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  Canada’s greenhouse gas emission up 2.3 per cent from last year due to oil and gas production, cold winter: report

  New data from the Canadian Climate Institute shows that emissions from the oil and gas industry and buildings continued to climb in the previous year, undercutting Canada's overall emissions reduction progress.

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  The Dianne Feinstein they knew: Women of the Senate remember a tireless fighter and a true friend

  When Washington Sen. Patty Murray received a call early Friday morning that Sen. Dianne Feinstein had died, she immediately started calling her fellow female senators.

• On the brink of a government shutdown, the Senate tries to approve funding but it's almost too late

  The United States is on the brink of a federal government shutdown after hard-right Republicans in Congress rejected a longshot effort to keep offices open as they fight for steep spending cuts and strict border security measures that Democrats and the White House say are too extreme.

• Here's how a U.S. government shutdown could impact Canadians

  Economists warn both Canada's economy and individual Canadians could suffer from impacts of a U.S. government shutdown, and that those impacts will deepen and broaden the longer it lasts.

• Toronto family shocked they have to rip out $20K synthetic grass putting green

  A Scarborough family said they were shocked to get a notice from the City of Toronto that the artificial grass in their backyard, including a putting green, will have to be ripped out.

• Walking just this much more per day can lower your blood pressure: study

  A new study finds walking an additional 3,000 steps per day can significantly reduce high blood pressure in older adults with hypertension.

• India's foreign minister says Canada has 'climate of violence' for Indian diplomats

  Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Friday there was a 'climate of violence' and an 'atmosphere of intimidation' against Indian diplomats in Canada, where the presence of Sikh separatist groups has frustrated New Delhi.

• Defence minister insists $1B spending reduction is not a budget cut

  The country's top soldier and outside experts say that finding almost $1 billion in savings in the Department of National Defence budget will affect the Armed Forces' capabilities, although the defence minister insisted Friday the budget is not being cut.

• Bail bondsman charged alongside Trump in Georgia becomes the first defendant to take a plea deal

  A bail bondsman charged alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others in the Georgia election interference case pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges on Friday, becoming the first defendant to accept a plea deal with prosecutors.

• Last living suspect in 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur indicted in Las Vegas on murder charge

  A man who prosecutors say ordered the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur was arrested and charged with murder Friday in a long-awaited breakthrough in one of hip-hop's most enduring mysteries.

• Tragedy in real time: The Armenian exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh

  For the past five days, vehicles laden with refugees have poured into Armenia, fleeing from the crumbling enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in neighbouring Azerbaijan. In a special report for CTVNews.ca, journalist Neil Hauer recounts what it's like on the ground in Armenia.

• Man deliberately drives into a home and crashes into a police station in New Jersey, police say

  A New Jersey man deliberately drove his SUV into a home and the offices of a municipal police department last week, authorities announced Friday.