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Hassan Diab and his supporters are calling for the immediate release of the findings of an external review into the Ottawa university professor’s extradition to France over his alleged involvement in a 1980 bombing outside a Paris synagogue.

A Winnipeg woman whose ex-husband broke into her home and installed hidden cameras in the walls of her living room and bedroom has lifted the publication ban on her name in an effort to confront the shame she felt after the incident.

The death of a man in British Columbia who came into contact with a bat is a reminder to take precautions with wildlife. Here's what you need to know, according to public health experts.

A 21-year-old man who died from rabies after coming into contact with an infected bat on Vancouver Island this spring had a brush with the nocturnal mammal in an "unusual" daytime encounter, health officials said Tuesday.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted in favour a resolution on Tuesday condemning U.S. President Donald Trump's racially charged attacks on four Democratic congresswomen.

A video of the Winnipeg Youth Choir belting out a rendition of ‘Lean on Me’ in a mineshaft at the Cape Breton Miners Museum has amassed over 100,000 views on Facebook.

U.S. Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they won't bring criminal charges against a white New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black man whose dying words -- "I can't breathe" -- became a rallying cry as the nation confronted a long history of police brutality.

A witness to the shooting of a German tourist driving down an Alberta highway said he remembers hearing a loud clap, but couldn't say who pulled the trigger.

Authorities say a six-year-old girl has died after her father accidentally struck her with a golf ball.

Family members say Major was returning from a trip to Tofino in mid-May when he swatted a bat away on the side of the road.

Trump started the controversy by tweeting that the four lawmakers, all women of color, should 'go back' to the countries they 'originally came from'

On Shemini Atzeret, orthodox Jews forbidden from doing pretty much anything a busy candidate or engaged voter would want to do on election day

Twitter's decision points to deepening anxieties over what some people view as increasing restrictions on their right to voice non-politically correct ideas

Gerry Smith's allegations are the latest indication of Beijing’s low-profile campaign to influence Canadian society amid a tense diplomatic stand-off

Russia's prosecutor general said its activities threaten Russian national security. People who associate with the group could face fines or jail time

Cuts impacting children and families called “a line we don’t cross in this province.”

Mohawks who live on the island must pass through a border point of entry when they travel to the mainland, even though their trip never takes them outside the country.

Premier Doug Ford bills himself and his government as “for the people,” but a new poll suggests a majority of Ontarians do not believe he cares about people like them.

Toronto police superintendent fell and hit his head a week before he was scheduled to appear before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.

Signals intelligence agency told Liberals in 2016 that foreign actors developing more “sophisticated covers” to mask their control of private sector companies.

Stephen Lecce wants kids across Ontario’s school system to know that the skilled trades are a viable career path and not just something you can “fall back on.” The newly-minted education minister was at Toronto’s Humber College this week speaking with students in grades 7, 8 & 9 who are taking part in Skills Ontario […]

Where in the world is killer Zhebin Cong? Somewhere around the Queen St.-Ossington Ave. area where he escaped from a mental health facility? Around the Don Mills home were he stabbed a man to death in 2014? Turns out this was a long-distance getaway! The 47-year-old — found not criminally responsible for what police alleged […]

At the risk of sounding cheeky, I decided Tuesday that perhaps the only way to get around this city — with this car-hating council and its gullible mayor — is to purchase a horse and buggy. I’m kidding. Still, councillors and Mayor John Tory provided more proof during council Tuesday that they have zero vision […]

Health Minister Christine Elliott made the best of a difficult situation Monday when she said Premier Doug Ford’s pledge to end hallway medicine in Ontario within a year was Ford “expressing the wishes that we all have.” Except that’s not what the premier said at the wind-up to the annual premiers’ meeting in Saskatoon last […]

Just two days before her next court appearance, she’s apparently in a Sunshine State of mind. Marcella Zoia — the Brazilian-Canadian beauty dubbed “Chair Girl” after a video of her hurling patio furniture out of a downtown Toronto highrise went viral earlier this year — apparently spent Tuesday morning waiting for a flight out of […]