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Ending a marriage is always hard on the dependents — and Bill and Melinda Gates have a lot of them. Here's a look at the future of the multibillion-dollar Gates Foundation and whether the organizations that depend on its largesse should be worried.

A Conservative motion aimed at unseating the prime minister’s top adviser over how the Liberal government has handled the sexual misconduct crisis in the military was defeated easily in the House of Commons today.

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is throwing its support behind efforts to waive intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to speed the end of the pandemic.

Myanmar's security forces are arresting and forcibly disappearing thousands of people, especially boys and young men, in a sweeping bid to break the back of a three-month uprising against a military takeover.

Banning food items like peanuts in schools and daycares isn't effective in preventing allergic reactions, according to a literature review led by Hamilton's McMaster University that includes recommendations from an international panel.

Police say they have talked to the woman who went public with allegations against the Vancouver Canucks forward.

Canada is sending medical supplies to India to help the country deal with a surge in coronavirus cases that has pushed its hospital system to the brink of collapse.

CN is correcting what it calls “a regrettable lag” in updating its pension policies, allowing all same-sex partners of deceased CN employees who retired before 1998 to also collect survivor benefits.

Yukon will drop the 14-day self-isolation requirement for anybody arriving in the territory who can prove they've been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, starting later this month.

Peloton is recalling its treadmills, including about 5,400 in Canada, due to safety issues. One model, not available in Canada, has made headlines for pulling children and pets underneath it, while the model sold in Canada has a screen that can come loose and fall to the ground.

Health Canada offered parents anxious about their unvaccinated children some hope today by clearing the Pfizer product for use in people as young as 12.

Within days, a couple of weeks at most, the cicadas of Brood X will emerge in 15 U.S. states after 17 years underground.

While sales remained strong, the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board called it a "marked slowing" and said it signals a pullback in activity in a market that has been overheating since last year, despite the ongoing health crisis.

A Malian woman gave birth to nine babies on Tuesday — two more than doctors had detected inside her crowded womb. She joins a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets.

The Facebook Oversight Board has upheld the decision by the social media giant to suspend former U.S. president Donald Trump's account, though it also had criticism for the company's policies. 

The Facebook Oversight Board has upheld the decision by the social media giant to suspend former U.S. president Donald Trump's account, though it also had criticism for the company's policies. 

India accounted for nearly half the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, as the country's deaths rose by a new high of 3,780 during the last 24 hours.

Legislation aimed at ensuring a federal election could be safely held during the COVID-19 pandemic is stalled in the House of Commons, even as Justin Trudeau's Liberals are fast approaching the average expiry date for minority governments in Canada.

I did not like to visit him in prison. It hurt too much because I knew the reason he was there.

Martha McIntosh was surprised to find a pair of ancient arrowheads right in her backyard at her London, Ont., home — and an archeology expert says they may go as far back as 800 and 400 BC.

Day trips to the U.S. are a thing of the past. Canada-U.S. relations experts cautiously estimate the border could reopen in the fall, but it might be more complicated than it seems.

Herd immunity looks like an increasingly high bar, and it may be out of reach. But that's no reason to despair. It's not herd immunity or bust. The closer we get, the more we can return to normal life.

With several barriers in access to health-care, the vaccination rate in Parc-Extension is trailing behind other neighbourhoods in Montreal. But community groups believe their efforts are paying off.

With several barriers in access to health-care, the vaccination rate in Parc-Extension is trailing behind other neighbourhoods in Montreal. But community groups believe their efforts are paying off.

An expansion of a popular Hornby Island pub that stalled this spring with the discovery of Indigenous human remains is threatening to become a flashpoint for relations between the province and First Nations in B.C. when it comes to heritage conservation.

Canadians should take the first vaccine that becomes available to them even though the federal government's advisory committee on vaccines may have sown confusion with conflicting messaging about preferred doses, some health experts say.

On April 29, China successfully launched a crew module for a space station that it says will be completed by the end of 2022. But the first stage of the rocket that sent that module into orbit is falling to Earth uncontrollably.

In February 2020, a judge presiding over a class-action lawsuit on behalf of former students found the staff at Grenville Christian College responsible for systematically abusing girls and boys who attended the boarding school in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. The school's appeal is being heard in court.

A traditional Anishinaabe law on alcohol possession is now in effect in Grassy Narrows north of Kenora, Ont., a clear departure from the Indian Act and a rare move that Chief Randy Fobister hopes will help address social problems exacerbated by the pandemic.

Fundraising records are there to be broken, at least if you're the Conservative Party. But why hasn't voter support for the Conservatives grown at the same pace as their bank account?

Canada should be cautious about adopting automated systems at its borders that can affect decision-making around things like immigration and refugee applications, write Petra Molnar and Jamie Liew.

The number of complaints of harassment, bullying and even sexual misconduct involving civilian employees at the Department of National Defence has increased in tandem with those being reported on the military side, say two unions representing workers.

An Alberta woman in her 50s has died from a rare blood clot condition after receiving the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, says the province's chief medical health officer.

Canada's game continues to grapple with a culture of misogyny, racism and bullying, according to a survey of former youth hockey coaches and players.

From building volcano demos for his teaching wife's high school class to high-tech robots used in surgeries, William 'Bill' Chernoff had a passion for science and technology. And when it came to his projects, the sky was the limit.

The National for May 4: Alberta closes patios, moves all classes online as COVID-19 cases surge. Plus, the pandemic’s emotional toll on health-care workers.

The United Nations human rights office said it was "deeply alarmed" over violence against protesters in the Colombian city of Cali, where "police opened fire on demonstrators" and allegedly killed and injured several people Monday night.

Pregnant people aged 16 and older are now eligible to book a vaccine, B.C. health officials announced Tuesday, as the province recorded 697 new cases of COVID-19 and one more death. 

Pregnant people aged 16 and older are now eligible to book a vaccine, B.C. health officials announced Tuesday, as the province recorded 697 new cases of COVID-19 and one more death. 

A Harbour Grace man has won the fight to get access to his late partner's railway pension.