After pausing work at the Martin Gallant Building in Stephenville Crossing this past summer, the Newfoundland and Labrador government says the building needs to be demolished, axing plans for it to become the new courthouse and provincial government services building. Mayor Lisa Lucas is now worried about what it means for her community.

A U.S. Marine was arrested this week on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman in Okinawa. The killing has drawn outrage on the island and inflamed longstanding tensions over U.S. military bases, which residents say are a source of noise, pollution and violent crime against women.

The influencer, who goes by Abeeeer on popular Chinese social media platform Rednote, or Xiaohongshu, posted a "sincere apology" for violating the rules Saturday to her 520,000 followers, explaining that she was feeling physically unwell during the race but that it wasn't an excuse.

A California couple has been arrested on child abuse charges following an investigation into an surrogacy scheme involving at least 21 children ranging in age from a few months to 13 years, authorities said Tuesday.

Viewers of Big Brother UK are criticizing its contestants after the show aired a tense debate about transgender rights, pronouns, single-sex bathrooms and trans athletes in sports.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the Liberal government will announce its planned path forward for medical assistance in dying on Wednesday.

Christine Fréchette, Quebec’s outgoing premier, announced Tuesday that she will be stepping down as leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec party.

Meetings between advocates of Alberta separation and American government officials don't have to be included in Canada's new foreign influence registry because they took place before the registry went into effect, says Canada's foreign influence watchdog.

A former high-ranking Department of Justice official will look at how Cornell handles sexual misconduct complaints, university trustees announced Tuesday as they tried to address an outpouring of anger over allegations of a 2024 gang rape at a fraternity house.

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, Quebec's premier-designate, will meet with reporters in Quebec City on Tuesday afternoon. The leader of the Parti Québécois will face questions one day after his party was chosen by voters to form a minority government.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the morning after the separatist Parti Québécois's electoral victory that the province and Canada can together fight for the prosperity of their people to ensure "we can live the way we want to live."

A series of audio stories, released as part of a new NHL marketing campaign and presented like popular hockey romance novels, is no longer available on Spotify after drawing widespread criticism.

A U.S. appeals court has upheld the verdict and sentence for one of the men found guilty of human smuggling in a case that led to a family of four from India freezing to death while attempting to cross the Manitoba-U.S. border in 2022.

The World Health Organization says Russian authorities told it that no cases ‌of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week.

Canadian actor Simu Liu, star of Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, has tied the knot, marrying music industry executive Allison Hsu.

Nearly 12,000 bans took place in American public schools over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America, the highest total since the free expression organization began tracking removals five years ago.

An 18-year-old resident of Yorkton, Sask., is facing terrorism charges for allegedly posting videos as a member of 764, a listed terrorist entity in Canada.

Direct spending on the Canadian military could reach $163.6 billion by 2035 under the Liberal government's proposal to meet NATO's benchmark target of five per cent of GDP, the Parliamentary Budget Office in a new report on Tuesday.

The Emmy Awards are moving to Prime Video starting in 2027 in a six-year deal struck between Amazon and the Television Academy that ends a seven-decade run of broadcast networks airing the ceremony.

Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its $81 billion US takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, further concentrating power in an industry already run by just a handful of major players.

Ottawa has given the U.S. owner of Stelco five business days to share a plan to maintain jobs at the Hamilton steelmaker or face potential legal action.

Expect lots of tears when Lionel Messi plays a farewell game for Argentina on Tuesday. The friendly against Benin in Buenos Aires has been dubbed "The Night That No One Wants to End" as Messi plays for his country one last time.

The new company will operate as Emera and maintain its public company headquarters in Halifax. The merged company will be worth about $72 billion and will be one of Canada's largest utilities.

Three ash trees killed by the emerald ash borer now stand upside down at the Fredericton Botanic Garden. What began as a joke has become a popular attraction — and a reminder of the threat facing hundreds of ash trees on the property.

