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Police say a suspected impaired driver plowed through a closed construction site, mounted a pile of crushed stone and went flying through the air before being pulled from his car just before it was engulfed in flames overnight....

National Chief Perry Bellegarde says provincial governments that want to cling to their jurisdiction over child welfare are the biggest barrier to implementing new legislation giving Indigenous communities control over their children's well-being....

Jair Bolsonaro confirmed the test results after months of downplaying the severity of coronavirus, calling it a "little flu"...

National Chief Perry Bellegarde says provincial governments that want to cling to their jurisdiction over child welfare are the biggest barrier to implementing new legislation giving Indigenous communities control over their children's well-being....

Stay up to date on the latest on how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting sports around the globe....

Bob Miller and Jim Mercer have spent their lives helping others, and now have national awards to show for it....

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for COVID-19 after months of downplaying the virus' severity....

A member of the Pussy Riot protest group has been charged with failing to properly notify Russian authorities about his Canadian citizenship, officials said Tuesday....

The vast majority of Canadians say they expect they'll choose to get a COVID-19 vaccine when and if one is available, but some others say they likely will not, according to new data from Statistics Canada....

Maxwell's new digs are the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, which has been cited for a complete lack of coronavirus safeguards...

Santina Rao was facing charges of disturbing the peace, resisting arrest and assaulting an officer following an incident at a Halifax-area Walmart in January...

Red Scorpion gangster Jamie Bacon is set to plead guilty this week to having a hand in the Surrey Six murders, more than 12 years after the deadliest gang shooting in B.C. history, CBC News has confirmed....

Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso is set to return to Formula One with Renault in 2021, the BBC reported on Tuesday. Alonso, who left Formula One at the end of 2018 after a final season with McLaren, won his championship titles with Renault in 2005 ...

CEO Mark Little says using rail and ships in place of the pipeline drives up costs and will have an affect on consumers...

If you've ever wondered what space smells like, a new perfume may answer that for you. A Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign was recently launched for a new fragrance called Eau de Space to bring the smell of outer space back down to Earth....

By Sophie Davies BARCELONA, July 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) Women's activists are urging Netflix to add specific content warnings to the hit film "365 Days" which they accuse of glamourising rape and sex trafficking, after the streaming si...

RCMP say no charges will be laid in connection with a former Moncton Hospital nurse who allegedly administered the labour-inducing drug oxytocin to mothers without their consent....

Feminist activists held two small protests in Paris, saying the appointments of Gerald Darmanin and Eric Dupond-Moretti fly in the face of Macron's promises to make equality between women and men the 'Great Cause' of his five-year term...

NAIROBI — Kenyan police on Tuesday fired teargas and arrested activists gathering for a march against perceived government injustice that has been given extra impetus this year by rights groups' allegations of police brutality during the COVID-1...

Bruce Arians is a three-time cancer survivor and at the relatively advanced age of 67, making the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' head coach a member of the high-risk category should he contract the coronavirus. Arians, who came out of retirement to become head...

Liard First Nation has elected a new chief and council. A recount confirmed Stephen Charlie as chief of the First Nation in Watson Lake, Yukon....

The motorcycle rider, 43-year-old Travis Adams of Whitehorse, was killed, along with a 47-year-old Manitoba woman who was a passenger in one of the ve......

CAIRO — Egypt's public prosecutor has charged a university student with indecent assault of at least three women, including one who was a minor at the time, in a case prompted by a social media campaign that opened up a rare public debate on sex...

European soccer clubs expect to lose 4 billion euros (US$4.5 billion) in revenue over the next year because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study released Tuesday by the European Club Association....

The Township of Russell voted Monday to renounce the town's original namesake, Peter Russell, over his historical ties to slavery, and to "rededicate" the community in someone else's honour — someone with the first, middle or last na...

Egged on by the group, one girl opens the top and lifts it from a distance using a wooden stick, revealing a black plastic bag filled with something...

Work crews began taking down an enormous monument to Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart on Tuesday in Richmond, Virginia, as the Confederacy's former capital removes symbols of oppression in response to protests against police brutality and racism....

Meanwhile, the provincial government is set to introduce new legislation to enable the extension of some pandemic emergency orders over the next year...

After a few false starts, ride-hailing service Uber is officially launching in Winnipeg, a news release says....

New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - July 7, 2020) - Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, reminds investors in ProAssurance Corporation ("ProAssurance" or the "Company") (NYSE: PRA) of the August 17, 2020 deadline...

For the first time in months, there are no active COVID-19 outbreaks at long-term care and retirement homes in Waterloo region....

In 2013, Princes William and Harry agreed to take joint control of the fund to protect its name and see its future income used for good causes...

Former England soccer international Eniola Aluko has called for an increase in Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) racial diversity at the top level of UK Sport to 30%. The lack of ethnic minority representation in national sports governing bodies has...

Bank says it will make an additional minority investment of as much as $50-million through its venture capital arm...

An adult moose, presumed to be the mother, was hit by a vehicle in Whitehorse on July 1. The calf is estimated to be between about six to eight weeks of age....

Critics see the new law as Beijing's boldest step yet to erase the legal firewall between Hong Kong and the mainland's authoritarian Communist system...

PRAGUE — At least two people died and as many as 30 were injured after two trains collided in the Czech Republic on Tuesday on a route in the northwest of the country near the German border, an emergency services spokesman told Czech Television. (Re...

Protestors say police failed to adequately respond to violent assault of East York residents Mark Austin and Candace Zinkweg in Dentonia Park....

From how to wear them to how to store them, experts answer some commonly asked questions regarding the proper use of face masks during the pandemic....

CALGARY - The CEO of Suncor Energy Inc. says attempts by Michigan state politicians to retire the Line 5 pipeline running through a Great Lakes channe......

After the launch of the Atlantic bubble on Friday, MLAs from both sides of the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick border agree the system needs work....

Ontarians in some jurisdictions including Toronto will have to mask up to booze it up.The LCBO said in a statement Tuesday that it will not allow unmasked customers into its stores in areas where l......

WASHINGTON — Almost half of nearly 5,000 active FBI counter-intelligence cases now underway are related to China, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday. "We've now reached a point where the FBI is opening a new China-related counter-...

WARSAW — Marcin Stasko did not hesitate to vote for the candidate of the small far-right Confederation party in the first round of Poland's presidential election last month, attracted in part by his promise to cut taxes. But Stasko, a 50-year-ol...

Post-secondary campuses are requiring that visitors and workers wear face masks on campus in some — if not all — of their buildings....