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The Alberta government plans to review photo radar sites in the province over the next four months in a bid to reduce the number by 70 per cent.

A Winnipeg man has been charged with first-degree murder of an American woman 27 years ago in New Jersey and extradited to the U.S.

Alberta is still deliberating how it will patrol its border as numbers show a minor amount of drugs and few migrants entering Montana. But Alberta's public safety minister says any amount of fentanyl is a problem, and a criminologist says there's a larger picture to consider, too.

The final report into last year's CH-147F Chinook crash into the Ottawa River near Garrison Petawawa found none of the crew members on the training flight realized how quickly the helicopter was approaching the water in the moments before impact.

World pairs champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada withdrew from the prestigious Grand Prix Final on Monday because Deschamps is recovering from an illness and unable to compete.

The Quebec government has suspended most new international adoption applications because of human rights and trafficking concerns.

Phil Verster is out as CEO and president of Metrolinx, the province says.

The federal government has added the Houthis, a Shia Islamist militant group based in Yemen, to Canada’s terrorist list.

It's been over two weeks since a nationwide strike of Canada Post workers began. Now, with the holiday season fast approaching, a local courier — along with its much bigger competitor, Amazon — is primed to pick up the delivery slack.

One of two men who was indicted along with rapper Young Thug and is awaiting a jury verdict was stabbed in jail but is expected to be in court Monday, his lawyer said.

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison on Sunday after completing a one-year sentence for speaking out against the Iranian regime, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency reported early Monday.

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison on Sunday after completing a one-year sentence for speaking out against the Iranian regime, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency reported early Monday.

Downed hydro lines, trees and abandoned vehicles are hampering snow-clearing efforts in Gravenhurst Monday, officials with the town say, after intense snow squalls battered parts of Ontario over the weekend.

The U.S. Postal Service has temporarily suspended accepting mail headed to Canada due to the strike by Canada Post workers.

The federal government’s pandemic-era loan program for small businesses suffered from contracting problems due to a lack of oversight, Canada’s auditor general says.

The federal government’s pandemic-era loan program for small businesses faced a number of contracting issues due to a lack of oversight, Canada’s auditor general has found.

The city’s auditor general has found evidence of a “kickback scheme” that resulted in the city paying inflated rents through a housing allowance program.

The BBC is facing growing scrutiny after a presenter on its popular cookery show drew an angry backlash for dismissing sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Many of us have felt it, and now it's official: "brain rot" is the Oxford dictionaries' word of the year. Oxford University Press said Monday that the evocative phrase "gained new prominence in 2024."

Ontario has launched a multimillion-dollar U.S. ad campaign touting economic and cultural ties between the province and its southern neighbour as Canada faces the threat of 25 per cent tariffs enacted by president-elect Donald Trump.

At the height of her daughter's addiction, Julie Nystrom says she started envisioning what life would be like without her child. Before long, she hired a private investigator to track down her dealer.

Bob Bryar, a former drummer with My Chemical Romance who played on the band's career-defining rock opera, The Black Parade, has died, according to the band. He was 44.

At least two people were killed on Monday in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, Lebanese authorities said, as a ceasefire ending more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah appeared increasingly fragile.

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares is stepping down after nearly four years in the top spot of the automaker, which owns car brands like Jeep, Citroen and Ram, amid an ongoing struggle with slumping sales.

Montreal police are carrying out an operation to dismantle sections of a homeless encampment on Notre-Dame Street East near the city's downtown core.

The Quebec government owns the stretch of green space along Notre-Dame Street East where the number of encampments has grown since the start of the pandemic. Some people staying on that land were handed eviction notices last month.

Elton John said on the weekend he struggled to watch the new musical he produced the score for, because he has lost his eyesight after contracting an infection.

Fifty-six people were killed and several injured in a stampede at a soccer stadium in southern Guinea, following clashes between fans, Guinea's government said Monday.

A Manitoba woman with no criminal charges spent a month in jail after public health officials ordered her detained to treat her tuberculosis, even though she wasn't infectious at the time.

Hundreds of fighters from Iran-backed Iraqi militias crossed into Syria overnight to help the government fight rebels who seized Aleppo last week, Syrian and Iraqi sources said on Monday, and Tehran pledged to aid the Damascus government.

At least 25 people were killed in northwestern Syria in air strikes carried out by the Syrian government and Russia, the Syrian opposition-run rescue service known as the White Helmets said early on Monday.

With Hezbollah and Israel agreeing to a ceasefire, the focus shifts back to Hamas in Gaza, where lawlessness reigns and the weakened militant group is unable to maintain law and order.

Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General is considering the merits of moving to a system in which prosecutors would screen criminal charges proposed by police before officers lay them, in order to help relieve the province's backlogged justice system.

Ethics experts say Canadians should think twice about becoming research participants, because the federal body that holds universities accountable to ethical standards has no jurisdiction over privately funded studies.

An Ontario coroner’s investigation has identified 220 additional deaths linked to Indian residential schools in the province — deaths that were previously unknown to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, which has documented 436 deaths in the province.

Agents of the Indian government allegedly attempted to derail Patrick Brown's campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2022, according to sources who spoke to Radio-Canada.

Over the past three years, at least 38 hospitals with emergency rooms or urgent care centres in Ontario have experienced closures — about one in five of the province's 176 publicly funded facilities. Most are in rural areas.

U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday of gun and tax convictions, despite previous promises that he would not do so.

The latest move from Canada Post comes after the union filed an unfair labour practice complaint with the Canada Industrial Relations Board over the layoffs of striking employees, saying the layoffs are an "intimidation tactic" that violates the Canada Labour Code.

On World AIDS Day, advocates are calling on the province make drugs that can prevent the transmission of HIV free for all Ontarians as recent data shows an uptick in cases in Canada.