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Despite an ongoing national security review and a complete ban on all Parliamentary phones, the NDP is back on TikTok after installing the app on a separate personal device. It comes as Canada's security agencies are set to testify this week at the foreign interference inquiry, having previously raised concerns the app could be used for cyberattacks.

Federal officials and researchers say elevated levels of drought across the country are making wildfire seasons longer — particularly in northwestern Canada. 

In the midst of secret federal court proceedings and on the eve of a defence application to drop all charges, the Crown terminated the prosecution of five people accused of running a massive, cross-border drug trafficking operation involving Mexican cartels, CBC News has learned.

The Liberal government has survived the first of what is expected to be a series of non-confidence votes during this fall sitting.

The City of Montreal says it’s acting quickly after court decision ruled music venue La Tulipe must prevent any noise from being heard inside or outside adjacent condo building

CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault will host special live coverage from Ottawa of events commemorating the fourth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, starting at 2:30 p.m. ET

Helene became a hurricane Wednesday after the huge storm rapidly strengthened in the Caribbean Sea and moved north along Mexico's coast on a path toward the U.S., prompting residents to evacuate, schools to close and officials to declare emergencies in Florida and Georgia.

In a four-page letter, Patrice Vilcéus — who is of Haitian origin — said he spent his 30-year tenure at the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) combatting all forms of "unjust exclusion."

Population growth in Canada slowed slightly in the second quarter of this year as the federal government made efforts to reduce temporary migration into the country, Statistics Canada revealed Wednesday.

Members of Aamjiwnaang First Nation in southwestern Ontario will evacuate next week as Ineos Styrolution, the nearby petrochemical plant, begins the second phase of removing benzene from its facility. 

Summer of 2024 is now Canada's most destructive season on record for insured losses due to severe weather events, the latest estimates from the Insurance Bureau of Canada show.

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said Tuesday that he is pleased that inflation has fallen to two per cent, but the central bank now has to "stick the landing" and keep price growth centred around the target.

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said Tuesday that he is pleased that inflation has fallen to two per cent, but the central bank now has to "stick the landing" and keep price growth centred around the target.

A passenger was killed after a gunman hijacked a city bus in Los Angeles early Wednesday, leading to a slow police chase through downtown before the suspect was eventually arrested, authorities said. 

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet laid out a list of demands Wednesday he said the government must fulfil by the end of October if it wants to avoid the risk of an early election.

A truck carrying 88 unidentified bodies of Palestinians killed in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza arrived in Khan Younis on Wednesday. But the Palestinian Ministry of Health has put a pause on its procedure to receive bodies with no information from Israel on their identities or how they were killed.

The carbon fibre hull of the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic had imperfections dating to the manufacturing process, an engineer with the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.

The carbon fibre hull of the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic had imperfections dating to the manufacturing process, an engineer with the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.

A woman accusing Jacob Hoggard of sexual assault told a northern Ontario court the musician raped, hit and choked her before urinating on her in a hotel room after she attended his band's concert and an after-party eight years ago.

A former Ottawa firefighter has been found not guilty of assaulting and choking a non-binary colleague during a ritualistic scuffle over the dinner dishes. Their captain has been found not guilty of threatening to discipline the alleged victim in an attempt to keep the incident under wraps.

A former Ottawa firefighter has been found not guilty of assaulting and choking a non-binary colleague during a ritualistic scuffle over the dinner dishes. Their captain has been found not guilty of threatening to discipline the alleged victim in an attempt to keep the incident under wraps.

Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs, taking the stage in an election debate Wednesday, defended his management of health-care problems in New Brunswick, while two other party leaders promised to do a better job.

Large fires in the world’s boreal forests flatten and blacken the ground, leaving it measurably warmer for more than a decade. However, a new study in the journal Nature shows this effect was not as pronounced in mixed forests, where broadleaf trees broke up the fires and helped heat dissipate.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) says 289 of its employees who improperly received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit are no longer employed by the agency.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday his government will explore the possibility of building a tunnel for drivers and transit beneath Highway 401 in the Greater Toronto Area.

With the possibility of an early election looming in Ontario, Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday his government will explore building a tunnel for drivers and transit beneath Highway 401 in the Greater Toronto Area.

After 35 years of searching, a man from the small northern Ontario town of Larder Lake has uncovered the truth about a local legend dating back to 1937.

The skeletal remains of a crew member from Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition was identified in a joint study by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University. They were found to belong to Capt. James Fitzjames, a senior officer on the HMS Erebus.

One lawsuit has already been filed and another is pending from complainants who say their lives changed forever after alleged sexual assaults on Hussey Drive in St. John's.

One lawsuit has already been filed and another is pending from complainants who say their lives changed forever after alleged sexual assaults on Hussey Drive in St. John's.

We are not helicopters. We are not bulldozers. We're now supposed to be "lighthouse parents." While parenting trends often come and go, and the term "lighthouse parenting" has been in the lexicon for a few years now, it's recently started gaining traction.

Sama Tabeel, an eight-year-old girl, sits in a tent camp west of Khan Younis in Gaza, braiding the hair on her toy — something she can no longer do on herself after losing most of her hair.

Federal officials pointed to concerns about "public scrutiny" when it mandated workers back into the office, even as workers reported they felt more productive working from home, documents show.

Cash-strapped younger generations have been grappling with soaring rents and the rising costs of living, which means that to make ends meet, things like therapy are being treated as luxuries, mental health experts say.

As the recovery continues in Jasper National Park after a devastating wildfire, researchers at Western University are looking into whether some of the damage was caused by another natural phenomenon: tornadoes.

Carolynn Mayers and James Durban say their Fort Erie, Ont., house's foundation isn't strong enough to hold up their house and they have no choice but to rebuild from scratch.

Quebec residents with family in Lebanon are watching the conflict with Israel unfold, fearing for their loved ones who live with the threat of airstrikes and deadly explosions every day.

Loopholes in election financing rules could allow money from foreign countries to influence Canadian elections, the chief electoral officer told the inquiry probing foreign interference Tuesday. 

The man accused of staking out Donald Trump's Florida golf course with a rifle was indicted on Tuesday on a charge of attempted assassination of a political candidate, U.S. prosecutors said.

Israel demands that Hezbollah move north of the Litani River, which runs between four and 30 kilometres from the Lebanese border, to protect its residents in northern Israel. If there’s no pullback, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant indicated, a ground invasion of Lebanon’s south could come next.

Canadian intelligence and security officials won't be able to testify behind closed doors when Abousfian Abdelrazik's long-delayed lawsuit accusing the federal government of contributing to his detention and torture abroad finally goes to court next month.

Toronto conservation photographer Patricia Homonylo won the 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year award for a "beautiful and tragic" image that shows the massive scale of deadly bird-window collisions in the city.