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Once a year, Neil Rutter straps on snorkel and submerges himself into the black, muddy waters of a peat bog and swims as fast as his legs will carry him — all while trying to ignore the slippery unknown creatures that brush along his body.

John Herdman feels his past experiences make him the ideal manager for Toronto FC. Herdman was formally introduced as Toronto FC's new head coach at a news conference today. He will take on the new role starting Oct. 1.

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman's mysterious symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient's brain.

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman's mysterious symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient's brain.

The federal government will deny former Iranian health minister Seyed Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi temporary residency following reports that he was spotted in Montreal earlier this summer.

Northern River, a painting by renowned Canadian artist Tom Thomson, is undamaged after it was splashed with paint by a protester on Tuesday.

Another 198 British Columbians died from toxic drugs in July, according to data released Tuesday by the B.C. Coroners Service, bringing the death toll in the first seven months of the year to 1,455 — the most since a public health emergency was declared in 2016.

Recent statements by the CEO of a major oilsands company further the case for federal regulations to cap greenhouse-gas emissions in the oil and gas sector, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said.

Prairie First Nations leaders say they're launching a lawsuit over natural resource rights. More than 20 chiefs attended the announcement Tuesday in Saskatoon.

Unifor has chosen Ford as the strike target to set the pattern for bargaining with the other two Detroit Three automakers, the union's president said during a news conference in Toronto on Tuesday.

The mayor of South Bruce Peninsula has resigned after he was caught on tape making racist comments about a nearby First Nation community, the Ontario town announced in a statement Tuesday.

For many players, the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) provides a reliable space to ply their trade. But not only does the league introduce jobs for those on the ice — it creates work for women in the infrastructure of the game, including front-office staff, coaches, scouts and more.

Andrea Brown testified at an inquest that her son Samuel was fine when she dropped him off at W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind in Brantford, Ont., in 2018, but was told days later that he was pronounced dead in hospital and an autopsy wasn't needed because "he was a kid with a disability."

The leaders of four major church denominations are standing together to urge Manitoba's political leaders to search Prairie Green landfill for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, with one calling the province's stance racist.

The leaders of four major church denominations are standing together to urge Manitoba's political leaders to search Prairie Green landfill for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, with one calling the province's stance racist.

The Truro Raceway in Nova Scotia held its first ever wiener dog races on Sunday. The dachshund pups had to race 100 feet, to their owners beckoning them from the other end of the track.

A Saskatchewan family — comprised of a teacher and her 10-year-old non-binary child — express their opposition to Saskatchewan's new education policies requiring parental consent for their children to change their name in pronouns inside schools.

Anxiety is mounting over the future of two supervised consumption sites in northern Ontario as funding for them is set to run out at the end of the year.

Three Canadian franchises are included in the newly named Professional Women's Hockey League that laid out details of where and how it will begin play in January 2024. Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa will join franchises in Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul and the New York area in a 24-game schedule. 

Will the Spanish soccer executive's fate be a warning to other men who disrespect women on the pitch and behind closed doors, or will this circus continue to be a frenzy of men in power trying to save themselves while imploring their female relatives to help them? 

Will the Spanish soccer executive's fate be a warning to other men who disrespect women on the pitch and behind closed doors, or will this circus continue to be a frenzy of men in power trying to save themselves while imploring their female relatives to help them? 

Premier Doug Ford announced Tuesday that the government is “exploring” putting protections back on two parts of the Ontario Greenbelt in Ajax that had been removed to build housing.

The Alberta government has levied more than $11,000 in fines for wildfire-prevention violations this year.

A team of experts is working to better understand the spread of blue-green algae in Alberta lakes by combining satellite technology with near-simultaneous water sampling.

Idalia became a hurricane on Tuesday as it intensified on a path toward Florida's Gulf coast, with the National Hurricane Center warning of an increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and dangerous hurricane-force winds in Florida in the next two days.

Hurricane Idalia strengthened to a Category 2 storm with 155 km/h winds on Tuesday as it barrelled toward Florida's Gulf Coast.

Idalia became a hurricane on Tuesday as it intensified on a path toward Florida's Gulf coast, with the National Hurricane Center warning of an increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and dangerous hurricane-force winds in Florida in the next two days.

A Mi'kmaw legal scholar says New Brunswick's attempt to get a court to throw out sections of an Aboriginal title claim is just another example of Premier Blaine Higgs's fearmongering and "deeply racist attitude towards First Nations."

Police have laid a dozen new charges against a Mississauga, Ont., man accused of selling a lethal substance to people at risk of self-harm.

Commercial fishermen and local MPs liken the situation in St. Marys Bay, N.S., to 2020, when violence erupted over unauthorized Indigenous harvesting.

Days after the death of Sharif Rahman, the wife and young daughter of the Owen Sound, Ont., man who police say was attacked outside his restaurant over an unpaid dining bill are struggling to comprehend what life might be like without him.

Malakal Tuel, who shot another man in the head outside a Whitehorse bar in 2019, took the witness stand at the beginning of his sentencing hearing Friday to testify about about his life and experiences with trauma and racism.

The federal government is looking at dropping the dilapidated home at 24 Sussex in Ottawa as the prime minister's official residence and is considering several other sites in the city for a replacement, sources say.

First Nations from across Ontario are demanding the provincial government return environmental protections to land it recently removed from the Greenbelt in order to build housing. 

Malakal Tuel, who shot another man in the head outside a Whitehorse bar in 2019, took the witness stand at the beginning of his sentencing hearing Friday to testify about about his life and experiences with trauma and racism.

London, England, has had a pollution-charge zone in the centre of the city since 2019, with strong public backing. Yet plans to expand that zone to cover the entire Greater London area have been met with fury and protests.

Lowertown residents living in the struggling heart of the nation’s capital say their community is on the front lines of the fentanyl crisis. 

A B.C. community has started a fundraiser to support the volunteer firefighters of Wilson’s Landing after more than half of their homes were destroyed in the wildfires.

A Fort Smith, N.W.T., man is recounting his terrifying effort to flee a wildfire with his wife a couple of weeks ago — and crediting a Hay River man for steering them out of danger.  

An issue with a videoboard at Vancouver's Rogers Arena has meant the last-minute postponement of a Monday concert by Toronto rapper Drake.

Hijabs and Helmets is a local Toronto effort to provide a safe environment for people to learn cycling, especially Muslim women. Menna Badawi, the program lead, says it was created to meet a need in the community. The group operates in the Taylor Creek area, and gets most of its funding from Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.

Hijabs and Helmets is a local Toronto effort to provide a safe environment for people to learn cycling, especially Muslim women. Menna Badawi, the program lead, says it was created to meet a need in the community. The group operates in the Taylor Creek area, and gets most of its funding from Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.

When 42-year-old Jimmy Lippert Thyden saw his birth mother for the first time since he was snatched from her arms as a newborn, he wrapped his arms around her and wept.