The federal government's promised national "freeze" on the sale, purchase and transfer of handguns has taken effect — part of Ottawa's plan to limit access to firearms to tamp down on a spike in cri...

Long waits for elective surgery in Canada's health-care system left one teenage boy in Peachland, B.C., feeling like “the Hunchback of Notre Dame,” he said, as he waited nearly two years for surge...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has opted for a mix of stability and new faces in her first cabinet.

Ken Sim will be the first Chinese Canadian mayor of Vancouver, where more than 28 per cent of the population has Chinese ethnic origins, according to the 2016 census.

A woman who was a resident of a United Church of Canada-run maternity home in Winnipeg and forced to put her baby up for adoption in 1965 is spearheading a proposed class-action lawsuit against the ch...

Dan and Mary Lou Smoke began hosting Canada's longest-running Indigenous campus radio program after seeking spiritual guidance from an Ojibway elder who encouraged them to educate the public about th...

A controversial reserve fund that Hockey Canada publicly vowed it would stop using to settle sexual assault allegations is significantly depleted now after the organization transferred millions of do...

The two conservative factions within the UCP simply do not speak the same political language and as has become clear during the leadership race, they don't speak the same social language either, write...

Two people who have accused former senator Don Meredith of abuse say they're frustrated by the Senate's failure to strip the ex-parliamentarian — now charged with sex crimes — of his "honoura...

Four years after pot became legal, the CEO of a P.E.I. cannabis company says his business and others aren't making money, as they face high taxes and competition from illegal sellers.

New Brunswick health officials retroactively removed 46 people from its COVID death totals last week even though records show 31 had the virus listed as a "cause of death" on their official death regi...

Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis once sold her paintings for just a few dollars, but now they sell for tens of thousands. But as price tags have increased, so have concerns about forgeries.  ...

Carly Rae Jepsen's newest album, The Loneliest Time, was written during the early days of the pandemic, when some things felt uncertain.

Few financial issues in Toronto have received as much attention in recent years as the amount of money the city spends on policing.

Tenants are becoming increasingly worried about renovictions in many major Canadian cities, but tenant advocates warn without proper tracking it’s difficult to understand the true scope of the issue...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we speak to the first director of Environment and Climate Change Canada’s division of Indigenous Science and examine how this country could meet i...

A new spa in Whitby, Ont. has closed all of its pools in the wake of reports by customers of skin rashes, flu symptoms, ear infections and inflamed lymph nodes.

One of the top officers at the Ottawa Police Service says the force should have paid closer attention to intelligence that suggested the Freedom Convoy protesters planned to stay past two days — an...

A judge in Estevan, Sask., has sentenced former Canadian Nationalist Party leader Travis Patron to a year in jail for promoting hatred against Jewish people.

Thousands of first responders lined the streets in Vancouver and Burnaby, B.C., on Thursday to honour the life of Burnaby RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang, who died Tuesday in the line of duty.  ...