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Quebec and Newfoundland Labrador are close to a new deal on Churchill Falls, sources with knowledge of the matter have confirmed to CBC News.

Tens of thousands of Canadians have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's representative in Ottawa to be kicked out of the country. The woman behind the petition says it's grown beyond her expectations.

Marineland has begun moving a third batch of whales to aquariums outside of Canada, with six hitting the road Wednesday.

The four people accused in a London, Ont., explosives and firearms-manufacturing investigation now face 19 new charges, according to court documents filed Tuesday. The three men and one woman were students or recent graduates of Western University.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her role at the end of the ‌month, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, leaving the president without one of his most trusted advisers ahead of November's midterm elections.

A Washington judge has ordered the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay jazz musician Chuck Redd more than $250,000 US in legal fees. The ruling comes just months after that same judge tossed the centre’s lawsuit accusing Redd of breach of contract.

Former Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse and his wife are embroiled in a legal dispute with the Ontario government over its refusal to reimburse the couple nearly $700,000 in foreign buyer tax they paid on their Mississauga home.

A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killings of his parents, actor and director Rob Reiner and photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them.

English actress and The Office star Lucy Davis revealed Tuesday that she’s been receiving treatment for Stage 4 breast cancer for the past year and a half, and that the “incurable” disease has since spread to her bones. But Davis, 53, says she's at peace and wants to continue working as an actress and animal rights advocate.

Her former partner denies the abuse allegations. The mayor says she is "tired of being silent".

The panel made up of three retired judges also recommended that player Alex Formenton's suspension be lifted immediately and that the suspensions of the other four players should be maintained for various lengths of time.

Zenin Roussel, 21, was found with stab wounds by a cab driver on Main Street West near Frid Street around 2:30 a.m., Sunday.

More than 60 mm of rain, wind gusts close to 100 km/h and hail could all be on tap for the afternoon and into the evening, Environment Canada said.

Jayon Burgher, an 18-year-old from Toronto, was previously charged in a shooting at a GFL executive's home in April and was a suspect in an Etobicoke gym shooting in March.

The Crown's office has withdrawn murder and related charges against three men accused in the west Toronto shooting death of 15-year-old Jahkai Jack last year.

RECO has posted a notice referring Katie Steinfeld and her brokerage, On the Block Realty Inc., to the discipline committee. Steinfeld's husband, Daniel Steinfeld, is the current president of TRREB.

This is the 80th blaze involving lithium-ion batteries in the city this year, marking a 33.3 per cent increase over this point in 2025, fire officials said.

Cloudy skies and rain made it difficult to see Wednesday's partial eclipse in Toronto but some areas outside the city were treated to the display.

In all, 128 communities across Canada will receive funding for various climate resilience projects.

U.S. Democrats and civil rights advocates criticize agency’s plan as unnecessary and cruel

At 28, Leavitt is the youngest person to hold the role

People gathered in Spain's Arija and Arcos de las Salinas to catch a glimpse of Europe's first total solar eclipse in 27 years on Wednesday (August 12).

Francesca Hong’s defeat is startling given Wisconsin’s long history of socialist policies and politicians

The measures, which must still be approved by parliament, would allow intelligence services to collect data and carry out active operations to thwart attacks

Plaintiffs allege Trump’s deal to post first on his own company’s site about U.S. policy violates the Constitution

Withdrawal of troops would mark end of presence that started with 2003 invasion against Saddam Hussein

Erblin Ademi watched from afar as workers excavated recently discovered mass graves from the 1998-99 war in Kosovo. Nearly 30 years after his father went missing, Ademi both feared and wished that his remains will finally be found.

Under the proposal, Canada would accept a reduction on levies for USMCA-compliant vehicles

Moderate Democrat David Crowley won the Wisconsin primary for governor, defeating democratic socialist Francesca Hong. Crowley is vying to become Wisconsin’s first Black governor.

It was widely reported that Swift wore a haute couture Christian Dior dress to her Madison Square Garden wedding to NFL player Travis Kelce on July 3.

A partial solar eclipse occurs when “the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth but the Sun, Moon, and Earth are not perfectly lined up."

Millions of people in Spain will have some of mainland Europe’s best views of the celestial spectacle. It will begin around sunset, when the sun, moon and Earth align.

The Ukrainian president has warned that Russia is preparing for escalation and could use its parliamentary elections next month as a pretext to declare a new mobilization.

The current outbreak was declared on May 15, but health authorities now say sequencing showed it began months earlier, in February.

Oil prices spiked Tuesday as the Iran war continues to jeopardize global supplies, with U.S. strategic stockpiles falling to the lowest level in more than 40 years.

A remembrance ceremony was held in Saskatoon Sunday to remember the loss of lives and freedom in Iran. Associations say more awareness needs to be spread in Canada about the IRGC.

The brunt of the typhoon hit just north of the main island of Okinawa with maximum winds of 144 kph (89 mph) as of Friday afternoon, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

U.S.-based oil company Greenland Energy is preparing to drill for oil in Greenland, having moved drilling equipment to the island’s east coast.

Authorities described the wreck as 'a significant underwater archaeological site' and said it was first reported by private citizens.

President Trump said that Ms. Leavitt, who recently gave birth to her second child, would be leaving to spend time with her family.

