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After a week of competing messages about the usefulness of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the federal government confirmed today it will continue to procure the product — and that well over a million doses are expected to arrive between now and the end of June.

The federal government says it will boycott events commemorating the 20th anniversary of a United Nations anti-racism conference in South Africa, citing the event's legacy of criticizing Israel.

Alberta is changing how it calculates the payments oilsands mines make to ensure there's enough money to clean up the mess they leave behind — a move the province says is in reaction to low oil prices last year, which briefly reached negative values.

The Canadian dollar hit its highest level in almost four years on Thursday, buoyed by high commodity prices.

Hamilton police have charged one of its own officers with assault after a video that surfaced online in February appears to show him lunging at a woman.

Nearly one year ago, as the first detailed picture emerged of the true scale of the horror faced by residents of Ontario's long-term care system during the pandemic, a visibly emotional Premier Doug Ford vowed his government would conduct a full investigation. Now it turns out that didn't happen.

There's new political muscle in the United States pushing for a return to more regular travel between Canada and the United States after more than a year of pandemic-related disruptions. The top member of the U.S. Senate has written to members of the Biden administration making several demands regarding the border.

The Canadian Coast Guard is getting two heavy icebreakers for Arctic work, the federal government announced today.

The federal government is expected to end nearly two years of mystery on Thursday and reveal its plan to build a new, long overdue heavy icebreaker for the Canadian Coast Guard.

A no-holds-barred report that lays out a five- to six-year plan to reimagine Newfoundland and Labrador in order to avoid a “perilous situation” and prepare for the future was revealed in St. John’s on Thursday.

Tree poaching is up in an area on Vancouver Island and some are calling for higher fines and more enforcement.

The first Albertan to die from a rare blood clot condition linked to a COVID-19 vaccine was turned away from an Edmonton hospital two days before her death, a family friend says.

Mike Armstrong and his wife are facing a lawsuit from their former real estate agency over commission after their buyer disappeared before the closing date for two cabins on Lake Errock.

Mike Armstrong and his wife are facing a lawsuit from their former real estate agency over commission after their buyer disappeared before the closing date for two cabins on Lake Errock.

Activists cheered, pharmaceutical companies complained and government leaders assessed next steps after the Biden administration's blockbuster move to support an easing of patent and other protections on COVID-19 vaccines that many hope will help poorer countries get more doses and speed the end of the pandemic.

Manitoba saw its highest daily count of new COVID-19 cases in months on Thursday, as Alberta reported a four-digit total of new cases that may not yet be the peak of the third wave in that province.

Kirsten Neuschafer's plan to sail around the world did not include hunkering down this winter on Prince Edward Island. But this Island, its people and their boat-building expertise has turned out to be just what this professional sailor needs.

Hundreds of people are drastically changing their lives by turning to homesteading. While many have no experience with animals or farming, the learning curve isn't deterring them from producing their own food and living off the land.

Hundreds of people are drastically changing their lives by turning to homesteading. Many have no experience with animals or farming. But the learning curve is not deterring them from producing their own food and living off the land.

Unlike humans, cats aren't burdened with questions about love, death and the meaning of life. They have no need for philosophy at all. So what's to be learned from this "unexamined" way of being? British philosopher John Gray explains.

The advent of COVID-19 vaccines has provided hope that there will soon be a return to something closer to what we remember as being “normal.” But the shot has also brought a whole new set of experiences and dilemmas.

A tax expert who was prevented from speaking to a Commons committee about tax avoidance five years ago says it's time for MPs to demand the identities of Canadians behind offshore shell companies.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford — previously a big fan of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland — is suddenly very eager to let Ontarians how unhappy he is with how Justin Trudeau's government is handling the pandemic.

Ontario's top doctor boasted the province could deliver 500,000 COVID-19 vaccines per day if supply allowed. CBC News checked with every public health unit and confirmed the number is actually far lower. The province continues to aim to administer 150,000 doses per day.

Twenty candidates are running for mayor of London in this Thursday's election, each offering their own particular spin on how they'll revive the U.K.'s biggest city post-pandemic.

Facebook has created a fork-in-the-road moment for Donald Trump. And for all of us. Whether he gets back his online megaphone is only the first step. The longer-term question raised in a mixed decision by Facebook's oversight board involves whether, and how, governments regulate key communication tools.

In our push for a human presence in space, there has been a group who have been left out, no matter how well-educated, fit or skilled they are: people with physical disabilities. The European Space Agency is aiming to change that.

Hospitalizations from opioids, alcohol and stimulants rose during first seven months of pandemic, compared to the same time in 2019, according to a new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Logging operations have stopped on a section of southern Vancouver Island after an altercation broke out Tuesday between forestry workers and blockaders, a flashpoint in a months-long dispute over an unlogged watershed in the region.

Some of the best-known names in music are selling the rights to their entire catalogues of songs, netting tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars. Today, why so many artists are cashing in now, and why investors are betting billions on music.

The National for May 5: The potential impact of approving Pfizer vaccines for kids over 12. Plus, re-thinking the rules about food allergies in schools.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has approached the governor of Michigan about the possibility of having essential workers who cross the border from Canada vaccinated against COVID-19 stateside.

B.C. RCMP will introduce their first road checks this weekend as part of the province's push to stop non-essential travel.  

MLA Steve Norn accused Yellowknife chiefs of promoting 'hate, racism, [and] death threats' in a lengthy response to their calls for him to resign over his breach of isolation.

As India's health-care system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of the novel coronavirus, a young doctor is among the medical professionals forced to decide who will live and who will die at a New Delhi hospital.

From the Lower Mainland to northern B.C., crowds gathered Wednesday to remember the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and to call on the federal government to take action to bring them justice.

SpaceX's Starship, the rocket that CEO Elon Musk hopes will take people to the moon and eventually Mars, completed a test on Wednesday that marked the first time it successfully launched and landed.