a Chinese tech executive

Greg Ftoma is surprised his business has been jumping since May, despite an exceptionally slow March and April because of COVID-19.

The practice of conversion therapy — trying to change a person's sexual orientation, gender identity or expression through counselling, medication or prayer — is still widespread in Canada despite a growing movement to make it illegal, according to recent research published in the Canadian Journal of Psychology.

Why were some countries better able than others to control the spread of the coronavirus despite having similar measures? CBC News breaks down the numbers and speaks with some top experts to find out.

As more workplaces open up, Canadians are faced with the challenge of going back to work after being told for months that can be dangerous. Provincial data shows there's been a spike in the number of people who've tried to seek exemptions. But virtually none of those work refusals are being upheld.

Fourth-year medical students across Canada are reporting stress and 'agony' as the major standardized test that marks their transition from med school to residency has faced technical and communication problems.

B.C.'s COVID-19 death rate of approximately 33 deaths per million people is one of the lowest among jurisdictions in Canada, the U.S. and western Europe with populations of five million or more. Officials and health experts credit its success to a combination of sound decision-making and good fortune.

In the early weeks of its COVID-19 response, the federal government was insisting that border closures are ineffective against pandemics. Subsequent events have proven that theory to be wrong — and many experts are asking what Canada's late start cost us.

Five years after Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended sports programs reduce barriers and become more inclusive of Indigenous athletes, a panel of experts says not enough has been done to reach that goal.

The compressed four-day work week has gained renewed attention since COVID-19 changed the way people work. But some experts say employers should consider another type of four-day work week, one that allows employees to work fewer hours and get paid their same weekly salary.

A new poll from the Angus Reid Institute and the University of Alberta suggests the majority of people who identify as Chinese-Canadian have experience some type of racism since the pandemic began. 

The American Museum of Natural History will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objections that it symbolizes colonial expansion and racial discrimination, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday.

A noose was found in the garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace at the NASCAR race in Alabama on Sunday, less than two weeks after he successfully pushed the auto racing series to ban the Confederate flag at its tracks and facilities.

Authorities say the FBI is investigating the discovery of a noose found in the Talladega Superspeedway garage stall of Bubba Wallace, and the governor of Alabama condemned the act against NASCAR's only Black full-time driver.

Authorities said Monday that the FBI is investigating the discovery of a noose found in the Talladega Superspeedway garage stall of Bubba Wallace, and the governor of Alabama condemned the act against NASCAR's only Black full-time driver.

World-renowned infectious disease expert Dr. Gabriel Leung was among the first to predict the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic in January and he says the worst is far from over.

Mexico will resume sending temporary farmworkers to Canada after the two countries reached an agreement on improved safety protections for labourers on Canadian farms during the coronavirus pandemic, the Mexican government said on Sunday.

Iran's efforts to resume diplomatic relations with Canada — while the country is under international pressure to release flight information and conduct a transparent investigation into the downing of Flight 752 — has some worried that Iran is using the tragedy as a bargaining tool.