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BURNABY, B.C. - The mayor of Burnaby, B.C., says he met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss his concerns about the risk of a fire at a tank farm in his city, which would be the ter...

OTTAWA - Some facts and figures about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944: TARGET: Allies land on French channel coast along five Normandy beaches stretching about 80 kilometres west from R...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced a recall of Apricot Power brand apricot seeds and apricot seed meal due to concerns about cyanide poisoning. The agency says the product...

One minute, it was dangling off the back of an icebreaker into the waters of the High Arctic. The next, the crucial piece of gear was gone. "We got pinched," recalls Mary-Lynn Dickson. "You'...

OTTAWA - A selection of films and books about the Normandy invasion: FILMS Storming Juno (2010): Movies mentioning Canada's role in the D-Day landings are hard enough to come by, let alone one actuall...

OTTAWA - THE WAR TO JUNE 6: Allied fortunes had rebounded by 1944 after the massive German conquests of 1940-41. British and American armies had driven the Germans from North Africa and Sicily, forced...

MONTREAL - As Toronto and Vancouver struggle to keep housing affordable for anyone but the wealthy, Montreal says its new, first-on-the-continent development model will help it succeed where...

OTTAWA - Survivors and families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls are preparing for what's anticipated to be a highly emotional ceremony in Gatineau, Que., on Monday to mark the ...

Pudgin Wanuch knew there was nothing he could do as he watched the out-of-control wildfire consume the only home he'd ever known. So he parked his truck outside the church in the evacuated northern Al...

HALIFAX - A Canadian tourist who was on the Danube River in Budapest when two boats tragically collided Wednesday says the experience was "surreal" and "sobering." Ken Hoffer, a retired navy captain, ...