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Gillian McIntosh, who gave birth via C-section, had been in an induced coma and on a ventilator because of COVID-19 since November.

Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough said today she feels "bad" for Canadians who applied for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit thinking that they met the minimum income requirement, only to learn they might now have to repay thousands of dollars.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is walking back comments he made to Ryerson University students claiming the residential school system was designed to "provide education" to Indigenous children before it went off the rails and became a "horrible program."

Tom Cruise has launched an expletive-laden rant at colleagues on the set of his latest Mission: Impossible movie. In audio released Wednesday, the actor can be heard warning that anyone caught not following the rules to stay at least two metres away from others will be fired.

Multiple provinces administered their first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, but a top health official warned that the country's vaccination campaign doesn't spell the immediate end of the pandemic.

COVID-19 has killed more people in Alberta than the last 10 flu seasons combined, and the number of Albertans aged 20-39 diagnosed with COVID-19 would fill three of the province's stadiums. The sobering statistics were offered by Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw Wednesday, as she urged people to take the virus seriously.

Texas, backed by nine other states, filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.-owned Google on Wednesday, accusing it of breaking antitrust law in how it runs its online advertising business.

The federal government has announced a plan to increase the use of hydrogen as a low-carbon fuel to help meet its climate targets.

A French court has delivered guilty verdicts to 14 accomplices in the January 2015 Paris attacks, which included a deadly shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine and a hostage taking at a Jewish supermarket. The attacks left 17 people and the three gunmen dead.

Environment Canada has released its top 10 weather stories of the year — complete with hailstorms and "snowmageddon" — and no part of Canada was spared.

The Canadian government will allow seasonal farm workers from Trinidad and Tobago who are stranded in Canada to apply for open work permits so they can access health care and employment insurance while they wait to go home.

More than five years after Myles Gray died in a confrontation with Vancouver police officers, his family has learned that none of the officers involved will face charges in his death.

Canadian international Jordyn Huitema scored in Paris Saint-Gemain's 6-1 romp over Poland's Gornik Leczna on Wednesday in the second leg of their round-of-32 Women's Champions League tie. PSG advanced 8-1 on aggregate.

Police in Berlin raided homes and jewelry shops on Wednesday as part of their investigation into the theft of a Canadian gold coin worth millions of dollars. Police believe it may have been melted down and forged into smaller collector coins.

An Ontario Provincial Police officer is facing fraud charges after a three-month investigation into the theft of Wayne Gretzky memorabilia from the home of the hockey legend's father, Walter Gretzky, also uncovered an alleged fraud involving a Gretzky hockey stick.

Police are investigating after a woman wearing a hijab was assaulted at the Southgate LRT station, the second high-profile attack on women wearing hijabs in Edmonton this month.

Dr. Jeffrey Betcher, a critical care physician in Regina, was among the first in Saskatchewan to be inoculated against COVID-19 and sees a door opening that will end the pandemic.

The federal government says it has signed an agreement with the United States to send a Canadian astronaut around the moon.

Government officials will be providing more details about Canada's mass inoculation program later today, following news the country could receive tens of thousands of more doses by month's end.

Aphria Inc. of Leamington, Ont., and Nanaimo, B.C.-based Tilray Inc., announced early Wednesday they are merging in an all-stock deal that will create the world's top pot producer based on sales.

The search for five fishermen has stretched into its second day, after a scallop vessel went missing in the Bay of Fundy early Tuesday morning. The body of one of the six crew members was found late Tuesday evening.

The search for five fishermen has stretched into its second day, after a scallop vessel went missing in the Bay of Fundy early Tuesday morning. The body of one of the six crew members was found late Tuesday evening.

The search for five fishermen has stretched into its second day, after a scallop vessel went missing in the Bay of Fundy early Tuesday morning. The body of one of the six crew members was found late Tuesday evening.

The search has ended for five missing fishermen after 36 hours of looking for the crew of the lost scallop boat, the Chief William Saulis, in the Bay of Fundy.

The search has ended for five missing fishermen after 36 hours of looking for the crew of the lost scallop boat, the Chief William Saulis, in the Bay of Fundy.

The search for the crew of missing Nova Scotia scallop boat the Chief William Saulis ended Wednesday after teams spent 36 hours looking in the Bay of Fundy for the six men. One body was recovered, and the RCMP will now handle what has become a missing persons investigation.

The search has ended for five missing fishermen after 36 hours of looking for the crew of the lost scallop boat, the Chief William Saulis, in the Bay of Fundy.

The search has ended for five missing fishermen after 36 hours of looking for the crew of the lost scallop boat, the Chief William Saulis, in the Bay of Fundy.

As news of fashion mogul Peter Nygard's arrest became public, it gave Serena Hickes the courage to come forward for the first time instead of "taking her secret to the grave."

The search for a master sailor who went missing in the waters west of San Francisco has been called off, the Canadian military says.

MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has announced that she has given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of a giving pledge she announced last year.

MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has announced that she has given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of a giving pledge she announced last year.

The initial scarcity of the COVID-19 vaccine has prompted some to express concerns that those with wealth, power and celebrity may be able use their position to cut in line to get a dose. But the tight controls placed on the initial rollout could make queue-jumping challenging, say some experts.

The association representing hundreds of Ontario retirement homes wants the province to step up its COVID-19 testing guidelines to bring them more in line with the same rules in place for long-term care homes.

After the high of watching the first Quebecers receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, the province hit another low on Tuesday as Premier François Legault announced he was tightening the lockdown. 

The association representing hundreds of Ontario retirement homes wants the province to step up its COVID-19 testing guidelines to bring them more in line with the same rules in place for long-term care homes.

If Calgary's mayor has his way, local restaurants won't have to pay delivery apps sky-high fees for connecting you with their ginger beef or pho.

If Calgary's mayor has his way, local restaurants won't have to pay delivery apps sky-high fees for connecting you with their ginger beef or pho.

Chief Darren Blaney of the Homalco First Nation on B.C.'s Central Coast says the river system that drains into Bute Inlet is important to the area's chum, coho and pink salmon. A huge landslide swept through the river valley in late November.

In a year-end interview with CBC News, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said he does not believe Iran’s destruction of Flight PS752 can be blamed on human error. He also said that if Canada imposes sanctions on China, it would do so in concert with international allies.

A scientific expedition high in the Bolivian Andes revealed 20 species new to science, including the "lilliputian frog" plus four rediscovered species including the "devil-eyed frog" previously thought to be extinct, Conservation International said.

A cluster of COVID-19 cases at the Big White resort community near Kelowna, B.C., has grown to 60 confirmed cases, according to the Interior Health Authority.

A cluster of COVID-19 cases at the Big White resort community near Kelowna, B.C., has grown to 60 confirmed cases, according to the Interior Health Authority.

A cluster of COVID-19 cases linked to the Big White resort community near Kelowna, B.C., has grown to 60 confirmed cases, according to the Interior Health Authority.