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The Brit Awards recently announced it will be nixxing gender-specific categories for their 2022 ceremony. How do these changes benefit trans and non-binary artists? And will more industry organizations follow suit?

There is a lot of soul-searching and serious study going on among allied nations about what went wrong in Afghanistan. The crisis over last summer's disastrous evacuation has claimed two cabinet ministers in the Netherlands and prompted three investigations. In Canada, there is largely silence.

The Liberal government has introduced legislation to provide workers in federally regulated sectors with 10 days of sick pay — while also making it an offence to intimidate or prevent patients from seeking care, or to interfere with health professionals trying to deliver it.

Thousands of farmers forced India's prime minister into a rare reversal on Nov. 19, when Narendra Modi announced his government would repeal three agricultural reform laws that the farmers feared would shatter livelihoods and allow big corporations to seize control of the sector.

TJ Watt is a modern-day Lorax, protecting trees with his before-and-after photos of B.C. clearcut forests. He's part of a renewed movement to protect province’s oldest trees, amidst an industry with a complicated past and an uncertain future.

Avril Lavigne has announced her first cross-Canada tour in more than a decade. The Bite Me Canada 2022 tour is set to hit 14 cities between May 3 and 25, with special guests GrandsonandMod Sun.

As scientists race to find out more about the recently discovered coronavirus variant B.1.1.529 that the World Health Organization labelled a variant of concern and named omicron Friday, here's what we know about where and when it was identified, why it is causing concern and what countries have done in response.

In what could be a first for wildlife medicine, surgeons at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown have attempted to repair the spine of a bald eagle.

An Inupiaq man living in the Northwest Territories, and married to an Aklavik woman, is fighting a deportation order that would see him sent back to Alaska.

An Inupiaq man living in the Northwest Territories, and married to an Aklavik woman, is fighting a deportation order that would see him sent back to Alaska.

Global stock markets and oil prices tumbled Friday after South Africa identified a fast-spreading coronavirus variant and the European Union proposed suspending air travel from southern Africa.

While the conflict between government forces and Russia-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine continues to erupt despite multiple ceasefires since it broke out seven years ago, the recent movement of Russia's military forces closer to its border with Ukraine has some U.S. and Ukrainian officials and NATO leaders fearing a potential invasion.

P.E.I. farmers are five days into a suspension of trade for their potatoes into the U.S. market and it is five days of sales lost for large farms and family farms alike.

Toronto's Massey Hall has reopened its doors to the public, with Canadian music legend Gordon Lightfoot hitting the stage for his 170th show at the historic music venue.

Rescue crews have found a survivor in a Siberian coal mine where dozens of miners are presumed dead after a devastating methane explosion, a senior regional official said on Friday.

A slew of nations moved to stop air travel from southern Africa on Friday in reaction to news of a new, potentially more transmissible coronavirus variant.

Italy has given safe haven to Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed "Afghan Girl" whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country's wars, Prime Minister Mario Draghi's office said on Thursday.

RCMP say a 911 call came in shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday that the fish plant in New Edinburgh, N.S., was on fire.

As the mother to three medically fragile children, Jenn Summers writes that the vaccine approval for children ages five to 11 has given her family renewed hope.

A Cambridge, Ont., parent says she's worried about the privacy implications of a decision to remove the exterior doors from washrooms at some Waterloo Region District secondary schools.

The Inuvialuit Regional Corporation is taking steps to run its own child and family services.

The area is cut off from the rest of N.L. by road washouts, and with lineups at grocery stores and pumps, MHA Andrew Parsons is asking people not to hoard food or fuel.

The European Union aims to halt air travel from the southern African region amid rising concern about a new COVID-19 variant detected in South Africa, EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday.

As kids aged five to 11 are being offered the vaccine across the country, doctors weigh in on what this age group can do for national vaccination rates and how this could bring us back to more normal times.

Marketplace reveals many homeowners are unaware of and unprepared for the growing threat of flooding because of confusing insurance policies, murky real estate rules and incomplete floodplain maps.

Marketplace reveals many homeowners are unaware of and unprepared for the growing threat of flooding because of confusing insurance policies, murky real estate rules and incomplete floodplain maps.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in British Columbia Friday for his first visit since record-breaking rainfall caused widespread flooding and mudslides in the province — and just as more storms are forecast to hit this weekend.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in British Columbia Friday for his first visit since record-breaking rainfall caused widespread flooding and mudslides in the province — and just as more storms are forecast to hit this weekend.

Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard will be back in court Friday morning to apply for bail on charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement in Toronto.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we hear from interim Green Party Leader Amita Kuttner about their tragic experience with mudslides and explore the sustainability benefits of roundabouts.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will arrive in British Columbia on Friday for his first visit since record-breaking rainfall caused widespread flooding and mudslides in the province — and just as more storms are forecast to hit this weekend.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will arrive in British Columbia on Friday for his first visit since record-breaking rainfall caused widespread flooding and mudslides in the province — and just as more storms are forecast to hit this weekend.

There’s this emerging notion of Canada as an impending superpower in the mining of critical minerals that will run defining technologies of this century. People are even talking about it as a geopolitical weapon. Let's pause here for a reality check. Here's what Canada has, and doesn't.

There’s this emerging notion of Canada as an impending superpower in the mining of critical minerals that will run defining technologies of this century. People are even talking about it as a geopolitical weapon. Let's pause here for a reality check. Here's what Canada has, and doesn't.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will arrive in British Columbia on Friday for his first visit since record-breaking rainfall caused widespread flooding and mudslides in the province — and just as more storms are forecast to hit this weekend.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will arrive in British Columbia on Friday for his first visit since record-breaking rainfall caused widespread flooding and mudslides in the province — and just as more storms are forecast to hit this weekend.

A bail hearing for former fashion mogul Peter Nygard was adjourned again in a Toronto courtroom Friday morning as lawyers try to find dates for a longer hearing. 

The history-making Canadian women's soccer team could make a little more history on Nov. 29, as three stalwarts of the gold-medal-winning side are up for the Ballon d'Or, presented to the world's top soccer player.

Nunavut’s chief public health officer declared a tuberculosis outbreak in Pangnirtung Thursday. The government said enhanced public health "follow-up of the situation is necessary."

The RCMP says it expected to face a higher threat when officers moved in last week to clear barricades blocking construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia.

The RCMP says it expected to face a higher threat when officers moved in last week to clear barricades blocking construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia.

The RCMP in B.C. sent an emergency text alert for the first time in its history during an active shooting situation on Thursday, having updated its policy around using the system after the deadly mass shooting that left 22 dead in Nova Scotia last year.

The province's vaccine record website has experienced a possible privacy breach, Alberta Health said in a statement Thursday. 

The Fifth Estate examines the devastation in B.C. after catastrophic flooding and how the province could have been better prepared for the weather disaster.