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A Quebec Court judge has upheld fines that were issued to theatre companies who allowed actors to smoke on stage. The theatres say smoking was an essential part of the play, but the court said there are ways to simulate illegal activities on stage.

Nobel Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai announced her marriage on Twitter on Tuesday.

Many Yukon businesses in the retail and service sectors are struggling to keep their doors open, but it’s not for lack of clients. Stores across the territory are reducing their operating hours because they can’t find anyone to hire.

Quebec's English school boards will have to abide by the province's secularism law, known as Bill 21, until a challenge to the law can be heard in court.

Quebec's English school boards will have to abide by the province's secularism law, known as Bill 21, until a challenge to the law can be heard in court.

Carey Price has broken his silence after voluntarily entering the NHL's player assistance program more than a month ago. The superstar goaltender said in a social media post that he entered a residential treatment facility for his substance use.

Canadians are scrambling to get mortgage pre-approvals and rate holds before the era of low interest rates comes to an end, as some economists predict.

Canadians are scrambling to get mortgage pre-approvals and rate holds before the era of low interest rates comes to an end, as some economists predict.

Canadians are scrambling to get mortgage pre-approvals and rate holds before the era of low interest rates comes to an end, as some economists predict.

The conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region has spread through the north of the country at the cost of thousands of lives amid widespread reports of atrocities committed by all factions.

Dr. Corey Adams, a cardiac surgeon at the University of Calgary's Libin Cardiovascular Institute, has saved two men in the past 18 months by performing CPR on them in public and, days later, operating on them.

Having experienced anti-Black racism herself while growing up in the same area, Natasha Shakespeare feels heartbroken that her 13-year-old is suffering from the same 30 years later: targeted for abuse at school because she's Black and receiving inadequate support from school leaders in response.

More than 330 people are believed to have died as a result of toxic drugs in British Columbia in August and September, according to the B.C. Coroners Service.

More than 330 people are believed to have died as a result of toxic drugs in British Columbia in August and September, according to the B.C. Coroners Service.

More than 330 people are believed to have died as a result of illicit drugs in British Columbia in August and September, according to the B.C. Coroners Service.

More than 330 people are believed to have died as a result of illicit drugs in British Columbia in August and September, according to the B.C. Coroners Service.

More than 330 people are believed to have died as a result of toxic drugs in British Columbia in August and September, according to the B.C. Coroners Service.

Saskatchewan officials say another two COVID-19 patients who had been transferred to Ontario for intensive care have died there, bringing the total number of deaths among transferred patients to five.

U.S. President Joe Biden will convene an in-person trilateral meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Washington, D.C., next Thursday, the White House said today.

Discussions are underway to arrange an in-person meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as soon as next week, according to a senior source with direct knowledge of the situation.

Dean Stockwell, a top Hollywood child actor who gained new success in middle age in the sci-fi series Quantum Leap and in a string of indelible performances in film, has died. He was 85. 

Health Canada has approved a booster of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 years of age and older.

Health Canada has approved a booster of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 years of age and older.

Hackers were able to access the information through the province's Meditech system.

Hackers were able to access the information through the province's Meditech system.

Twitter Inc. added a warning label on Tuesday to an anime video shared by U.S. Republican lawmaker Paul Gosar depicting him swinging swords at President Joe Biden and killing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a post that has appalled the New York congresswoman and some of her Democratic colleagues.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday urged House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to launch investigations into an anime video tweeted by Republican congressman Paul Gosar that depicted violence against President Joe Biden and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

A Quebec coroner's report into the murder of Marylène Levesque by Eustachio Gallese, who was on parole for killing his ex-spouse, found the victim was unaware of his history of domestic violence and recommended that electronic monitors become standard for the release of anyone convicted of homicide tied to domestic violence.

A Quebec coroner's report into the murder of Marylène Levesque by Eustachio Gallese, who was on parole for killing his ex-spouse, found the victim was unaware of his history of domestic violence and recommended that electronic monitors become standard for the release of anyone convicted of homicide tied to domestic violence.

Families living in tens of thousands of homes in southwest B.C. are still without power Tuesday after a severe windstorm rolled through the region overnight.

Tens of thousands of homes in southwest B.C. were without power Tuesday morning after a severe windstorm rolled through the region overnight. As of 6 p.m. PT, most of the outages have been resolved.

More than 28,000 families in B.C. are waking up without power on Tuesday after a severe windstorm rolled through the region overnight.

More than 25,000 families in B.C. woke up without power Tuesday after a severe windstorm rolled through the region overnight.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole announced his shadow cabinet today and notably absent from the list of critics are MPs who have voiced opposition to existing COVID-19 vaccine policies.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is expected to announce his shadow cabinet today, the group of critics that will stare down Liberal ministers in the House of Commons in question period and press for answers on key files.

An anti-abortion party in Alberta that in 2020 had just $30 in the bank has raised nearly $217,000 in contributions this year.

Hundreds of migrants shivered in freezing temperatures and huddled around campfires on the Belarusian border with Poland on Tuesday in front of razor-wire fences and lines of Polish border guards blocking their entry into the European Union.

Indigenous lawyers are running in an unprecedented campaign to serve as benchers for the Law Society of British Columbia in a bid to highlight the need for greater Indigenous representation at the body that oversees the province's legal profession.

For the first time, all Alberta seniors are being offered a high-dose flu vaccine but distribution problems are making it tricky for pharmacists to get their hands on it.

Four Indigenous lawyers are working together in an unprecedented campaign to serve as benchers for the Law Society of British Columbia in a bid to highlight the need for greater Indigenous representation at the body that oversees the province's legal profession.

The search for missing children on more than 200 hectares of land once associated with the Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., has begun.

The search for missing children on more than 200 hectares of land once associated with the Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., has begun.

The search for missing children on more than 200 hectares of land once associated with the Mohawk Institute Residential School has begun.

The search of more than 200 hectares of land once associated with the Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., has begun, with the Six Nations police chief vowing to work "tirelessly" with survivors "to find the missing children who did not come home."

A private member's bill tabled in the P.E.I Legislature could make the province the first in Canada to limit the use of non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs, in cases of sexual misconduct. 

Tom Johnson, the man who voiced a Mi'kmaw dubbing of the movie Chicken Run, is working to build an audio and video production studio in Eskasoni. He's hoping it will help keep the language alive.

A nursing shortage is preventing the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre from expanding operating room and other services, according to the northwestern Ontario hospital's chief nursing executive.

Security officers could have done more to prevent the chaos at Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival in Houston on Friday, where eight people died, says an Ontario teen who attended the event.

A distress signal co-developed by the Canadian Women's Foundation and a Toronto ad agency is being credited with helping a missing teenage girl from North Carolina who was rescued by police after using the hand gesture to ask for help. It's believed she saw the signal on TikTok.

Premier Doug Ford's government is touting Ontario as a future electric vehicle manufacturing hub, and dangling that as a reason to speed up mining development in the northern part of the province.