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The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed star centre Auston Matthews to a four-year, $53-million US contract extension. The deal carries an average annual value of $13.5 million, which will make Matthews the league's highest-paid player beginning in 2024-25, surpassing Colorado star Nathan MacKinnon's $12.6 AAV.

Staff at the family-owned Daydream Donuts Café is still processing the aftermath of the blast that rocked Prince George, B.C., early Tuesday.

Staff at the family-owned Daydream Donuts Café is still processing the aftermath of the blast that rocked Prince George, B.C., early Tuesday.

Whenever Ku'ulei Barut hears about someone from Hawaii being reunited with a lost family member, she's simultaneously overjoyed and devastated.

RCMP in the Northwest Territories say they'll be delivering firm deterrence to the steady trickle of people trying to return to the communities — but they're hoping to be able to get the message across without resorting to jail or fines.

Officials in the Northwest Territories held a virtual news conference at 7 p.m. MT (9 p.m. ET) to update residents on the wildfire situation and resulting evacuations.

Dustin Stewart has been obsessed with dinosaurs since he was nine years old. But he never dreamed he'd grow up to study 70-million-year-old footprints in Alaska.

Walter Roos wasn't planning to attend his citizenship ceremony over Zoom while wearing his firefighter uniform. But that’s what happened on Monday, while Roos and his crew were battling B.C.’s devastating wildfires.

Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday surrendered at a jail in Georgia's Fulton County to face state charges arising from actions he is accused of taking to overturn the former U.S. president's 2020 election loss.

The federal government is expected to purchase MV Fanafjord in the coming weeks and have it enter service in May 2024. Once the deal is finalized, the vessel will act as the interim replacement for MV Holiday Island while a new ferry is being built.

Albertans still facing charges for breaking Covid-related laws are off the hook after a court decision ruled the province's health orders were invalid because they breached the Public Health Act.

Conservative Leader Pierre Polievre is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to immediately recall MPs to Ottawa to address the housing crisis. Poilievre says he is offering solutions to solve a problem he accuses the prime minister of creating. Trudeau says his government is focused on bringing together all orders of government to find solutions.

A business jet en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg has crashed, killing all ten people on board, Russian emergency officials say. Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list, officials say, but it wasn't immediately clear if he was on board.

Students who were rescued from a broken cable car dangling high above a valley in Pakistan said Wednesday they repeatedly feared they were about to die during the 16-hour ordeal despite attempts by their parents to reassure them over cellphones.

A family doctor in Atikokan is among those urging the province to restore physician positions that were recently cut from northern Ontario communities. 

Crews working on a wildfire north of Pemberton, B.C., early Aug. 18 captured footage of what the B.C. Wildfire Service says is a fire whirl, or fire tornado, caused by rapidly changing weather.

Education Minister Bill Hogan is expected to announce more changes to Policy 713, the gender-identify policy for New Brunswick schools, during a hastily called briefing with the news media at a school in Keswick Ridge, northwest of Fredericton. 

Minister of Education Bill Hogan is responding to an advocate's scathing report by making it clear that the school policy on gender identity applies to both formal and informal name changes. 

Minister of Education Bill Hogan is responding to an advocate's scathing report by making it clear that the school policy on gender identity applies to both formal and informal name changes. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended himself Wednesday against external and internal criticism about his approach to easing Canada's housing crunch, but is wrapping a three-day cabinet retreat without any new policy announcement on the hot-button issue.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has some advice for MPs who are hearing from angry voters in their ridings: you have to take it.

Russia media reported that the Kremlin has removed Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed "General Armageddon," as head of the air force after he vanished from public view during a mercenary mutiny earlier this summer.

India has landed a spacecraft near the moon's south pole, an uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water and precious elements, as the country cements its growing prowess in space and technology.

India has landed a spacecraft near the moon's south pole, an uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water and precious elements, as the country cements its growing prowess in space and technology.

Canada hasn't won a significant senior men's basketball medal since 1936. The team hasn't qualified for the Olympics since 2000. The time is now for both droughts to end. Canada begins the 2023 men’s FIBA World Cup on Friday, where it will have a chance to qualify for next summer's Paris Olympics.

