Canadian athletes are not mincing their words when it comes to the World Anti-Doping Agency's decision to reinstate Russia's drug-testing program after a nearly three-year suspension over its widespread, state-sponsored doping scheme.

In a rare show of unanimity, MPs on Thursday agreed to call the campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya in Myanmar an act of genocide. Liberal MP Andrew Leslie, who is parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs, rose following question period to present a motion asking for unanimous consent among MPs from all parties to recognize as a genocide the killings, which began last summer, and to call for the generals and leaders responsible to be prosecuted for the crime under international law.

Artificial trans fats will be off Canadian plates for good, as the final step to ban them in Canada is scheduled to take effect Monday. Researchers believe a ban could prevent up to 12,000 heart attacks in Canada over 20 years.

As pot is legalized in Canada, U.S. drug laws have never looked so absurd. Todd Owen, an officer in the Office of Field Operations, told Politico how border security plans on dealing with this development, and it’s extremely stupid. It turns out that when our border patrol agents aren’t locking up children, they’ll be targeting Canadians who like to smoke weed legally.

Ottawa police have identified the man fatally beaten in a south-end hotel room and the woman wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for first-degree murder in connection to his death. Police were called to the Residence Inn by Marriott on Walkley Road at approximately 11 p.m. on Saturday evening, when they found 30-year-old Mohamad Mana, from Ottawa, dead inside one of the hotel rooms.

Rare, mummified animals discovered by gold miners in Yukon territory

The Klondike region of Canada is famous for its gold, but now other remarkable ancient treasures have been unearthed from the melting permafrost. Two mummified ice age mammals – a wolf pup and a caribou calf – were discovered by gold miners in the area in 2016 and unveiled on Thursday at a ceremony in Dawson in Yukon territory.

Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could dramatically lower the cost of ultrasound scanners to as little as $100. Their patent-pending innovation—no bigger than a Band-Aid—is portable, wearable and can be powered by a smartphone.

A year after the population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales suffered devastating losses, Canadian officials say measures taken this season to protect the species have worked. With the summer fishing season in the Gulf of St. Lawrence drawing to a close, the federal Fisheries Department confirmed Friday that not one whale has died as a result of a ship strike or fishing gear entanglement — the main causes for most of the deaths last season.

A Canadian defence contractor will be selling fewer armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia than originally planned, according to new documents obtained by CBC News. That could be a mixed blessing in light of the ongoing diplomatic dispute between the two countries, say human rights groups and a defence analyst.

A Canadian woman and the nephew she took to court over a lottery win have come to an agreement over how they will split the jackpot. Barbara Reddick sued Tyrone MacInnis in July for his half of the C$1.2m ($912,000; £690,000) win. Both their names were on the winning ticket from a "Chase the Ace" draw in rural Nova Scotia. Ms Reddick, who bought the original ticket, will get C$872,639 - the bulk of the winnings.

The Canadian Forces are placing limits on when military personnel can use recreational marijuana once it becomes legal, with the restrictions based largely on service members’ jobs and current or upcoming missions. Supervisors are also being given directions on how to recognize whether their troops might be under the influence, including red or glassy eyes, slow reaction times, anxiety and unusual talkativeness.

A man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a Belgian tourist who was killed while hitchhiking in B.C. last month. Sean Ryan William McKenzie was charged Saturday morning. The location for the charge is listed as Boston Bar, the small town about three hours northeast of Vancouver where tourist Amelie Sakkalis, 28, was found dead.

We went to see what would happen when the world's most well-known flat earthers got together.

The United States and Canada have made progress in talks to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement, and officials from the two sides will work together into the night to flesh out areas for further discussion, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday.

A judge has sentenced York Regional Police officer Remo Romano to eight months in jail for dangerous driving causing death in the killing of Natasha "Carla" Abogado. Later in the day, an appeal court judge granted bail to Det.-Const. Romano, who plans to appeal both the sentence and the conviction.

In the past, public health campaigns warning of the harmful effects of drugs delivered one resounding message: Don't do it. But now that the federal government has decided to legalize marijuana, Health Canada is using new strategies to try to land on teens' screens and in the places they hang out. "Inevitably, that communication and education is going to be more nuanced and subtle," said David Hammond, a professor in the school of public health at the University of Waterloo.

Walmart Canada is facing criticism for charging more for plus-size clothing, a policy some shoppers consider an unjust "fat tax." "It's unacceptable," said Walmart shopper Shannon Mozak, of Edmonton, who sometimes buys plus sizes. "It's a form of shaming people." Walmart and some other retailers mark up their plus-size clothing with the justification that bigger sizes cost more to produce.

