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U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris offered solace to Asian Americans and denounced the scourge of racism at times hidden "in plain sight" as they visited Atlanta on Friday, just days after a white gunman killed eight people, most of them Asian-American women.

In a news release Friday afternoon, the province said the changes would be effective Saturday March 20, at 12:01 a.m.

In his first major speech since winning the party's leadership race last year, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole said today the party must appeal to more voters or risk losing more elections.

The union representing two nurses accused of racist treatment against an Atikamekw woman say they should not have been fired so quickly. But Indigenous leaders hope the controversy doesn't overshadow broader concerns about discrimination in the health-care system.

The union representing two nurses accused of racist treatment against an Atikamekw woman say they should not have been fired so quickly. But First Nations leaders hope the controversy doesn't overshadow broader concerns about discrimination in the health-care system.

Canada is about to get a big boost in vaccine doses, with a first cross-border shipment from the United States. The deal is equivalent to more than a one-third boost in total doses administered in Canada. Their arrival could come within days.

Finding a skeleton in a life pose with arms and feet intact for the first time may confirm what paleontologists have suspected for years, that ankylosaurs had powerful arms for digging protective dugouts, Phil Currie said.

What we know so far about the victims who have been publicly identified in the wake of Tuesday's shooting rampage at three Atlanta-area massage spas.

After grappling with Canadians' climate concerns in recent election cycles, Conservatives engaged in fierce debate today over a policy proposal from a Quebec riding to declare that "climate change is real."

A Calgary stepfather has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a three-year-old girl who had interrupted his video game. 

Nova Scotia's Lake Dog has a new family. The black and tan shepherd mix is going home with one of the men who rescued her from a partially frozen lake in Digby County last weekend.

The lifting of the restriction on self-isolation for New Brunswickers will take effect Saturday at 8 a.m. But it's unclear when New Brunswick might lift its restrictions on Nova Scotian travellers.

The Conservative Party of Canada's feed for the 2021 virtual policy convention.

About 93 million years ago, a bizarre, plankton-eating shark shaped unlike any other known marine creature glided through the sea in what is now northeastern Mexico using curiously elongated, wing-like fins that made its body wider than it was long.

The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus vaccine says people can rest assured the shots are safe, and that the technology behind it will soon be used to fight another global scourge — cancer.

A 230-year fight for land ended recently, with Caldwell First Nation finally being able to achieve their reserve status.

The killing of civilians has cast a pall over the government of Abiy Ahmed, the world's biggest recipient of Canadian aid. So far this century, Canada has already backed two countries as its top aid recipients — Haiti and Afghanistan — that are now seen as aid failures. We look at the five countries that have received the most Canadian money since 2000.

A laboratory test of 17 Ontario butter brands suggests a derivative of palm oil is not the sole cause of the unusually hard butter that some Canadians have been complaining about.

Your favourite superheroes are stuck at home too — on digital streaming services, instead of theatres. With Zack Snyder's newly revamped Justice League and Falcon and the Winter Soldier streaming for super fans, the big screen experience of comic book films is changing.

The Middlesex-London Health Unit says it's working on ways to vaccinate London seniors who weren't vaccinated in recent mobile clinics at group homes and who can't travel to one of the city's three mass vaccination clinics.

The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) is expected to launch a $1 billion Indigenous community infrastructure initiative today to spur investment in First Nation, Inuit and Metis communities, CBC News has learned.

Despite rising vaccination rates, there's growing consensus among medical experts that Ontario's third wave of COVID-19 cases has already started. Clinicians and epidemiologists warn patients may be both younger and sicker this time around.

Despite rising vaccination rates, there's growing consensus among medical experts that Ontario's third wave of COVID-19 cases has already started. Clinicians and epidemiologists warn patients may be both younger and sicker this time around.

The Ontario government says it's finally time to cut the cord on the fax machine. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy is directing the province's public service to phase out its 1,500 traditional telephone fax lines by the end of the year.

The Conservatives can count on a rock-solid base of about 30 per cent of the electorate, but they'll need more than that to win an election.

Canadian Pacific Railway is under fire after leaving a 2.5-kilometre-long grain train parked without handbrakes last month high in the mountains of eastern B.C., above the site of a deadly runaway two years ago that killed three employees.

The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) is expected to launch a $1 billion Indigenous community infrastructure initiative today to spur investment in First Nation, Inuit and Metis communities, CBC News has learned.

A legal advocacy group that challenged COVID-19 rules in British Columbia says its argument that the restrictions unjustifiably infringed on religious freedoms has been dismissed by a judge.

What we know so far about the victims who have been publicly identified in the wake of Tuesday's shooting rampage at three Atlanta-area massage spas.

What we know so far about the victims who have been publicly identified in the wake of Tuesday's shooting rampage at three Atlanta-area massage spas.

China was expected to open the first trial Friday for one of two Canadians who have been held for more than two years in apparent retaliation for Canada's arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive.

The court hearing for Canadian citizen Michael Spavor, detained by China since late 2018 on suspicion of espionage, ended on Friday after around two hours without a decision.

China was expected to open the first trial Friday for one of two Canadians who have been held for more than two years in apparent retaliation for Canada's arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive.

A 97-year-old Waterloo, Ont., man who worked as an interpreter for one of the Nazis' most brutal killing units is asking the federal government to stay immigration proceedings against him.

A 97-year-old Waterloo, Ont., man who worked as an interpreter for one of the Nazis' most brutal killing units is asking the federal government to stay immigration proceedings against him.

Michael Spavor’s trial has ended without a verdict in China. Canada will receive an influx of vaccines from the U.S. Plus, can the AstraZeneca vaccine overcome controversy and contradiction?

Michael Spavor’s trial has ended without a verdict in China. Canada will receive an influx of vaccines from the U.S. Plus, can the AstraZeneca vaccine overcome controversy and contradiction?

Windsor resident Diane Scott is still in disbelief after she says police shot and killed her 10-year-old dog in her backyard on Thursday. 

Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou want the judge overseeing the Huawei executive’s extradition proceedings to conclude that a key RCMP witness refused to testify because he would have undermined the Crown’s case.