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Health Canada is proposing expanded restrictions on the use of talc in some cosmetic and personal cleansing products due to the possibility of lung damage and cancer risk.

A funeral service for Daunte Wright saw him remembered as a beloved father, brother and son, as hundreds gathered to honour the life of the 20-year-old man who died at the hands of police following a traffic stop in Minnesota.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has rejected a bid by the Office of the Wet'suwet'en to kill an extension of the environmental assessment certificate that gave the green light to a northern B.C. pipeline at the centre of countrywide protests.

Hope dwindled for Julie and Paul Devigne as a treatment-resistant tumour in their baby's belly swelled so large it restricted his ability to eat, sleep and breathe. Then, in a surgical feat, doctors at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children gave little Felix another shot at life.

François Legault's comments come just days after the Quebec Superior Court severely criticized the government for how it used the clause in the Laicity Act, the 2019 law that bans many civil servants from wearing religious symbols at work.

As the federal government introduces a 30-day ban on flights from India and Pakistan amid surging rates of COVID-19 and the threat of variants of concern, there are worries about what the measure will mean for Canadians already abroad. 

Opposition leaders are again pressuring the federal government to suspend flights from certain countries to clamp down on the spread of COVID variants — a decision Ottawa could make as soon as today.

The Canadian government is looking at options to toughen border controls and an announcement is coming soon, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Howard Njoo said today.

Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the military commander in charge of Canada's COVID-19 vaccine distribution, and Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Howard Njoo give a technical briefing on Canada's vaccine logistics.

Yukon's chief medical officer, standing alongside other officials, pushed for the next territorial government to establish safe consumption sites for drug users as a way to slow the growing death toll from overdoses.

People in Port Hawkesbury, N.S., have rallied together to make sure crew members of a quarantined ship just off the Cape Breton coast are comfortable while they wait to restart their journey.

People in Port Hawkesbury, N.S., have rallied together to make sure crew members of a quarantined ship just off the Cape Breton coast are comfortable while they wait to restart their journey.

NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford apologized to Ontarians Thursday morning, days after his government faced intense backlash for introducing a number of additional COVID-19 restrictions that were not recommended by health experts and then nixed earlier this week.

Nova Scotia brings in new, tougher measures as COVID-19 cases reach highest level seen in the province in a year.

Nova Scotia brings in new, tougher measures as COVID-19 cases reach highest level seen in the province in a year.

Supul Jayasinghe, a Memorial University student and aspiring doctor, slipped off a rocky outcrop Wednesday evening while walking his dog and was carried into the open water, his father says.

Supul Jayasinghe, a Memorial University student and aspiring doctor, slipped off a rocky outcrop Wednesday evening while walking his dog and was carried into the open water, his father says.

India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections Thursday as a grim coronavirus surge in the world's second-most populous country sends more and more sick people into a fragile health care system critically short of hospital beds and oxygen.

Rocket launches are a breathtaking culmination of human ingenuity as they propel us into the future, but there is a growing concern that not enough research has been done on their effect on the environment.

The move by Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet to give police arbitrary powers and shut playgrounds across Ontario was made in a rush and without evidence that the moves would help rein in the third wave of COVID-19, multiple sources tell CBC News.

An unexpectedly strong global growth prediction of nearly 7 per cent in 2021 means the Bank of Canada has begun cutting back on monetary stimulus, with Tiff Macklem forecasting that the central bank's low, low rate will end in 2022 as the Canadian economy bounces back.

Rocket launches are a breathtaking culmination of human ingenuity as they propel us into the future, but there is a growing concern that not enough research has been done on their effect on the environment.

English school boards in Quebec started hearing from prospective teachers hoping for a job shortly after this week's court decision on the province's religious symbols law. But those hopes were undone after it became clear the ban will remain in effect pending an appeal.

Within two weeks, tree planters from Quebec and Ontario are expected to arrive in B.C. to help in a major provincial reforestation efforts.

Within two weeks, tree planters from Quebec and Ontario are expected to arrive in B.C. to help in a major provincial reforestation efforts.

Students and faculty are in despair at the loss of the four-year music program at Laurentian University, with department chair Yoko Hirota saying it took more than 20 years to build, and students and faculty contributed to the northern Ontario arts scene.

The last week has been a bad one for the Ontario premier. Polls suggest his recent handling of the pandemic has sapped his support.

On Tuesday, Minneapolis celebrated Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict. On Thursday, the city will bury another Black man shot by police.

The fight to phase out smoking was a public policy success, and two government actions in particular are worth emulating when it comes reducing carbon emissions, writes Eric Campbell.

An unexpectedly strong global growth prediction of nearly 7 per cent in 2021 means the Bank of Canada has begun cutting back on monetary stimulus, with Tiff Macklem forecasting that the central bank's low, low rate will end in 2022 as the Canadian economy bounces back.

The 16 Alberta MLAs who argued against tighter COVID-19 restrictions in an open letter recently have sparked debate and frustration in some of the communities they represent over just whose views are being heard.

A group of activists say they have no intention of ending their anti-logging blockades on Vancouver Island, despite a court injunction and opposition from the political leadership of the Pacheedaht First Nation.

Advocates have been calling for a national child care program for decades. Governments have even gotten close to enacting it a few times. Is this finally the moment the idea becomes reality? We’re joined by Martha Friendly, executive director of the Childcare Resource and Research Unit, for a look at the long, winding road toward universal child care in Canada.

A missile launched from Syria struck southern Israel early Thursday, setting off air raid sirens near the country's top-secret nuclear reactor, the Israeli military said. In response, it said it attacked the missile launcher and air-defence systems in neighbouring Syria.

Canada considers restrictions on travellers from India amid an explosion of cases. Plus, turning Derek Chavin’s conviction into a movement towards justice.

A Bloc Québécois member of Parliament has apologized for taking a screenshot of his colleague while he was naked during online House of Commons proceedings.

The Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators has cancelled all of its clinical exams scheduled for 2021. It's the fourth time exams have been cancelled since March 2020, leaving new graduates in B.C. and across Canada unable to become fully registered physiotherapists.

The Alberta government is delaying plans to vaccinate workers at Cargill's meatpacking plant in High River — a move doctors say is likely to erode the already shaky trust with a workforce devastated by the pandemic.

Earlier this month, the Ottawa Police Service said it found the officers involved not criminally responsible for Abraham Natanine's death in Clyde River.

Alexa Forbes, 25, warns people to continue to follow public health advice after she got COVID-19 last month and delivered her son six weeks early. The illness is associated with a higher risk of preterm or stillbirth, experts say.

Health officials in Quebec have confirmed a first case of B1617, the coronavirus variant first detected in India.

It took more than three months following Lionel Desmond's release from an in-patient psychiatric program for Veterans Affairs to connect him with the person assigned to help him transition to life outside the military and outside the hospital, a fatality inquiry in Port Hawkesbury, N.S., heard Wednesday.