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The Canadian Armed Forces is deploying military trainers back to Ukraine as it looks to restart some of the many missions and exercises temporarily suspended or scaled back because of COVID-19.

Dozens of people gathered outside Quebec Premier François Legault's Montreal office on Sunday to stage a sit-in, in opposition to the province's law on religious symbols.

April Martell rewrote the Billy Joel song We Didn't Start The Fire to bring awareness to injustices against Indigenous people in Canada.

Search and rescue crews spent hours looking for Nour Ali after the boat he was in capsized at Bélair, Man on Saturday. His father, who was also on the boat, is dead.

Should the NHL be able to stage its 24-team format and eventually award the Stanley Cup, it will do so in front of row after row of vacant stands. The stakes will be as high as ever, but players might have to get creative when it comes to pumping themselves up.

Calgarians are picking up the pieces after a massive storm brought tennis ball-sized hail and flooding to the city Saturday night.

Calgarians are picking up the pieces after a massive storm brought tennis ball-sized hail and flooding to the city Saturday night.

Erin O'Toole, running for the leadership of the federal Conservative party promising to stand up for Canadian workers, used American ones on his campaign.

The sight of anchovy scales catching the glint of the sun is becoming more common in B.C. waters, marine biologists say, and that could be drawing other, bigger species back to busy waterways like the Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver. 

Meghan Markle added her voice to those of people around the world who have been galvanized into protest and action by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody last month, issuing a message of hope and encouragement to students at her former high school in Los Angeles.

Raising a racialized child in Canada means teaching them about their complex place in the world, says Audrey McKinnon, but that burden needs to be taken on by parents of non-racialized children as well.

The novel coronavirus has infected more than 7.8 million people worldwide and killed more than 430,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Here's what's happening with COVID-19 around the world.

Europe is taking a big step toward a new normality as many countries open borders to fellow Europeans after three months of coronavirus lockdowns.

More than 100 people gathered in downtown Vancouver on Saturday calling for justice for Chantel Moore, an Indigenous woman from B.C. who was shot and killed by police in Edmundston, N.B.

A makeshift memorial popped up Sunday at a fast-food restaurant where a black man was fatally shot by a white Atlanta police officer, one of the latest deaths of Black men that have ignited a new wave of anti-racism protests across the country.

People took to the streets of Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday night to voice their outrage after police shot and killed a Black man dead outside a fast-food restaurant on Friday.

Immigration lawyers say many seniors who hold dual citizenship decide to return to Canada during their golden years because of the cost of health insurance. But for Americans with no ties to Canada, moving north with the hope of accessing affordable health care isn't that simple.

Truro and Colchester County have been deeply affected by recent tragedies, including a mass shooting and a missing boy. In both cases, how emergency alerts were used has been questioned.

Countries that successfully kept COVID-19 infections and deaths down not only acted early but in a more community-centred way, says a public health physician who aims to improve preparedness for the next wave and beyond.

Last month in B.C. a record number of people died from an overdose; 170. It is more than the total number of deaths due to Coronavirus in the province; 167. More than 400 people in B.C. have died from overdosing during the three months that COVID-19 measures have been in place.

Pride festivals in rural and remote towns can be an important connection point for smaller LGBTQ communities. And this year, the COVID-19 pandemic is raining on those parades, but organizers are finding new ways to connect.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced uncomfortable and sometimes wrenching decisions on polyamorous relationships.

The COVID-19 pandemic may actually help conservation efforts to protect pangolins, but other endangered species aren't as lucky. A decline in Africa's tourism of late has contributed to a rise in hunting and poaching.

Views on systemic racism differ between urban, suburban and rural areas, and between supporters of different parties.

The Department of National Defence is revamping its rules on unclassified information. Critics are suggesting the project is all about protecting the government from humiliation — and that it all started with Mark Norman.

Restrictions on places of worship are an example of the tricky balancing act of weighing public safety against personal freedoms, write Kristopher Kinsinger and Brian Bird.

Pride festivals in rural and remote towns can be an important connection point for smaller LGBTQ communities. And this year, the COVID-19 pandemic is raining on those parades, but organizers are finding new ways to connect.

One of the scientists escorted from the National Microbiology Lab last year amid an RCMP investigation was responsible for a shipment of Ebola and Henipah viruses to the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory four months earlier. Coronavirus was not part of the shipment.

After weeks of protesters around the world chanting "defund police," the former head of Canada's largest First Nations police service says underfunding of police threatens the safety of Indigenous communities.

Quebec provincial police had been looking for a 42-year-old suspect after shots were heard in the town near the U.S. border.

Three people are dead after a house fire in Langley, B.C. on Saturday. The RCMP's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating the deaths. 

At least one tornado touched down in southeast Alberta on Saturday evening, as severe thunderstorms brought intense hail and flooding to Calgary and the southern part of the province.

At least one tornado touched down in southeast Alberta on Saturday evening, as severe thunderstorms brought intense hail and flooding to Calgary and the southern part of the province.

At least one tornado touched down in southeast Alberta on Saturday evening, as severe thunderstorms brought intense hail and flooding to Calgary and the southern part of the province.

At least one person has died and a search is underway on Saturday after a boat capsized on Lake Winnipeg at Bélair, Man.

A search is underway after a boat capsized on the massive Lake Winnipeg at Bélair, Man.

It was a large turnout for a demonstration that almost didn't happen.

A crude oil spill from the Trans Mountain pipeline in Abbotsford, B.C., has been contained and crews are working to clean up the site.

Atlanta's police chief resigned Saturday, less than 24 hours after a Black man was killed by an Atlanta officer in a struggle following a field sobriety test.

Atlanta's police chief resigned Saturday, less than 24 hours after a black man was killed by an Atlanta officer in a struggle following a field sobriety test.