Quebecers have elected a sovereignist government. Although most of them aren't in favour of a separatist vote, it's a sign of how disenchanted voters had grown of the Coalition Avenir Québec government.

Former Conservative Member of Parliament Chris Alexander has dropped out of the race to become Toronto's next mayor.

Former UBC professor and bestselling author Steven Galloway claims he was defamed by false accusations of sexual assault made by multiple people over a decade ago.

Canada's trade surplus with the U.S. hit a 19-month high in August, Statistics Canada reported on Tuesday.

Students, teachers and parents are marching in cities across France and protesters are blockading hundreds of schools, in the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations demanding the government tackle understaffed ‌and dilapidated classrooms.

The U.S. Coast Guard has released the names of the four Canadians who were on the medical air transport jet out of Hamilton that was lost in the Atlantic Ocean en route to Boston from Bermuda early Saturday morning.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said two commercial vessels were struck by drones on Tuesday in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea.

A researcher on sexual violence says it's good that people are talking about the inappropriate banner displayed on an off-campus house during St. Francis Xavier University's homecoming, but the conversation must continue.

Politics professor Lori Williams and her colleagues are among the in-demand speakers as community-based organizations across Alberta plan, host and get creative to help residents understand the referendum's complex questions.

For weeks, posters and stickers across Ottawa advertising the anti-immigration group Dominion Society of Canada — which is calling for mass deportations of millions of people — have been generating complaints of racism and white nationalism. But police say the materials reported so far do not constitute hate crimes, and the group's chair and founder says the recruitment campaign is not going to stop.

For a young woman in St. John’s, the anticipation of her 21st birthday was anything but exciting.

Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.

In an Oct. 1 letter, five Catholic bishops asked parishioners to consider the effects of the ballot proposals on children, those in poverty, the sick and the isolated. The province's three Anglican bishops have also issued a public statement on the referendum, echoing the concerns of their Catholic counterparts.

Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful The PTL Club TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.

Quebec's electoral map has been completely redrawn, with the Parti Québécois securing enough seats to form a minority government. Here is a closer look at where things stand and what to expect from the next government.

A giant underwater wave of water connected to this year's El Niño weather pattern is making its way up the west coast of the Americas, raising alarm bells amongst scientists worried about how climate change is magnifying the impacts of the naturally-occurring phenomenon.

Self-described "Crypto King" Aiden Pleterski's fraud and money laundering trial will begin Tuesday morning in Toronto.

Thirty-two years after a 10-year-old boy was tied to a tree and sexually assaulted, an audio tape of his September 1994 police interview was played for the jury Monday at the trial of his alleged attacker. Richard Neil has pleaded not guilty to 17 historical charges linked to attacks on three children.

Food manufacturers and fast food companies are cramming whey protein into everything. That’s causing shortages of the ingredient and pushing prices to record highs. Now whey protein is also a target in the U.S.-Canada trade war - increasing costs that may end up being passed on to customers.

The sovereigntist Parti Québécois is projected to form the next government in Quebec. Here's what the PQ has promised to do in government.

CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault first met Barry Sward in the months after 9/11 when he was a young military recruit ready to fight in the ‘war on terror.’ Twenty four years later, she tracked him down to find out if he got what he signed up for.

A Royal Canadian Air Force sergeant who refused to leave a restricted area of Winnipeg's 17 Wing has been found not guilty of assaulting the military police officers who had removed her from the base using what a martial court ruled involved the use of excessive force.

Former UBC professor and bestselling author Steven Galloway claims he was defamed by false accusations of sexual assault made by multiple people over a decade ago.

The U.S. Coast Guard has named all six people, including four Canadians, aboard an Ontario-based air ambulance that went missing off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday.

A Toronto lawyer who co-founded a law firm with his wife that collapsed in a spectacular flameout three years ago, when millions of dollars of client money was discovered missing from the firm's trust account, is on trial on a charge of fraud stemming from the police investigation into the case.