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The mother of Coquitlam teen Logan Williams, who starred in the television series The Flash and died after ingesting fentanyl, says the system failed her son "over and over" again.

Alberta has declared a state of public health emergency, Premier Jason Kenney said Wednesday in a news conference.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney on Wednesday introduced strict and sweeping new measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 as he apologized for his government's handling of the pandemic.

After more than two decades without clean drinking water, Shoal Lake 40 First Nation is celebrating the opening of a water treatment facility and the end of water advisories for the community.

After more than two decades without clean drinking water, Shoal Lake 40 First Nation is celebrating the opening of a water treatment facility and the end of water advisories for the community.

Canadian National Railway Co. is dropping its takeover offer for Kansas City Southern, ending its takeover battle for the U.S. railway.

The Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada is making a bleak prediction about its members' ability to rapidly recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Homeowners who resisted the urge to renovate during the first 18 months of the pandemic may find now is their chance, as lumber prices that soared to dizzying heights in the spring have crashed back down to earth.

A billionaire and three less wealthy private citizens are set to blast off on a SpaceX rocket at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, seeking to become the first all-civilian crew launched into Earth orbit. You can watch live here, starting 7 p.m. ET

A billionaire and three less wealthy private citizens took off on a SpaceX rocket just after 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, becoming the first all-civilian crew launched into Earth orbit.

Critically ill patients are being airlifted out of Red Deer Regional Hospital as doctors and nurses from its various departments are recruited to care for patients on ventilators due to spiking COVID-19 cases in central Alberta.

Are you concerned about your polling station meeting your accessibility needs? Here’s what you need to know to cast your ballot.

Just hours before the HBO documentary Jagged was to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday, Alanis Morissette criticized the film about her life as "reductive" and "salacious."

A man convicted of the mass murder of a family nearly 40 years ago revealed chilling details of his crime Wednesday as the Parole Board of Canada once again rejected his request to get out of prison.

If rubber ducks could talk, one in particular would have an amazing adventure to tell.  Duck No. 1417 floated from northern Alberta to Russia.

Canada's housing market continued to show signs of a slow cool-down in August, as the number of sales ticked lower even as selling prices still headed higher compared to where they were a year ago.

Canada's consumer price index touched its highest level in almost two decades last month, as the price of just about everything is sharply up compared to the transitory lows of a year ago.

Olympic gold medal gymnast Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman blasted USA Gymnastics and the FBI in blunt and tearful testimony on Wednesday for standing by while Larry Nassar abused them and hundreds of other athletes.

Olympic gold medallists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney will testify on Wednesday about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, as the U.S. Senate examines why the FBI failed to investigate his crimes sooner.

Olympic gold medallists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney will testify on Wednesday about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, as the U.S. Senate examines why the FBI failed to investigate his crimes sooner.

The Arva Flour Mill has been sold to a London businessman who vows to continue operating the business, as well as expanding to make gluten-free flour, and possibly add a distillery or winery.

The NDP says two of its candidates have quit the race with less than a week to go, promising to learn more about anti-Semitism.

The NDP says two of its candidates have quit the race with less than a week to go, promising to learn more about antisemitism.

Premier Jason Kenney promised Albertans the "best summer ever." Instead, the province's COVID-19 cases have soared, ICUs have filled and public anger has swelled. CBC News asked several experts whether Alberta could have prevented the fourth wave by making different decisions.

When Lori Winsor and Brad Thorman planned to elope to St. John's to see Alan Doyle in concert this past weekend, they had no idea they would be the only ones who would actually get to see him perform.

It's not something that happens often in an election campaign. All four major parties running candidates in the North agree on an issue. They want to support an Indigenous-led program that could benefit Northern communities.

A new "pocket community" in Kentville is designed to help people with disabilities live in homes, not in institutions.

With a new school year now underway, the debate over the safety of large class sizes has returned, with some parents and teachers decrying classrooms with 30-40 students amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Anthony ‘Antonio’ Ross has been criminally convicted of assaulting a teenaged student, stripped of his teaching licence for professional misconduct and sexual abuse, yet is now the principal of a private school that caters largely to international boarding students, CBC News has learned.

Anthony ‘Antonio’ Ross has been criminally convicted of assaulting a teenaged student, stripped of his teaching licence for professional misconduct and sexual abuse, yet is now the principal of a private school that caters largely to international boarding students, CBC News has learned.

The federal government has lent developers billions of dollars to jump-start rental construction, all with affordability requirements. But data released under access-to-information shows that more than half of the projects will have average rents higher than those of the cities where they're being built.

Billionaire Jared Isaacman, the American founder and CEO of an e-commerce firm, will lead three fellow spaceflight novices on a three-day trip to orbit the Earth set to begin Wednesday with blastoff from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Det.-Sgt. Shane Donovan testified Tuesday it was "either me or him" when he fired at least 10 shots at his fellow Niagara Regional Police officer, Const. Nathan Parker, in November 2018.

Det.-Sgt. Shane Donovan testified Tuesday it was "either me or him" when he fired at least 10 shots at his fellow Niagara Regional Police officer, Const. Nathan Parker, in November 2018.

The Taliban movement is now the most powerful symbol in the radical jihadist movement — but it risks becoming a victim of its own success.

Anthony ‘Antonio’ Ross has been criminally convicted of assaulting a teenaged student, stripped of his teaching licence for professional misconduct and sexual abuse, yet is now the principal of a private school that caters largely to international boarding students, CBC News has learned.

Candidates and party leaders are criss-crossing their ridings and Canada seeking every last vote in the final days of election campaigning. In the 10 federal ridings that make up northern Ontario, First Nations community members are an important demographic.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is not ruling out working with a minority government led by Erin O'Toole, marking a break with his commitment in the 2019 federal election not to work with a minority Conservative government.

Opponents of COVID-19 vaccine mandates protesting outside hospitals across Canada have been seen wearing yellow stars and holding pictures of Anne Frank. Jewish Canadians say such comparisons are not only insulting, but dangerous.

An Indigenous inmate in a federal women's prison who uses a wheelchair is suing the attorney general of Canada for $10 million because she says she was forced to sleep on the bare floor of her cell when she couldn't be moved from her wheelchair to her bed.

If the Conservatives are elected next week, they’ve indicated they won’t meet Canada’s updated greenhouse gas emissions target under the Paris Agreement. How much does that matter?

Falling prices of solar panels, combined with rising energy costs, is sparking a small but growing surge of of people making long-term investments that will allow them to generate their own electricity.

The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened Canada’s already critical nursing shortage, and experts say it’s going to take strategic planning, incentives and a lot of effort to make work life more sustainable for nurses to build a bigger workforce.

Annamie Paul admits that before this snap election, she contemplated taking the drastic decision to resign as leader of the Green Party of Canada.

Expectant parents in Norfolk County will now have to drive to Brantford to give birth, after Norfolk General Hospital shut down its labour and delivery ward on Monday.

Billionaire Jared Isaacman, the American founder and CEO of an e-commerce firm, will lead three fellow spaceflight novices on a three-day trip to orbit the Earth set to begin Wednesday with blastoff from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The rival Koreas test-launched ballistic missiles hours apart from each other on Wednesday in a display of military assets that came amid a faltering diplomatic push to strip North Korea of its nuclear program.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday became the second governor in U.S. history to defeat a recall aimed at kicking him out of office early, a contest the Democratic governor crafted as part of national battle for his party's values in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and lingering threats from "Trumpism."

Election day is just around the corner, so CBC’s Ryan Maloney is here to provide back-to-back platform primers for the major parties. First up: The Liberals and Conservatives.

The Toronto District School Board says its employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 1, 2021.