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Canada has announced sanctions against 27 high-ranking officials in the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The federal government is moving to strip citizenship from a man accused of slaughtering villagers in Guatemala using a grenade, gun and sledgehammer.

It was likely not what police expected to find when they pulled over a Newfoundland driver for a routine traffic violation: a car held together by rope.

Scientists have witnessed the first modern case of what they call “river piracy” and they blame global warming. Most of the water gushing from a large glacier in northwest Canada last year suddenly switched from one river to another.

Call it a cow-beaver.

More than a baker's dozen of flour products have been pulled from grocery store shelves.

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will visit Canada this summer to participate in the celebrations marking the country's 150th birthday.

Home sales across the country hit a record high last month, propped up by transactions in the fiercely hot market of Toronto, further fuelling concerns about the city’s real estate sector.

The CBC says it has been served with a statement of claim from Subway over a TV report.

The leader of a fundamentalist sect that condones plural marriage remained silent as a long-awaited trial of two men on polygamy charges began Tuesday in British Columbia.

OTTAWA — The federal government stands to raise as much as $280 million in revenue off provincial carbon taxes in Alberta and B.C. in the next two years despite claims carbon taxes would be revenue neutral for Ottawa.

For Matthew O’Halloran, Crohn’s disease is simply a fact of life.

She shudders to think what might have been.

A new report says the number of Canadians cutting the cord on their TV services is expected to increase this year.

The number of people stopped by the RCMP after illegally entering Canada rose in March.

The first time McCauley Wanner had a conversation about prosthetics with an amputee she remembers being shocked that there were no options available. When she suggested that there could be alternatives to the cold, medical and impersonal nature of prosthetic limbs, “he was shocked that there could be options.”

The federal government’s plans for legalizing recreational marijuana has many would-be players looking to carve out a role for themselves in the emerging market, including pharmaceutical distributors who already ship drugs across the country.

Motormouth Bill O'Reilly has been booted from the Fox News Channel after the network shelled out millions in hush money to women who said he sexually harassed them.

The federal government is looking to establish a cannabis tracking system to collect information from licensed producers, distributors and retailers — just one of a host of changes contained in bills tabled last week that set stage for the drug’s legalization.

With Donald Trump ramping up his anti-Canada trade rhetoric, Justin Trudeau says the United States — like other countries — subsidizes its dairy and agriculture industries by hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars.

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