Allister Surette, president of Université Sainte-Anne, has been named as the federal special representative to try to resolve the ongoing dispute between commercial and Indigenous fishers after violent opposition to a Mi'kmaw lobster fishery in Nova Scotia. Read more »

U.S. President Donald Trump voted in his adopted home of Florida before hitting the campaign trail for rallies in three swing states on Saturday, joining more than 54 million Americans who have cast early ballots ahead of the Nov. 3 election. Read more »

Ontario reported almost 1,000 new cases on Saturday, the most on a single day since the coronavirus outbreak began in late January. The number surpasses the province's previous high of 939. Read more »

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Sacha Baron Cohen says his Borat movie sequel aims to "reveal the dangerous slide to authoritarianism." But how influential satire is depends on whom it actually reaches — and some experts say his comedy merely convinces those who are already convinced. Read more »

The e-sports contract signing of a young Canadian chess player highlights the growing interest in online chess, a game that has seen an increase in popularity during the pandemic and has also been given a boost by Canadian players and streamers. Read more »

The polls officially close at 8 p.m. PT, but it could take some time before voters know whether NDP Leader John Horgan's gamble on a snap election has paid off. Read more »

Canada’s hard-hit hospitality industry is asking for more help from government to survive the economic impact of COVID-19. But even as hotel owners are seeking more aid from Ottawa, some of their workers say they’re not making good use of relief programs already out there. Read more »

A simple request for a refund has led a potential immigrant to Canada on an odyssey into the world of online sales, fake testimonials, toothless regulators and international operators preying on the desperation of people dreaming of a new life. Read more »

It's not the Space Force you may have heard about. Still, NATO’s newly announced space centre boldly takes the seven-decade-old institution where no international military alliance has gone before. Read more »

Federal politicians pulled back from the brink of an election this week — but three political strategists say they believe the brinkmanship in the Commons is likely to continue as the Liberals and opposition parties grapple over the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

Finding a balance between keeping society functioning, supporting devastated sectors of the economy and limiting the spread of the coronavirus is key to navigating the pandemic until a safe and effective vaccine is here. Read more »

The number of accidental poisonings involving hand sanitizer and children has sharply increased since the pandemic began when compared with previous years, according to the Ontario Poison Centre. Read more »

Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) says it has suspended the delivery of aircraft engines to "countries with unclear usage" in the wake of reports that some of those engines are being used on Turkish combat drones deployed by Azerbaijan in fighting against Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. Read more »

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde is calling on RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to resign days after she defended the RCMP's response to an ongoing dispute between Mi'kmaw lobster harvesters and non-Indigenous commercial fishers in Nova Scotia. Read more »

Retailer Le Château is seeking court protection from its creditors while it winds down its operations and liquidates its assets. Read more »

A data analysis of the most serious breaches of Ontario’s long-term care home safety legislation reveals that six in seven care homes are repeat offenders, and there are virtually no consequences for homes that break that law repeatedly. Read more »

Ontario’s large cities may be left scrambling to find space for their garbage because of new legislation that makes it much harder to build landfills in the province. Read more »

While Canada is still faring better than many countries, it has lost its coveted image as a nation widely recognized as having flattened the COVID-19 curve after EU removes Canadians from its list of approved travellers. Read more »

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Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez abandoned the Spanish ambassador's residence in Caracas on Saturday to flee the country, more than a year after seeking refuge there to escape house arrest, his party said. Read more »

Nigeria's top police official on Saturday ordered the immediate mobilization of all officers to "reclaim the public space from criminal elements masquerading as protesters" after days of peaceful demonstrations over police abuses and then violent unrest that left at least 69 people dead. Read more »

U.S. President Donald Trump voted in his adopted home of Florida before hitting the campaign trail for rallies in three swing states on Saturday, joining more than 54 million Americans who have cast early ballots ahead of the Nov. 3 election. Read more »

The death toll from a suicide attack on Saturday in Afghanistan's capital has risen to at least 18, with 57 people wounded, including schoolchildren, the Interior Affairs Ministry said. Read more »

Polish President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for COVID-19 and is subject to quarantine but is feeling good, officials announced on Saturday, as the country imposed fresh restrictions to try to stem a surge in the disease. Read more »

The U.S. broke its daily record for new coronavirus infections on Friday as it reported at least 83,948 new cases due to outbreaks in virtually every part of the country, according to a Reuters tally. Read more »

A police force in England says it will try to stop people from leaving Wales, which has started a 17-day lockdown to slow a surging rate of coronavirus infections. Read more »

Thousands of people protested across Poland for the second day in a row, despite coronavirus restrictions, in response to the top court banning almost all grounds for abortion in the largely Roman Catholic country. Read more »

On Thursday Gerald, a grumpy turkey that has been attacking children and older residents in Oakland, Cali. for the past seven months, was finally captured and relocated outside the city. Read more »

Nigeria's president says 51 civilians have been killed in unrest following days of peaceful protests over police abuses, and he blames "hooliganism" for the violence while asserting that security forces have used "extreme restraint." Read more »