The RCMP said Wednesday it has received a referral from provincial police in Ontario to "investigate irregularities" in the Ford government's controversial Greenbelt land swap.

Ontario Provincial Police say that to "avoid any potential perceived conflict of interest," it will fall to the Mounties to decide whether to launch a criminal investigation into the Ford government's controversial Greenbelt land swap.

Violence broke out at an Eritrean festival in Edmonton last weekend following a similar clash in Toronto earlier this month.

Annick deGooyer, the wife of firefighter Rob Baker with the Wilson's Landing Fire Department in West Kelowna, says more than half of the 25-person unit has lost their homes to wildfire even as they battle to save their neighbour's.

Australian prosecutors dropped a potential criminal case against American actor Amber Heard over allegations that she lied to a court about how her Yorkshire terriers Pistol and Boo came to be smuggled into Australia eight years ago, the government said Wednesday.

Pregnant women in southwest Saskatchewan say they aren't sure where to deliver their babies. That's because the hospital in Swift Current is down to just one anesthesiologist who may not be working when they go into labour.

Faith Howe sifted through a bucket of white Lego bricks at the Fredericton Public Library, her latest project stretched before her — the first few rows of the queen of hearts.

Manitoba's Wapusk National Park is the eighth-largest national park in Canada. The vast majority of Canadians can not visit. But that's not the point.

The industry is nascent in Alberta but industry watchers believe it could be on the cusp of a major surge. Many battery projects are attached to wind and solar, however, and the moratorium on new renewable energy has raised concern in the energy-storage sector, as well.

An Ontario court has ruled against controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson, upholding a regulatory body's order that he undergo social media training.

Sarah Kempinska was less than two weeks away from her wedding day when she was put into a medically induced coma following complications from routine surgery in London, Ont. She managed to walk down the aisle on her own, to tears from wedding-goers.

Jordan Peterson will find out Wednesday whether or not the College of Psychologists of Ontario overstepped in its efforts to sanction him for a series of controversial public comments.

Months after the Liberal government offered opposition leaders the opportunity to view classified intelligence related to former special rapporteur David Johnston's report on alleged China-backed meddling in Canadian politics, a dispute is brewing over what was promised — and what was actually delivered.

First-hand accounts from teenagers augment research studies that illustrate how climate change is impacting young people’s mental health. As weather events threaten to change entire landscapes in coming decades, experts worry that mental health resources might fall short of the need.

From record audiences to jaw-dropping talent, the Women's World Cup proved a tour de force.

Equipped with a camera, turbines and a painted anxious stare, Kenny – a decoy seal made from cork and aluminium — was created to attract sharks so researchers can monitor the species’ behaviour and population in Quebec waters.

Libertarian upstart candidate Javier Milei is in a strong position to win the country's presidency following his victory in last week's primaries. Milei proposes a radical remake that would see Argentina abolish its central bank and currency, end social programs and liberalize gun ownership.

Sophia Whiteye, a Windsor based Delaware First Nation beading artist, and Jori Waskahat, a Toronto based Plains Cree Bead artist both say they found no better method to feel better, than getting immersed in their culture.

Deaths in custody in Ontario have been increasing over the last decade, according to data published by the province and advocacy organizations. The suicide of Ashton Gray, who died in custody this May, has raised further questions about conditions in provincial jails and the human rights of inmates.

He won't be there physically, but Donald Trump will certainly loom large over the first Republican presidential candidate debate tonight in Milwaukee.

With the increase in wildfires and other extreme weather events this year, more Canadians have been receiving emergency alerts on their phones, or through other media, directing them to take precautions or even evacuate their homes.

Trish Matson is being treated for a slow-growing metastatic cancer. She contemplates what it means to plan for the future when living with uncertainty over her health.

The province has mandated that Saskatchewan schools must inform parents about the sexual health education curriculum, and that parents can opt out of it on their children's behalf.

The province says teachers can no longer rely on outside experts to deliver lessons on sexual health. It has also mandated that Saskatchewan schools must inform parents about the sexual health education curriculum, and that parents can opt out of it on their children's behalf.

A giraffe without spots at a Tennessee zoo may be plain, but she's definitely not ordinary.