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Residents can expect to smell fuel in their water until at least Monday afternoon, and the odour may even get stronger, the city said in an short update Saturday.

Defence lawyer Dick DeGuerin said he was notified that Durst was admitted after testing positive for the coronavirus. DeGuerin said he didn't know Durst's condition and was trying to find out more details.

An Afghan man who worked as a contractor with the Canadian Armed Forces is safe with his family in Pakistan, one of thousands who have fled the country now in desperate need of international economic support.

Quebec's largest nurses' union says more than 30,000 of its members across the province are refusing mandatory overtime this weekend. The union says it formally notified provincial and regional health authorities on Friday.

University of Toronto goalie Alex Bishop is set to live out his dream as he'll suit up as backup to Maple Leafs starter Jack Campbell on Saturday night against visiting Ottawa. Regular backup Petr Mrazek is nursing a groin injury and the team is facing a salary cap squeeze.

Ombrelle Canada has recalled a series of Ombrelle Garnier sunscreen products have due to elevated levels of benzene.

It's the end of an era in Alberta, with voters in Calgary and Edmonton heading to the polls on Monday to elect new mayors for the first time in years.

A Vancouver polyglot and popular YouTuber is teaching others his secret to learning a new language, after acquiring more than two dozen foreign languages for work and fun.

Netflix said Friday that it has fired an employee for disclosing confidential financial information about what it paid for Dave Chappelle's comedy special The Closer, which some condemned as being transphobic.

South Asian women — especially Muslim women like myself — experience love in constant dichotomies, writes Aysha Tabassum. When we’re abstinent, we’re being oppressed and making our parents proud. When we’re promiscuous, or even when we’re just falling in love, we’re both empowered and enslaved by internalized orientalism.

Russia's daily death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 1,000 for the first time as the country faces a sustained wave of rising infections.

Health-care workers in New Zealand administered a record number of vaccine jabs Saturday as the nation held a festival aimed at getting more people inoculated against COVID-19.

Health-care workers in New Zealand administered a national record number of vaccine jabs Saturday as the nation held a festival aimed at getting more people inoculated against COVID-19.

The Canadian government still recommends against non-essential travel outside of the country because of the risk of contracting COVID-19 abroad and bringing it home. But with the U.S. border set to reopen to vaccinated travellers on Nov. 8, the federal government is preparing for a rise in demand for passport services.

On Monday, Albertans will be asked to decide if they want to adopt year-round Daylight Saving Time, eliminating the need to change clocks twice a year. The decision could have a big impact on Lloydminster, which straddles both provinces.

A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.

Andrew Gnazdowsky died Oct. 16, 2020, while working at a dam in Sheet Harbour, N.S.

Many Canadians are wondering why more people are eligible for booster shots in countries like the U.S. and Israel. Immunologists and infectious disease experts say the guidelines in Canada make scientific sense.

Many Canadians are wondering why more people are eligible for booster shots in countries like the U.S. and Israel. Immunologists and infectious disease experts say the guidelines in Canada make scientific sense.

Patrick O’Hara was driving home to Léry, Que. from Parliament Hill earlier this month when got the call telling him that he wouldn’t become a member of Parliament after all.

As the small Ontario city of Dryden deals with its growing addictions and homelessness crises, officials focus on creating connections for young people.

Halloween is back on, but the COVID-19 pandemic is bringing about changes in the haunt industry.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada stands to make as much as $4.5 billion dollars a year through a landmark deal involving 136 countries that will require the world's largest corporations to pay their fair share of taxes.

As another showdown over the debt ceiling looms, experts say the whole thing could be put to rest by simply minting a $1 trillion coin.

As another showdown over the debt ceiling looms, experts say the whole thing could be put to rest by simply minting a $1 trillion coin.

Shocked and saddened by the killing of a long-serving British MP on Friday, Canadian politicians say the threat of a similar incident in Canada appears to be growing.

Three people were killed and another seven were injured when a moderately strong earthquake and an aftershock hit Indonesia's resort island of Bali early Saturday.

The results of water quality testing in Iqaluit show 'exceedingly high concentrations of various fuel components' and the contaminated tank has been isolated. Tap water in the city is still deemed unsafe for consumption, leaving residents in long lines for clean water and waiting for more bottled water shipments.

Daylight Saving Time is on the ballot for Alberta's upcoming municipal elections. Voters will decide whether to switch to permanent daylight time, a switch which some experts are warning against.

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Nicole Holofcener teamed up to write up the new historic epic, “The Last Duel," and talk to Andrew Chang about what’s changed with women’s rights and what hasn’t.

The Pentagon has offered unspecified condolence payments to the family of 10 civilians who were killed in a botched U.S. drone attack in Afghanistan in August in the final days before American troops withdrew from the country.

The Canadian Armed Forces' commander of military personnel is under investigation for sexual misconduct and has stepped aside from the role.

Quebec is slated to lose one seat in the next redrawing of federal ridings in Canada, seeing its 78 seats reduced to 77 — the first time since 1966 that a province has lost a seat when the electoral map is reconfigured.

Following weeks of speculation, the United States announced late Friday it will accept mixed vaccines when new rules kick in on Nov. 8 requiring all foreign travellers to the country to be fully vaccinated.

Former U.S. president Bill Clinton's health is improving but he will remain in a California hospital for at least another night to receive antibiotics intravenously for a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream, his spokesperson said on Friday.