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Actor Blake Lively has accused her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of the movie and of a subsequent effort to "destroy" her reputation in a legal complaint.

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As the French school board grappled with how to reassure angry parents after a Halifax school bus dropped their children off more than 4½ hours late one day without explanation, the board's executive director suggested they hold a meet-and-greet where affected students would be given a treat bag from the bus company, while parents could voice their concerns.

The city of Toronto has an ambitious goal: by 2030, it wants 30 per cent of all vehicles on the road to be electric. But currently, that number is only between 3 and 4 per cent. 

Tyson Bernard-Hutton is cool, calm and collected as he prepares meals for about 20 people during lunch hour at Initium's kitchen in Longueuil, Que.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says his government will start moving people out of homeless encampments and into housing in the new year, while sticking to its timeline for a balanced budget — despite a projected deficit for this year that's grown by half a billion dollars.

A global shortage of Swedish-made candy, all thanks to a viral TikTok video? Stranger things have happened.

Belle Messier spends two to four hours a day crocheting. Her hard work is going toward a good cause.

Quebec-based Lion Electric, which has made dozens of electric school buses for the P.E.I. government, is now in creditor protection.

North American Fiddlers' Hall of Fame member Patti Kusturok recently added university instructor to her long list of accomplishments. 

Residents in a building in Hamilton's Durand neighbourhood celebrated the holidays this month with food in one unit and games in another — and it wasn't just the Christmas spirit that brought them together.

In the past decade, cities in Canada have lost weeks' worth of winter snow days each year because of climate change. In their place, days of rain, melt and mud.

Tucked away in a picturesque river valley at the foot of the Rocky Mountains is the town of Cochrane, Alta.

With criminal networks shifting to domestic production of fentanyl and other opioids, the focus of law enforcement at Canada's borders has now shifted to the chemicals used to make the deadly drugs.

The family of a seven-year-old boy from Deer Lake First Nation who was denied medical transportation coverage because he didn't yet have an Indian status card is calling for changes to Ottawa's Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) program.

Watching Christmas movies is a time-honoured tradition, including those holiday romance films typically set in small-town USA.

While we all deal with grief and loss at some point in our lives, it can be particularly challenging for children to process. 

Barbara and David Enns were residents of The Village of Lions Bay for several decades until they died last weekend in a landslide, says the town's mayor.

Hundreds of Detroit Lions fans crowded into London's Canada Life Place on Sunday as part of a watch party event organized by the team.

Yes, I've seen video of the footrace between Noah Lyles, the Olympic 100-metre champion, and Darren Watkins Jr.,  a.k.a. IShowSpeed, the social media megastar whose content often involves feats of athleticism. In one post he leaps over a moving car, so who's to say he can't, at the right distance, upset the current world's fastest man?

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened Sunday to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal, accusing Panama of charging excessive rates to use the Central American passage — comments that drew a sharp rebuke from Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino.

Helen Conway-Ottenheimer, justice critic and PC MHA for the district of Harbour Main says that the shortage of police officers in the province is alarming and poses a threat to residents' safety and well-being—especially in rural communities.

Three North Atlantic right whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the coast of the U.S. just this month, according to information from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries.

The Quebec government has reached an agreement-in-principle with a union that represents workers in subsidized daycares — or CPEs as they're known in French.

A former president of the Calgary Homeless Foundation says he is deeply concerned by the Alberta government's recent decision to overhaul the funding scheme for organizations providing services to homeless people.

As Christmas travel kicks into high gear, several storms are forecast to hit B.C.'s entire coast, including Metro Vancouver and Greater Victoria.

Barbara and David Enns were residents of Lions Bay, B.C., for several decades until they died last weekend in a landslide, says the village's mayor.

Ski conditions in Alberta and parts of British Columbia offer a full gamut over the holidays, according to information from various ski hills across both provinces. 

One person was taken to hospital with critical injuries after being rescued from a house fire in Etobicoke on Sunday. 

Mahone, a two-year-old, black, fluffy Newfoundland dog from Prince Edward Island, doesn't know that he and other canine blood donors have saved the lives of fellow pooches that have needed surgery, or have been poisoned. Mahone just does it for the treats.

Longtime Trudeau loyalist Chandra Arya says it's time for the prime minister to step aside — and he believes the majority of Liberals in caucus feel the same way.

It's the holidays, which means for many across the Prairies, there's no better time to get locked in a dungeon with a dragon.

The rise of smartphones, tablets and electric vehicles has pushed buttons out of many design interfaces. In their place are touchscreens, voice activation and motion sensors galore.

A man suspected of driving a car into a German Christmas market in an attack that killed at least five people and injured scores of others faces charges of murder and attempted murder, police said on Sunday, after the man was remanded in custody.   Police in the central city of Magdeburg, where the attack happened on Friday, also reported scuffles at a far-right demonstration attended by around 2,100 people on Saturday night, while other residents took part in sombre remembrance events.   The suspect is a 50-year-old man from Saudi Arabia who has lived in Germany for almost two decades.   A magistrate ordered the man into pre-trial custody after prosecutors pressed charges of murder on five counts, multiple counts of attempted murder and grievous bodily harm, according to a police statement.

Every year at Christmas, a choir comes together in St. John's to celebrate centuries-old traditions and music that are both close to their hearts and from a land far away.

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A second man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 36-year-old Cape Breton man that police have called a homicide.

A prized family artifact from 100 years ago shows that some Christmas traditions haven't changed much.

It's the holiday season at Le Boulevard Shopping Centre in Saint-Léonard, but Abdel Benjaafar isn't seeing a surge of sales at his shop, Chaussures Mirna. 

The wife of a man with dementia who disappeared a year ago says she can't get Canada Pension Plan survivor benefits without proof he's dead, which would cost her thousands of dollars in legal fees.

Gloria Archer loves all of her nutcrackers, but one sticks out in her mind. It's small, painted green and signed on the bottom of its feet.

In the kitchen at the Lower Montague Women's Institute, volunteers with the Down East Food Collective regularly get together to prepare and cook more than 100 servings of freshly made sauces and pasta for Montague's community fridge.

When Nicholas Flowers was young, he made sure to never whistle at the northern lights. 

Christmas 2022 was a hard one for Kelly Sammon. She felt lost after her mother died unexpectedly on Dec. 20.

The federal government's GST holiday has been in effect for a week and some Toronto businesses say it's been a challenging transition. 

For the tenth year in a row, Kuujjuamiut Inc., a socio-economic development organization in Nunavik, distributed food hampers to Inuit in Kuujjuaq — an initiative meant to fight food insecurity, but also to share Inuit values. 

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Montreal police are searching for a man accused of attempting to kill a woman Friday after he allegedly abducted her and forced her into a car, which later plunged into the Richelieu River.

Eight First Nations represented by the Southern Chiefs' Organization say they will withdraw from the organization unless a summit of its chiefs is held before a decision is made on its leader's return to office.

The Stollery Children's Hospital may have to cap admissions over the holidays because of a lack of doctors.