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Via Rail is reinstating almost 50 per cent of its pre COVID-19 offering along the route.

The Ford government says it will spend $25 million to hire 200 more Ontario Provincial Police officers following a report on mental health, occupational stress injuries and suicide by members of the force — a move some are criticizing as tone-deaf at a time of mounting calls to defund the police.

Alberta's plan to reopen schools was based on the best COVID-19 evidence available from around the world, and took into account not just the illness but the wider consideration of overall public health, says the province's top doctor.

The U.S. government says the number of workers applying for unemployment benefits climbed back over one million last week after two weeks of declines, the latest evidence that the country's economy is still struggling amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Belarusian authorities on Thursday opened a criminal probe against opposition activists who set up a council to negotiate the transition of power amid massive protests challenging the extension of the 26-year rule of the country's authoritarian leader in a vote the opposition saw as rigged.

Shortly after Toronto had clinched its first NBA title last June in Oakland, Calif., Ratpors president Masai Ujiri became involved in an altercation with Alameda County sheriff's deputy Alan Strickland while trying to reach the court.

Shortly after Toronto had clinched its first NBA title last June in Oakland, Calif., Ratpors president Masai Ujiri became involved in an altercation with Alameda County sheriff's deputy Alan Strickland while trying to reach the court.

Matthew Vincent Raymond, the man accused of shooting and killing four people in New Brunswick two years ago, has been found fit to stand trial. He is charged with four counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths of two police constables and two civilians in August of 2018.

Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc are preparing to suspend their ride-hailing services in California beginning on Friday morning unless an appeals court rules at the last minute they cannot be forced to treat their drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors.

Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have won a temporary extension from a California appeals court in a case about whether the companies' drivers should be considered employees or independent contractors.

The federal and Ontario governments have convinced manufacturing giant 3M to start making N95 respirator masks at its plant in Brockville, Ont., a move that will give Canada a domestic supply of critical personal protective equipment, CBC News has learned.

A newly minted MP seeking the Conservative leadership, Derek Sloan hopes to rally what he says is a growing socially conservative base.

Analysts who cover Toronto-based waste management company GFL Environmental Inc. are for the most part dismissing damning allegations laid out by a short seller targeting the company, but based on the stock price. it's clear investors are not entirely convinced yet.

Analysts who cover Toronto-based waste management company GFL Environmental Inc. are for the most part dismissing damning allegations laid out by a short seller targeting the company, but based on the stock price it's clear investors are not entirely convinced yet.

Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than 1.25 metres of water, a new study said.

The federal government is extending the Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) by one more month and revamping the employment insurance program to allow more people to receive financial assistance during COVID-19.

The federal government will announce new measures today to help Canadians thrown out of work because of the global pandemic.

The federal government is extending the Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) by one more month and revamping the employment insurance program to allow more people to receive financial assistance during COVID-19.

Manitoba's Prairie Mountain Health region will face more restrictions as it moves to the orange level under the province's new pandemic response system, Dr. Brent Roussin says.

The blockades went up following arrests at the McKenzie Meadows residential development. Demonstrators set up camp and began occupying the site 32 days ago, saying it's unceded Haudenosaunee territory and renaming it 1492 Land Back Land.

The blockades went up following arrests at the McKenzie Meadows residential development. Demonstrators set up camp and began occupying the site 32 days ago, saying it's unceded Haudenosaunee territory and renaming it 1492 Land Back Land.

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet takes questions as his party wraps a two-day caucus meeting.

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme "We Build The Wall."

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday and pleaded not guilty to charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online scheme ostensibly raising funds for U.S. President Donald Trump's wall on the Mexico-U.S. border.

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme "We Build The Wall."

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme "We Build The Wall."

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online scheme ostensibly raising funds for U.S. President Donald Trump's wall on the Mexico-U.S. border.

A B.C. judge says recreational athletes should be punished no differently than professionals for resorting to criminal levels of violence against their opponents.

Though dozens of B.C. wildfires continue to burn, one evacuation alert has been lifted in the southeast of the province.

Though dozens of B.C. wildfires continue to burn, one evacuation alert has been lifted in the southeast of the province.

Though dozens of B.C. wildfires continue to burn, one evacuation alert has been lifted in southeastern B.C. after progress was made on a wildfire that chewed through four square kilometres of bush and threatened homes close to the southern interior community of Beaverdell.

The B.C. Wildfire Service says the Doctor Creek fire, about 25 kilometres southwest of Canal Flats, is estimated to be four square kilometres and expected to grow.

Schools will not look the same as when they shut down in March, featuring distanced desks and a lot more hand sanitizer.

A man who helped his elder brother carry out a suicide bomb attack that killed 22 people at the end of a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in the English city of Manchester has been jailed for at least 55 years.

Belarusian authorities on Thursday opened a criminal probe against opposition activists who set up a council to negotiate the transition of power amid massive protests challenging the extension of the 26-year rule of the country's authoritarian leader in a vote the opposition saw as rigged.

The Alberta government passed two temporary amendments to hunting regulations earlier this month in an effort to increase business for guides and outfitters, an industry that has struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Although 17-year-old Emily Mandamin is the first person from Iskatewizaagegan First Nation to earn a basketball scholarship, she is determined to make sure she isn’t the last from her tiny northwestern Ontario community of approximately 300 people.

The U.S. state of Michigan says it has reached a preliminary settlement to pay $600 million US to victims of the Flint water crisis, potentially closing a chapter on one of that country's worst public health crises in recent memory.

Michigan will pay $600 million US to compensate Flint residents whose health was damaged by lead-tainted drinking water after the city heeded state regulators' advice not to treat it properly, an attorney involved in the negotiations has told The Associated Press.

On a dark and moonless night during the U.S. Civil War, the Confederate ship Tallahassee was in trouble and sought safe harbour in Halifax. A century and a half later, the Tallahassee is navigating difficult waters once again.

Students from outside the Atlantic bubble who want to return to Nova Scotia campuses this fall will be expected to self-isolate before venturing out into their communities. To ease the transition, schools will be performing many services for students.

Nearly a dozen landlords in the Greater Toronto Area are struggling, or have struggled, to evict the same tenant from their single-family homes after he turned each of their properties into an illegal rooming house for up to 20 people — and stopped paying rent.

Former cabinet minister Peter MacKay has raised $3.1 million, according to the latest filings, with an increase in his fundraising over July and August.

Canadian educators are in a crunch now trying to figure out a safe return to class amid the shifting reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, but for Ontario — which includes the country's largest public school board — implementing a major math update for Grades 1 through 8 is another complicating factor in the mix.

How do key Black swing-state voters view Kamala Harris, aiming to be the first Black and female vice-president? It's complicated. Here are three takeaways from conversations in North Milwaukee, a predominantly African American area that could decide the election.

The federal government has spent more than $37 million to cover the cost of housing travellers returning to Canada who lack a safe place to quarantine for 14 days. Eleven hotel sites have been set up across the country, each with its own health-care staff and security.

Colombians who fled to Canada during of decades of armed conflict in the Latin American country country are now telling their stories of displacement and violence to the Colombian Truth Commission. The effort aims to understand what happened, and help it never happen again.

CBC News invited all four federal Conservative Party leadership candidates to write about the key ideas in their platform, why Canada needs these ideas now and what actions they would prioritize in their first 100 days as leader of the nation if their party forms the next government.

Thousands of pages of internal government records related to the We Charity contract were released Monday evening. CBC News has scoured the contents. Below are some of the highlights. 

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was in a coma in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after drinking a cup of tea that his spokeswoman said she believed was laced with poison.