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As one of the latest to adopt a cellphone ban, the policy from Chatelech Secondary in the Sunshine Coast has received mixed reactions from educators with some applauding the results while others claim an outright ban isn't a solution.

A large cleanup effort is underway in Baie-Saint-Paul, Que., following severe flooding earlier this week that damaged thousands of homes and hundreds of businesses. The team that runs the town's summer music festival is behind the initiative.

Russia's current invasion in Ukraine happened because the world didn't do enough to respond when they did it before, former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Friday in Ottawa.

Charmaine Crooks has been elected president of Canada Soccer, beating out former vice-president Rob Newman for the top elected job at the governing body's annual meeting in Saint John.

Two fishermen who fell out of a capsized boat off Miscou Island are dead, according to the RCMP. The two men went missing after falling overboard around 6:30 a.m. Saturday.

After seven deaths raised questions about the future of horse racing, Mage earned a surprising Kentucky Derby victory on Saturday, capping a nerve-rattling day that included two more fatalities ahead of the 149th edition of the world's most famous race.

Two more horses died in the hours before 15-1 shot Mage won the Kentucky Derby by a length on Saturday, making it seven in all and casting a shadow over the 149th edition of the world's most famous race.

The Canadian ceremony to mark the coronation the new King was held in the nation's capital Saturday morning. The ceremony at the Sir John A. MacDonald building in Ottawa included speeches, musical performances and a 21-gun-salute.

Family members of a woman and her 11-year-old child who were stabbed and killed in Edmonton have gathered with flowers and photos at a park near the scene of the attack.

A man is in hospital after being shot by Edmonton police following the stabbing of a mother and her 11-year-old child outside a school on Friday.

A man originally from Manitoba has safely made his way out of Sudan with his family, but said the exhausting and terrifying journey happened without help from the Canadian government.

Farmers are evacuating their animals as out-of-control wildfires burn around Alberta.

Seventeen-year-old Thomas McComber does colour commentary for the Valley Wildcats of the Maritime Junior Hockey League. The Grade 11 student wants to become a sports broadcaster.

The Mary Celeste, a Nova Scotia-built brigantine, became the world's most famous ghost ship when it was found drifting without any crew on board in 1872. Today the ship and its Nova Scotia connections are fading from memory.

King Charles III, a man who waited almost 74 years to become King, was crowned Saturday at Westminster Abbey with all the pomp and pageantry Britain could muster.

A series of U.S. bank failures have focused attention on the role of deposit insurance when such misfortune occurs. It's also spurring some consideration about how it may need to be adjusted in light of those failures.

In the month since new border rules took effect, nearly 300 asylum hopefuls have continued to try to get into Canada. Most were turned away and few know that, as a result, they are no longer allowed to claim asylum in Canada ever again.

After their food supply collapsed in 2003, the Chinook salmon population rapidly declined in Lake Huron and has never fully recovered. Instead, native predator fish have flourished, and according to biologists, have created a more diversified fishery.

I see people who wish to reap the benefits of being Indigenous, but have not lived our experience, writes Jenene Wooldridge. It needs to stop. It is time for “pretendians” to return the grant funding, return the honorary degrees, and refrain from taking up space that was not intended for them.

After losing his sister, Joanne Orliffe, in January which left him the last surviving member of the family he grew up in, Dr. Brian Goldman reflects on his experience and coping with grief.

The federal government is under pressure to expel a foreign diplomat from Canada — a move that, while rare, is not without precedent.

Rumours about schools providing litter boxes for students who identify as cats are spreading in Quebec. It's a hoax to discredit trans youth, says one LGBTQ+ advocate.

The discipline decision highlights how vulnerable cancer patients and survivors can be to false promises of miraculous results, according to one academic. It comes less than a year after an Ontario oncologist lost his licence for giving cancer patients an unproven “side effect-free chemotherapy.”

While stark warnings have made headlines, some experts say they risk obscuring more immediate, practical concerns for Canada as it considers how to regulate the fast-evolving technology. 

Working from home became prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic, but in recent weeks, major employers such as the Royal Bank of Canada and Amazon have taken major steps toward bringing their staff back into the office as much as possible.

Canadian Alphonso Davies has been named CONCACAF Men's Player of the Year for the second year in a row. The 22-year-old from Edmonton is the first back-to-back winner of the award that dates back to 2013.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in New York City on Friday calling for charges against a former U.S. marine who placed a fellow subway passenger in a chokehold that killed him, stoking outcry over the lack of city support for those suffering from mental illness and homelessness.

Royal photographers Chris Jackson and Arthur Edwards have long followed Queen Camilla's evolution and explain why they believe she's ready for this next step.

The coronation isn't just for Charles; Camilla will become Canada's new Queen. And photographers who've followed her life as a royal from the beginning believe she's ready for this next step.

Educators at Roslyn Elementary in Montreal jumped on the chance to teach these kids about the coronation. Donning their crowns, the school children held a royal tea party and enjoyed the chance to be king or queen for a day.

Dozens of Sudanese-Canadians who were airlifted from their home country wait in Nairobi, Kenya. They're waiting to fly to Toronto, but can't help but worry for their families trapped in Sudan.

Canadians airlifted out of Sudan are waiting in Nairobi, Kenya, for a flight to Toronto but worry about their families left behind as fighting continues.

A spectator was taken to a trauma centre after falling over a protective railing and into the Red Sox bullpen while reaching for a baseball in the first inning of Boston's game against Philadelphia at Citizens Bank Park on Friday night.

Organized by the North Shore Girls Soccer Club, the pilot walking soccer program offers a non-contact version of the sport, where players are not allowed to run and must keep the ball below knee height at all times. 

Jamie Hamilton says his late father would be displeased to learn the ancient symbol of Scottish royalty he once took back from the British is being used for the coronation of King Charles.

Police in Regina have reopened an investigation into a sudden death which may be connected to an Ontario man who was arrested earlier this week for the alleged sale of lethal substances.