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Dental records confirm that human remains found at a Florida wilderness park belong to Brian Laundrie, whose girlfriend, Gabby Petito, was found dead after he returned home alone from their cross-country road trip earlier this year, the FBI says.

The 95-year-old monarch spent the night in hospital "for some preliminary investigations," and returned to Windsor Castle Thursday, according to Buckingham Palace.

Queen Elizabeth spent the night in hospital "for some preliminary investigations," and returned to Windsor Castle Thursday, according to Buckingham Palace.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today criticized a letter from former top military commander Admiral Art McDonald calling for his reinstatement, saying the letter's contents do not align with the government's approach to sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces.

A Burnaby, B.C., woman who just won the largest Lotto Max draw in B.C. history says she made the decision to buy the lottery ticket on the spur of the moment.

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to hold Steve Bannon, a longtime ally and aide to former U.S. president Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that police in Haiti say is holding 17 members of a kidnapped missionary group is seen in a video released Thursday saying he will kill them if he doesn't get what he's demanding.

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote Thursday on whether to hold Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at why cities feel they can't do more to combat climate change and how NASA can help us better understand global warming.

New COVID-19 modelling in Saskatchewan suggests more public health restrictions are needed to bend the curve.

The Canadian Medical Association's Dr. Katharine Smart, who works in Saskatchewan's north, issued a statement on Thursday, one day after the province's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab, broke down while presenting dire new modelling on the COVID-19 situation.

It's a leadership crisis without precedent in the Canadian Armed Forces — a fact that only becomes crystal clear when you take a step back and look at the full depth and scope of the sexual misconduct crisis and survey the wreckage among the top ranks.

The Liberal government says several existing pandemic support programs for individuals and businesses will end this weekend, while billions of dollars will be spent transitioning to new “targeted measures” leading into the spring.

Nine months after being expelled from social media for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, former president Donald Trump says he's launching a new media company with its own social media platform.

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation says it is still waiting for records from the federal government related to residential schools, despite a comment from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that all federal records have been provided.

Employees of CBC/Radio Canada have been given a Dec. 1 deadline to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the Crown corporation announced on Thursday, but the potential ramifications for staff who refuse haven't been finalized.

Scientists at New York University temporarily attached a pig's kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.

Canada will receive enough vaccine from Pfizer for all children aged five to 11 to get a first dose once Health Canada approves it for that age group, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

A Manitoba judge has ruled pandemic restrictions implemented by the province last year were not a violation of charter rights, in response to a court challenge brought by seven rural Manitoba churches and three individuals last December.

The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously ruled that municipal snow removal activities are not immune from negligence and liability claims, a decision that could impact cities across the country.

Rogers Communications Inc. is setting up a three-person committee to manage interactions between the company's CEO and the chair of the board after a messy battle behind the scenes for control of the company.

Rogers Communications Inc. is setting up a three-person committee to manage interactions between the company's CEO and the chair of the board after a messy battle behind the scenes for control of the company.

Rogers Communications Inc. is setting up a three-person committee to manage interactions between the company's CEO and the chair of the board after a messy battle behind the scenes for control of the company.

Rogers Communications Inc. is setting up a three-person committee to manage interactions between the company's CEO and the chair of the board after a messy battle behind the scenes for control of the company.

Edward Rogers is out as chair of the company his father founded, after a failed attempt to oust the company's CEO.

Retired lance-corporal Joseph Novak, who served with the Canadian Army Service Corps during during the Second World War, has been made a knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, the highest decoration in France.

Actor, director and Canadian theatre giant Martha Henry has died at 83, Stratford Festival has confirmed. Henry was a staple at the festival, and performed there just 12 days ago in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today he's "very confident" countries around the world will accept Canadians' proof of vaccination.

Canadians should use their provincial and territorial proof-of-vaccination documentation to travel internationally, according to the federal government, although it will be up to foreign governments whether to accept it.

Canadians should use their provincial and territorial proof-of-vaccination documentation to travel internationally, although it will be up to foreign governments whether to accept it.

Saskatchewan has not clarified why Ontario thought it would receive a total of 12 ICU patients from the province by the end of the week or why that now appears to have changed.

Almost all of the 8,258 staffers working at The Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto have received both COVID-19 shots, officials say, with only 148 staff members who haven’t now placed on a leave of absence.

The head of environmental group Greenpeace warns countries and corporations may try to "greenwash" their ongoing pollution of the Earth at upcoming UN climate talks. That's after leaked documents showed countries such as Australia and Saudi Arabia tried to water down a recent UN science panel report.

British police charged Ali Harbi Ali, 25, with the murder of lawmaker David Amess, who was stabbed to death on Friday at a meeting in his constituency, saying it was an act of terrorism.

A long-delayed and contoversial report into alleged anti-Alberta energy campaigns could not determine how much of a role foreign money played in cancelling resource project, nor could it find how much of that money was spent advocating against the oil and gas industry.

A final report about the Alberta government's public inquiry into alleged foreign funding of anti-Alberta energy campaigns is set to be released today.

Influential government advisers in the U.S. on Thursday endorsed extra doses of all three of the nation's vaccines — and said people eligible for a booster could choose a different company's brand for that next shot.

Water is already a precious resource in the Prairie provinces, which rely on vast quantities of it for agriculture. But experts warn climate change could make it an increasingly scarce resource.

Pseudo-diversity separates minorities from their real identity, leaving only visual differences, writes Narjis Karani.

Amazon warehouse employees and contract delivery drivers working for the e-commerce giant say that when they complained about increasingly difficult working conditions during the pandemic or tried to unionize, they faced retaliation and unfair practices from the online retailer.

A Cambridge woman is demanding an apology from Ontario MPP Randy Hillier after a photo and personal information of her late sister, who died from a rare autoimmune disease, were used without permission in his anti-vaccination social media posts.

In an era of reconciliation, land acknowledgments are meant to recognize First Nations, Inuit and Métis territory, but many Indigenous people argue they’ve grown to become superficial, performative — and problematic.

In an era of reconciliation, land acknowledgments are meant to recognize First Nations, Inuit and Métis territory, but many Indigenous people argue they’ve grown to become superficial, performative — and problematic.

People who drive or deliver for app platforms in Ontario such as Uber, Lyft and Skip the Dishes are calling on Premier Doug Ford's government to grant them basic workers' rights by classifying them as employees.

With training underway, the search for unmarked graves at the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., is close to starting. The group leading the search efforts say it will take over a year to cover the roughly 200 hectares of land.

Reconciliation is real and I felt it that day, writes CBC North reporter Pauline Pemik, who interviewed Canada's new Governor General — in Inuktitut.

Even before the pandemic, young people were speaking out about the low minimum wage, writes 21-year-old Chloe Peel. The pandemic has made working a service job that much harder.

First Nations, industry and legal experts are examining what the outcome of a B.C. court decision could mean elsewhere, including future development near Alberta’s massive oilsands.

An alleged extramarital affair involving Canada's former top commander at NORAD was investigated by military police for several months after the Department of National Defence (DND) publicly stated that no rules were broken by former lieutenant-general Christopher Coates.

As a lifelong educator, I believe the first step to reconciliation is helping individual citizens come to grips with Canada’s true history.