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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday hailed developments in the race for a COVID-19 vaccine as he delivered his first public remarks since his defeat by president-elect Joe Biden, even as he refuses to concede the election.

Canadian kids anxiously awaiting a visit with Santa Claus at their local mall will have to settle for a very different experience this year.

Thick mud and debris coated many villages around Manila on Friday after a typhoon killed at least 42 people and caused extensive flooding that sent people fleeing to their roofs, officials said.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is poised to send a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday evening in NASA's first operational mission using the Crew Dragon capsule.

Uline CEO Liz Uihlein and her husband, Dick, have told employees they have contracted COVID-19, leading to speculation that the couple, who are top Republican donors, might have been at the White House "superspreader" event on U.S. election night.

Uline CEO Liz Uihlein, a U.S. billionaire who was granted a special exemption from Canada's 14-day pandemic quarantine in August despite her public criticism of COVID-19 restrictions, has now contracted the disease.

Uline CEO Liz Uihlein, a U.S. billionaire who was granted a special exemption from Canada's 14-day pandemic quarantine in August despite her public criticism of COVID-19 restrictions, has now contracted the disease.

Montreal police sources have confirmed that a 911 call placed to police that resulted in a major police operation at the Mile End Ubisoft offices was a hoax. 

Montreal police have set up a perimeter at the corner of St-Laurent Blvd. and St-Viateur Street.

Images show dozens of people on the roof of the red-brick building on St-Laurent Blvd., and the door opening onto the roof barricaded from the outside with large objects. 

The 911 call that sent police and ambulances to the offices of a Montreal gaming company on Friday was a hoax, police sources have confirmed. 

The 911 call that sent police and ambulances to the offices of a Montreal gaming company on Friday was a hoax, police sources have confirmed. 

Dutch students have created a fully functioning electric car made entirely out of waste, including plastics fished out of the sea, recycled plastic bottles and unsorted household garbage.

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. is seeing significantly higher sales across all of its brands of grocery stores, enough to hike the company's dividend to shareholders even as it sticks by a decision to roll back a $2-per-hour pay bump for workers.

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. is seeing significantly higher sales across all of its brands of grocery stores, enough to hike the company's dividend to shareholders even as it sticks by a decision to roll back a $2-per-hour pay bump for workers.

The antiviral drug remdesivir should not be used as a routine treatment for COVID-19 patients in critical care wards, the head of one of the world's top bodies representing intensive care doctors said, in a blow to the drug developed by U.S. firm Gilead.

The Miami Marlins announced on Friday that they have hired Kim Ng as their new general manager. Ng becomes the first female general manager in Major League Baseball history and the highest-ranking woman team executive in the major leagues.

China on Friday became one of the last major countries to congratulate U.S. president-elect Joe Biden.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has backed down from its previous order for Chinese-owned video-sharing platform TikTok to sell its assets in the U.S. or shut itself down.

The Trump administration granted ByteDance a 15-day extension of a divestiture order that had directed the Chinese company to sell its TikTok short video-sharing app by Thursday, the company said in a court filing on Friday.

Western Canadians tired of isolating at home are filling the slopes at mountain ski resorts that have opened earlier than usual thanks to abundant snow and cold temperatures and despite worries about surging cases of COVID-19.

The change comes after Premier Doug Ford's government came under fire in recent days for its system being too lenient, while case counts in Ontario surged to record levels.

Premier Doug Ford will be joined by the province’s health minister and top doctor Friday after hearing a loud, clear warning that Ontario faces more than 6,000 COVID-19 cases per day by mid-December if it doesn’t add more public health restrictions.

The change comes after Premier Doug Ford's government came under fire in recent days for its system being too lenient, while case counts in Ontario surged to record levels.

Premier Doug Ford will be joined by the province’s health minister and top doctor Friday after hearing a loud, clear warning that Ontario faces more than 6,000 COVID-19 cases per day by mid-December if it doesn’t add more public health restrictions.

Sumner Matheson was tending to his garden outside his home on the Appin Road in Bonshaw, P.E.I. when he discovered something huge.

According to Radio-Canada's reporting, a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system installed on police car dashboards crashed while officers were searching for the suspect on Oct. 31. 

According to Radio-Canada's reporting, a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system installed on police car dashboards crashed while officers were searching for the suspect on Oct. 31. 

Quebec Premier François Legault says schools might have to close this winter, extending the holiday break in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 which is showing the highest rate of transmission in schools and workplaces.

The federal government is set to introduce climate accountability legislation as early as next week to formally commit Canada to its target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how scientists go about tracking Arctic animals in an era of climate change and why so many tampon applicators end up on beaches.

Unlike the U.S., Canada's Constitution divides symbolic from actual executive authority, writes Eric M. Adams.

Public health officials have said masks are critical to reducing the spread of COVID-19, but rigorous tests conducted on behalf of CBC's Marketplace found that while some work very well, others offer little protection from particles that transmit the novel coronavirus. And one type of mask can even spread the particles to others.

Is there a way a president can pardon himself if he's convicted of a crime while still in office? Could the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the election results? Can the Electoral College can go against popular vote? What happens if you die after casting your ballot? Here are the answers to your latest questions about the 2020 U.S. election.

President-elect Joe Biden has won the battleground state of Arizona, dealing another blow to President Donald Trump's struggling effort to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 presidential election.

President-elect Joe Biden has won the battleground state of Arizona, dealing another blow to President Donald Trump's struggling effort to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 presidential election.

In an effort to claw back the public health-care costs incurred by the opioid crisis, Canada's provinces have filed a $67.4-billion US claim against OxyContin producer Purdue Pharma. 

The National for November 12: The second wave hits Canada hard as COVID-19 modelling shows alarming rates of spread in Ontario and B.C.

Based on her time working with Joe Biden in the White House, Jarrett says she hopes the qualities she knows the president-elect possesses will help him heal divisions in the U.S.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting on Thursday that former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company's policies to justify his suspension when he urged beheading two senior U.S. officials, according to a recording heard by Reuters.

Minnesota regulators granted a stack of important permits and approvals Thursday for Enbridge Energy's planned Line 3 pipeline replacement across northern Minnesota, setting the long-delayed $2.6 billion project on the road toward beginning construction soon.

DFO considering "area-based management" would could mean different rules for different areas of the B.C. coast.

Conservative MP and former party leadership candidate Derek Sloan is asking his supporters to send him money to "protect Canada's kids" from a proposed law that would ban some aspects of so-called conversion therapy.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies are waging a four-front attack on the U.S. election result. It's doomed to fail, but the unusual gambit underscores how abnormal a moment this is in American democracy.

The Ontario Labour Relations Board has ruled in favour of migrant worker Luis Gabriel Flores Flores and against the farm that fired him after he spoke out in the media about health and safety issues and farm living conditions amid a COVID-19 outbreak.