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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vigorously defended his top aide on Tuesday, saying that while his office knew there was a complaint against then-defence chief general Jonathan Vance three years ago, no one knew it was about sexual misconduct.

The first doses of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine are set to arrive this week in Ontario, where one expert says they could do a world of good for some of the province's most vulnerable. 

The InBC Investment Corp. will “provide a source of patient capital to build a more innovative low-carbon economy by investing in high potential businesses to help them to scale and grow in B.C.,” the government says.

A deputy chief coroner review in response to the deaths of three Mexican farm workers in Ontario calls for better oversight of living conditions and improved access to health care for temporary agricultural workers.

An Edmonton man is awaiting a next court date in Montana after he was detained by American authorities for allegedly crossing the border in a kayak, then leading a border officer on an eight-kilometre chase.

Scam artists have been using last week's wireless outage at Rogers Communications Inc. as a way to trick people into clicking on fraudulent links.

Technology mogul Elon Musk has lined up a new gig outside his job as CEO of electric car maker Tesla and spaceship maker SpaceX. Over the weekend, he announced he would host Saturday Night Live, prompting a mixed reaction — including from the show's cast. 

The Quebec Health Ministry has confirmed the death of a woman in the province after the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine she received in early April led to a rare blood clot in her brain. 

New U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance is that fully vaccinated Americans can forgo masks unless they are in a big crowd of strangers, and those who are unvaccinated can go without a face covering outside in some cases, too.

In the darkest days of his battle with COVID-19, 31-year-old Canadian Olympian Alexander Kopacz says he drew up a will, gave his goodbyes to his family and friends, and contemplated whether he had lived a good and fulfilling life. 

Ottawa is rejecting an offer from Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government to double the Canada recovery sickness benefit to $1,000 a week for every provincial resident instead of creating its own paid sick leave initiative.

Politicians Derek Sloan and Randy Hillier are among several people charged for attending a large service in Aylmer, Ont., at the Church of God Restoration in defiance of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. 

Politicians Derek Sloan and Randy Hillier are among several people charged for attending a large service in Aylmer, Ont., at the Church of God Restoration in defiance of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. 

Egyptian officials say the Palestinian Authority later this week plans to call off its first elections in 15 years, citing Israel's refusal to allow voting in East Jerusalem. Israel told European ambassadors on Tuesday that it would not prevent Palestinian elections, but authorities have yet to say whether they will allow voting in East Jerusalem.

Federal Labour Minister Filomena Tassi has tabled back-to-work legislation to force more than 1,000 people back on the job at the port.

If passed, the bill would create a new crime in Canada called “coercive control,” which is a pattern of behaviours designed to isolate victims from their support networks and control them in the context of an intimate partner or family relationship.

Conservative senators are holding up the start of a long-awaited, legally required special parliamentary committee that is supposed to review Canada's assisted dying regime.

Albertans in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s are ending up in intensive care with COVID-19 at a higher rate than ever before, as variants have taken hold and case rates have soared among these age groups, most of whom have not yet been vaccinated.

A nine-person team of health-care professionals boarded a plane on Tuesday morning, heading to Toronto to help manage a surge in critically ill COVID-19 patients.

Though the world is more than a year into the pandemic and the United States has a robust vaccine rollout, Michigan nurse Nikki Hillis-Walters, who used to work in Windsor, Ont., says this time around is worse than when COVID-19 first hit. 

A union representing oil and gas workers says they don't object to Canada cutting emissions — in fact, they think the country could aim for more ambitious targets. But only if there's a plan for a "just transition" that won't leave workers behind.

Following La Soufrière's major eruption on April 9 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Vincentian communities across Canada have been collecting donations and supplies for those in need. But there are concerns that the island is facing a long road to recovery due to significant damage from the eruptions.

KPMG is disputing confidential emails from a leak of offshore financial data that show the Canadian accounting and auditing firm helped set up four shell companies in the Isle of Man that experts believe were later involved with a massive investor fraud that ran for years out of Montreal.

Jordan Bissonette has been keeping track of his deceased father's paperwork. He says he was surprised and saddened to get a letter saying his father was eligible for a vaccine, more than two months after his death from COVID-19.

The intensive care unit at the Jewish General Hospital has treated nearly 300 COVID-19 patients since the pandemic began. As cases and hospitalizations begin to decline, staff hope this third wave is the last one.

It's a relic deemed so taboo, the Vatican threatened excommunication to anyone who spoke of it. But for nearly 1,000 years before that, the 'holy foreskin' of Jesus Christ was widely considered to be the holiest of relics. CBC Radio's Ideas examines the story of an unlikely object of devotion.

Local contractors say their industry is in turmoil because few can agree on what constitutes essential work for home renovations, and many complain they can't get a straight answer from the province.

Following La Soufrière's major eruption on April 9 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Vincentian communities across Canada have been collecting donations and supplies for those in need. But there are concerns that the island is facing a long road to recovery due to significant damage from the eruptions.

There are now 47 cases of a mysterious neurological disease that's been identified in a cluster of individuals living in the northeastern and southeastern parts of New Brunswick.

Vital medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of oxygen supplies and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll toward 200,000.

Much needed medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as overrun hospitals turned away patients due to a shortage of beds and oxygen supplies and a surge of infections pushed the COVID-19 death toll towards 200,000.

Vital medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of oxygen supplies and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll toward 200,000.

As the European Union and the United States begin discussing a return to non-essential international travel, the federal government is expressing caution and insisting its decisions will be based on science, evidence and keeping Canadians safe.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered that all three members of a polyamorous “triad” should be listed as parents on the birth certificate of the two-and-a-half-year-old boy they are raising together as a family.