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Federal legislation that aims to ensure equal opportunities for employees from under-represented groups is heading for its most significant overhaul since its introduction 35 years ago.

Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has taken the first step toward a possible investigation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after a Conservative MP filed a complaint alleging that Trudeau may have improperly furthered the financial interests of a longtime friend.

More than 10,000 species of plants and animals are at high risk of extinction due to the destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest — 35 per cent of which has already been deforested or degraded, according to the draft of a landmark scientific report published Wednesday.

Green Party Leader Annamie Paul not only faces a challenge to her leadership, but she could also lose her party membership, CBC News has learned.

Three Lethbridge, Alta., police officers who took down and handcuffed a 19-year-old woman wearing a stormtrooper costume outside a Star Wars-themed business have been cleared of professional misconduct under Alberta's Police Act.

More than 1,500 properties in B.C.'s Cariboo region are under a new evacuation order issued Wednesday due to wildfires in the area.

More than 1,500 properties in B.C.'s Cariboo region are under a new evacuation order issued Wednesday due to wildfires in the area.

More than 1,500 properties in B.C.'s Cariboo region are under a new evacuation order issued Wednesday due to wildfires in the area.

As Alberta waits for results of a recent ground penetrating radar search of Camsell Hospital, northerners recall years of scolding, experimentation and abuse at the former Indigenous treatment facility.

A dedicated team is being created to start figuring out what Canada needs in new submarines as the sunset on the military's existing fleet draws steadily closer.

Cowessess First Nation unveilled its new Community Building Solar Project on Tuesday, continuing toward a goal of becoming one of the greenest First Nations in Canada.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party is committed to creating 1 million jobs — something both the Liberals and Conservatives have promised to do in the past.

A community is rallying to support five members of a family seriously injured at an outdoor fire pit in the Ontario municipality of Bayham. A family friend says two of the children will be undergoing surgery in Toronto.

Eileen Clarke has resigned as Manitoba's minister of Indigenous and northern relations after Premier Brian Pallister made comments last week that suggested the colonization of Canada was done with good intentions.

A specialized team of first responders has recovered the body of a bystander who was killed when a construction crane collapsed into his office building in Kelowna, B.C.

WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. Members of Hamilton's Downtown Mosque are "gravely concerned" for the family of Imam Kamal Gurgi, as police investigate what they're calling a hate crime against a Muslim woman and her adult daughter. A man from Cambridge, Ont., faces charges.

Fully vaccinated Manitobans will soon have more privileges including being able to access more local businesses and be able to gather in greater numbers at home or outside as of Saturday.

Fully vaccinated Manitobans will soon have more privileges including being able to access more local businesses and be able to gather in greater numbers at home or outside as of Saturday.

The province has issued an emergency order due to forest fires in northwestern Ontario, allowing the government to "take special measures to ensure the safety of people and the protection of critical property."

The Bank of Canada kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 0.25 per cent on Wednesday, noting that while the economy is improving in line with vaccinations, the spectre of coronavirus variants makes the recovery uncertain.

The Bank of Canada kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 0.25 per cent on Wednesday, noting that while the economy is improving in line with vaccinations, the spectre of coronavirus variants makes the recovery uncertain.

The Bank of Canada kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 0.25 per cent on Wednesday, noting that while the economy is improving in line with vaccinations, the spectre of coronavirus variants makes the recovery uncertain.

The European Union is unveiling ambitious new climate change rules on Wednesday that will include forcing more emitters to pay for their carbon output, and forcing foreign companies to pay a levy for their carbon when they sell products into Europe.

COVID-19 deaths and cases are on the rise again globally in a dispiriting setback that is triggering another round of restrictions and dampening hopes for an almost normal summer of fun.

Regina's city council is scheduled to debate a ban on conversion therapy practices Wednesday afternoon.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he is shocked the federal government did not accept his province's carbon pricing pitch, but the federal environment minister says instant fuel rebates do not affect emissions reductions.

