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Refugee advocates say that over the past 20 years there's been an increase in the number of unaccompanied youths arriving in Canada. These minors face the dual challenge of adapting to their new environment while also being children missing their parents. For those alone and with nowhere to go, a Toronto shelter looks to give them the support they need.

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A younger generation now has a major force in Russian politics and culture, and they're changing the country's relationship with alcohol. The nation once held the dubious title of one of the world's hardest-drinking nations, but Russia has fallen steadily down that list.

China's addiction to tobacco isn't new, but its magnitude is growing and putting the nation on the precipice of a health disaster. At 315 million, China has the world's most smokers — 52 per cent of adult men and 2.7 per cent of women smoke, and more than one million people die of smoking-related illnesses every year. So why can't China kick its smoking habit?

A tentative agreement has been reached to allow workers for a natural gas pipeline company to access to an area in northern B..C. The site has been the focal point of First Nations opposition to a pipeline project in their traditional territory.

New federal regulations to govern the use of drones in Canadian airspace are being adopted, and they're very comprehensive. New rules require drones be registered, operators be certified and they state who can operate them, where they can fly and what they can carry. Convincing users to adopt these changes, however, may be a challenge.

This flu season has been brutal across Canada, especially for kids. Pediatric hospitals are seeing a surge in cases as the H1-N1 virus sweeps across the country. The virus is now being blamed for the deaths of three preschoolers in Saskatchewan.

Residents of Garden Hill First Nation in Manitoba don't trust their tap water, while some don't have access to it at all. The challenges they face to get safe and reliable drinking water remains a daily reality for thousands living on reserves in Canada.

Tributes are pouring in for the man who will be remembered as one of sharpest and funniest in Canadian sports. Jim Taylor died at age 82 Monday, in Shawinigan Lake, B.C. He leaves behind a body of work that includes 7,500 newspaper columns and countless radio and television appearances.

Some WestJet passengers say they felt "abandoned" in downtown Cancun, Mexico, after their return flight was first delayed and then cancelled on the weekend. WestJet has apologized, and offered some compensation, but would the forthcoming passenger bill of rights have made a difference?

It has been the prime minister's mantra since coming to power: "No relationship is more important to Canada than the relationship with Indigenous peoples." Justin Trudeau set out to reinforce that message at a forum on First Nations rights. But this week opposition to an LNG pipeline in British Columbia made it more obvious that pipeline projects remain a key source of tension; so much so that the forum had to be relocated when anti-pipeline demonstrators tried to crash the event.

CBC News has learned that in late September 2018, Ottawa quietly hosted a five-person delegation from North Korea for a series of meetings with Canadian bureaucrats. The high-level officials were said to be in town as part of a low-profile effort to convince the police state to respect human rights and abandon its quest for a nuclear arsenal.

The U.S. Congress has so far blocked President Trump's demand for a border wall. This has led to a standoff, the partial shutdown of the U.S. government, and what the president calls a "crisis" at the border. But what's really happening at the U.S. southern border?

For years, many R. Kelly fans have ignored the R&B singer's questionable behaviour. A new documentary is now testing that loyalty. With accusations of predatory behaviour, mental and sexual abuse from multiple women, the allegations appear to be gaining traction and critics are calling for Kelly's music to be silenced.

Paralysis in Washington, the media and federal workers stuck in the middle of this political brinkmanship, and a president who's credibility with his base is on the line. The U.S. political insiders take a hard look at President Trump's latest address and discuss if he's bolstered his case for border wall funding.

A small anti-pipeline blockade on a British Columbia forest road has escalated to dozens of demonstrations across Canada and beyond. But the issue is more than just a fight between the community and the police, or even the community and the pipeline company. It has divided the Wet'suwet'en First Nation itself, and the country as a whole.

Large portions of the U.S. government have now been shut down since Dec. 22, leaving some 800,000 federal employees sitting at home without pay and affecting everything from national parks to airport security screenings and farm subsidy programs.

Nine months after the tragic crash, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu has pleaded guilty to 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

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Eighteen-year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun has left the Bangkok airport hotel, where she had barricaded herself, after talks with the United Nations refugee agency. The young woman will be allowed to stay in Thailand temporarily following claims that she faces death if sent back to Saudi Arabia.

The RCMP are enforcing a court order that allows Coastal GasLink access to the road and bridge near Houston, B.C., in order to build a pipeline on that land. Indigenous elders have sworn to block construction of the natural gas pipeline.

Starting in the 1950s, about 20,000 Indigenous children across Canada were seized from their birth families and relocated to non-Indigenous homes, where many were stripped of their language, culture and any ties to their surviving families. For some, the apology was long overdue and welcomed. For others, the words rang hollow.

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