President Trump told reporters he was not offering Canada any concessions in NAFTA negotiations but couldn't say so publicly because it would kill the deal, he confirmed in a tweet which featured an accusation that Bloomberg had "BLATANTLY VIOLATED" an agreement that the remark was off-the-record.

Four tidy, three-storey red brick buildings, set back from a two-lane road that cuts through the heart of a quiet, residential neighbourhood. There's a plaza with a Tim Horton's, Subway and a dentist's office a block to the north and a middle school a couple of minutes' walk to the east. But it proved a deadly, dangerous place Friday morning when Fredericton Police responded to a call just after 7 a.m. local time.

On the air quality health index scale, Prince George is currently off the charts at a 10+, meaning it is at a very high risk level.

Stella Bowles was 11 years old when she first donned her rubber boots to test for water contamination in the LaHave River, which runs beside her home on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. “I wanted to swim in the water, and Mom’s always said no,” Bowles told CityLab. But in 2015, after hearing her mom, Andrea Conrad, say that their neighbors were using illegal straight pipes, Bowles asked her what a straight pipe was. “She explained it’s a pipe from a home’s toilet into a waterway, with no filtration whatsoever,” Bowles recalled. “I had so many questions.”

A brothel is set to open in Toronto’s north end, but the sex workers won’t be real women but instead high-tech sex dolls made of silicone.

The family of Brent and Nicole Keryluke has been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support since the young couple died in a motorcycle crash. On Saturday, what happened at a car auction in Red Deer floored them.

Canada’s richest 87 families have roughly the same amount of wealth as that held by 12 million of their compatriots, or about a third of the country’s population, according to a new report. The report, published on Tuesday by the left-leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, found that in 2016 the net worth of the richest was 4,448 times that of the average Canadian.

A Saskatchewan woman who had to perform CPR on one of her newborn triplets while still in labour with the other two says all three babies are doing awesome. Danielle Johnston said her triplets, Karlee, Liam and Jack, are in the neonatal intensive care unit at a Regina hospital and will stay there for another two weeks.

One day after Saudi Arabia expelled the Canadian ambassador and began freezing trade with Canada, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland declined to back down on previous remarks she made that were critical of the oil kingdom's record on human rights.

The food court at Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto used to generate 120 bags of garbage a day. Now it produces just three — despite the fact that it serves noodles, fried chicken, burgers and other fast foods to 24,000 customers a day. "It actually just goes to show the type of waste that is here in the food collection or after you finish your meal — how much of that is actual garbage," said Claire Santamaria, the mall's general manager.

The federal government has stripped one of Ottawa’s largest mosques of its charity status over “activities that promote hate and intolerance,” Global News has learned. The Canada Revenue Agency took action against the Ottawa Islamic Centre and Assalam Mosque following audits that raised concerns about its roster of guest speakers.

Donald Trump launched a fresh auto tariff threat against Canada late Friday at a time when Ottawa finds itself in a holding pattern on NAFTA negotiations as it awaits the completion of one-on-one talks between the United States and Mexico. In a tweet that appeared to reference NAFTA's renegotiation, the U.S. president said the "deal with Mexico is coming along nicely" and that "Canada must wait."

All Saudi patients receiving medical care in Canada have been transferred to the United States to continue their treatment, the Kingdom’s ambassador the country said on Thursday. Naif bin Bandar Al-Sudairi said there were “not that many” Saudi citizens affected. Speaking from Riyadh, the ambassador told Al-Arabiya News Channel, that the Saudi embassy is offering all the necessary assistance to its citizens, and will be taking all necessary measures that protect their interests.

In what is being hailed as a victory for troubled bee populations, the federal government is moving to ban the outdoor use of pesticides that are widely applied to canola, corn and soybean crops in Canada, the Star has learned. Beekeepers and environmentalists have blamed the pesticides — called neonicotinoids — for contributing to honeybee die-offs in recent years.

Canada responded to news that Saudi Arabia is planning to behead a female activist currently behind bars, in a further escalation of an already-tense diplomatic spat between the two countries. Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland sparked major controversy earlier this month with a single tweet calling out Saudi Arabia for its detention of a prominent activists. The dispute soon escalated — you can read a complete timeline here.

Tesla Motors Canada has won its case against the Ontario government over electric vehicle rebates.

A gay couple who fled their home countries so they could be together, only to be forcibly separated in Turkey, have arrived safely in Canada, thanks to the efforts of private refugee sponsors. Alireza, who is from Iran, and his partner and Kiran, who is from India, arrived in Vancouver on Thursday, greeted at the airport by members of the Vancouver Rainbow Refugee group who sponsored them. As It Happens is withholding their full names because their families back home still don't know they are gay.