A B.C. woman whose face is partially paralyzed says her driver's licence was suspended and her car impounded after she was unable to provide a breathalyzer sample during a roadside check — and that Canadian laws about alcohol breath tests leave people with certain disabilities no way to prove their innocence.

Doyle and a crew of N.L. musicians created the sea shanty Sleeping in the Cold Below for the popular online game Warframe, and Doyle also voiced the interactive character Vala Glarios.

The pandemic that upended almost everything is finally making its way out the door. But we're about to find that it saved one of its greatest upheavals for last.

London, Ont. man says he will be required to stay at a hotel in Barbados for five days because vaccine-mixing is not recognized by country.

WestJet says it made an error when the airline rebooked thousands of customers on alternate flights and offered no refunds — only credit — to those who wanted to cancel.

A Lethbridge, Alta., woman who says she was molested as a child by her mother’s former boyfriend was left feeling embarrassed and hopeless after the officer who took her statement chuckled during the interview and told her he’d never seen a conviction in a historic sexual assault case.

Meet two ultra-endurance athletes who just smashed the fastest known times on some titanic-sized trails around Ontario.

Emergency room physicians in Quebec are demanding immediate action to help cope with high occupancy rates and a critical shortage of nurses that they say is threatening to shutter services across the province and cause irreparable harm to staff and patients.

Emergency room physicians in Quebec are demanding immediate action to help cope with high occupancy rates and a critical shortage of nurses that they say is threatening to shutter services across the province and cause irreparable harm to staff and patients.

Many francophones across Quebec and Canada say they are concerned that the country's next governor general cannot speak French. So far, there have been more than 50 complaints to the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages.

Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is on a fundraising hot streak. However, as the face of the anti-Trump movement within the Republican Party, she is up against significant opposition in her home state. CBC News talks to voters in Wyoming.

While taking a summer breather is on the schedule for many students, others are tapping tutors or taking summer school to help bridge gaps that have arisen over the past year-and-a-half of pandemic-disrupted schooling.

Some electric cars, trucks and buses can now store energy not only for driving, but also for powering our buildings and the grid, thanks to a technology known as bidirectional charging. That could help play an important role during power outages and help make the grid greener.

It's hard enough to start a business, but young Indigenous entrepreneurs face an even more uphill battle because of a systemic digital gap that's holding them back — along with Canada's entire economy.

As firefighting crews race to bring wildfires across northwestern Ontario under control, First Nations and towns are monitoring the weather forecast and making urgent plans for evacuations.

Cuba has restricted access to social media and messaging platforms including Facebook and WhatsApp, global internet monitoring firm NetBlocks said on Tuesday, in the wake of the biggest anti-government protests in decades.

Following President Jovenel Moïse's assassination last week, Haitian police have arrested more than 20 people and say they’re beginning to piece together a fuller picture of who carried out the killing — and who ordered it. But many people are questioning the official narrative.

An Iranian intelligence officer and three alleged members of an Iranian intelligence network have been charged in Manhattan with plotting to lure a U.S. resident and human rights activist to Iran, authorities said Tuesday. Three people in Canada were also targeted, the indictment alleges.

July 13, 2021 | Four people are confirmed dead and one is presumed dead after a crane collapse in Kelowna. A B.C. First Nation says it has found at least 160 unmarked graves on its land. Plus, clearing up confusion over COVID-19 vaccines.

American immigration laws have gathered dust for decades. Reform efforts have stalled amid partisan bickering. And that's why some U.S. politicians cast a jealous glance at Canada on Tuesday.

The first Indigenous person elected to city council in Terrace, B.C. says racist jokes and a complaint launched against her after she was interviewed about violence against women contributed to her decision to leave politics.

At least four temporary docking sites will be built nearby on the northwestern Adriatic Sea, as Italy looks to avoid having Venice classified as an endangered world heritage site by UNESCO.

Yukon's remote Vuntut Gwichin First Nation is offering cash rewards to people who snitch on — even take pictures of — fellow residents breaking COVID-19 rules.

It looks like Alberta is in for another round of scorching hot weather.