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Young swimmers got a chance on Thursday evening to meet Summer McIntosh, Canada's newly named top athlete of the year, and the evening did not disappoint.

British Columbia's police watchdog says it is investigating the apparent suicide of a Vancouver Island police officer, who was found dead shortly after he was charged with sexual assault.

In a "drastic" but expected move, the federal government will no longer be granting additional points toward permanent residence to some temporary foreign workers, less than two months after an undercover investigation revealed how easy it is to buy and sell these jobs online.

Saskatchewan's highest court has dismissed an appeal from a Saskatchewan farmer, upholding a decision that a thumbs-up emoji sent meant he agreed to a $58,000 contract.

Theodore Too, the 65-foot replica tugboat that was built in Nova Scotia and named after a years-long TV series, has been refloated in St. Catharines, Ont., after partially sinking this week, according to the boat's owner.

Five years after northern giant hornets started showing up in B.C. and Washington state, American officials have declared the invasive species eradicated in the United States.

As the PWHL considers expanding by as many as two teams as soon as next season, a regular-season game in Vancouver on Jan. 8 could help the province's hope for a team of its own.

Mayor Valérie Plante acknowledged the new space was not a "perfect solution" but said it was a "humanitarian" one. She called on the province to do more to help.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed two new senators on Thursday — Allister Surette for Nova Scotia and Nancy Karetak-Lindell for Nunavut.

Federal governments both Conservative and Liberal spent at least $14.5 million fighting prominent First Nations child advocate Cindy Blackstock in court over the last 18 years. Blackstock says the figure is "really disappointing," while an NDP MP calls it "appalling."

A residential school survivors' group says it will have to close its doors at the end of the month unless it receives a federal funding decision. Laura Arndt, lead at the Survivors' Secretariat in southern Ontario, is accusing Ottawa of breaking promises. “They lied" to survivors, she said.

Nearly 700 people in B.C. have been reported to have a vitamin C deficiency in the past decade, according to data obtained by CBC News, prompting doctors to raise questions about the prevalence of scurvy — a life-threatening disease thought to be a thing of the past — in the province.

At the age of 29, Jeremy Bray can no longer move his face, arms, hands or legs. The only thing that can stop or even reverse the weakening of his muscles is a treatment the Manitoba government is refusing to pay for.

Some independent distilleries are asking why they have been left out of the federal government's GST holiday, with some worried it's part of a trend of recent financial policies that have let the industry down.  

Bold and sarcastic emails are sending a message that employees won’t work outside of their regular hours. But not all snarky autoreplies strike the right tone.

Born in 1983 from community demands in the wake of internal troubles, Akwesasne's Indian Time newspaper published its final edition Thursday as tensions returned to this Indigenous territory that is severed by the Canada-U.S. border. 

Surveillance technology is increasingly visible along the U.S. border, and Canada says it wants to invest in it, too. But what are the consequences of an increasingly surveilled border?

CBC News has learned that a Central Saanich Police Services officer charged with sexual assault on Tuesday has died. Several police sources say Matthew Ball died by suicide.

Eastern Townships public health authorities have launched an investigation into Lou Gehrig's disease cases in the region after a woman from Windsor, Que., alerted them to nearly 20 residents having the disorder.