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The special interlocutor for unmarked burials at residential schools says there was 'no transparency' in a recently announced deal between Canada and an international group tasked with locating missing people.

Ilitaqsiniq, Nunavut's literacy council, aims to bring together traditional Inuit wellness teachings and community-based programming with its Pilimmaksaijuliriniq Project. "We found an approach and a method that really meets people's needs."

Former B.C. premier John Horgan intends to fully retire from provincial politics as of next month, delivering a farewell speech in the legislature Thursday after decades of public service.

Former B.C. premier John Horgan intends to fully retire from provincial politics as of next month, delivering a farewell speech in the legislature Thursday after decades of public service.

Rescuers pulled more survivors from beneath collapsed buildings in Turkey on Thursday, more than 80 hours after a catastrophic earthquake and a series of aftershocks.

A softer, gentler side of the Canadian wilderness is on display in the 2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice awards.

As Nunavut celebrates its big win in hockey at the recent Arctic Winter Games, the small community of Whale Cove is enduring its third winter without an arena. 'It feels like I'm losing my activeness, and my pride and joy of hockey,' says one resident.

Canada's premiers are pushing back a meeting to discuss a health-care funding proposal from the federal government. The 13 provincial and territorial leaders will meet on Monday instead of Friday.

Rihanna is putting in the work ahead of her Super Bowl halftime show, focusing so hard on what she promises will be "a jam-packed show" that her upcoming birthday and Valentine's Day almost slipped her mind.

When Diane Breen died unexpectedly following her visit to a Nova Scotia emergency room, her family was left grieving — both over her loss and their sense that lessons weren't learned from the tragedy.

The Puppy Bowl is an annual event where shelters from across the United States and the Caribbean showcase the puppies that are up for pet adoption on the same day as the Super Bowl.

Ontario will hold an inquest into the case of Keira Kagan, a four-year-old girl found dead with her father at the bottom of a cliff west of Toronto in 2020, the province's chief coroner says.

An Environment Canada meteorologist is warning skaters eagerly awaiting the opening of the Rideau Canal that they might have to get their fix elsewhere this winter. 

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we explore species of birds that you can only see in winter and answer the question: what is a microclimate?

Yahoo Inc. plans to lay off more than 20 per cent of its total workforce as part of a major restructuring of its ad tech unit, Axios reported on Thursday, citing company executives.

The comptroller general of Canada has warned his subordinates to be careful about what they put in writing as part of federal government audits of federal contracts awarded to the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

A Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigation into a GO Transit train collision that seriously injured a pregnant woman and a six-year-old child in 2019 in Kitchener has found Ontario's Ministry of Transportation doesn't provide effective safety oversight of provincially regulated railways.

A Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigation into a GO Transit train collision that seriously injured a pregnant woman and a six-year-old child in 2019 in Kitchener has found Ontario's Ministry of Transportation doesn't provide effective safety oversight of provincially regulated railways.

British Columbia's lumber industry is anxiously parsing U.S. President Joe Biden's latest Buy American language to better understand the implications for Canadian exporters, while other industries say they are unworried.

Ljubica Topic was six years old when she was abducted from outside her family home in 1971. In releasing the name of the man they say killed Ljubica, Windsor, Ont., police now say a new chief and pressure from local media were among the factors.

How much information can you get about suspended Ontario police officers? It depends on the police service you ask. Privacy and policing experts say that needs to change.

How much information can you get about suspended Ontario police officers? It depends on the police service you ask. Privacy and policing experts say that needs to change.

Kiskahikan School’s new Grade 10 class is part of a push by the Northern Lights School Division to keep schools open and expand the educational opportunities available in northern Saskatchewan, even as it struggles to fill a persistent teacher shortage.

When the casting call originally came for dogs with two differently coloured eyes, friends who knew Mako sent it to Jane Bell and Boris Hoefs. Given Mako fit the description perfectly, Bell and Hoefs thought she'd be a shoo-in for the part.

