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The Centre for Natural Hazards Research at Simon Fraser University has launched a survey to determine just how much B.C. residents know and don't know about volcano hazards to help inform future risk reduction plans.

Canadian director Domee Shi talks to CBC News senior reporter Eli Glasner about the importance of representation and her nomination for best animated feature

A building material used in Manitoba for nearly 200 years, from trading forts to the modern-day architecture of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, now has international recognition on par with Carrara marble used in ancient Rome.

The federal government has agreed to repatriate 19 women and children from detention camps for suspected ISIS members in Syria, while a judge has also ordered that four men be brought back.

Nine Indigenous artists took on the challenge to design reimagined banknotes.

The head of 3M announced Tuesday that poor returns this past year means the U.S.-based company will cut 2,500 manufacturing jobs, but hasn't yet provided details on whether Canadian workers will be impacted.

On the second day of the federal cabinet retreat, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers heard from a trio of economists who came bearing grim news about Canada's economic outlook.

A woman in her 20s has been stabbed multiple times on a Toronto streetcar, police say.

A man who dug protected fossilized dinosaur footprints from a protected area in northern B.C. has been fined and sentenced to nearly a month in jail.

Pop star Justin Bieber joins a growing list of big-name artists who have sold their catalogue rights to music management giants in recent years.

Mitchell is being remembered as a promoter of all things Labrador during his music career that began in the 1960s in Makkovik.

The Justice Department and several states sued Google on Tuesday, alleging that its dominance in digital advertising harms competition.

Documents with classified markings were discovered in former U.S. vice-president Mike Pence's Indiana home last week, according to his attorney.

The Île-à-la-Crosse boarding school operated in northern Saskatchewan for more than 100 years.

Documents with classified markings were discovered in former U.S. vice-president Mike Pence's Indiana home last week, according to his attorney.

The suspect in two shootings at Northern California farms that left seven dead and another wounded was an employee at one of the locations, authorities say.

Atomic scientists set the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before on Tuesday, saying threats of nuclear war, disease and climate volatility have been exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, putting humanity at greater risk of annihilation.

Newlywed couple Nakita Rees and Tom Wilson of Cambridge, Ont., say Air Canada told them their suitcase was lost, even though they were able to track it when it was moved from Montreal to Toronto. It took four months, but the two now have the bag back.

Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said Tuesday the government will overhaul the airline passenger bill of rights in response to travellers' claims that the system is fundamentally flawed.

Canada's Federal Court of Appeal has rejected the Competition Bureau's request to block the takeover of Shaw by Rogers, a decision that removes one of the final hurdles standing in the way of the $20-billion merger from going ahead.

Canada's Federal Court of Appeal on Tuesday will hear whether Rogers Communications Inc's hotly contested $20-billion bid for Shaw Communications Inc. can go ahead or be blocked as recommended by the competition bureau.

Canada's Federal Court of Appeal on Tuesday will hear whether Rogers Communications Inc's hotly contested $20-billion bid for Shaw Communications Inc. can go ahead or be blocked as recommended by the Competition Bureau.

United States senators are expected to grill Ticketmaster on Tuesday about its spectacular breakdown last year during a sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets.

United States senators grilled Ticketmaster on Tuesday, questioning whether the company's dominance in the ticketing industry led to its spectacular breakdown last year during a sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets.

Ukraine has dismissed more than a dozen senior officials including governors of several major battlefield provinces in the biggest shake-up of its wartime leadership since Russia's invasion last year.

The Hein Lab is working on new technology they say can identify drug concentrations under five per cent, which is often the case for opioids. The device comes as the province is set to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs.

More landlords are taking Twitter to court over unpaid rent at the social media company's headquarters in San Francisco and its British offices — the latest legal headaches for billionaire owner Elon Musk, who has been trying to slash expenses.

A man accused of pushing an 89-year-old woman to the ground who then died in downtown Toronto is now facing an upgraded charge of manslaughter, police said Tuesday.

