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- Ontario plans to toughen penalties for impaired drivers
- Loophole leaves taxpayers picking up tab for MP travel
- With an election on the horizon, Poilievre's Conservatives sign up dozens of new candidates
- As AI becomes more human-like, experts warn users must think more critically about its responses
- More female surgeons in the operating room could improve patient outcomes: study
A cross-partisan group of MPs voted to kill a bill Wednesday that would have allowed parliamentarians to opt out of swearing an oath of allegiance to King Charles — a victory for monarchists eager to preserve the Crown's standing in Canada.
Any agreement between the federal government and an Alberta town, school board, university or other provincial entity will need to be vetted by the provincial government, should the legislature pass a new bill.
An Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip killed three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday, relatives and official Hamas media say. Haniyeh's sons are among the highest-profile figures to have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas.
10.04.2024 Having been through 'hell and back,' Penny Oleksiak returns to pool with full focus on Olympics
Canada's Penny Oleksiak is back at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre this week competing in the inaugural Canadian Open. She’ll compete in the 100m and 200m freestyle events, a chance to see where she’s at with less than five weeks until Olympic trials.
10.04.2024 Ontario paramedic, among lives lost in Switzerland avalanche, 'died while doing what she loved'
Nicole (Nikky) Nagy, an Ontario paramedic who previously worked as a seasonal firefighter in La Ronge, Sask., is being remembered as an extraordinary soul following her death April 1 while snowboarding in Switzerland with her boyfriend.
A new rule from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is forcing 218 chemical plants across the county to reduce their emissions of toxic pollutants likely to cause cancer.
10.04.2024 Bank of Canada holds key interest rate at 5%
The Bank of Canada has held its key interest rate at 5 per cent for the sixth consecutive time since July.
From morning prayers to parades, here are scenes of the many ways worshippers are observing the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
A week after an earthquake in Taiwan killed 13 people and injured more than 1,000, a Canadian couple are nursing their injuries and recounting their own tale of survival.
Millions of Muslims around the world are observing Eid, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, with festivities, feasts and family gatherings. But few in Gaza can take solace from this special time for Muslims.
RCMP in the northern B.C. city of Prince George spent 10 days last month mounting a surveillance operation on a woman who allegedly stood outside a downtown pharmacy each morning trading illicit drugs for safe supply medication.
10.04.2024 Track & field to be 1st sport to introduce Olympic prize money, with $50K US for gold-medal win
Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday it would pay $50,000 US to gold medallists in Paris.
10.04.2024 Family concerned about Sask. program moving patients from hospitals to private care homes
Families are concerned about the lack of communication regarding a new program under which residents are being moved from hospitals to private care homes.
Premier Doug Ford’s government is facing corporate pressure to change Ontario’s plan that sees industry taking on the full cost of blue box recycling programs, CBC News has learned.
Samir Supermarket launched in 2005. Almost 20 years later, it has four locations and helps newcomers find their footing and get work. The newest location opened downtown recently, in time for Eid al-Fitr celebrations.
10.04.2024 Suspended police officers paid $3.4M from northwestern Ontario forces since 2013, part of $134M prov
Police forces in northwestern Ontario have paid an estimated total of at least $3.4 million to 15 suspended officers since 2013, according to information revealed as part of a CBC News analysis of police services across the province.
Last week 84 residents of the Hadgraft Wilson Place building were ordered by Kelowna's fire chief to leave their homes due to safety risks in their building.
The Government of Alberta says it intends to join the Saskatchewan government's court dispute over its pronoun policy — which has evoked passionate, divisive public responses in the last several months.
Six children — but not their Canadian mother — will be repatriated to Canada from a detention camp in Syria.
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