China's military is likely behind a huge aerial spy program that has targeted more than 40 countries on five continents with high-altitude surveillance balloons similar to one the U.S. shot down over the Atlantic coast last weekend, the Biden administration said Thursday.

Only one Canadian search and rescue team will be allowed to contribute to recovery efforts, Turkey's consulate in Vancouver says.

With his own town battling a surge in drug poisonings, Rocky Simpson said in the N.W.T. legislature on Wednesday that detox and aftercare services could be ‘the difference between life and death.’

The possibility of touring the United States could be out of reach for many Canadian musicians after U.S. Department of Homeland Security proposed an increase to visa fees for international entertainers.

Legendary composer Burt Bacharach, whose orchestral pop style was behind hits like I Say a Little Prayer, dies at 94.

Throughout the day and into the evening Wednesday, neighbours, parents and others came together to try to make sense of the situation.

According to VQA Ontario, the amount of icewine produced in Ontario dropped from 502,082 litres made in 2021 to 111,614 litres made in 2022. But one Niagara winery owner is optimistic this year's low grape harvest will produce higher quality icewine.

Indigo Books & Music Inc. is dealing with a cybersecurity incident that has affected sales in-store and online, and at least one cybersecurity expert suggests it is likely because of ransomware.

Indigo Books & Music Inc. is dealing with a cybersecurity incident that has affected sales in-store and online, and at least one cybersecurity expert suggests it is likely because of ransomware.

Indigo Books & Music Inc. says it is dealing with what it calls a "cybersecurity incident" that has affected online customer orders.

Canopy Growth Corp. will lay off 800 workers as part of a transformation plan that will see the company close its hallmark 1 Hershey facility and consolidate some of its cultivation operations.

Edmonton software company Jobber has raised a record amount of venture capital funding.

Canada's Jack Crawford is an alpine skiing world champion. The Toronto native raced his way to the super-G title in Courchevel Méribel, France, on Thursday, edging Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde by one one-hundredth of a second.

In 2017, the province reviewed all opioid-related deaths and found that of those with occupations listed, 53 per cent had employment in trades, transport or equipment operation.

Lawyers across Canada are set to vote on a groundbreaking resolution that could help stop the use of non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs, that protect abusive employers and organizations and silence victims of harassment and discrimination.

Lawyers across Canada have voted in favour of a groundbreaking resolution that could help stop the use of non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs, that protect abusive employers and organizations and silence victims of harassment and discrimination.

Sasha Kaplin qualified for the Judo Nova Scotia team and his goal is to win a medal for Nova Scotia at the Canada Winter Games in P.E.I. later this month. The only thing stopping him is his refugee status.

The Ontario government and the poultry industry are stressing biosecurity at their first meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic began almost three years ago, with the hope that farmers' actions today might stop an even deadlier pandemic before it starts.

Parents of students at a Catholic high school in Perth, Ont., are only now being told about a historic sexual abuse case, nearly half a year after the province's regulatory body for teachers deemed it credible.

Pamela Anderson's story is a familiar one for many, but during the Toronto red carpet premiere of her Netflix documentary Pamela: A Love Story, the actor and former Baywatch star says it was really important for her "to tell my story for me."

Republicans have opened hearings into U.S. President Joe Biden's family. Over the next two years, the new congressional majority plans to probe foreign business transactions. Their main target: the president himself.

It took interviewing a future president of the United States for journalist John Hendrickson to come to terms with his stutter.

In the span of just 10 dramatic days, Gautam Adani — a self-made Indian billionaire with a sprawling empire that made him the third-richest person in the world — saw more than half of his fortune vanish. Here's what happened.

When police in London, Ont., carried out two separate investigations into the 2018 sexual assault allegations that have rocked Hockey Canada, they examined the same incident, but came to different conclusions.

A Conservative MP is renewing calls for the federal government to ban authoritarian state broadcasters, including the China Global Television Network.

Businesses have profited by owning the factories and machinery, but as artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT strut their stuff, companies are rushing to own a sort of brain power too. Where does that leave the rest of us?