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A right whale that had been entangled in fishing rope — some of which had been removed by rescuers earlier this year — was spotted this week off the coast of Georgia with a new calf.

An entangled right whale was spotted this week off the coast of Georgia with a new calf. Rescuers removed some of the fishing gear from the mother, known as Snow Cone, earlier this year in Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Griffin Campbell caught two touchdown passes for the Western Mustangs, who won their eighth Vanier Cup on Saturday, defeating the Saskatchewan Huskies 27-21 in Quebec City.

Nav Bhatia, the diehard Toronto Raptors supporter known as the "Superfan," is about to become even more well-known — as actor Kal Penn is going to play him in a forthcoming Hollywood biopic.

Nav Bhatia, the diehard Toronto Raptors supporter known as the "Superfan," is about to become even more well-known — as actor Kal Penn is going to play him in a forthcoming Hollywood biopic.

The parents of a Michigan teen charged with killing four students at Oxford High School pleaded not guilty on Saturday to involuntary manslaughter charges, hours after police said they were caught hiding in a commercial building.

Prince Edward Island RCMP are warning the public to avoid the area of Brush Wharf Road in Orwell Cove due to a large structure fire.

Indonesia's Semeru volcano on Java island erupted on Saturday, killing one person and injuring 41 as it spewed out huge clouds of smoke and ash, officials said.

Ten people trapped after Indonesia's Semeru volcano erupted have been rescued to safety, the country's disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said on Sunday, as the death toll from the disaster climbed to at least 13 and with dozens injured.

South Korea again broke its daily records for coronavirus infections and deaths and confirmed three more cases of the new omicron variant as officials scramble to tighten social distancing and border controls.

Video released by NASA shows a total solar eclipse as seen from Western Antarctica on Saturday.

A cold front is set to blanket much of southern B.C. with snow over the weekend, potentially helping floodwaters recede in many communities devastated by floods and mudslides.

Aurora Village, a popular tourist attraction in the Yellowknife area, has been transformed by Indigenous groups into an on-the-land healing camp for those experiencing homelessness. The project received $1.3 in federal money, but it will run out in two months.

A cold front is set to blanket much of southern B.C. with snow over the weekend, potentially helping floodwaters recede in many communities devastated by floods and mudslides.

A new poll suggests many Canadians think Alberta is a good place to raise a family, but half say they wouldn’t feel comfortable living there themselves and worry about the province’s attitude toward climate change.

They say it takes a village to raise a child, writes Omar Imtiaz as he reflects on his daughter's second birthday. But that has not been the case for children born in the pandemic.

A top doctor at Nova Scotia's children's hospital is concerned about the jump in the number of young children she's seeing infected with a potentially dangerous virus.

Madison O'Dell shares a candid look into the pressure to look good on social media, and the process she uses to get there.

Pysgen, an Alberta business, is seeking to manufacture synthetic psychedelics for the pharmaceutical industry. While the application of hallucinogens in medicine is in its infancy and remains highly speculative, the company is riding a wave of renewed interest in the field.

International concern over the disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has cast a spotlight on sexual assault allegations in Chinese society — but experts say it's also shown just how desperate the Chinese government is to shut it down.

A new Netflix series about former Bachelor star Colton Underwood is meant to shed light on the challenges of coming out to loved ones. But allegations of harassment and questions of privilege have prompted criticism about the show and its value to the LGBTQ community.

There is a backlog of hundreds of thousands of surgical procedures, and it will take at least $1.3 billion in additional funding to get wait times back to what they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian Medical Association says.

Parks Canada has launched the Coastie Initiative in five national parks across Canada, encouraging tourists to take photos of the coastline that will help scientists monitor the impact of climate change.

Between highways ripped apart and farms drowned in several feet of toxic water, the B.C. floods could end up being one of the most expensive disasters in Canadian history with losses in the billions of dollars.

Field Hockey Canada is asking for an exemption from the federal government to help bring its junior women's team home from South Africa.

Alexandra Tymkiw encountered Brigitte Cleroux during one of her most vulnerable moments. It was Dec. 15, 2020, and Tymkiw was a patient at B.C. Women's Hospital, about to have surgery to remove a polyp from her uterus.

Boston Celtics centre Enes Freedom — a journeyman NBA veteran who is one of the sports world’s fiercest critics of human rights abuse — is challenging NHL stars Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid to boycott the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Iqaluit issued its do-not-consume order for city water on Oct. 12. Documents show a Nunavut environmental health officer flagged an "unbearable" diesel smell at the city's water treatment plant four days earlier — and the Department of Health heard public concerns as early as Oct. 2.