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Researchers studying wolverines warn a recent decision by the Alberta government to lift trapping quotas on wolverines could lead to notable population decline while failing to produce meaningful data. Trappers dispute those findings, and argue their year-round presence on the landscape puts them in a unique position.

A parade of Santa Claus's sinister counterpart, Krampus, frightened adults and children alike in Munich on Sunday. The annual parade began in 2004, but has roots as far back as 500 years ago in the Alpine region, where the horned, winter spirit was said to punish poorly behaved children.

The company reached the settlement agreement in October, but a Quebec Superior Court judge signed off on it Tuesday. 

Members of Parliament are set to vote on a government request for billions of dollars in funding as the clock ticks down on a deadline.

MPs have voted to approve an additional $21.6 billion in government spending. The money, which is supplementary to this year's federal budget, will fund various programs including First Nations child services, dental care and compensation to Quebec for services to asylum seekers.

Days after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, throngs of people are still making their way to a notorious military prison near Damascus hoping for news of loved ones who long ago disappeared into its bowels. It's one of several such compounds that Assad used to suppress dissent and terrorize the population.

The rift within the B.C. Conservative Party has deepened over the resignation of a Vancouver police board member

Quebec Premier François Legault raised the possibility of ending public prayer during a press conference Friday, which he began by saying he wanted to send a "very clear message to Islamists."

A college student in London, Ont. has attempted to break the record for building the world's tiniest arcade machine, with a replica version of a classic game that fits in the palm of her hand. 

Swimmer Summer McIntosh has won the Northern Star Award as Canada's athlete of the year after a dominant performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Fifteen charges under the federal Fisheries Act have been laid against Imperial Metals Corp. more than a decade after a tailings pond collapsed at the Mount Polley mine, spilling more than 20 million cubic metres of wastewater into B.C. Interior waterways.

From hail to heatwaves, Environment and Climate Change Canada released its top 10 weather stories of 2024. From the north’s unusual heatwave to Alberta’s damaging hailstorm, the effects were noticeable — and costly.

From hail to heatwaves, Environment and Climate Change Canada released its top 10 weather stories of 2024. From the north’s unusual heatwave to Alberta’s damaging hailstorm, the effects were noticeable — and costly.

Faculty, students and staff across the University of Toronto's three campuses gathered Tuesday to watch professor emeritus and artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton receive his Nobel Prize.

Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown treats its title like a mission statement: we hardly learn anything about our subject's motivations or backstory. What we do get is a surprising and often impressive indictment of his desire for fame.

Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown treats its title like a mission statement: we hardly learn anything about our subject's motivations or backstory. What we do get is a surprising and often impressive indictment of his desire for fame.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is not committing to meeting the $40.1-billion deficit target she set for the government last year. Freeland said Tuesday she expects the fall economic statement, which she will present on Dec. 16, will show a declining debt-to-GDP ratio.

Syria’s long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents took control over the weekend and toppled the 50-year Assad regime. Here's rundown of all the key players, including the rebel forces.

Swimmer Summer McIntosh, the first Canadian to win three gold medals in a summer or winter Olympic Games, captured the women's 400-metre freestyle in a world record 3:50.25 for her first individual world short course championship gold medal on Tuesday.

Swimmer Summer McIntosh, the first Canadian to win three gold medals in a summer or winter Olympic Games, captured the women's 400-metre freestyle in a world record 3:50.25 for her first individual world short course championship gold medal on Tuesday.

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who wrote more than 25 books and shared blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died at the age of 81.

The dismissal of a class-action lawsuit over rules governing the cross-border live bee trade is casting a spotlight on political division within Canada's beekeeping community.

Fire crews are trying to contain a fast-moving wildfire in Malibu, Calif., that has forced many area residents to flee, including students from a local university.

Surveillance videos circulating online appears to show the moments leading up to the shooting, as a person holding a gun, accompanied by someone else, advances down an apartment hallway, yelling and cursing.

