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Major League Baseball has cancelled opening day, with commissioner Rob Manfred announcing Tuesday the sport will lose regular-season games over a labour dispute for the first time in 27 years after acrimonious lockout talks collapsed in the hours before management's deadline.

U.S. President Joe Biden will vow to make Russian President Vladimir Putin "pay a price" for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in his first State of the Union address, rallying allies abroad while also outlining his plans at home to fight inflation and the fading but still dangerous coronavirus.

Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, U.S. President Joe Biden vowed in his first state of the union address Tuesday night to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflation at home and deal with the fading but still dangerous coronavirus.

U.S. President Joe Biden is prepared to deliver his state of the union address amid public disapproval of his handling of the economy and the pandemic, and U.S.-led efforts responding the Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

U.S. President Joe Biden is prepared to deliver his state of the union address amid public disapproval of his handling of the economy and the pandemic, and U.S.-led efforts responding the Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

U.S. President Joe Biden will vow to make Russian President Vladimir Putin "pay a price" for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in his first State of the Union address, rallying allies abroad while also outlining his plans at home to fight inflation and the fading but still dangerous coronavirus.

U.S. President Joe Biden will vow to make Russian President Vladimir Putin "pay a price" for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in his first state of the union address, rallying allies abroad while also outlining his plans at home to fight inflation and the fading but still dangerous coronavirus pandemic.

Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, U.S. President Joe Biden vowed in his first state of the union address Tuesday night to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflation at home and deal with the fading but still dangerous coronavirus.

The Ontario Provincial Police showed a "complete disregard" for the province's human rights code when they conducted a broad DNA sweep of migrant workers in southwestern Ontario during a 2013 sexual assault investigation, a lawyer for the workers said during a hearing Tuesday. 

The parents of a transgender teenager in Texas said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the state is investigating them after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered officials to look into reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse.

A fire broke out Tuesday in a shopping mall in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing 11 people and injuring seven others, the state-owned news agency said.

Kapawe’no First Nation, about 370 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, says 169 potential graves have been found using ground-penetrating radar at the site of a former residential school at Grouard Mission. 

A flight school for Indigenous pilots has lost all 13 of its planes after an airport hangar on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory near Belleville, Ont., was destroyed in a fire.

After seven-year-old Sarah Jackson and her mother, Mariecar, were reunited last week, they went home and opened the presents and cards still sitting under the decorated Christmas tree.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre, the only declared candidate for the party's leadership, slammed Europe's response to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, saying in a social media post that the continent's leaders have been "weak" in the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

All 31 member countries of the International Energy Agency have agreed to release 60 million barrels of oil from their strategic reserves "to send a strong message to oil markets" that there will be "no shortfall in supplies" as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the group said Tuesday.

Russian forces fired at the Kyiv TV tower and Ukraine's main Holocaust memorial, among other civilian sites targeted Tuesday, killing five civilians, Ukrainian officials said.

Russian forces fired at the Kyiv TV tower and Ukraine's main Holocaust memorial, among other civilian sites targeted Tuesday, killing five civilians, Ukrainian officials said.

Christopher Sklepowich is preparing for what an emotional evening at Tuesday's NHL game between the Winnipeg Jets and Montreal Canadiens — and none of his concern has to do with hockey.

Iqaluit is under a city-wide boil-water advisory, the latest in a series of water issues in the Nunavut capital over the past six months.

The Labrador community sees its fair share of polar bears every year, but in this close encounter of the furred kind, neither dog nor bear seemed to know what to do with each other.

Montreal’s Charlotte Cardin leads the field of Junos nominees this year with six nods, ahead of Justin Bieber and the Weeknd, who each have five. The winners will be decided at the 51st Juno Awards, which will be held in Toronto at the first in-person ceremony since 2019.

Early in the pandemic, an online community of photographers, artists and editors started creating and sharing pictures of what they described as “liminal spaces”: empty, dark hallways, old arcades and decrepit stairways, which echoed a sense of timelessness and eeriness that resonated in today's world.

The Canadian economy mostly started 2022 on strong footing, despite the impact of the Omicron coronavirus variant and protests that shut down key border crossings, as fourth quarter growth came in above expectations, official data showed on Tuesday.

Speaking via video link to an emergency session of the European Parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the EU on Tuesday to "prove that you are with us" in Ukraine's war with Russia, a day after Kyiv officially asked to join the bloc.

A criminologist says the reality of understaffed police forces in rural communities, combined with the chaotic first hours of the Portapique killings, played a major role in how officers responded.

Soaring sales of Canadian frozen and processed lobster in the United States during 2021 accounted for most of the increase.

Residents of Bell Island are pulling on heartstrings in an attempt to bring back a community physician. 

Russia's attack against Ukraine has also hijacked some of the president's planned agenda for the state of the union address on Tuesday night. The address was initially meant to focus on his domestic initiatives. But that focus will now shift to the Ukraine crisis.

Many economists predict the Bank of Canada will begin hiking its benchmark interest rate, starting with a hike of 0.25 per cent on Wednesday. The question now is, how high will interest rates go, and will indebted Canadians be able to handle it?

While the warm welcome given by EU countries to refugees from Ukraine has been applauded, it has also highlighted stark differences in treatment given to migrants and refugees from the Middle East and Africa, particularly Syrians who came in 2015.

Feb. 28, 2022 | Scenes of desperation at Ukraine’s border as Russian forces close in on Kyiv. Plus, Carol Off signs off from As It Happens.

Kasabonika Lake First Nation has declared a state of emergency over a COVID-19 outbreak in the community.

Kasabonika Lake First Nation has declared a state of emergency over a COVID-19 outbreak in the community.

Belarusian authorities say more than half of the country's voters approved constitutional reforms that would allow its authoritarian leader to stay in power until 2035 and open the way for stronger military co-operation with Russia, while the Belarusian opposition denounced the vote as a sham.