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Top officials in Canada and the U.S. are pushing to finalize the Columbia River Treaty to manage water flowing between the two countries before Donald Trump becomes president. Trump has referred to the B.C. water system as a 'very large faucet' that could be diverted to solve water shortage issues.

A 12-year-old Saskatoon boy who pleaded guilty for his role in the February shooting death of his 12-year-old friend was sentenced Friday.

A 12-year-old Saskatoon boy who pleaded guilty for his role in the February shooting death of his 12-year-old friend was sentenced Friday.

More than two decades after Abousfian Abdelrazik was imprisoned in Sudan, a former diplomat who worked on the case says he still doesn’t know whether the Canadian government asked for the Montreal man’s detention.

A network outage affecting credit unions across the Canadian Prairies on Friday has delayed automatic deposits and payments.

Intense rainfall and flooding that hammered British Columbia's coast last month has led to more than $110 million in insured damage claims. 

The first surface samples retrieved from the dark side of the moon show that there used to be erupting volcanoes there, just as there were on the near side billions of years ago, according to new research.

The choice of Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence in Donald Trump's second administration could cause "a lot of headaches" for U.S. allies, including Canada, given her questionable past comments regarding both the Ukraine war and some Western adversaries led by autocrats.

Canada Post has shut down across the country because tens of thousands of postal workers are on strike over wages, working conditions and other issues. The closure will affect millions of Canadians and businesses nationwide before the busy holiday season. Here's what you need to know.

Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault apologized Friday for “not being as clear” as he could have been about his family’s Indigenous heritage and said he asked the Liberal Party to correct the record when it called him Indigenous.

A year after turning to comedian Jimmy Kimmel to host their big show, the Academy Awards will pivot to another familiar TV funnyman — Conan O’Brien. The Oscars will air live on ABC on March 2.

The Canadian Real Estate Association says the number of homes sold in October rose 30 per cent compared with a year ago, marking a shift from the market's holding pattern that the association has previously described.

Iran will back any decision taken by Lebanon in talks to secure a ceasefire with Israel, a senior Iranian official said on Friday, signaling Tehran wants to see an end to a conflict that has dealt heavy blows to its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.

An access-to-information request from the Newfoundland and Labrador Justice Department details the impacts staff shortages and lockdowns have had on both inmates and staff.

An access-to-information request from the Newfoundland and Labrador Justice Department details the impacts staff shortages and lockdowns have had on both inmates and staff.

Donald Trump's pathway to deporting millions of undocumented migrants may hinge on a 226-year old-law last used to target and detain non-citizens of Japanese, German and Italian descent during the Second World War.

RCMP videos and evidence photos obtained by The Fifth Estate reveal the extent to which conspiracy theories fuelled men arrested at the 2022 border blockade in Coutts, Alta. While they were found not guilty of conspiring to murder RCMP officers, experts tell The Fifth Estate the case is a warning about the potential for violence posed by extremist ideologies.

Nikolas Ibey's first-degree murder trial continued Thursday with the jury being shown a bloodied piece of wood he's accused of using to kill his new housemate Savanna Pikuyak in September 2022.

Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault is set to face a new round of questions over his business dealings and family history at a parliamentary committee in the wake of reports that his former company claimed to be “Indigenous owned” when bidding for federal contracts in 2020.

At the sprawling forested Ādaži military base, north east of Riga, Latvia, 3,000 troops have spent the past two weeks participating in a Canadian-led NATO military exercise designed to simulate an attack on the Baltic nation coming from beyond its nearly 300 km-long border with Russia. 

A week after Israeli soccer fans were attacked in the streets of Amsterdam, triggering damning accusations of a "Jew hunt" in a city with an ugly history of antisemitism, a clearer picture of what happened that night is slowly emerging. It suggests a far more nuanced take on events than Dutch authorities had initially indicated.

Connor McDavid became the fourth-fastest NHL player to reach 1,000 points, scoring early in the second period in the Edmonton Oilers' 3-2 overtime victory over the Nashville Predators on Thursday nightn in Edmonton.

The union representing around 55,000 postal workers represented went on a strike on Friday at 12:01am ET.

The union representing around 55,000 postal workers represented went on strike on Friday at 12:01 a.m. ET.

The union representing around 55,000 postal workers represented went on strike on Friday at 12:01 a.m. ET.

Taylor Swift took to the stage at the Rogers Centre in Toronto and told fans why she chose to end her worldwide tour in our country.

Video obtained by CBC News shows multiple guns, including one with a banned high-capacity magazine, being waved around at a Toronto party before a wild shootout erupted. Almost 100 shots were fired, and 23 people were arrested.

A Palestinian flag-raising ceremony planned at Regina City Hall for Friday was cancelled the day before at the authority of the mayor, according to the city.

A Palestinian flag-raising ceremony planned at Regina City Hall for Friday was cancelled the day before at the authority of the mayor, according to the city.

Scotiabank customers who have dealt with service issues in the wake of recently scheduled maintenance activities will not have to shoulder certain fees and charges resulting from those problems, the bank said Thursday.

Edmonton police have charged a 12-year-old boy with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon after investigating the stabbing of an 11-year-old boy inside a McDonald’s restaurant on Friday.

Ball pythons — long believed to be solitary creatures, and often kept as solo pets — seem to enjoy each other’s company, according to a new study out Ontario's Wilfrid University.