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Canadian retail giant Reitmans Ltd. will remove from its stores all remaining inventory made at a factory in China suspected of using North Korean forced labour, according to a press release from the company.

Hamilton Tiger-Cats legend Angelo Mosca died Saturday at the age of 84. Mosca was diagnosed with Alzheimer's shortly after his 78th birthday in 2015.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says he doesn't know why Ottawa dropped an appeal that released Catholic entities from their obligations to pay survivors of the residential school system.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says he doesn't know why Ottawa dropped an appeal that released Catholic entities from their obligations to pay survivors of the residential school system.

Striking health-care workers with the Canadian Union of Public Employees in New Brunswick are complying with the province's back-to-work order, union leaders say.

A U.S. federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily halted the Biden administration's vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers.

Ukraine's Ministry of Health on Saturday reported a one-day record of 793 deaths from COVID-19.

Australia has reached a full inoculation rate of 80 per cent for those aged 16 and older, a number Prime Minister Scott Morrison called a "magnificent milestone" on the path to becoming one of the world's most vaccinated countries against COVID-19.

Some Yukoners are finding huge new audiences for their content on TikTok — and one local woman has just been accepted into a new 'accelerator' training program for Indigenous creators.

This week, CBC Thunder Bay and Superior Morning brought listeners a few stories about what treaties mean for the region and what people are doing to commemorate treaty rights and obligations.

At least 98 people are dead and dozens hurt near Sierra Leone's capital after a fuel tank truck exploded while large crowds had gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said.

At least 92 people are dead and dozens hurt near Sierra Leone's capital after an oil tanker exploded while large crowds had gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said.

At least 92 people are dead and dozens hurt near Sierra Leone's capital after a fuel tank truck exploded while large crowds had gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said.

Nunavut saw "extraordinary, record-setting heat" in October, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. "It's not normal," said Peter Qisiiq of Kangiqsujuaq, Que. "To me it was amazing, skating with shorts on."

Ontario' plan to build a new 400-series highway in the northwestern Greater Toronto Area will drastically increase carbon emissions and make the province's climate change goals more difficult to achieve, environmental groups and transportation experts warn.

Deadly floods, wildfires and heat-related events that hit Canada may make some people anxious enough to see a doctor. It's known as eco-anxiety — and here are some practical ways to cope.

Deadly floods, wildfires and heat-related events that hit Canada may make some people anxious enough to see a doctor. It's known as eco-anxiety — and here are some practical ways to cope.

Why are we spending our focus, energy, and resources on decarbonizing oppression and exploitation, rather than on this very oppression and exploitation that created the climate crisis? writes Stephanie Arnold.

Indigenous experts have questions about whether Hamilton is consulting First Nations in good faith about potenially expanding the urban boundary into Elfrida.

Experts say the broad changes sweeping through the work world pre-date the pandemic, but they're speeding up as a result of it.

Municipal elections are taking place across Quebec this weekend, including a tight race for mayor of Montreal.

Quebec joined the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance this week — becoming the first North American member of a new group being launched at the United Nations climate conference that wants to phase out the production of oil and gas.

Canadians looking for guidance on how to reduce their risk of COVID-19 indoors this winter may be feeling left out in the cold. The Public Health Agency of Canada has stopped short of advocating for better-quality masks or saying outright that the virus is primarily airborne.

Indigenous experts have questions about whether Hamilton is consulting First Nations in good faith about potenially expanding the urban boundary into Elfrida.

It might feel as though you need a PhD to sift through the "blah blah blah" of political rhetoric around climate change, as activist Greta Thunberg calls it, but policy experts say there are ways to ignore the spin and figure out what leaders at the COP26 summit are really saying. 

It might feel as though you need a PhD to sift through the "blah blah blah" of political rhetoric around climate change, as activist Greta Thunberg calls it, but policy experts say there are ways to ignore the spin and figure out what leaders at the COP26 summit are really saying. 

Officials in Texas say at least eight people are dead and several others have been injured in a crowd surge at the Astroworld Festival.

The crowd at a Houston music festival surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, squeezing fans so tightly together that they could not breathe or move their arms, witnesses said Saturday, hours after at least eight people died in the chaos.

Marilia Mendonca, one of Brazil's most popular singers and a Latin Grammy winner, died Friday in an airplane crash on her way to a concert. She was 26.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a $1 trillion US package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates, notching a victory that President Joe Biden and his party had become increasingly anxious to claim.

A wind farm in New Brunswick makes enough clean energy to power 5,000 homes and provide a source of revenue for the Neqotkuk First Nation. But to Chief Ross Perley, the farm will also allow his community to be self-sufficient.

With inhalers and surgical anesthetic gases contributing to emissions from the health-care system, some medical professionals in Canada are advocating for their colleagues and patients to use greener options.

A young Manitoba hockey player is speaking out, after racist comments were directed at him during a high school hockey game  in Swan River, last week.

The opposition alliance was announced hours before the UN Security Council for the first time called for an end to the intensifying and expanding conflict in Ethiopia and for unhindered access for humanitarian aid to tackle the world's worst hunger crisis in a decade in the war-torn Tigray region.

The National for Nov. 5 — B.C. court rules Edward Rogers is the legitimate chair of Rogers Communications. Plus, how patients can curb health-care emissions.

The owner of a Petro-Canada station in Belle River, Ont., near Windsor, is taking measures to prevent more people from becoming victims of a scam after noticing several seniors in his store using a bitcoin machine.