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Environment Canada has issued a heat warning spanning four provinces as a two-day heat event gears up across much of the central and eastern parts of the country.

TORONTO — Someone in Ontario is starting their weekend $55 million dollars richer. A single winning ticket was drawn for Friday's Lotto Max jackpot. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) says the ticket was sold in Toronto.

OTTAWA — Artists are to get paid when their work is resold in a shakeup of copyright laws that would give them a slice of collectors' profits.

OTTAWA — Benefits rolled out at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic allowed vulnerable Canadians to stay healthy while maintaining an income, but business supports were excessive and show the outsized influence of business groups on public policy, economists say

NEW WESTMINSTER — The mother of Amanda Todd hopes her daughter's case brings increased awareness of the devastating impacts of "sextortion", as a jury in the trial of a Dutch man accused of blackmailing the British Columbia teenager begins its first

TORONTO — The winning numbers in Friday's Lotto Max draw for an estimated $55 million: 07, 16, 19, 33, 36, 48 & 49.

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OTTAWA — Russia sanctioned a raft of Canadian public figures on Friday including Maj.-Gen. Michael Wright, head of Canadian Forces Intelligence Command, and the pastor who officiated the first gay marriages in Canada.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Carol Todd said she wants her daughter's legacy to live on past a verdict as the jury began its deliberations Friday at the trial of Amanda Todd's alleged tormentor.

BURNABY, B.C. — A video apparently showing a brawling recreational league hockey player using a skate blade to kick a second player in the face has attracted the attention of RCMP in Burnaby, B.C.