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Americans paid tribute to civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. The holiday is marked each year on the Monday following King's birthday on Jan. 15. King would have turned 94 on Sunday. 

A University of Toronto student and his mother are suing three Toronto police officers alongside the Toronto Police Services Board and seeking damages of just under $3 million, alleging that Hasani O’Gilvie was unlawfully and violently detained by police back in the summer of 2021.

The British government said Monday it will block a new law that makes it easier for people in Scotland to legally change their gender, sparking conflict with transgender rights advocates and the nationalist Scottish administration in Edinburgh.

Michele Romanow is stepping down from her chief executive role at Clearco as the e-commerce investing business she co-founded lays off staff.

One of the protesters who was arrested and charged during the border blockades at Coutts, Alta., last winter has seen two of her charges withdrawn.

A small plane crash-landed on a Markham road near Buttonville Airport on Monday, York Regional Police confirmed.

Actor Kevin Spacey was in the northern Italian city of Turin on Monday to receive a lifetime achievement award, teach a master class and introduce a screening of the 1999 film American Beauty.

Albert and Yoka Hoogendoorn moved from a farm to a two-storey home Albert built himself in Ingersoll, Ont., and their goat Bobby Brown went with them. The goat is housed in a heated shed in the backyard, despite a municipal bylaw not allowing farm animals within city limits.

California storms have saturated the state's coastal mountains and triggered slides on wildfire-scarred slopes, But so far, flooding has mostly just blocked highways, with lessons learned after the deadly slides of 2018.

The annual meeting in Davos of some of the world's wealthiest and most influential figures has increasingly become a target of bizarre claims from a growing chorus of commentators who believe the forum involves a group of elites manipulating global events for their own benefit.

Mursal Nabizada, a former female member of Afghanistan's parliament, has been killed by unknown gunmen at her home in Kabul, police said.

The price of the average Canadian home that sold in December was $626,318, a decline of more than 12 per cent from where it was the same month a year ago.

The death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 40, authorities said Monday, as Western analysts pointed to indications the Kremlin was preparing for a drawn-out war in Ukraine after almost 11 months of fighting.

Gina Lollobrigida, who has died at the age of 95, shot to fame in the 1950s as a sultry Mediterranean sex symbol, then became a photographer, journalist and sculptor after stepping away from the movie world in the early 1970s.

Convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, now 60, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones are set to make an announcement Monday, days after a senior government source said the province will ramp up the number of surgeries done in privately run for-profit clinics.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones are making an announcement Monday, days after a senior government source said the province will ramp up the number of surgeries done in privately run for-profit clinics.

Ontario is significantly expanding the number and range of medical procedures performed in privately run for-profit clinics, the government announced Monday, as the province deals with major surgical backlog made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Over a five-year period, only one officer was ever fired because of an internal discipline matter and the majority were either given a verbal warning or docked days from their weekly leave.

Almost a year after a family from India froze to death near the international border in southern Manitoba, similar cases of people walking over to the U.S. are on the rise — but they involve people from a different country.

The Canadian Ice Service is predicting that Lake Superior is on track to have a low year for ice cover, and above-average temperatures predicted for the rest of the season won't be helping.

The long-simmering fight over membership in Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation is entering a new chapter Monday, as a group of people rejected in a controversial enrolment process head to court.

Despite having both trip interruption and emergency COVID-19 coverage, an Ontario man's insurance claim was denied after he tested positive while vacationing in Antigua. Why? He wasn't sick enough to qualify. But one lawyer says the policy was clear and Manulife was wrong to reject the claim.

There is excitement in the Canadian hydrogen industry about what the next 12 months will bring as several demonstration projects are set to take place, while construction will also begin on a massive new production facility.

There is excitement in the Canadian hydrogen industry about what the next 12 months will bring as several demonstration projects are set to take place, while construction will also begin on a massive new production facility.

There is excitement in the Canadian hydrogen industry about what the next 12 months will bring as several demonstration projects are set to take place, while construction will also begin on a massive new production facility.

A lawyer representing former cadets in a class action lawsuit says the Canadian cadet program is facing many of the same sexual misconduct issues as the Canadian Armed Forces as the military police report hundreds of incidents of sexual contact in the cadet system.

After weathering nearly three tumultuous years of adapting to restrictions and lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, school nutrition programs across Canada are now struggling with ever-rising food costs and a surge of students in need. Ottawa says it's working on a national school food program.

In 2010, Anju Khatiwada joined Nepal's Yeti Airlines, following in the footsteps of her husband, a pilot who had died in a crash four years earlier when a small passenger plane he was flying for the domestic carrier went down minutes before landing.

A married couple of professional dancers from Ukraine were in a bomb shelter during the war when they applied for a job in Canada. They’re now dance instructors at a studio in Whitehorse.

Felix Auger-Aliassime shrugged off a sluggish start to defeat Vasek Pospisil 1-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3), 6-3 in an all-Canadian first-round matchup at the Australian Open on Monday.

Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., who missed last year's Australian Open, made her presence felt on Sunday with a straight-sets win over No. 25-ranked Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-4 in Melbourne.

Jan. 15, 2023 | We’re in Dnipro, Ukraine, where dozens are dead after a Russian missile hit an apartment building. Plus, the big increase in auto thefts.

Former Vancouver Canucks enforcer and fan favourite Gino Odjick has died at the age of 52.

Peruvian president announces state of emergency will continue in Lima and twosouthern regions where deadly protests against the government have sparked the country's worst violence in 20 years.

Peruvian president announces state of emergency will continue in Lima and twosouthern regions where deadly protests against the government have sparked the country's worst violence in 20 years.

Elite Canadian runners Kinsey Middleton, Leslie Sexton and Ben Preisner set personal-best times in the Houston Marathon and Half Marathon held simultaneously on a cloudy and warm Sunday morning.