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An infant in St. Paul's Hospital neonatal intensive care unit has tested positive for COVID-19 but is showing no signs of illness, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonny Henry confirmed Friday.

The Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who organized pivotal civil rights campaigns and spent decades advocating for justice and equality, died Friday at the age of 95.

A personal assistant was arrested Friday in the death of a 33-year-old tech entrepreneur who was found dismembered inside his luxury Manhattan condo. Police said the assistant is believed to have owed his boss a significant amount of money.

Mr. Chi Pig, whose real name was Ken Chinn, has died at 57. He was the eccentric frontman of Canadian hardcore punk band SNFU, which formed in Edmonton in 1981.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau will provide details today of promised changes to the federal government's COVID-19 emergency wage subsidy program.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is proposing sweeping changes to the federal wage subsidy that would extend the program until the end of the year and open the program to more businesses.

A takeover proposal from the Cirque du Soleil's secured creditors has been approved as the benchmark bid for a court-supervised auction of the insolvent entertainment company.

The House of Commons ethics committee is meeting in Ottawa to decide if it should launch its own probe of the WE Charity scandal that has prompted the ethics commissioner to investigate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

The House of Commons ethics committee has punted a decision on whether it should launch its own probe of the WE Charity scandal to next week after Liberal MPs filibustered through part of the four-hour meeting.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court.

After weeks of wrangling, the Pentagon on Friday will ban displays of the Confederate flag on U.S. military installations, in a carefully worded policy that doesn't mention the word ban or that specific flag.

The three white men charged with the murder of a Black jogger in south Georgia pleaded not guilty Friday morning in Chatham County Superior Court, in a case that spurred a national outcry after cellphone video of the shooting appeared on the internet.

A University of Windsor law professor launched a "sustained attack" against her former colleague and offered no proof in court of her accusations that he sexually harassed and threatened and intimidated students, a court in Trinidad and Tobago has ruled.

The Canadian Armed Forces member accused of uttering threats against the prime minister and crashing the gate at Rideau Hall with a loaded firearm remains in custody as he awaits a bail hearing.

Princess Beatrice, the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, married her fiancé Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in Windsor, England, on Friday, in a small, COVID-19-secure ceremony attended by Queen Elizabeth.

The garage of a member of Pat Musitano's family had the word "rat" painted onto it while two cars sitting in the driveway were torched. It happened exactly a week after Musitano, the notorious Hamilton mobster, was shot to death.

Captain Tom Moore, the 100-year-old who became a national hero in Britain by raising millions of pounds for health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, will become "Sir Tom" on Friday when he is knighted by Queen Elizabeth.

Queen Elizabeth knighted Captain Tom Moore on Friday, recognizing the 100-year-old for lifting the spirits of Britain during the gloom of the novel coronavirus outbreak by raising millions of pounds for health workers.

Canada's top court will release a ruling on Friday that could order a new trial for a Sri Lankan national who was deported after his murder charge was stayed due to excessive court delays.

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an appeal by the Quebec Crown for a new trial in the case of a Sri Lankan national who was deported after his murder charge was stayed due to excessive court delays.

A lack of diversity in sports leadership positions has always been in full view, but it's come into sharp focus now. There is a sense the time has come to actually implement structural, tangible change. This time feels different. 

As an activist with an intense dislike for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pyotr Verzilov says having his Moscow apartment searched and his life turned upside down by police is something he's grown used to. But now he's accused of an unexpected crime.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is still convincing Canadians to play it safe when it comes to what the country should do in the fall if there's a second wave.

Health experts in Montreal — including ER doctors, epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists — are getting haircuts again and hanging out with friends, but many say it will take a vaccine before they feel safe going to a large wedding or playing a sport like hockey.

The coronavirus was expected to tear through the vulnerable population of Vancouver's impoverished Downtown Eastside. That didn't happen, and now a B.C. medical sleuth is trying to find out why. The results of antibody testing could provide new insight into the pandemic.

A preliminary analysis by CBC News suggests that, despite prevention measures such as releasing thousands of low-risk offenders, infection rates are still five times higher in provincial jails and up to nine times higher in federal facilities than in the general population.

Another Kelowna woman has filed a civil lawsuit against RCMP Cpl. Lacy Browning, claiming the officer assaulted her while she was walking home from a New Year's Eve party in 2016.

The Canadian military has created a new policy on hateful conduct to help identify and weed out members with links to white supremacist organizations or other hate groups. For the first time, the Canadian Armed Forces also has a formal definition for hateful conduct.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he's looking forward to the Toronto Blue Jays playing at Rogers Centre this season after a member of his government said the Major League Baseball team has been given the green light to play games at home.