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Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier have an uphill climb at the Grand Prix Final in Grenoble, France. They placed last out of six teams in Friday's rhythm dance after an uncharacteristic fall when Poirier caught his foot on the boards.

Liberal MP Chandra Arya is accusing his caucus colleague Sukh Dhaliwal of threatening him in the House of Commons on Friday.

Thousands of social assistance cheques have not been distributed in British Columbia because of the Canada Post strike, prompting an investigation by provincial Ombudsperson Jay Chalke. 

A U.S. federal appeals court panel on Friday unanimously upheld a law that could lead to a ban of TikTok in a few short months, handing a resounding defeat to the popular social media platform as it fights for its survival in the U.S.

A $6-million settlement that could see around a million Canadians eligible for a credit with Ticketmaster reached its final stages in Regina on Friday.

Manitoba plans to send conservation officers to the international border in an attempt to defuse U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's trade tariff threats, Premier Wab Kinew announced Friday.

Manitoba plans to send conservation officers to the international border to appease U.S. president-elect Donald Trump and attempt to defuse his trade tariff threats, the premier announced Friday.

Manitoba plans to send conservation officers to the international border in an attempt to defuse U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's trade tariff threats, Premier Wab Kinew announced Friday.

It took a pair of Hollywood writers to bring a quintessentially Canadian heist story to the screen. The Sticky, loosely based on the 2011-2012 theft of nearly 3,000 tonnes of maple syrup valued at almost $19 million from a storage facility in Quebec, hits Amazon Prime on Friday.

A Saskatchewan man who abducted his daughter to prevent her from getting the COVID-19 vaccine was sentenced Friday morning. Michael Jackson, 55, received a one-year jail sentence, which he has already served, and 200 days of probation.

Quebec Premier François Legault said Friday afternoon that he wants to ban praying in public spaces and that he was considering using the notwithstanding clause to do so.

Alberta is looking to lure foreign workers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of a 2025 international recruitment mission, according to documents and emails shared with CBC News. It's a move that’s raising concerns among labour leaders in the province.

Pro-Palestinian organizers say charges against four of the five activists arrested for protesting last year's Giller Prize have been withdrawn.

A Pennsylvania coroner's office said Friday that investigators believe they have located the body of a woman who was last seen four days earlier near a sinkhole above a shuttered coal mine.

A Pennsylvania coroner's office said Friday that investigators believe they have located the body of a woman who was last seen four days earlier near a sinkhole above a shuttered coal mine.

The Montreal fire department is taking steps to replace pieces of protective clothing shown to have high levels of potentially hazardous "forever chemicals."

Experts estimate the box could have 25 to 27 Wayne Gretzky rookie cards.

On the heels of his unprecedented presidential pardon for his son Hunter, U.S. President Joe Biden is reportedly considering exercising that power again, this time to pre-emptively protect figures who may be targeted by the incoming Trump administration.

A top Romanian court on Friday annulled the first round of the country's presidential election, days after allegations that Russia ran a co-ordinated social media campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round.

Taylor Swift and her wildly successful Eras Tour have been making waves not just across the world, but also for charities that had never in their wildest dreams imagined raising so much money from the Swift era.

New details have emerged in the murder case of a man accused of killing a Canadian woman in the remote Shetland Islands of Scotland. Aren Pearson, 40, is charged with assault, murder and obstruction in the death of 24-year-old Claire Leveque, of Edmonton. He has pleaded not guilty.

After years of lying dormant, the civil war in Syria is suddenly active again. A coalition of rebel forces have dealt stunning setbacks to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Now, with his final strongholds under threat, the question is whether his weakened allies will step up to save him.

Canada's unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent last month as more people looked for work in a weakening job market.   

Amid an influx of packages that would normally be sent through Canada Post, Purolator and UPS have paused shipments from some courier companies in order to catch up. 

Canada will open consulates in Alaska and Greenland and continue its boundary negotiations with the United States over the Beaufort Sea. 

Laura O'Byrne has countless fibroids — growths around her uterus, which itself is three times larger than normal — and a large ovarian cyst. But she's met a number of roadblocks in treating her issues, including being dismissed by a Nova Scotia gynecologist and denied an out-of-province claim to MSI for an urgent hysterectomy in her home province of Manitoba.

A centrepiece of the Liberal climate plan, carbon pricing, has become a rallying cry for the opposition leader Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives, whose Axe the Tax campaign has tapped into growing anxieties about the daily costs of housing, food and other necessities.

Speaking about their new movie The Six Triple Eight, Tyler Perry, Kerry Washington and Ebony Obsidian honour the only Black Women’s Army Corps to serve in Europe during the Second World War.

Amid a 35 per cent jump in HIV cases across Canada, the numbers have stabilized in northwestern Ontario — and health-care workers say it's largely due to harm reduction services in the region. Here's what local health-care workers say is working in helping prevent the spread of blood-borne infections.

With Montreal facing a sharp rise in homelessness, shelters are struggling to meet the demand and keep people safe during the colder months. For some shelters, that means making chairs available for people to stay through the night.

It could take a while yet for the federal government's cybersecurity bill to become law after the Senate found an error that would essentially nullify the legislation's entire reason for existing.

Two days after the École Polytechnique massacre, journalist Francine Pelletier learned she and 18 other women were on the gunman's hit list because it was published in the newspaper she worked for.

Pharmacist Ali Yehya has been suspended from practising for a year and fined $10,000 on Thursday after admitting to sexually abusing a patient. Yehya attended a virtual hearing by the Ontario College of Pharmacists, which withdrew a second allegation of sexual abuse.

Canada's list of at-risk plants and animals got longer on Thursday — gaining five species that are now considered threatened or endangered, while seven others were reassessed by federal officials.

His white beard is a little shorter than Santa's, and he's missing the red suit and hat. But Vincent Giannotti's propensity for making toys and giving gifts — made at his Tecumseh, Ont., workshop — bears a striking resemblance to that of Kris Kringle.

Federal Justice Minister Arif Virani is set to meet with the chief justices of Canada's four federal courts on Friday, after they warned of a budgetary shortfall creating "critical" pressure on their operations, including efforts to clear a backlog of immigration filings in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

A class-action lawsuit attempting to hold the federal government responsible for sexual abuse suffered by children at the hands of a military priest at an Edmonton army base has been certified in the Alberta courts.

Amid a 35 per cent jump in HIV cases across Canada, the numbers have stabilized in northwestern Ontario — and health-care workers say it's largely due to harm reduction services in the region. Here's what local health-care workers say is working in helping prevent the spread of blood-borne infections.

The four-country NHL-hosted tournament will be a measuring stick ahead of NHL players' return to the Olympics in 2026.

A Windsor, Ont., woman who wasn't allowed to ride an indoor water slide with her son says the city needs to come up with a more sensitive way to enforce a new weight restriction for the attraction.

Three mountain climbers — one from Canada and two from the U.S. — missing for five days on Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest peak, are believed to have died in a fall, local authorities said Friday.

First Nations leaders in Manitoba are calling on the federal government to address a backlog in requests for Indigenous children to receive swift access to health care and other services.

Drivers travelling on the 401 and 402 in southwestern Ontario found themselves stranded for hours as a major snow storm hit the region Thursday causing collisions and closures. 

Drivers travelling on the 401 and 402 in southwestern Ontario found themselves stranded for hours as a major snow storm hit the region Thursday causing collisions and closures. 

Alberta's information and privacy commissioner says she is worried — but not surprised — the province voted this week to pass legislation she says will reduce public access to government information.