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won a record 83rd World Cup race Tuesday. Shiffrin's giant slalom victory broke a tie on the all-time women's list with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn. Vonn retired four years ago when injuries cut her career short.

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won a record 83rd World Cup race Tuesday. Shiffrin's giant slalom victory broke a tie on the all-time women's list with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn. Vonn retired four years ago when injuries cut her career short.

The nominees for this year's Oscars ceremony were announced this morning, with films like The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All At Once and All Quiet on the Western Front leading across categories.

The nominees for this year's Oscars will be announced this morning, with films like The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All At Once and The Fabelmans competing to pick up nods across categories.

The nominees for this year's Oscars ceremony were announced this morning, with films like Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Banshees of Inisherin and All Quiet on the Western Front leading across categories.

Today on Front Burner, Wagner Group, the brutal Russian mercenaries that have advanced the interests of the Kremlin for years, is coming out of the shadows to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

The Taku River Tlingit First Nation in Atlin, B.C., has declared a vast swath of its traditional territory in northern B.C. off-limits to mining and other extractive-resource development.

The judge probing the 2020 Beirut blast has charged Lebanon's top public prosecutor, the then-prime minister and other senior current and former officials in connection with the devastating explosion, both judicial sources said and court summonses have revealed.

An unsealed court document has revealed more details about how a man deemed a "danger to the public" apparently lured women to his Downtown Eastside apartment, where his body — and, later, the bodies of a woman and a missing Indigenous girl — were found last year. 

An Indian citizen who was part of the same group of migrants as a family that froze to death near the United States border in Manitoba last year has been accused of forgery in his home country after allegedly using fake documents to apply to study at a college in southern Ontario.

Law enforcement and government officials say they've seen an increase in social media platforms such as Snapchat being used to lure and sexually exploit children and youth since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

LUMA Energy — half-owned by Calgary's ATCO and led by Canadian Wayne Stensby — has a 15-year, $2-billion contract to keep Puerto Rico's lights on. But the company has become a lightning rod instead, as customers complain about frequent blackouts, appliance-frying power surges and some of the highest prices in the world.

The same fraudulent driver's licence was used to rent two Toronto homes that organized crime tried to sell without the homeowner's knowledge, according to a private investigator working on the cases. 

The two dominant national airlines are increasingly focusing less on offering nationwide service and more on their regional strengths as they try to improve their financial performance — and also fend off soaring competition.

Calling the incident "a terrible outcome," Canada Post says the ashes of a woman whose family was shipping her remains from Ontario to British Columbia to be buried have been destroyed in a vehicle fire.

A frustrating struggle between a local Somalian soccer group and the eastern Ontario soccer association has left dozens of young soccer players on the sidelines because of miscommunication and alleged discrimination, those involved say.

Amy Boyes' daughter, Madeline, didn’t say a word until she was nearly two. When she eventually talked, she missed many words in her sentences. For other toddlers, this delay might have seemed worrisome, inexplicable even. But for Boyes, it was a victory.

The beauty of the bilateral model is that it avoids the question of “federal strings” by allowing provinces to commit to how they will move their services in the direction of the shared goals, writes Tom McIntosh.

It’s no secret that a night of drinking can rattle your head. But what does science say about how it affects your brain? Research suggests alcohol can negatively affect mental health conditions or hike the risk of cognitive issues and dementia — and cutting back could give your brain a boost.

Canada's central bank is widely expected to raise its benchmark interest rate for the 8th time in a year this week, a move that will make it even more expensive to borrow money. But for the first time in almost a year, there isn't unanimous consensus among those who watch the central bank that another hike is in the cards — or even that one should be.

A seven-woman caribou hunting expedition returned home to a heroine's welcome Saturday in the Naskapi community of Kawawachikamach in northern Quebec.

A total of 5 people have died in the province's backcountry this year. Avalanche Canada warns the snowpack this season is unusually weak and will likely remain dangerous for some time.