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The extra screening measures that were imposed earlier this week on people travelling to India have now been lifted, says the office of Transport Minister Anita Anand.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the Liberal government to deal immediately with a backlog of claims under the Jordan’s Principle program for First Nations kids. Some of the backlogged requests “may very well be urgent," the panel says.

Countries of the world took turns rejecting a new but vague draft text released early Thursday, which had attempted to form the spine of any deal reached at United Nations climate talks, on money for developing countries to transition to clean energy and adapt to climate change.

Toronto police have seized more devices that illegally transform semi-automatic handguns into fully automatic machine guns this year than ever before, according to new data shared with CBC News. 

Jurors in the Minnesota trial of two alleged human smugglers arrested after a family from India froze to death while trying to walk across the Manitoba-U.S. border in 2022 were given three very different stories to weigh during closing arguments on Thursday.

Phone records show Harshkumar Patel and Steve Shand were carrying out plans to sneak people across the Canada-U.S. border that led to the deaths of a family of four from India, say prosecutors at the men's trial.

Phone records show Harshkumar Patel and Steve Shand were carrying out plans to sneak people across the Canada-U.S. border that led to the deaths of a family of four from India, say prosecutors at the men's trial.

In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at ways to make boring but important climate terms easier to understand, see what can be made out of construction waste and find out how to cool buildings more sustainably.

Four men have been arrested and one remains at large after an investigation into a robbery in Cambridge in September. Police say members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang stole vests from members of a rival gang.

On the outside, the new house just east of Edmonton looks like any other Canadian suburban home. But inside, the home's state-of-the-art furnace is fuelled not by the Alberta norm of natural gas, but by pure hydrogen — making it the first of its kind in Canada.

Canadian under-20 coach Cindy Tye will serve as interim coach for Canada's upcoming women's friendlies against Iceland and South Korea.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction on charges that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in downtown Chicago in 2019 and lied to police.

Former U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz has pulled himself out of the running to be attorney general under president-elect Donald Trump's attorney general after several days of concern over the selection, even from Republicans.

Former U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz has pulled himself out of the running to be attorney general under president-elect Donald Trump's attorney general after several days of concern over the selection, even from Republicans.

A countrywide arrest warrant has been issued for a 25-year-old Ontario man accused of driving a semi-trailer truck through a stop sign before a crash that killed a Manitoba mother and daughter.

Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a mockup of oil-extraction equipment outside the official residence of the Official Opposition leader Thursday morning.

Around 30,000 properties were still without power on Vancouver Island on Thursday morning, as B.C. Hydro crews continued to repair the damage from the recent "bomb cyclone." Environment Canada is now warning that another storm is approaching southwestern B.C.

Around 30,000 properties were still without power on Vancouver Island on Thursday morning, as B.C. Hydro crews continued to repair the damage from the recent "bomb cyclone." Environment Canada is now warning that another storm is approaching southwestern B.C.

Groupe Dynamite, the Montreal company behind women's fashion retailers Dynamite and Garage, has launched its initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange and starts trading Thursday.

Winter's deep-freeze will soon slow down any regrowth happening in the charred areas of Jasper National Park. But for now, natural and human-assisted forest renewal efforts are well underway.

Chris Stapleton took home four Country Music Association Awards and hardly left the stage on Wednesday night, while an absent Morgan Wallen took the night's biggest prize, entertainer of the year.

Woman says people pretending to work for Hydro attempted to lure her into making a deposit on a Bitcoin machine, using a lot of personal information and elaborate theatrics to make everything seem "very realistic."

Alphabet's Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with rivals and take other measures — including possibly selling Android — to end its monopoly on online search, prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesday.

There's stiff competition among prospective home buyers in the St. John's region because listings are unusually low. One real estate agent says deep-pocketed buyers from outside the province are primarily to blame.

One might be tired of the same old tale: another year, another position on the top 10 warmest years, a podium on which we definitely don’t want to stand. But the past two years have been different. And climate scientists don’t understand why.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday a suite of new measures designed to alleviate some of the affordability pressures people have been experiencing in the post-COVID era including a GST holiday for two months on some eligible goods and services.

The Liberal government and the NDP have agreed to introduce a two-month GST vacation on certain items before the holiday season, Radio-Canada has learned.

CBC News follows Tasnim Jaisee and her father along as they navigate the streets of Saskatoon after the first snow storm. Jaycee has osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as the brittle bone disease.

The toxic drug crisis has taken more than 47,000 lives in Canada since 2016 and the synthetic opioid fentanyl has become a household name. But now, an even more potent class of synthetic drug is showing up in drug busts across the country: nitazenes.

In an Ottawa courtroom on Tuesday, federal Crown prosecutors played three videos downloaded from social media by RCMP in 2020 — videos the Crown contends were created in part by Patrick Gordon Macdonald, an alleged neo-Nazi terror propagandist who lives in the capital with his parents.

Despite running a historic deficit this year, Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard has announced more than $2 billion in new spending, crediting a slightly stronger than expected economy and some newly found government savings.

Despite running a historic deficit this year, Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard has announced more than $2 billion in new spending, crediting a slightly stronger-than-expected economy and some newly found government savings.

For the island countries of the Caribbean, the trail of destruction left by tropical storms extends to government debt — and their ability to borrow the money they need to rebuild and recover.

For the island countries of the Caribbean, the trail of destruction left by tropical storms extends to government debt — and their ability to borrow the money they need to rebuild and recover.

CBC News follows Tasnim Jaisee and her father along as they navigate the streets of Saskatoon after the first snow storm. Jaisee has osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as the brittle bone disease.

A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million US at an auction in New York on Wednesday.

A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million US at an auction in New York on Wednesday.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Michigan congressman Pete Hoekstra to be his ambassador to Canada.

A painting by renowned B.C. artist Emily Carr that sold for $50 US at a barn sale in New York State fetched $290,000 Cdn at a Toronto auction on Wednesday night.

A painting by renowned B.C. artist Emily Carr that sold for $50 US at a barn sale in New York fetched $349,250 Cdn at a Toronto auction on Wednesday night.

A painting by renowned B.C. artist Emily Carr that sold for $50 US at a barn sale in New York State fetched $290,000 Cdn at a Toronto auction on Wednesday night.

The West Bengal region of India has been devastated by climate disasters and opportunistic sex traffickers are targeting girls in the region. CBC’s Salimah Shivji hears their stories of horror and survival and learns how the community is fighting to protect their daughters.

Quebec's auditor general has released a damning report on its education of Indigenous students, finding the province has fallen short in many areas.