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An Edmonton man returning from a trip to wilderness this weekend thought he had engine trouble. When he looked under the hood of his car, he found a marmot.

Canada has attended a first-of-its-kind briefing at the Pentagon on unidentified flying objects. Amid extraordinary new claims, a new United States office has delivered its first-ever briefing to allied nations.

With the help of the Ontario Provincial Police, Montreal police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with the fatal shooting of Montreal Mafia member Moreno Gallo’s daughter-in-law last month.

The co-founders of the Black Farmer Fund took home the Humanitarian of the Year prize at the 2023 James Beard Awards.

Major League Baseball postponed games in New York and Philadelphia on Wednesday night because of poor air quality caused by smoke from Canadian wildfires.

Quebec provinical police have issued an Amber Alert for one-year-old Laura MacPhee.

The Iron Sheik, a former pro wrestler who relished playing a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of the sport's biggest stars and later became a popular Twitter personality, died on Wednesday, the WWE said. He was 81.

Former priest Eric Dejaeger, who was previously convicted on dozens of sex abuse charges in Nunavut and Alberta, has been arrested again and will be sent to Iqaluit to face further sexual assault charges.

It was a storyline straight out of Hollywood for Thunder Bay's Jack Pineau as he made his first start in years at home, pitching for the Border Cats in front of his friends and family, leading them to a 6-3 victory.

United States Geological Survey officials have reported Hawaii's Kilauea volcano started erupting on Wednesday, after three months of no volcanic activity.

The union representing RCMP officers says one way to improve accountability in the national police force is to stop tasking Mounties with investigating colleagues accused of wrongdoing.

As interest rates rose again Wednesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made good on a promise to tie up the House of Commons, speaking for hours in a bid to prevent the government from passing a budget he said will drive Canada into "a full scale financial crisis."

As interest rates rose again Wednesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre vowed to tie up the House of Commons with a prolonged speech to prevent the government from passing a budget he says will drive Canada into “a full scale financial crisis.”

As interest rates rose again Wednesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made good on a promise to tie up the House of Commons, speaking for hours in a bid to prevent the government from passing a budget he said will drive Canada into "a full scale financial crisis."

Family and supporters of a Mexican activist who was killed after opposing a Canadian company's mining project are taking their case to an international human rights body.

CNN ousted chief executive Chris Licht after a tumultuous year leading the struggling news network that culminated in a damning magazine profile and the growing realization that he'd lost the confidence of the network's journalists.

A Pride flag is back flying in front of Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School in London, Ont., after a video emerged on social media of students tearing down the flag and throwing it in the garbage.

Four members of Indigo's board of directors have abruptly resigned, and the company has announced that chair Heather Reisman will retire this summer.

Four members of Indigo's board of directors have abruptly resigned, and the company has announced that chair Heather Reisman will retire this summer.

A Florida prosecutor urged jurors on Wednesday to convict a former sheriff's deputy of failing to protect students during the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

A service will be held Saturday for Carissa MacDonald and Aaron Stone, the couple shot and killed by their landlord in Hamilton on May 27.

Protesters briefly scuffled and punches flew Tuesday as a Southern California school district decided whether to recognize June as Pride month.

Irving Oil, one of the largest and most powerful companies in New Brunswick, has launched a strategic review that will consider, among other things, "a full or partial sale" of the company, according to a statement issued Wednesday. 

For the past year or so, four-time major champion Rory McIlroy took on a job besides golfer. In addition to contending on Sundays, the Northern Irishman became the de facto spokesman of the PGA Tour in its rift with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League. On Wednesday, the 34-year-old took the podium at Toronto's Oakdale Golf and Country Club, and said the merger was ultimately the best move for the PGA Tour.

The Bank of Canada decided to raise its benchmark interest rate to 4.75 per cent on Wednesday.

The Bank of Canada decided to raise its benchmark interest rate to 4.75 per cent on Wednesday.

