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Hours after the operators of the province's power grid warned that new federal electricity regulations could lead to blackouts, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said her government is preparing for the possibility of enacting her signature…

As It Happens5:28These two go ‘loonie’ for hot dogsJody Matheson set a personal record on Tuesday, as the Toronto Blue Jays played the New York Yankees in Toronto. But it wasn't with a big hit, or a record amount of strikeouts.Matheson ate…

Azerbaijan said it does not have plans to force thousands of ethnic Armenians to leave the embattled Nagorno-Karabakh region and instead insisted they would have "guaranteed" safety if they stay, the foreign policy adviser to Azerbaijan's…

The federal government is coping with cyberattacks this week and a hacker group in India claims it has caused chaos in Ottawa — but Canada's signals-intelligence agency says the "nuisance" attacks likely haven't put private information at…

Health Canada has approved Pfizer's updated vaccine to protect people aged six months and older from COVID-19.Thursday's authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty vaccine takes aim at the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant of the virus that…

Lawyers for Cameron Ortis, the former RCMP intelligence director accused of leaking top-secret information, are expected to argue that their client had "authority to do everything he did" when his long-awaited trial gets underway next…

Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This weekly newsletter is part of a CBC News initiative entitled "Our Changing Planet" to show and explain the effects of climate change. Keep up with the latest news on our Climate and…

U.S. House Republicans launched their impeachment inquiry Thursday against President Joe Biden, saying they intend to "provide accountability" as they make their case to the public, their colleagues and skeptics.House Republicans are trying…

Yom Kippur, the most solemn and sacred date on the Jewish calendar, is usually a day of unity for Jewish Israelis. Highways empty, shops close and transport networks shut down, as nonobservant Jews show respect to the devout by avoiding…

Three paintings of women wearing braids and purple headbands in their hair with the words "Justice for Joyce" adorn the windows outside the Centre d'amitié autochtone de Lanaudière in Joliette. Sitting on the porch at the friendship centre…

Epic Games, the maker of the popular video game Fortnite, is laying off about 870 employees, roughly one-sixth of its staff.The job cuts at the North Carolina-based company were announced in a memo to staff from company founder Tim…

The first leg of the 35-mile journey from Ghana’s capital city, Accra, to the Fairafric chocolate factory in Amanase on the N6 highway is a quick ride. But after about 30 minutes, the smoothly paved road devolves into a dirt expanse without…

Northvolt, a Swedish maker of batteries for electric cars, said on Thursday that it would build a factory near Montreal after the Canadian government matched financial incentives that would have been available from the United States.The…

Mark Milley, set to retire as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says he will take "appropriate measures" to ensure his security after former president Donald Trump suggested he had committed a treasonous act that would have once…

Northvolt, a Swedish battery manufacturing giant, says it will build a new multibillion-dollar electric vehicle battery plant east of Montreal — a project Quebec leaders are calling the largest private investment in the province's history. …

Veteran actor Michael Gambon, who was known to many for his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight Harry Potter films, has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 82.A statement by his family, issued by his…

When 23-year-old Ashot Gabriel woke up on Sept. 19, he feared that the months of increasing tension between Azerbaijan and the self-proclaimed but unrecognized enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh was about to erupt into violence.That morning,…

A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10 per cent of its ice volume in just two years, after high summer heat and low snow volumes in winter.Switzerland…

Each day, Darren Surette sits down at a table in his living room and learns something new.He's creating a podcast, enrolled in an entrepreneurship program, and working toward starting a small business. He credits his cozy one-bedroom…

A Health Canada review has found there is a risk of psychiatric withdrawal effects when women using the drug domperidone to stimulate breast milk production suddenly stop taking it.Health Canada will update the product monograph, or…

Clucky Cheese, Albert Eggstein and Cluck Norris have been living alongside cats, dogs and rabbits at Moncton's People for Animal Wellbeing shelter for more than a week now.The trio were rescued before the Hurricane Lee weekend just outside…

When the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) unveiled its student memorial register in 2019 of children who died in residential schools, those behind it acknowledged it was far from complete.Among the 2,800 names on the…

A Catholic school board in Red Deer, Alta., ruled Tuesday that a trustee who likened LGBTQ pride to Nazi Germany won't be removed from her role, despite her violating its Trustee Code of Conduct and the Education Act.Monique LaGrange, a…

WARNING: This story contains distressing details.A new barricade has gone up at Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill, as calls continue for a search for the remains of two First Nations women believed to be in another Winnipeg-area…

A judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's request that she step aside from the federal case accusing him of illegally attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, rejecting arguments that she has shown bias…

Republicans vying for their party's nomination for president are meeting for their second debate on Wednesday as the top rivals running behind Donald Trump seek to blunt the momentum of the former president, who is so confident of cruising…

Warning: This story contains distressing details.The cause of death for the four members of a Muslim family who were killed after they were struck by a pickup truck in London, Ont., on June 6, 2021, was "multiple trauma."At the trial of…

The complainant in Lt.-Gen. Steven Whelan's court martial has told the court she believes he wrote a poor performance report for her while they were deployed together because she refused his invitation to a private meeting in his hotel…

Sixteen dogs were evacuated from the Northwest Territories following the recent devastating wildfires. The Nova Scotia SPCA will help care for and re-home the dogs, including 11 puppies. Paul Palmeter has the story.

Dr. Noah Carpenter often defied expectations.In a 1983 CBC-TV profile, Carpenter — an Inuvialuk man originally from Sachs Harbour, N.W.T. — spoke about his arrival in Winnipeg years before, as a young student from the North enrolled at the…