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A wildfire burning near Princeton, B.C., forced the evacuation of a music festival attended by about 500 people on Sunday evening, according to the city's mayor.

Canada's Alexis Galarneau lost his opening-round match 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 to Argentina's Francisco Cerundolo in men's singles action Monday in Toronto at the National Bank Open.

Slovenia's worst floods on record have killed at least six people, swept away homes and clogged villages with debris, authorities and media said on Monday.

Dr. Jake Kleinmahon is one of three doctors in Louisiana with his kind of pediatric cardiology specialty. While he has a hard time leaving his patients, their families understand why he’s making the decision to move out of state.

Thousands of youths have travelled to Buan, South Korea, for the World Scout Jamboree, including 235 youths and 143 volunteers from Canada. Parents say that despite the extreme heat and tropical storm threatening the jamboree, they're happy their kids are getting a chance to stay abroad.

Seven more bodies believed to be of migrants who drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia have washed ashore, local authorities said on Monday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 11, with 44 still missing and only two rescued.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia are helping lead a first-of-its-kind project to improve Alzheimer's disease prevention, diagnosis and care for people of Asian ancestry across North America.

A 14-year-old girl who died tragically in the recent historic flooding in Nova Scotia is being described as a music lover who saw the good in everything and always had a smile on her face.

William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning director who became a top filmmaker in his 30s with The French Connection and The Exorcist, and struggled in the following decades to match his early success, has died. He was 87.

Actor Ryan Reynolds and Vancouver Coastal Health board chair Dr. Penny Ballem are two of the 14 British Columbians who have have been appointed to the Order of B.C. this year. 

Saskatchewan-based lawyer Donald Worme, a member of Kawacatoose First Nation, is on board with increasing the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala's reach in Canada. The organization has offered to help with efforts to potentially recover remains of children on the grounds of former residential schools.

Tou Thao, the last former Minneapolis police officer convicted in state court for his role in the killing of George Floyd, was sentenced Monday to four years and nine months.

Lecturers at some 140 universities in the U.K. have refused to mark exam papers and coursework in an escalation of a months-long pay dispute. Now thousands of students are unable to graduate or face indefinite delays in receiving their final marks.

Albertans living with ALS, commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, have a new treatment option that can improve their quality of life and help them live longer, and the Alberta government will cover the estimated $18,500 a month per patient. 

Ambassadors around Ottawa are looking for clues to decipher the Conservative Party's foreign policy, as leader Pierre Poilievre offers few hints of how he'd approach the world stage as prime minister.

Tens of thousands of scouts, including attendees from Canada, will be evacuated from a coastal South Korean jamboree site as tropical storm Khanun looms.

Niger's mutinous soldiers closed the country's airspace and accused foreign powers of preparing an attack, as the junta defied a deadline to restore the ousted president and said any attempt to fly over the country will be met with "an energetic and immediate response."

The siblings of a Métis man who has been missing for decades want to know why the Manitoba government keeps sending him a verification of address request, mailed to the very home the province seized him from more than 45 years ago during the Sixties Scoop.

As body cameras for police become permanent in some New Brunswick communities, the new technology has become a mainstay in court proceedings — sometimes to the benefit of the accused and sometimes to their detriment.

A dramatic rise in the popularity of alpaca farms in some areas of Ontario is driving a shift in the agri-tourism sectors, with at least 60 farms listed on Google alone, from Windsor to Ottawa and everywhere in between.

It was a brazen theft from under her nose: A Windsor woman says her car was missing for days and she's out thousands of dollars, after her bag was stolen from a gym locker this week. 

For some, it is just an Asian grocery store, but to Bill Chow, T&T was a place that made him feel more connected to his Chinese heritage, language and culture.

It was a brazen theft from under her nose: A Windsor woman says her car was missing for days and she's out thousands of dollars, after her bag was stolen from a gym locker this week. 

Glen LeMesurier began working on his Twilight Sculpture Garden in 1999 when it was an empty lot. Since then, he has filled it with 80 sculptures and a field of sweet clover. But with the physical and financial toll of metalworking catching up with him, the artist is now asking for the public's help.

A makeshift House has been set up at the Sir John A. Macdonald building across the street from Parliament while maintenance work is being done to the current chamber in West Block.

Residents of 13 properties near the Adams Lake West Forest Service Road were ordered to evacuate due to the Bush Creek East wildfire in British Columbia's Shuswap region on Sunday as officials confirmed three cabins had burned down in two separate fires near Lillooet.

The Montreal Tigers were crowned champions of the 2023 Global T20 Canada cricket tournament after defeating the Surrey Jaguars by five wickets in Sunday's final at a packed TD Cricket Arena in Brampton, Ont.