After months of speculation, Lionel Messi announced his decision Wednesday to join Inter Miami — a franchise that has been led by another global soccer icon in David Beckham since its inception but has yet to make any real splashes on the field.

A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong.

United Nations judges have declared an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to continue standing trial because he has dementia and said they would establish a procedure to go on hearing evidence without the possibility of convicting him.

Prince Harry finished giving evidence at London's High Court on Wednesday after nearly eight hours of cross-examination in his phone-hacking case against a British tabloid newspaper group, and he described the experience as: "It's a lot."

Prince Harry said phone-hacking was carried out on an industrial scale across the British press and he would feel a sense of injustice if the High Court in London ruled he had not been a victim.

A Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbour last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud was arrested Tuesday, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said.

An Angus Ont., woman has been trying to locate the family linked to a 70-year-old letter she found at a busy intersection in Newmarket in November 2021. With the community's help, Jackie Williams has some information about the people in the letter and hopes to help it find its way home.

Two substance-use recovery facilities in New Westminster, B.C., ignored multiple reports that an employee was preying on vulnerable women clients for more than a decade before he was charged with sexual assault, according to several survivors, former clients and staff.

Pope Francis is going to the hospital for abdominal surgery Wednesday to treat an intestinal blockage, two years after he had a portion of his colon removed because of an inflammation and narrowing of the large intestine.

"It must be top of mind at every opportunity that Canadians can act to end gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA plus people, not only during daily interactions, but also at the ballot box," writes Hilda Anderson-Pyrz.

Ontario's Home Construction Regulatory Authority (HCRA) has revoked a developer's licence after the company tried to charge a buyer significantly more for a home than was contractually agreed upon. 

Ontario's Home Construction Regulatory Authority (HCRA) has revoked a developer's licence after the company tried to charge a buyer significantly more for a home than was contractually agreed upon. 

The inquiry's three commissioners are investigating systemic issues with the child protection system and will make recommendations to improve the system.

Canadian actor Elliot Page says while the idea of speaking publicly about coming out as transgender at times felt overwhelming, he believes visibility and representation is crucial. In his first Canadian interview since transitioning, Page spoke to CBC chief correspondent and host of The National Adrienne Arsenault about his journey and his new memoir, Pageboy.

The cost of straddling multiple worlds is more than financial; it weighs heavily on Charleen Sibanda. Every time she considers flying home, she has to weigh the cost of the airfare against losing out on precious family time.

Quebec's boreal forest is not suited to frequent devastating fires, experts warn, and the current blazes could damage the delicate “mosaic” of the habitat.

Citing low self-confidence or just a busy schedule, some Ontario students say the programs costing hundreds of dollars per course help give them a leg up.

Marine researchers are warning the public to keep an eye out for humpback whales entangled in fishing gear, after one humpback was extricated from polysteel rope off the coast of Haida Gwaii.

Two RCMP officers charged with manslaughter in the 2017 death of Dale Culver, a Wet'suwet'en and Gitxsan man, have pleaded not guilty.

Connor McTavish was exploring a shipwreck with fellow divers Matteo Endrizzi, Garrett Clement and Danton West when they suddenly encountered a rare shark.

Red Deer defence lawyer says she and her friend were beaten by an RCMP officer this past weekend after they were pulled over in Innisfail for allegedly running a stop sign.

After shedding their masking routines, some people in Tokyo are looking for help uncovering something that was hidden away during the COVID-19 pandemic: their smiles. Demand for 'smile education' is rising and coaches are happy to lend a hand, even using special facial detection technology to give students' smiles a score out of 100.

The family of Haven Dubois is marching to Ottawa, where they will call for a national inquiry into missing, murdered and neglected Indigenous boys, men and two-spirit people.

Last month, a group of scuba divers on Vancouver Island discovered a two-metre bluntnose sixgill shark in shallow waters — a species that often live in water as deep as 2,500 metres.