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The city of Thunder Bay, Ont., and First Nations leaders in the region have signed a pledge to fight racism in the northern Ontario community, which has been plagued by tensions between Indigenous residents and local police.

TORONTO — A number of faculty and staff at a college within the University of Toronto are accusing their president of misrepresenting the school and shaming students in remarks made at an international conference.

OTTAWA — Canada is urging the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro to end its campaign of repression and respect the country's existing political institutions.

Joanne Bernard recalls the shock she felt when she left Nova Scotia's non-profit sector to work in provincial politics, and suddenly became the target of the worst kind of online vitriol, including fat shaming and homophobic tirades.

TORONTO — A young boy and his father have been found dead in a Toronto apartment in what is believed to be a murder-suicide. Zlatan Cico, 58, and his six-year-old son, Simon, were found without vital signs shortly after 7 p.m.

TORONTO — A revamped edition of "The National" will be more nimble, multiplatform and "truly national" when four new but recognizable hosts who vary in age and background take the helm of CBC's flagship newscast this fall, the public broadcaster vowe

MONTREAL — A new study suggests anglophone Montrealers drink more excessively than their francophone and allophone counterparts and that tippling habits are split along linguistic and cultural lines.

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 2 ——— LATEST BATCH OF CENSUS DATA OUT TODAY Statistics Canada will shine a light today on Canadian families, how they live and the languages they speak, in the latest release of census data from 2016.

SIMCOE, Ont. — One person was killed and three others left injured in a four-vehicle crash north of Simcoe, Ont., on Tuesday evening.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — A woman believed to be in her 50s is dead after being pulled from a swimming pool in Oakville, Ont., on Tuesday afternoon. Emergency responders were called to a pool in the area of Third Line and Upper Middle Road at around 2:50 p.m.