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After weeks of troubling stories about problematic street drug use in hospitals, parks and at bus stops, the province of British Columbia announced plans to recriminalize the use of drugs in public places Friday — radically altering a pilot program aime

The Ehattesaht First Nation says a killer whale calf that had been trapped in a remote Vancouver Island lagoon for more than a month is now free after she swam out on her own early Friday morning.

In a new report, Human Rights Watch said military forces ‘summarily executed’ 223 civilians in February.

The trial of Andrew Tate, a self-proclaimed “misogynist” online influencer accused of human trafficking and rape, can go ahead, a Romanian court said Friday.

Canada’s Building Trades Unions is demanding the federal government intervene as it alleges local workers are being “sidelined” by foreign employees.

The 2023 sale of Lions Place, a former seniors' complex in downtown Winnipeg, amounted to elder abuse through a "targeted dismantling of community for older adults," a new report claims.

Japanese automaker Honda will make a $15-billion electric vehicle investment in Ontario that will see four new manufacturing plants built in the province, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced Thursday.

New York's highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren't p

Harbour Air has signed a letter of intent with Everett, Washington-based magniX to purchase 50 electric motors to convert its entire seaplane fleet.

Canada and its Five Eyes Alliance partners are working on put forward a response to tackle the price manipulation of critical metals, Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday.

An aide to a member of the European Parliament for the far-right Alternative for Germany has been arrested on suspicion of 'especially severe' espionage for China, the latest in a spate of such arrests across Europe.

A formal complaint has been filed with Ontario's inspector general of policing following concerns over investigations into the deaths of First Nations people.

Researchers around the world are growing more uneasy with the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in US dairy cows as the virus continues to make its way into new herds and states. Several experts say the US is not sharing enough informatio

The corporations behind the construction of Castledowns Pointe no longer exist, which poses a legal hurdle for owners who were forced out seven months ago.

The Senate reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a key. U.S. surveillance authority, shortly after it expired in the early hours Saturday morning. Why it matters: The reauthorization came despite bipartisan concerns about Section 702,

Jurors have found Umar Zameer not guilty of all criminal charges, including first-degree murder, in the death of Toronto police Det.-Const. Jeffrey Northrup nearly three years ago.

The odds of a two-year old killer whale calf surviving in the open ocean on its own and eventually reuniting with family members remain solid if a rescue team manages to free the orca from the Vancouver Island lagoon where she's been trapped for nearly a

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has shown up in at least 32 herds in eight U.S. states, but not in Canada so far. While farmers are worried, experts say there's no cause for alarm right now thanks to national food safety standards and biosecurity measur

A former airport hangar caught fire late Friday evening sparking explosions and a state of emergency. The RCMP says the fire is now under control and the Mayor has ended the state of emergency.

A Texas man filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Cinemark, alleging that the theater chain’s 24-ounce drink cups can only hold 22 ounces of beer.

On the current trajectory, if fossil fuel emissions do not fall ‘we would expect to see heatwaves like this maybe 10 times more frequently, so potentially up to 20 times a year,’ statistician says

US vetoes UN Security Council resolution that recommended the State of Palestine’s full membership in the world body.

This evening, Google indiscriminately fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests. This flagrant…

“There’s a lot of Canada in that bottle,” says Dr. Sylvain Charlebois from Dalhousie University.

The law will come into force in national parks within two years and in all of the country’s marine protected areas by 2030

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he has cautioned his caucus about texting the Speaker after his finance minister landed in hot water for doing so.

The sexual assault trial of a Newfoundland lawyer was thrown into turmoil Wednesday morning, as an error made by the judge last week threatened to grind proceedings to a halt.

A wildfire in west-central Alberta that was sparked by a natural gas pipeline rupture Tuesday is under control, but an investigation into what caused the pipeline to break could take months or even years.

30 years before parents and lawmakers sought to save youth from smartphones via age limits and bans in schools, a similar conversation took place about a pre-cursor to the cellphone: pagers Through the 1980s pagers became increasingly popular with teens,

A record rainfall with 254 mm fell in Al Ain on Tuesday in less than 24 hours—the most since records began in 1949