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The war of words between Conservative leadership candidates Peter MacKay and Erin O'Toole over a claim that MacKay's team stole confidential campaign data continues to heat up — and some experienced party strategists are warning that the public brawl threatens the Conservative brand itself.

A group of high-profile Canadians, including former parliamentarians and senior diplomats, say Justice Minister David Lametti should end extradition proceedings for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to give Canada a chance to "re-define its strategic approach to China."

Jarome Iginla will headline the Hockey Hall of Fame's class of 2020. The Calgary Flames icon and former captain was in his first year of eligibility following a standout career that spanned from 1996 to 2017.

A prosecutor on Wednesday announced that three men have been indicted on murder charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia.

The organization shut down its spring training complex last Friday in Dunedin, Fla., after a player presented symptoms consistent with the virus.

Several players and staff members on the Toronto Blue Jays have tested positive for the coronavirus, a source has told The Canadian Press.

WestJet has laid off 3,333 workers and is planning to consolidate and contract out much of its operations as the pandemic continues to sink the majority of demand for air travel.

More than a dozen senators — including several appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — are calling on the federal government to impose sanctions on Chinese officials for "gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms."

Toronto and Peel officially enter Stage 2 of the pandemic reopening framework. Windsor-Essex remains the only region not cleared to move to the next phase, due to stubbornly high COVID-19 case numbers among migrant workers on farms.

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Canada's credit rating to AA+ from AAA, citing the federal government's move to borrow about a quarter of a trillion dollars to prop the economy up during the pandemic lockdown.

Canadian authorities knew that accused Liberian war criminal Bill Horace was alive and well and living in Ontario for at least a decade. The reason he was never prosecuted might lie in the fact Canada spends only slightly more on pursuing war criminals than it did on refrigerators for Loblaws in 2019.

A Waterloo woman says she received a racist flyer in the mail at her apartment near Wilfrid Laurier University. Police are investigating.

The caddies for Brooks Koepka and Graeme McDowell have tested positive for the coronavirus, leading both major champions to withdraw Wednesday from the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.

Brooks Koepka and Webb Simpson were among five players who withdrew from the Travelers Championship, four of them out of an abundance of caution over the coronavirus that put the PGA Tour on notice.

NASCAR is defending its reaction to the discovery of a rope that resembled a noose in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace and insists it would call the FBI again. Wallace, who is Black, says there is no confusion and the rope had been fashioned into a noose.

The four Atlantic provinces have agreed to open their borders to each other on July 3, the Council of Atlantic Premiers announced Wednesday. The agreement means travellers within the Atlantic provinces will not be required to self-isolate after crossing the borders.

The four Atlantic provinces have agreed to open their borders to each other.

The Toronto International Film Festival, one of the leading launching pads for fall movies and Oscar contenders, on Wednesday announced plans for a smaller 2020 edition that will include in-person and digital movie screenings, drive-ins and virtual red carpet premieres.

A northern Alberta First Nation says charges have been dropped against its chief, who was the subject of a violent arrest earlier this year.

A northern Alberta Indigenous leader whose violent arrest was caught on R-C-M-P dash-cam video is due in court today.

A northern Alberta Indigenous leader whose violent arrest was caught on RCMP dashcam video is scheduled to appear in court today in Fort McMurray.

The International Monetary Fund has sharply lowered its forecast for global growth this year, because it envisions far more severe economic damage from the coronavirus than it did just two months ago.

A former inmate at a correctional facility in Prince George, B.C., is suing two corrections officers, claiming they left him to ride with the body of a fellow inmate after the man died during a transfer to another facility in the province.

Russian President Vladimir Putin reviewed a spectacular Red Square military parade on Wednesday, a patriotic display critics said was designed to lift his lower-than-usual ratings on the eve of a countrywide vote that could extend his rule until 2036.

Toronto and Peel officially enter Stage 2 of the pandemic reopening framework. Windsor-Essex remains the only region not cleared to move to the next phase, due to stubbornly high COVID-19 case numbers among migrant workers on farms in the region.

Toronto and Peel officially enter Stage 2 of the pandemic reopening framework. Windsor-Essex remains the only region not cleared to move to the next phase, due to stubbornly high COVID-19 case numbers among migrant workers on farms in the region.

Toronto and Peel officially enter Stage 2 of the pandemic reopening framework. Windsor-Essex remains the only region not cleared to move to the next phase, due to stubbornly high COVID-19 case numbers among migrant workers on farms in the region.

The European Union hopes to reopen borders for outsiders from July, but will review the COVID-19 situations of individual nations biweekly, according to diplomats and a document laying out criteria that could keep Americans and Russians out.

The wife of a Cree man whose forceful arrest by Winnipeg police was widely publicized says he is suffering and needs help for his meth addiction, not to be kicked by officers or locked up in jail.

Some Canadians are receiving smaller pandemic emergency benefit payments than they had anticipated — because they received larger payments when the aid first began to roll out.

U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to recast a low turnout at a rally in Tulsa, Okla., on the weekend as he sets out on another campaign swing in Arizona and Wisconsin this week.

The pandemic is a real-time laboratory for testing the economic and political limits of government deficit spending in a crisis. One lesson learned so far is that the governments that stepped up quickly with big rescue packages have tended to be the ones keeping the damage done by job losses to a minimum.

Canadian health officials continue to recommend people stay two metres apart from others to curb COVID-19 as the economy reopens, while the distancing rule is changing in Britain.

Sandra Barker-Schmidt and her husband, Dean, are calling on the Saskatchewan school system to do more to combat racism two years after their son died by suicide following several race-related bullying incidents.

If the Trump administration buys the argument that Canadian aluminum exports have surged and slaps a ten per cent tariff back on products imported from Canada, the move could end up hurting Americans instead, warns the head of the association representing Canada's aluminum producers.

News of the United States slamming its door shut on broad categories of foreign workers has unleashed bewilderment from the border to the boardrooms. Immigration lawyers are now untangling what it means for Canadians.

News of the United States slamming its door shut on broad categories of foreign workers has unleashed bewilderment from the border to the boardrooms. Immigration lawyers say Canadians will be exempt.

Ejaz Choudry. D’Andre Campbell. Rodney Levi. In the last few weeks, several Canadians struggling with their mental health have been shot and killed by police after authorities were called. Today on Front Burner, Jennifer Lavoie, a criminology professor who helps train police on how to handle mental health calls, talks to Josh Bloch about why this issue persists, and how it can be stopped.

Carole Dawson, a longtime champion of Indigenous health and rights in B.C., has died of COVID-19, according to the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC).

Carole Dawson, a longtime champion of Indigenous health and rights in B.C., has died from COVID-19, according to the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC).

Veteran conservative politician Jay Hill has been named interim leader of the separatist Wexit Canada party, following the resignation of founder Peter Downing.

Major League Baseball issued a 60-game schedule Tuesday night that will start July 23 or 24 in empty ballparks as the sport tries to push ahead amid the coronavirus following months of acrimony.

Seasoned jurists say the Canadian government has every legal right to intervene to free Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou from her extradition trial to the U.S. But some experts say such an action could have significant political ramifications.

Canada's largest psychiatric facility is throwing its support behind mounting calls to remove officers from the front lines for people in mental health emergencies.

The noose found hanging in Bubba Wallace's garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway had been there since at least last October, federal authorities said Tuesday in announcing there will be no charges filed in an incident that rocked NASCAR.

After social media users expressed outrage Tuesday that an "All Lives Matter" shirt was for sale on Walmart Canada's website, the company said it was investigating.