The Ontario Labour Relations Board is looking into two complaints, filed by Unifor, against Fort Frances-area furniture manufacturer Gingrich Woodcraft, which closed its doors for what it calls religious reasons after workers voted in favour of joining a union.
Committed supporters will stick with the party, but soft Conservative voters are at risk of changing allegiance due to the Mike Duffy trial. Poll analyst Eric Grenier looks at two new polls that consider the Duffy effect, as well as the latest seat projections in our Poll Tracker.
A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon on a high-speed train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris Friday, wounding three people, two of them critically, officials said.
The federal election campaign will start to become more apparent as August draws to a close, but the volume of election signs in your neighbourhood will depend on which part of the country you live in.
The Liberals are joining the NDP in asking the RCMP to expand its investigation by looking into messages sent to and from Stephen Harper's Chief of Staff Ray Novak because they may be relevant to the criminal trial of Senator Mike Duffy.
The B.C. Oil and Gas Commission is investigating the cause of a 4.6 magnitude earthquake earlier this week that triggered the shutdown of a major fracking operation just a few kilometres away.
Stephen Harper was in British Columbia on Friday where he promised to spend $15 million to protect salmon habitats and estuaries. But the event elicited a complaint from Scouts Canada officials who said they didn't agree to have some of their young members stand in uniform alongside the Conservative leader.
Jurors at a civil trial focused on the market value of Michael Jordan's identity handed him a major win Friday, ordering a grocery-store chain to pay him $8.9 million for invoking his name in a steak ad without his permission.
Three (long) weeks into the 42nd general election, we've covered everything from which Avenger is the best to whether journalists cheat on their taxes.
More than 30 million email addresses linked to users of the infidelity website Ashley Madison have been made public. Here's what we know — and what we still need to learn — about the data breach.
Annual rankings of the most livable cities in the world have a halo effect on the highest achievers, but city planning and branding experts say these surveys can be misleading.
From economists chewing the fat over whether Canada's growth has slowed to a crawl to some troubling news for kids banking on big bucks for their baby teeth, it was a busy week in business news. Good thing the CBC's Jacqueline Hansen is here to sift through all that salty language in her weekly video recap.
Authorities have raised the death toll to 121 in the chemical warehouse explosion in the northern Chinese port of Tianjin, while another 54 people remain unaccounted for.
Thousands of rain-soaked migrants, including many women and children, were trapped Saturday on the border between Greece and Macedonia, as Macedonian police blocked them from entering the country and heading north toward the European Union.
A gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France on Friday may be a Moroccan identified in 2014 to French police by Spanish intelligence services as having Islamist militant connections, France's Interior Minister said on Saturday.
South Korea and North Korea were holding their first high-level talks in nearly a year at a border village on Saturday to defuse mounting tensions that have pushed the rivals to the brink of a possible military confrontation.
Carly Rae Jepsen had all the makings of a being a one-hit wonder. Her 2012 hit "Call Me Maybe" was so incredibly popular that its success seemed impossible to replicate. But her new album E•MO•TION dropped in North America on August 21st and already has a Top 40 hit with "I Really Like You". But is she really a one-hit wonder? Data journalist Dan Kopf says not only has Carly Rae Jepsen dodged the title, but that one-hit wonders are going extinct.
Thousands of dead fish are washing ashore in China downstream from the Tianjin port where massive explosions killed more than 50 people and raised fears of a chemical spill. This and other events from around the world are featured in the week in pictures gallery for Aug. 15-21.
Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall is calling on federal party leaders to respond to his concerns about energy, the economy, genetically modified organisms and equalization payments.
A new campaign wants to hide Cosmopolitan magazine from the eyes of minors, relegated to the same covered section that houses Playboy and Hustler. But one feminist says Cosmo has an important place in society and in the racks at grocery store check-outs.
Watch the evening session of the IAAF track and field world championships from Beijing at 4:55 a.m. ET, featuring Canada's Brianne Theisen-Eaton competing in the heptathlon and Andre De Grasse in the opening round of the men's 100 metres.
A Canadian record producer who was the first to sign the L.A. gangster rappers N.W.A. is auctioning off a treasure trove of old gold and platinum plaques the family recently uncovered in an old storage locker in Richmond, B.C.
A column by Margaret Atwood that poked fun at Stephen Harper's hair disappeared for several hours from the National Post website Friday, raising the ire of the Twitterverse and prompting the award-winning author to wonder if she'd been censored.
A top Canadian meteorologist warns that municipalities aren't prepared to deal with the impacts of an increasingly volatile climate that can bring devastating floods one season and a drought the next.
Canadian sprinters Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown both finished second in their 100-metre heats on Saturday and will advance to the semifinals at the IAAF track and field world championships.
The Canadian pop singer cancelled today's Beachclub party citing an issue with the promoter, just one week after reality TV star Kylie Jenner had her birthday party at the same locale.
Ten giant panda cubs, between one week and two months old, made their debut appearance to visitors on Aug. 21, 2015, at a giant panda breeding centre in China.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair paid homage to his predecessor Jack Layton, promised to maintain a "positive" campaign and reiterated some of his promises while campaigning near Montreal today.
An explosion ripped through a chemical plant in eastern China and triggered a fire Saturday night, state media said, just over a week after a similar blast at a Chinese chemical warehouse killed more than 100 people.
Calgary and some of the surrounding area feel some summer heat relief with an August snowfall. The surprising winter weather was met with a resounding only-in-Alberta sentiment — and a bit of excitement from winter sports enthusiasts.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says if elected prime minister on Oct. 19, he would commit to negotiating a long-term health-care funding agreement with the provinces and territories. He also pledged to hold annual first ministers' meetings.
