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There's been no shortage of speculation about how U.S. President Donald Trump's comments about Canada might impact the federal election. It's now time to start asking the longer-term question about how it will impact Canada beyond Monday's election. An awkward G7 will offer an early litmus test.

For more than two decades, Nardwuar the Human Serviette has been on a mission to play the 1960s party game Hip Flip with every single Canadian prime minister and would-be prime minister he crosses paths with. 

Lucas Foglia spent nearly four years traversing 17 countries, capturing images of painted lady butterflies, and the people and places that intersect with their epic migrations.

As thousands gather in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on Saturday morning to bid farewell to Pope Francis, churches across Hamilton are holding masses and memorials to mark the passing of the spiritual leader whose papacy left a profound impression on local Catholics.

For some, seeing the Ice Bucket Challenge videos in their feeds again may bring about a sense of nostalgia. But within the ALS community, where there's still no cure and the mean survival time is two to five years, it's more divisive.

Liquidation sales at Hudson's Bay's remaining stores got underway this morning with a hearty showing from customers who revelled in discounts of up to 70 per cent.

The minister responsible for French in Quebec says the province’s language watchdog will ignore complaints related to the use of English in the phrase “Go! Habs Go!” 

We are just three days out from Canadians electing the next Parliament. The major party leaders are campaigning across the country to shore up support and target remaining undecided voters.

Disgraced former U.S. Congress member George Santos, who lied about his life story and defrauded donors, was sentenced Friday to more than seven years in prison, sobbing as he heard his punishment.

A new jury was chosen in London, Ont., on Friday for the trial of five former world junior hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room in 2018. Earlier in the day, the judge declared a mistrial, setting up the need for a new trial.

We are just three days out from Canadians electing the next Parliament. The major party leaders are campaigning across the country to shore up support and target remaining undecided voters.

More federal election voters showed up to the polls early in Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's rural Ottawa riding than any other riding in Canada.

More federal election voters showed up to the polls early in Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's rural Ottawa riding than any other riding in Canada.

More federal election voters showed up to the polls early in Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's rural Ottawa riding than any other riding in Canada.

We are just three days out from Canadians electing the next Parliament. The major party leaders are campaigning across the country to shore up support and target remaining undecided voters.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that seeks to jumpstart the mining of both U.S. and international waters as part of a push to offset China's sweeping control of the critical minerals industry.

Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia has declared a mistrial in the case against five former world junior hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel in 2018. On Friday, she also dismissed the jury and new jury selection will begin.

U.S. prosecutors formally told a court on Thursday that they plan to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing a UnitedHealth Group executive in New York last year.

Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing a UnitedHealth Group executive in New York last year, pleaded not guilty Friday. U.S. prosecutors formally told a court on Thursday that they plan to seek the death penalty for Mangione.

China has not communicated publicly on any exemptions. Despite comments from U.S. President Donald Trump saying that he's spoken with Chinese president Xi Jinping about tariffs, China maintains that no talks have taken place.

Over the last week, selected homes across Canada received poignant reminders of military members who fought and died in the final months of World War II.

We are just three days out from Canadians electing the next Parliament. The major party leaders are campaigning across the country to shore up support and target remaining undecided voters.

A St. Thomas, Ont. man photographed flashing two middle fingers outside a recent Mark Carney rally says he regrets the impulsive gesture, saying it's led to a wave of online abuse against him and organizations he's been affiliated with.

A senior Russian military officer was killed when a car exploded on Friday in the town of Balashikha just east of Moscow, Russia's Investigative Committee said.

A woman from Guatemala says she and her two U.S.-born children were held for nearly a week by customs agents in Detroit after a phone app's directions to the nearest Costco led them to the Ambassador Bridge.

A comedian stopping in Saskatoon and a Regina art gallery CEO talk about their experience with U.S. visa and passport changes and delays.

In parts of northeastern Ontario, including areas in and around Sudbury and Timmins, First Nations voters could help decide who wins the election.

Federal party leaders and provincial governments are trying to make it easier for workers to seamlessly move between provinces as a response to U.S. tariffs, but some health-care leaders in Manitoba aren't enthusiastic.

A woman in Nova Scotia says people should not assume their health records are safe from snooping, something she discovered for herself only after filing an access to information request.

Hidden away in an area of Waterton Lakes National Park, little greyish brown butterflies are now being recognized as a new species known as Satyrium curiosolus, or the curiously isolated hairstreak.

With the election increasingly looking like a contest between the Liberals and Conservatives, some experts say minor parties have become even more sidelined than usual.

British Columbia winemakers hope Canada’s united boycott of U.S. booze could result in a banner year for the province’s wine industry. Industry experts say it could also deliver a financial blow to vineyards south of the border.

Director Mstyslav Chernov's 2000 Meters to Andriivka — which will have its Canadian premiere at Hot Docs on April 27 ahead of a fall theatrical release — is a harrowing account of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine that constantly asks "What is this war for?"

As tariffs create uncertainty in global markets, CBC News travelled to Detroit across from WIndsor, Ont., to find out how auto consumers and dealers are responding, and get their views on President Donald Trump’s goal of moving production to the U.S. People in Michigan’s Motor City say vehicle sales are hot now, but are concerned for down the road if Trump's fully proposed levies take effect.

If the next government wants to build new energy infrastructure, experts say that could include different strategies such as taking an ownership stake or reducing red tape. But perceptions of "short-circuiting" processes could cause new problems.

Roger Jenkins has grown up eating and fishing salmon. Now, as a retiree, he refuses to fish this species of special concern. In this federal election, he’s looking for a political party that understands what’s at stake if the Atlantic salmon disappear for good. 

Advocates and experts hope access to medical records will be a priority for the next elected government — but there's been little mention of the issue throughout the federal election campaign. 

Before the Conservatives became the last federal party to unveil their election platform, more than seven million Canadians had already voted in advanced polling, calling into question the relevance of such documents.

Tsilhqot'in National Government Vice-Chief Francis Laceese said the crisis is a "continuation" of threats Indigenous Peoples have faced in the form of residential schools and the smallpox epidemic that devastated Indigenous communities in B.C. in the early 1860s.

For the first time this campaign, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made a stop in Nova Scotia on Thursday — the second province he's visited led by a Progressive Conservative premier conspicuously absent from the federal party's events.

With over 1,000 cases in Ontario alone, 2025 is already a record-shattering year for measles infections. 

Calgary has never elected more than two Liberals at once. With Trudeau gone, party hoping for record-breaking success in Conservative heartland.