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Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce has ordered a review of how the Waterloo Catholic District School Board handled a situation in November that led to police being called to assist with a four-year-old student at a Kitchener school.

Canadian phone companies are waiving long-distance and text charges for calls to Ukraine amid Russia's assault on the country.

Russia became further isolated from the Western world Friday as sports bodies cancelled events planned there, Eurovision said it would ban the country from its song contest and some shops pulled Russian products from their shelves.

The head of the RCMP says the powers given to her officers through the Emergencies Act served as “a big deterrent” in policing anti-vaccine mandate protests that occupied the streets of downtown Ottawa for nearly a month.

Experts said a focus on hybrid and remote back-to-work models would attract a new pool of candidates that might have been frozen out of the employment market.

NATO leaders agreed Friday to send parts of its 40,000-troop response force to Eastern Europe to help protect allies who feel threatened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The 81-year-old resident of Montreal's Saint-Joseph-de-la-Providence long-term care home died three days after a Red Cross worker helping out at the residence had found her in an appalling state.

Russia will not be allowed to participate in the final of this year's Eurovision song contest, the organizer said on Friday, after Ukraine and several other European public broadcasters called for Russia to be expelled.

As the world contends with the assault on Ukraine, and news spreads quickly on social media and in the schoolyard, Canadians face tough questions from concerned kids. How should we talk to children about war?

Ontario is directing the provincial liquor control board to pull all alcohol produced in Russia from its store shelves amid that country's invasion of Ukraine.

The leader of Ontario's Liberal Party is asking the LCBO to stop selling Russian products following that country's invasion of Ukraine.

Emissions of planet-warming methane from oil, gas and coal production are 70 per cent higher than the official figure provided by governments worldwide, the International Energy Agency has found.

Canadians can expect to pay more at the pump as Russia's attack on Ukraine puts even greater pressure on an already surging oil price environment.

Thousands of Ukrainians, mostly women and children, are fleeing by crossing their border to the west in search of safety. They left their country as Russia pounded the capital of Kyiv and other cities with airstrikes for a second day on Friday and men of fighting age were told to remain.

Thousands of Ukrainians, mostly women and children, are fleeing by crossing their border to the west in search of safety. They left their country as Russia pounded the capital of Kyiv and other cities with airstrikes for a second day on Friday and men of fighting age were told to remain.

The White House on Friday said that President Joe Biden plans to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal appellate judge, to become the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Joe Biden plans on Friday to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal appellate judge, to become the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to two sources familiar with the process.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, calling her a "proven consensus builder."

Mayors of southwestern Ontario border cities, along with a U.S. counterpart, and tourism groups are calling on Ottawa to end any COVID-19 testing at land border crossings. 

Early this month, translator and cultural consultant Yukari Oyama Peerless says she joined her husband and 13-year-old son to watch the Netflix series Cobra Kai at home in Victoria — and became upset with what she saw on the screen.

Police have filed multiple charges against a 26-year-old man after a one-year-old girl was found safe following an Amber Alert in Kitchener, Ont. on Friday morning.

An amber alert was issued Friday morning by Ontario Provincial Police for a missing 1-year-old girl who was last seen in Kitchener, Ont.

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have cancelled an Amber Alert for a 1-year-old girl who was reported missing in Kitchener, Ont. on Friday morning.

Cape Breton mother and her three daughters found guilty of 20 charges, including 10 counts of fraud after a three-year investigation by the Canada Revenue Agency.

Restoring a 107-year-old farmyard was a dream come true for Brad and Kendal Parker.

Sentencing began Friday for the teenager who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing of 14-year-old Devan Selvey behind their Hamilton high school in 2019.

Colin Smith describes what happened when he moved in with his grandmother during the pandemic. What started as a sacrifice became a gift, he writes.

The Freedom Convoy’s occupation of downtown Ottawa managed to make Canadian politics resemble American politics more than most of us are probably comfortable with, writes Ethan Nicholls.

Having made it clear that they would not come to Ukraine's aid militarily, western allies were left with no options apart from sanctions. But sanctions take time to work — and time is a resource Ukraine doesn't have.

Despite convincing warnings from the U.S. State Department and others in the know, the global economy — already reeling from the pandemic and its economic effects — is demonstrating new signs of the jitters.

Supporters of Pierre Pollievre’s bid for the Conservative Party leadership are calling on the party's caucus and one member of its Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) to hold the race quickly.

Beth McGinnis and June MacDonald of Fredericton never imagined coming out of retirement in their 60s would lead them to the Yukon. 

China has refused to condemn Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, but experts agree the Asian superpower occupies a pivotal role in the crisis, as both an ally to Russia and the world's leading exporter of consumer goods — deeply dependent on globalization to fuel its economy.

China has refused to condemn Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, but experts agree the Asian superpower occupies a pivotal role in the crisis, as both an ally to Russia and the world's leading exporter of consumer goods — deeply dependent on globalization to fuel its economy.

A growing number of apps and other technologies have come to market in recent months to help connect shoppers with cheap food nearing their expiry date — which is a win for stores and their customers as high food prices continue to bite deep.

For a province so heavily reliant on oil prices and the oilpatch to support its finances and economy, the budget felt archaic and unable to provide an accurate picture of Alberta’s financial health.

Tarah Paul always knew she wanted to help Black women. But once she started working in centres for victims of sexual violence, she saw how overwhelmingly white many of those places were and the effect that had on the Black people seeking help.

A leader of the so-called Freedom Convoy is expected to learn today whether or not he will be released on bail. 

For a province so heavily reliant on oil prices and the oilpatch to support its finances and economy, the budget felt archaic and unable to provide an accurate picture of Alberta’s financial health.

The sport of ice climbing has been around for years but interest in it has grown exponentially in the last decade.

Leader of the so-called Freedom Convoy Pat King has been denied bail because of a "substantial likelihood" he would reoffend, according to Justice of the Peace Andrew Seymour, and a dissatisfaction with the surety.

A leader of the so-called Freedom Convoy is expected to learn this afternoon whether or not he will be released on bail. 

The Fifth Estate will show how months of planning, some secretive but much of it in the open, drew convoys to Canada’s capital, leading to an unprecedented weeks-long occupation of part of Ottawa.

The Indigenous screen industry wants to see a more rigorous process for establishing identity, according to a report released Thursday. The report also says there is a "current climate of hurt" due to a number of people falsely claiming Indigenous identity to gain access to funding and grants earmarked for Indigenous creators.

Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were convicted Thursday of violating George Floyd's civil rights after being charged with depriving the 46-year-old Black man of his right to medical care when Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for nine and a half minutes on May 25, 2020.