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Some coaches and teams heading to this summer’s North American Indigenous Games in Halifax are concerned about the games’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and are calling for it to be lifted.

British Columbia Premier David Eby says he is “astonished” that Health Canada has granted a cannabis company the right to possess, produce, sell and distribute cocaine.

British Columbia Premier David Eby says he is “astonished” that Health Canada has granted a cannabis company the right to possess, produce, sell and distribute cocaine.

Health Canada has granted a British Columbia cannabis company the right to possess, produce, sell and distribute cocaine.

Health Canada has granted a British Columbia cannabis company the right to possess, produce, sell and distribute cocaine.

The emergency department at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre was dealing with twice its usual number of critically ill or injured patients when a patient died while waiting for care there earlier this week, the head of the hospital says.

The emergency department at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre was dealing with twice its usual number of critically ill or injured patients when a patient died while waiting for care there earlier this week, the head of the hospital says.

A northern Alberta Indigenous leader has accused Imperial Oil Ltd. of a nine-month coverup over a massive release of toxic oilsands tailings on land near where his band harvests food.

A northern Alberta Indigenous leader has accused Imperial Oil Ltd. of a nine-month coverup over a massive release of toxic oilsands tailings on land near where his band harvests food.

Canadian transgender activist Fae Johnstone is one of five women featured on Hershey's Canada's limited edition bars for International Women's Day. Now, some social media users are calling for a boycott of the U.S. chocolate giant while others applaud the company for its inclusion.

Nordstrom Inc. says it is winding down its Canadian operations and closing all of its stores in the country.

Yukon's finance minister painted a rosy picture of the territory's future on Thursday, as he tabled a $48.2-million surplus budget, and predicted the territory will stay in the black for at least the next few years.

After waiting more than 500 days to find out whether he can continue to use psilocybin therapy under an exception to Canada's drug laws, a Saskatoon man who is terminally ill with cancer got his answer: No.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how much clothing you need in a sustainable wardrobe, how fast you can build a mass timber building and why Alberta's hydro power has slowed to a trickle.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how much clothing you need in a sustainable wardrobe, how fast you can build a mass timber building and why Alberta's hydro power has slowed to a trickle.

A pair of 14-year-old girls are dead after they were found outside a home on St. Theresa Point on Wednesday morning.

Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He was 89.

Actor Michael B. Jordan delivered a knockout answer about Winnipeg on late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live that immediately fired up the city's tourism machine. 

Britain's domestic intelligence agency didn't act swiftly enough on key information and missed a significant opportunity to prevent the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in northwest England, an inquiry found Thursday.

The results of a major investigation into forged Norval Morrisseau artwork that was launched in Thunder Bay, Ont., in 2019 will be revealed on Friday, police say.

Quebec's Transport Ministry says people living under Route 136 in downtown Montreal will have to leave over the next few weeks. The federal government's housing advocate wants a moratorium on forced evictions.

Joe Biden is expected to use his first presidential veto after the Senate overturned a rule allowing retirement plans to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions. ESG investing figures to be a hot topic during the upcoming presidential campaign.

Faced with accusations of greenwashing, a group comprising Canada's big banks and financial institutions is working on a new set of labels to clearly identify "green" financial products for investors.

The commissioner of Canada Elections, the watchdog that enforces Canada's federal election laws, said Thursday her office has launched an investigation into allegations of foreign interference in the last two federal election campaigns.

Two children found a gun in a home on Peguis First Nation Monday night, and a six-year-old was shot by a four-year-old when the gun discharged, according to Manitoba RCMP.

Private colleges are a popular route for international students to get a foothold in Canada. But two Vancouver colleges are being accused of not providing the instruction that was promised and making it difficult for students to get refunds when they tried to get out.

An overnight temporary shelter opened for the first time in Tillsonburg, Ont., on Wednesday night as the community works to support a growing number of people who are struggling. The shelter, inside Avondale United Church, can sleep 12 people and will run for four to eight weeks as the weather remains cold.

The man who killed three Mounties in Moncton will be able to seek parole decades earlier than his original sentence allowed.

Ottawa police have laid 12 charges against an Ottawa man in connection with the major Feb. 13 explosion in an Orléans housing development.

Ontario's Joint Rescue Coordination Centre is setting up an air task force based out of Thunder Bay as the search continues for a missing Cessna 208 Caravan plane in northwestern Ontario.

Ontario's Joint Rescue Coordination Centre is setting up an Air Task Force based out of Thunder Bay as the search for a missing plane in northwestern Ontario continues.

Three people were killed when a Russian missile hit a five-storey apartment building in a city in southeastern Ukraine on Thursday, police said, as the world's foreign ministers tiptoed around tensions surrounding the war at the G20 meeting in India.

Quebec alone has 63 million tests on top of the federal stockpile. But the once-essential tool has lost its importance in the pandemic, experts say.

SpaceX launched a four-man crew to orbit en route to the International Space Station early on Thursday, with a Russian cosmonaut and United Arab Emirates astronaut joining two NASA crewmates for the flight.

Non-renewable resource revenue for the province hit an all-time high of $27.5 billion. The projection for the coming year — about $18.4 billion — would be the second-highest year on record.

Alberta-born songstress Joni Mitchell headed up a procession of musical luminaries past and present Wednesday at a gala celebration of her latest lifetime achievement: the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

Fort Frances relies on a single supply point through the Ontario grid to get its power, but that isn't always reliable. So the town is commissioning a feasibility study to look into developing an integrated microgrid system to source electricity locally. More communities in northern Ontario are doing the same, and here's why.

Volunteers in Halls Harbour, N.S., have developed a multimillion-dollar plan to prevent flooding and damage from severe storms.

Premier Doug Ford's government will on Thursday propose changes to the laws governing approval of mining projects in Ontario, CBC News has learned.

If courts and administrative decision makers used this same AI to identify their own biases and confront them, the justice system could be less vulnerable to those biases, writes Robyn Schleihauf.

Whatever China tried to do, it certainly has succeeded in generating a political and media feeding frenzy that threatens to do some real damage to Canadian democracy, regardless of what the truth might be.

Swirling green blooms of phytoplankton along ocean coasts may be happening more often and getting bigger, according to new research published in Nature, raising concerns about the impacts of climate change on the world’s oceans. 

One of the biggest issues in Nigeria’s recent election — won by ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu — is the frustration of the nation’s youth.

The regional council voted almost unanimously to make the three separate declarations to help address the crises facing the area and ask for federal and provincial support. 

The process of returning land to its original inhabitants isn't straightforward; there is no system in place to transfer lands back to Indigenous communities.

The cost to borrow money got a lot more expensive this year. Normally that would be good news for savers, as they could expect a better return on their cash. But that's not happening right now — and here's why.

Swirling green blooms of phytoplankton along ocean coasts may be happening more often and getting bigger, according to new research published in Nature, raising concerns about the impacts of climate change on the world’s oceans. 

Swirling green blooms of phytoplankton along ocean coasts may be happening more often and getting bigger, according to new research published in Nature, raising concerns about the impacts of climate change on the world’s oceans. 

More family doctors in Ontario could begin caring for their patients in teams — alongside nurses, social workers and other health professionals — as a result of the new federal-provincial funding deal. 

The final chapter of CBC Toronto's series, The Cost of Fraud, explores some of the most prominent and emerging frauds reported in Ontario last year and provides tips to help protect yourself from falling victim to them.