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that Sudan will start to normalize ties with Israel, making it the third Arab state to do so as part of U.S.-brokered deals in the run-up to the Nov. 3 election. Read more »

Show Me the Monet sold to an unidentified bidder at Sotheby's in London on Wednesday evening, surpassing its upper pre-sale estimate of about $6.5 million US. Read more »

Libya's warring sides signed a permanent ceasefire deal on Friday, but any lasting end to years of chaos and bloodshed will require wider agreement among myriad armed groups and the outside powers that support them. Read more »

A federal judge on Thursday urged the Trump administration to do more to help court-appointed researchers find hundreds of parents who were separated from their children after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border beginning in 2017. Read more »

An explosive Colorado wildfire that has already forced the evacuation of several mountain communities and the closure of Rocky Mountain National Park blackened another 18,200 hectares on Thursday as it jumped the Continental Divide. Read more »

The chief negotiators of the United Kingdom and the European Union will meet on Friday for intensive negotiations on a last-minute trade deal that would stave off a tumultuous finale to the five-year Brexit crisis. Read more »

Protesters gathered across Poland on Thursday after the Constitutional Tribunal ruled that abortion due to fetal defects was unconstitutional, banning the most common of the few legal grounds for ending a pregnancy in the largely Catholic country. Read more »

Russian hackers have targeted the networks of dozens of state and local governments in the United States in recent days, stealing data from at least two servers, said U.S. officials. Read more »

Edward Snowden, a former contractor with the U.S. National Security Agency, has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the United States after leaking classified documents detailing government surveillance programs. Read more »

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Belichick captured the $400,000 Breeders' Stakes on Saturday to deny stablemate Mighty Heart's Triple Crown quest. Read more »

Allister Surette, president of Université Sainte-Anne, has been named as the federal special representative to try to resolve the ongoing dispute between commercial and Indigenous fishers after violent opposition to a Mi'kmaw lobster fishery in Nova Scotia. Read more »

Hundreds lined up in Bridgewater, N.S. this weekend for a new drive-thru flu clinic. The clinic, for those five-years-old and up, is a first for the area and is run by Nova Scotia Health, local family practices, and others. Read more »

The Trudeau government says there will be upheaval at the Canada-U.S. border early next year if the Safe Third Country Agreement between the two countries is allowed to expire. Read more »

Canada's chief public health officer says she fears the number of hospitalizations and deaths may increase in the coming weeks — with the second wave continuing to drive the national death toll toward 10,000. Read more »

Fredericton police found the body of Richard Vaughan on Friday, 10 days after the New Brunswick writer was reported missing. Read more »

Ontario reported almost 1,000 new cases on Saturday, the most on a single day since the coronavirus outbreak began in late January. The number surpasses the province's previous high of 939. Read more »

The e-sports contract signing of a young Canadian chess player highlights the growing interest in online chess, a game that has seen an increase in popularity during the pandemic and has also been given a boost by Canadian players and streamers. Read more »

A city committee and the public school board had live streams crash, but continued to hold their meetings — which are supposed to be public — without any way for people to watch. Here's why that's a problem. Read more »

A simple request for a refund has led a potential immigrant to Canada on an odyssey into the world of online sales, fake testimonials, toothless regulators and international operators preying on the desperation of people dreaming of a new life. Read more »

The polls officially close at 8 p.m. PT, but it could take some time before voters know whether NDP Leader John Horgan's gamble on a snap election has paid off. Read more »

Federal politicians pulled back from the brink of an election this week — but three political strategists say they believe the brinkmanship in the Commons is likely to continue as the Liberals and opposition parties grapple over the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

Canada’s hard-hit hospitality industry is asking for more help from government to survive the economic impact of COVID-19. But even as hotel owners are seeking more aid from Ottawa, some of their workers say they’re not making good use of relief programs already out there. Read more »

Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) says it has suspended the delivery of aircraft engines to "countries with unclear usage" in the wake of reports that some of those engines are being used on Turkish combat drones deployed by Azerbaijan in fighting against Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. Read more »

Ontario Provincial Police cruisers watched from a distance Friday morning as a backhoe dug up a road in Caledonia, Ont., by the entrance to a First Nations land reclamation camp that has put a halt to a planned housing development. Read more »

An outbreak of COVID-19 at a Calgary jail has now jumped to 55 cases, a notable increase after the outbreak was initially reported Thursday. Read more »

Facing increased pressure to protect woodland caribou herds, the federal and Alberta governments have signed a conservation agreement aimed at restoring dwindling herds in the province. Read more »

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde is calling on RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to resign days after she defended the RCMP's response to an ongoing dispute between Mi'kmaw lobster harvesters and non-Indigenous commercial fishers in Nova Scotia. Read more »

Retailer Le Château is seeking court protection from its creditors while it winds down its operations and liquidates its assets. Read more »

As the second COVID-19 wave ramped up in August and September, Quebec's provincial government targeted social gatherings as the main culprit. Six weeks later, it is turning its attentions to workplaces, which account for just under half the active outbreaks. Read more »