A gang leader who controls a key port in Haiti's capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders in his community to avenge his son's death, according to the government and human rights organizations that estimate more than 100 were killed.

For the 26th year the eastern Newfoundland town of Port de Grave lit up dozens of boats in its harbour, an event that draws people in from all over Newfoundland and Labrador. An organizer says it helps remember those lost at sea.

For the 26th year the eastern Newfoundland town of Port de Grave lit up dozens of boats in its harbour, an event that draws people in from all over Newfoundland and Labrador. An organizer says it helps remember those lost at sea.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stand on Tuesday in his long-running trial for alleged corruption, setting off what's expected to be a weekslong spectacle that will draw unwelcome attention to his legal woes as he faces an international arrest warrant for war crimes and the fighting in Gaza continues.

A research lab in Saskatoon wants to feed people weed gummies and strap them into a driving simulator to test how impaired they are.

A research lab in Saskatoon wants to feed people weed gummies and strap them into a driving simulator to test how impaired they are.

Google has released its annual report on the top search topics and terms Canadians wanted to know about in 2024.

Theo Meadows says he and his daughter were held at gunpoint by an armed group demanding valuables. He says he was put on hold three times during the ordeal and is speaking out to prompt changes to the service.

As the war continues to ravage the Gaza Strip, basic supplies such as diapers are harder to come by, and when they are available, are sold at expensive prices. Mothers like Asala Shehata have had to find alternatives, including washing diapers, to manage the needs of their children.

As the war continues to ravage the Gaza Strip, basic supplies such as diapers are harder to come by, and when they are available, are sold at expensive prices. Mothers like Asala Shehata have had to find alternatives, including washing diapers, to manage the needs of their children.

Physicians who spoke to CBC wonder whether better supports — including urgent care clinics and advanced paramedic care — could allow some rural ERs to close permanently to remedy chronic, sporadic shutdowns and inconsistent service.

A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges more than a dozen landlords and property managers have conspired to artificially inflate rents across Canada. The suit claims they did it by using a piece of software called YieldStar.

The leader of the national organization representing Inuit says the Conservative leader trivialized Inuit and everyone who lives in the Arctic with a "Santa Claus" social media quip criticizing Ottawa's plans to appoint an Arctic ambassador.

Theo Meadows says he and his daughter were held at gunpoint by an armed group demanding valuables. He says he was put on hold three times during the ordeal and is speaking out to prompt changes to the service.

Reports of Intimate partner violence have skyrocketed since the pandemic, says the Children's Aid Foundation of Canada. Amid calls for more family and community-based interventions to prevent abuse and help families heal, this woman shares what it was like as a child in southwestern Ontario to witness abuse of her mom by her then partner.

Theo Meadows says he and his daughter were held at gunpoint by an armed group demanding valuables. He says he was put on hold three times during the ordeal and is speaking out to prompt changes to the service.

Google has released its annual report on the top search topics and terms Canadians wanted to know about in 2024.

Reports of Intimate partner violence have skyrocketed since the pandemic, says the Children's Aid Foundation of Canada. Amid calls for more family and community-based interventions to prevent abuse and help families heal, this woman shares what it was like as a child in southwestern Ontario to witness abuse of her mom by her then partner.

A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual 'wives' including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday for coercing girls as young as nine years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults, and for scheming to kidnap them from protective custody.

The majority of projects are in the Interior and north and will add about eight per cent to power supply capacity.

In Lethbridge, Alta., the city is using a new tactic for goose management around Henderson Lake Park — it's called the Goosinator.

Closing arguments are underway in B.C. Supreme Court for the participants in the Wet'suwet'en blockade of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

Scores of people were killed over the weekend in Haiti's Cité Soleil area, Haiti's prime minister's office said on Monday, after attacks that the state and two non-governmental groups allege were ordered by a gang leader.

Michael Jarman, a Toronto financial modelling director, has become the undisputed world champion of managing spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel.