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Waves of fans who are crossing provincial and international borders to watch the Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup game on Sunday at Hamilton's Tim Hortons Field.

A new report has found a vulnerable senior in Penticton, B.C., lost her home and hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity after the city auctioned off her house — for a third of its assessed value — over just $10,000 in unpaid property taxes.

A U.S. Coast Guard diver recovered a body from a submerged vehicle stuck in rushing rapids just metres from the brink of Niagara Falls on Wednesday.

A U.S. Coast Guard diver recovered a body from a submerged vehicle stuck in the rapids just metres from the brink of Niagara Falls on Wednesday.

Alberta's public health agency is alerting the public about a sharp rise in opioid-related emergency medical calls in both Calgary and Edmonton.

A Nigerian medical student's illustration of a Black fetus in utero was shared by a McMaster University assistant professor from Hamilton and has gone viral. It's also led to questions about the lack of diversity in medical drawings.

A Brossard man has been charged with breach of trust for allegedly using his status as a Canadian Space Agency engineer to negotiate satellite station installation agreements with Iceland on behalf of a Chinese aerospace company.

Kim Potter, the suburban Minneapolis police officer who killed Daunte Wright, violated her training when she shot the 20-year-old Black man with a handgun instead of a Taser during an April traffic stop, a prosecutor told jurors as her manslaughter trial began Wednesday.

A suburban Minneapolis police officer who has said she drew her gun instead of her Taser when she fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright went on trial for manslaughter charges Wednesday.

The UPEI board of governors is launching a third-party investigation into allegations of misconduct involving the university's former president, Alaa Abd-El-Aziz.

The UPEI board of governors is launching a third-party investigation into allegations of misconduct involving the university's former president, Alaa Abd-El-Aziz.

A Catholic order that ran residential schools across Canada now says it will open up its archives in Rome to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Many survivors have long been calling for the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and other Catholic entities to make their records available.

Island farmers are in Ottawa Wednesday giving away free bags of potatoes to raise awareness of the ban on fresh potato exports to the U.S.

Island farmers were in Ottawa Wednesday giving away free bags of potatoes to raise awareness of the ban on fresh potato exports to the U.S.

Quebec's three public daycare union says they are close to resolving a labour dispute with the provincial government. The unions say they have reached a tentative agreement with the government that now needs to be presented to their members.

Quebec's largest public daycare union says it's close to resolving a labour dispute with the provincial government. The FSSS-CSN says it will present the potential agreement to its members. Another smaller daycare union affiliated with the FTQ says it too has reached an agreement.

Olympic decathlon champion Damian Warner was voted Canada's best athlete of 2021 on Wednesday. Warner, 32, collects the Lou Marsh Trophy after his record-setting performance at the Tokyo Games.

A new legal challenge filed in Ontario against Canada's federal voting age — coupled with the reintroduction of Sen. Marilou McPhedran's bill to lower the age limit — has reopened the debate over whether Canadians under the age of 18 should be allowed to vote. Some are ready to say the answer should be "no."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today that Canada will launch a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. No federal government officials will attend the games but athletes will still be allowed to compete.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday ordered an inquiry and said he was "furious" after a leaked video showed senior members of his staff joking about holding a lockdown-breaching Christmas party.

An all-party committee at Quebec's National Assembly is recommending that an adult should be able to request medical assistance in dying after being diagnosed with an incurable and incapacitating disease.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by actress Rose McGowan alleging that Harvey Weinstein engaged in racketeering to silence her and derail her career before she accused him of rape.

The Bank of Canada held its benchmark interest rate steady on Wednesday, noting that record high inflation is showing signs of cooling down.

French authorities announced Wednesday that a man arrested at Paris-Charles De Gaulle Airport for allegedly being linked to the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was misidentified.

Pfizer and BioNTech say a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine was able to neutralize the new omicron variant in a laboratory test, and that they could deliver an omicron-based vaccine in March 2022 if needed. But the companies also note their data is "preliminary."

Tyler Robinson, 9, was heading home from school in London, Ont., last week when he stopped to talk with four-year-old Niamh Beattie who is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair. Niamh's mother Amber-Lee, was impressed with the young boy's ability to speak to her daughter directly and to ask thoughtful, caring questions.

A photograph of a cube-like object captured by a Chinese rover on the far side of the moon has fanned speculation over what it could be.

One of the two men accused of murdering a Calgary police officer last New Year's Eve is expected to plead guilty Wednesday morning.

One of the two men accused of murdering a Calgary police officer last New Year's Eve is expected to plead guilty Wednesday morning.

The Inuvialuit Regional Corporation wants a kayak made by Inuvialuit returned from the Vatican Museums.

Successive premiers have promised to expand the list of cancers that are deemed a workplace injury for firefighters in Nova Scotia, but those changes still haven't been made. Some firefighters want to know why.

I learned to navigate the complexities of fighting racism by watching my immigrant parents live and work in rural Canada, writes Nathan Kim.

Canadian scientists are racing to understand more about the threat of the omicron variant — how fast it spreads, whether it causes more or less severe illness, and if it can escape previous immunity to COVID-19.

The U.S. just lost Afghanistan to the Taliban. Can it really deter Russia's Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine? We're about to find out whether an old superpower, using new sanction threats, can still shape events in eastern Europe.

This is not a dispute that can be decided in backroom deals by party activists, writes farmer and blogger David Cymbaluk.

Protecting Prince Harry and his family during their visits to Canada cost Canadian taxpayers more than $334,000 over a period of less than four years, CBC News has learned.

An external firm hired by the RCMP has produced a report on the hazards associated with a former training facility in Kemptville, Ont., but the police force is refusing to make the report public.

Protecting Prince Harry and his family during their visits to Canada cost Canadian taxpayers more than $334,000 over a period of less than four years, CBC News has learned.

A broad-based commission of civil society in Haiti has set up the most serious attempt in years to reverse Haiti's decline and hold genuine elections. But ambassadors for the U.S., Canada and France continue to exercise substantial power in Haiti and have stuck by the unpopular and unelected PHTk government of Ariel Henry.

With the year nearly over, only about a tenth of the 40,000 Afghan refugees Canada promised to bring into the country have made it here so far — and Ottawa now says it could take up to two years to resettle everyone.

The U.S. just lost Afghanistan to the Taliban. Can it really deter Russia's Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine? We're about to find out whether an old superpower, using new sanction threats, can still shape events in eastern Europe.

The U.S. just lost Afghanistan to the Taliban. Can it really deter Russia's Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine? We're about to find out whether an old superpower, using new sanction threats, can still shape events in eastern Europe.

A CBC investigation conducted over 16 months found one in four cases of intimate partner homicide was in rural, remote or northern part of Canada.

Restoration companies and contractors that are about to help launch a massive flood cleanup and repair effort must be aware of the risks and hazards their work could pose to employees, says the province's worker protection agency.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba concedes it gave leadership candidates erroneous information before October's election — but says the actual ballots were counted fairly and accurately.

As access to COVID-19 booster doses is expanded across Canada, some companies with vaccination mandates are having conversations about whether the additional doses will be a requirement for employees.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Wednesday that Australia will join the U.S. in a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games over human rights concerns. Morrison said it should come as no surprise that Australian officials would boycott the event after the nation's relationship with China had broken down in recent years.

Alaa Abd-El-Aziz is resigning from his position as president of the University of Prince Edward Island, a post he had held for 10 years.

Canada committed Tuesday to a second, expanded program to increase the participation of women in United Nations peacekeeping missions — but made no mention of an unfulfilled commitment to deliver a quick-reaction force of soldiers for international peace operations.