A shifting race and a key endorsement helped the moderate Democrat overcome his progressive challenger, Francesca Hong, voters said.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s sharing of her decision to freeze her eggs, the news that her longtime relationship had ended and talk of a presidential run have intensified the debates that swirl around her.

In a recent interview, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez distanced herself from the 2020 era of progressivism.

President Trump’s Air Force One subterfuge pales in comparison to the secrecy surrounding Russia’s president, whose fixation on security has reached new heights in recent years.

Darline Graham and Ralph Norman emerged from a special election sprint on Tuesday to succeed Lindsey Graham. She will sell her closeness to President Trump. He will tout his conservatism.

Mar Carretero-Castrillo, an astrophysicist, returned to her remote village in Spain to be in the path of totality. Hundreds of partygoers came too.

If Netanyahu is ousted in October’s balloting, don’t expect peace to break out, but the worst violence might be reined in.

The lawsuit filed in federal court said President Trump “stands to gain financially by giving ‘market-moving’ government information to those who are willing and able to pay his personal company.”

President Trump is calling for immunizations for measles, mumps and rubella to be given in individual jabs in three different appointments instead of the standard combination shot.

Cerebras Systems reported better-than-expected second-quarter revenue and raised its full-year guidance.

Oil exports from Egypt's Mediterranean port of Sidi Kerir have more than doubled. The crude is mostly from Saudi Arabia, according to Kpler.

Even though Cisco's quarterly results topped estimates, they weren't good enough to satisfy Wall Street.

AI cloud giant CoreWeave jumped in premarket trading after reporting that its second-quarter revenue doubled on surging AI demand from hyperscalers.

Google is launching the Pixel 11 lineup weeks before Apple rolls out a rebuilt Siri powered by Gemini AI models.

Beyond the big single-month jump, the collective red ink over the 10 months of the fiscal year rose to nearly $1.8 trillion, surpassing the same period in 2025.

Venture capital founder Joshua Kushner and former Disney CEO Bob Iger acquire Mark Walter's stake in Los Angeles Lakers at valuation of more than $12 billion.

Traffic is about 90% lower than the daily average of 130 ships that transited Hormuz before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.

After the incidents in Bab el-Mandeb and the Gulf of Oman, President Donald Trump on Truth Social wrote of the Strait of Hormuz, "I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT!"

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, notes that Trump's posts on his own social media site often move financial markets.

Israeli forces continue to occupy buffer zone in effort to dismantle Hezbollah’s infrastructure, with restrictions drawing parallels to those in the West Bank.

Scores of buildings collapsed in the strongest temblor to strike the South American country in at least a decade.

He negotiated China’s entry into the World Trade Organization and pushed through reforms that breathed new life into China’s state-directed economy.

Dogs and drones were deployed to search for survivors. At least 220 people were reported dead in the nation’s strongest earthquake in a decade.

The military operation was the first following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s dismantling of an office focused on mitigating unintended casualties.

The Trump administration gave the contract to Our Rescue, which Tim Ballard, the former agent, left in 2023 before being accused of sex trafficking.

“What we are seeing is shocking and far beyond the threshold of an extremely critical emergency,” one humanitarian official said.

A recall of beef products from Corte Argentino USA affects retailers and grocery distributors in Texas and Florida.

Robert Gilman and his mother were on a plane back to Washington on Tuesday.

The bill would make life sentence with hard labor the highest penalty that can be imposed.

More than 95% of the Sun was covered by the Moon in Cornwall, while parts of Spain experienced the magic of a total eclipse.

The US immigration agency is spending $20m on gloves that deliver a sharp electric shock intended to compel subjects to comply.

Millions of people in the UK and Europe have been wowed by a once-in-a-generation solar eclipse.

Manchester United skipper Bruno Fernandes is attracting attention on and off the pitch.

An Apache military helicopter crashed in central Texas, officials said Wednesday.

Cristian Romero is set to join La Liga side Atletico Madrid as they agree a £34.2m fee with Tottenham for their captain.

Trump boarded a different plane in Turkey during a Nato summit for security reasons involving Iran.

Leavitt will depart from her role to spend time with her young children and family, the president says.

As Lionel Messi considers his footballing future following the death of his father, BBC Sport looks back at some of his most iconic moments.

Master's student Maha Khan created the chocolate bar by harvesting and processing Reading-grown cocoa.

A 48-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man were reportedly found each with a gunshot wound to the head in a shooting that the school’s principal called ‘deeply concerning’ for families

The shower is usually one of the most spectacular of the year and will be visible across the UK if skies are clear, according to the Royal Astronomical Society

The renewed demands to ‘fix student debt’ come as A-level students prepare to receive their exam results

The petition comes as new U.S. tariffs on Canada are set to take effect this month

The angler had caught the blue shark when it ‘lunged’ for him and bit into his calf off the coast near Waterford in Ireland

A parent dropping off a child at the daycare was who initially alerted police, according to officials

Gas prices have hit a historic high as the president insists that the U.S. is in control of the Strait of Hormuz and has crippled Iran’s military

The infamous image of Trump ignoring safety guidelines has long been a source of mockery

More than 90% of the sun was obscured throughout Scotland at the peak of the eclipse.

The lawsuit contends that Trump’s agreement to publish updates concerning tariffs, war and government actions first on his platform violates the Constitution