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An outbreak of COVID-19 at a Calgary jail has now jumped to 55 cases, a notable increase after the outbreak was initially reported Thursday.

An outbreak of COVID-19 at a Calgary jail has now jumped to 55 cases, a notable increase after the outbreak was initially reported Thursday.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Toronto ahead of severe thunderstorms expected to arrive Friday night. Tornado warnings have also been issued for Barrie, Orillia, Collingwood, Hillsdale, Midland and Coldwater.

Nigeria's president says 51 civilians have been killed in unrest following days of peaceful protests over police abuses, and he blames "hooliganism" for the violence while asserting that security forces have used "extreme restraint."

Facing increased pressure to protect woodland caribou herds, the federal and Alberta governments have signed a conservation agreement aimed at restoring dwindling herds in the province.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde is calling on RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to resign after she defended the response of RCMP officers to an ongoing dispute between Mi'kmaw lobster harvesters and non-Indigenous commercial fishers in Nova Scotia.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde is calling on RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to resign days after she defended the response of RCMP officers to an ongoing dispute between Mi'kmaw lobster harvesters and non-Indigenous commercial fishers in Nova Scotia.

Ontario Provincial Police cruisers watched from a distance Friday morning as a backhoe dug up a road in Caledonia, Ont., by the entrance to a First Nations land reclamation camp that has put a halt to a planned housing development.

Nunavut MLA Patterk Netser has been removed from cabinet, after a vote 14 to 3 by his fellow MLAs in the legislator on Friday morning.

Nunavut MLA Patterk Netser has been removed from cabinet, after a vote 14 to 3 by his fellow MLAs in the legislature on Friday morning.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, ministers and public health officials provide update on COVID-19.

Retailer Le Château is seeking court protection from its creditors while it winds down its operations and liquidates its assets.

Retailer Le Château is seeking court protection from its creditors while it winds down its operations and liquidates its assets.

The Trudeau government says there will be upheaval at the Canada-U. S. border early next year if a refugee pact between the two countries is allowed to expire.

The Ottawa police hate crime unit is looking for a man suspected of carving a message into the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier last week.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic downturn, Alberta oil companies have been producing well below the established production limits for several months.

Pandemic border restrictions are blocking Americans from taking a nearly barren road in southeastern Manitoba into the Northwest Angle, an isolated slice of their own country.

Pandemic border restrictions are blocking Americans from taking a nearly barren road in southeastern Manitoba into the Northwest Angle, an isolated slice of their own country.

A lobster processor in southwest Nova Scotia says he's willing to purchase lobster harvested under commercial licences held by the Sipekne'katik band in part of the Bay of Fundy where the commercial season is open.

Calvin Hoover, who died by suicide in 2015, will never know that it was his own distant relatives' use of a genealogy website that helped police and forensic genealogists label him as a Christine Jessop's murderer.

Ontario’s large cities may be left scrambling to find space for their garbage because of new legislation that makes it much harder to build landfills in the province.

Ontario’s large cities may be left scrambling to find space for their garbage because of new legislation that makes it much harder to build landfills in the province.

The UN’s Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance lays out “the greatest commercial opportunity of our times” and where Canada can lead.

As the second COVID-19 wave ramped up in August and September, Quebec's provincial government targeted social gatherings as the main culprit. Six weeks later, it is turning its attentions to workplaces, which account for just under half the active outbreaks.

While Canada is still faring better than many countries, it has lost its coveted image as a nation widely recognized as having flattened the COVID-19 curve after EU removes Canadians from its list of approved travellers.

Transport Canada has concluded CP Rail failed to properly identify safety hazards in the B.C. mountains following a workplace fatality investigation into a train derailment which killed three workers, CBC News has learned.

A data analysis of the most serious breaches of Ontario’s long-term care home safety legislation reveals that six in seven care homes are repeat offenders, and there are virtually no consequences for homes that break that law repeatedly.

The chief negotiators of the United Kingdom and the European Union will meet on Friday for intensive negotiations on a last-minute trade deal that would stave off a tumultuous finale to the five-year Brexit crisis.

Protesters gathered across Poland on Thursday after the Constitutional Tribunal ruled that abortion due to fetal defects was unconstitutional, banning the most common of the few legal grounds for ending a pregnancy in the largely Catholic country.

Special coverage tonight as Donald Trump and Joe Biden square off in the final debate of 2020.

Russian hackers have targeted the networks of dozens of state and local governments in the United States in recent days, stealing data from at least two servers, said U.S. officials.

Quebec Premier François Legault’s popularity is due in part to how he’s navigated the relationship between language and race, often playing one against the other. But in addressing the uOttawa controversy, he is risking political capital when it comes to confronting a movement demanding systemic change.