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The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed forward Tyler Bertuzzi to a one-year deal worth $5.5 million US, the team announced Sunday.

Roughly 150 firefighters from South Korea touched down in Ottawa Sunday afternoon as part of their journey to northern Quebec to fight dozens of wildfires still raging there.

The Knox Mountain wildfire just north of downtown Kelowna, B.C., is now considered under control, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service. But a popular park will be shut until at least Tuesday.

The Knox Mountain wildfire just north of downtown Kelowna, B.C. is now considered under control, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service.

The Knox Mountain wildfire just north of downtown Kelowna, B.C., is now considered under control, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service. But a popular park will be shut until at least Tuesday.

Two people were killed and 28 others were injured, including an estimated 14 children, in a mass shooting in Baltimore early Sunday morning after a neighbourhood party, police said.

A storm on Canada day brought golf-ball sized hail, strong wind gusts and severe thunderstorms to parts of Saskatchewan. About 8,000 SaskPower customers were affected by outages at noon.

Only a day after resuming service following a two-week shutdown due to a mechanical problem, the ferry service between P.E.I. and Nova Scotia has been cancelled for the remainder of Sunday.

So much for the Canadian battle in the men's 100 metres in Stockholm. Andre De Grasse pulled out of the race due to a groin injury on Sunday, spoiling the chance of a showdown with fellow Canadian Aaron Brown in the season's seventh Diamond League meet.

Andre De Grasse is not dealing with an injury, the Canadian sprinter's agent says, but did experience right groin tightness "hours after" Friday's sixth-place finish in the men's 200 metres at the Athletissima track and field meet in Lausanne, Switzerland.

A sneaker culture has made its way into the workplace, normalizing a less formal, and less painful, kind of footwear in the office — and in Canada's Parliament.

A four-year-old boy was attacked by a coyote in the Headmaster Row area of North Kildonan on June 30, Manitoba Natural Resources and Northern Development said in a release Sunday. 

The home of a Paris suburb mayor was rammed by a vehicle and set alight while his wife and children were asleep inside during the unrest that has gripped the country following Tuesday's fatal shooting of a teenager by a police officer, the official said on Sunday.

The grandmother of a teenager shot dead during a police traffic stop in a Paris suburb pleaded for the rioting to stop Sunday, the sixth straight night of unrest, while authorities expressed outrage over the targeting of a mayor's home with a burning car as his family slept.

The grandmother of a teenager shot dead during a police traffic stop in a Paris suburb pleaded for the rioting to stop Sunday, the sixth straight night of unrest, while authorities expressed outrage over the targeting of a mayor's home with a burning car as his family slept.

A woman whose childhood home was destroyed by a tornado sweeping through central Alberta says the family is still working to process what happened.

A woman whose childhood home was destroyed by a tornado sweeping through central Alberta says the family is still working to process what happened.

A woman whose childhood home was destroyed by a tornado sweeping through central Alberta says the family is still working to process what happened.

RCMP say 14 houses have been damaged, and five of those homes have been destroyed after a devastating tornado hit Mountain View County in central Alberta on Saturday.

More than 100 Edmundston households have reported flood damage following a torrential rain storm on Thursday evening. The damage varies widely and there is no guarantee of insurance coverage.

Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the number of tweets that users can view each day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform.

The search continues for two people who were swept away by a landslide in Rivière-Éternité, Que., after an intense downpour hit the municipality Saturday. The town has declared a state of emergency and campers had to leave the area.

The search continues for two people who were swept away by a landslide in Rivière-Éternité, Que., after an intense downpour hit the municipality Saturday. The town has declared a state of emergency and campers had to leave the area.

The search continues for 2 people who were swept away by a landslide in Rivière-Éternité, Que., after an intense downpour hit the municipality Saturday. The town has declared a state of emergency.

A new device that aims to save lives in British Columbia's escalating toxic drug crisis is now being installed in more than 2,000 SROs and supportive housing units across the province.

Thirty per cent is the often-touted maximum percentage of your income that you should spend on a home. But in an age where the average one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver rents for $2,787 a month, is that number still realistic?

The mayor of a Paris suburb says his home was rammed by a vehicle and set alight while his wife and children were asleep inside early Sunday during the unrest that has gripped the country since a police officer fatally shot a teenager on Tuesday. 

Jason Truong is one of only a few stunt specialists in Saskatchewan. He has travelled around North America working as a stunt performer and choreographer for prime-time shows and feature films, but he also loves shooting YouTube skits with his daughters at home.

The Western University-headquartered Northern Tornadoes Project has teams scattered across Canadian universities that it dispatches to areas where reported tornadoes touch down. Last week, researchers from Western joined a University of Manitoba crew that confirmed three tornadoes in a single weather event on June 20.

The Western University-headquartered Northern Tornadoes Project has teams scattered across Canadian universities that it dispatches to areas where reported tornadoes touch down. Last week, researchers from Western joined a University of Manitoba crew that confirmed three tornadoes in a single weather event on June 20.

CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.

As the summer months roll along, you might feel powerless to tear your eyes and thumbs from the phone and actually get outside to enjoy the weather. But it's not your fault, experts say, because the companies that design our devices are intentionally working to make them addictive.

Prince William's interest in homelessness is not new, but the way in which the heir to the throne now approaches the issue may also offer hints of what kind of Prince of Wales he may be through the reign of his father, King Charles.

RCMP employees have lodged hundreds of sexual assault and harassment complaints with a new independent body since its creation two years ago — but according to some of the people who've used it, the process has been afflicted by delays.

Gilles Fluet narrowly escaped death in 2013, leaving the bar where he'd been with friends just moments before a runaway train derailed and exploded nearby. A decade later, he and other residents say what was once a lively downtown still hasn’t fully recovered.

Fresh off an election win, Olivia Chow is assembling her team. Toronto’s new mayor-elect told reporters Thursday that she has hired a chief-of-staff, has been immersed in meetings for the past several days, and has three immediate priorities as she transitions into the role.

June Wong watched her grandmother knit and find a path through her grief. In her own grief, she's found a way to spread the solace of knitting with strangers.

Electrical safety advocates are urging people to stay safe amid a sharp rise in power line contacts in Ontario involving members of the public in recent years.

Thousands of stunningly picturesque towns and villages in Italy sit half-empty, as the country's declining birth rate and prolonged economic crisis have led to an exodus of people from non-urban areas. In Civitacampomarano, a small town in the southern region of Molise, residents are drawing people in with street art.

As gender-related policies in schools increasingly draw debate, some are calling for "safe zones" to be established to allow students to remain focused on education. And some are calling for the organization of counter-protests.

Emergency orders and alerts have been issued as a plume of smoke rose from a fire on Knox Mountain, within Kelowna's city boundaries, on Canada Day.

A wildfire on Knox Mountain in Kelowna, B.C., spurred the brief evacuation of more than 400 properties, which are now under alert, as emergency crews worked to snuff out the blaze near Okanagan Lake on Saturday.