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Emergency talks on CPP

Emergency talks on CPP

Ottawa Sep 8, 2016 / 12:05 pm

Opposition MPs are looking to get answers on a tentative deal to expand the Canada Pension Plan, including what effect it could have on the Liberal...

Raitt decides, keeps secret

Raitt decides, keeps secret

Ottawa Sep 8, 2016 / 12:03 pm

Conservative MP Lisa Raitt says leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist by suggesting the federal government...

I'll just swim over to France

I'll just swim over to France

England Sep 8, 2016 / 12:00 pm

A 30-year-old Toronto man has become the latest Canadian to successfully complete a solo swim across the English Channel. Samuel Bail finished the roughly...

SNC-Lavalin breaks rules

SNC-Lavalin breaks rules

Sep 8, 2016 / 10:19 am

SNC-Lavalin made nearly $118,000 in payments to federal parties that violated the Canada Elections Act over a seven-year period, the elections commissioner said...

Transgender support

Transgender support

Sep 7, 2016 / 7:30 pm

While Internet commenters may make this hard to believe, more than eight-in-10 Canadians support the government's move to add gender identity to the human...

Tax break to delay closure

Tax break to delay closure

Manitoba Sep 7, 2016 / 6:45 pm

Town officials in The Pas in northern Manitoba are offering Tolko Industries a massive tax break in hopes it will delay the closure of its paper mill. The...

Show off Canada in a day

Show off Canada in a day

Sep 7, 2016 / 6:32 pm

Grab your camera on Sept. 10 and film a day in the life of a Canadian. CTV is encouraging Canadians from coast to coast to become a one-day filmmaker to show...

Wildfire's $1-billion dent

Wildfire's $1-billion dent

Fort McMurray Sep 7, 2016 / 4:38 pm

Alberta wildfires that swept through Fort McMurray in May have resulted in the loss of $1 billion in planned capital spending in the oilsands for 2016,...

Old subs nearing the end

Old subs nearing the end

Ottawa Sep 7, 2016 / 4:19 pm

The navy's submarine fleet will have to be cut adrift in the next few years unless the federal government opts to spend billions to upgrade the ships,...

Real change for First Nations

Real change for First Nations

Vancouver Sep 7, 2016 / 3:40 pm

Canada must adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in a way that translates into real change for its aboriginal citizens,...

Trans can use dressing room

Trans can use dressing room

Ontario Sep 7, 2016 / 1:22 pm

Transgender inclusiveness in Ontario minor hockey dressing rooms will go into wide effect this season. Hockey Canada's Ontario branches agreed to change its...

Terror couple still a threat

Terror couple still a threat

Vancouver Sep 7, 2016 / 1:16 pm

A Crown lawyer says a British Columbia couple found guilty of masterminding a terrorist plot but then freed when a judge ruled they had been entrapped are still...

Drunk driving deputy

Drunk driving deputy

Saskatchewan Sep 7, 2016 / 12:43 pm

The former deputy premier of Saskatchewan has pleaded guilty to impaired driving. Court heard Don McMorris had more than 2 1/2 times the legal blood alcohol...

Arctic warship challenge

Arctic warship challenge

Halifax Sep 7, 2016 / 11:36 am

The president of Irving Shipbuilding says putting all the pieces together for the construction of Canada's first Arctic offshore patrol ship on time and...

Deported after 5 years

Deported after 5 years

Toronto Sep 7, 2016 / 10:36 am

A man who spent five years in immigration detention without charge has been deported to Jamaica. Alvin Brown, 40, who came to Canada more than three decades...

Miners briefly trapped

Miners briefly trapped

Saskatchewan Sep 6, 2016 / 8:59 pm

Some people were shaken awake and some miners stuck underground in southeast Saskatchewan when a magnitude 3.8 earthquake hit early Monday morning. Earthquakes...

Make like a tree and leaf

Make like a tree and leaf

Calgary Sep 6, 2016 / 4:42 pm

Protests over trees usually happen when they're being cut down, but some Calgary residents are upset the city has planted saplings in a park across from...

We won't call them ISIL

We won't call them ISIL

Ottawa Sep 6, 2016 / 3:29 pm

The Liberal government will no longer refer to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and will instead call the group by a different, potentially insulting...

An out-of-the-park record

An out-of-the-park record

Edmonton Sep 6, 2016 / 2:59 pm

The longest baseball game ever may have been played in Edmonton on the long weekend. The 72-hour, 237-inning game still needs official confirmation from...

Revamping The National

Revamping The National

Toronto Sep 6, 2016 / 1:34 pm

Veteran anchor Peter Mansbridge's departure from "The National" is ushering in "the next phase" of CBC's flagship news program, the...

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