Iconic Empress Hotel on Victoria's waterfront to close for 3 months to complete major renovations

Victoria’s iconic 112-year-old Fairmont Empress Hotel will be out of commission this winter.

Miss out snagging the Shane Hollander Team Canada fleece? You aren't alone. Within 10 minutes of its Tuesday 12 p.m. launch, the hotly anticipated fleece completely sold out, according to Canadian apparel brand Province of Canada.

Survey suggests 21 per cent of surveyed respondents in Alberta used models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude to get financial guidance. Experts say online sources are a good learning tool but warn they can have risks.

The largest production ever to come to Prince Edward Island will begin this summer.

The largest production ever to come to Prince Edward Island will begin this summer.

The brutal murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak in southern England has ignited another volatile debate in the U.K. over race and what’s been described as “white grievance.” Despite pleas from Nowak's grieving family to prevent his death from sparking racial division, prominent far-right and populist figures have tried to exploit the tragedy.

It was the "honour of a lifetime" to serve as the representative of the Crown in Canada for the past five years, outgoing Gov. Gen. Mary Simon said in a speech to parliamentarians on Wednesday.

The owners of a hotel chain who are appealing orders to pay more than $100,000 in owed wages to three foreign workers say they weren't even aware two of the workers were employed at one of the company's Manitoba hotels.

A man from Okotoks, Alta., faces criminal charges after police say they found more than half a million child sexual exploitation photos and videos in his possession. It's one of the largest collections the Alberta child exploitation unit has ever encountered.

Toronto Sceptres defender Renata Fast will be staying in Toronto. The alternate captain signed a three-year deal to stay with the Sceptres through the 2028-29 season, the team announced on Wednesday afternoon.

All six of Ken Sim's ABC party members voted on Tuesday against acting on the findings of the Integrity Commissioner's investigation into Sim's actions against Councillor Sean Orr. The other four councillors, including Orr, voted for sanctioning Sim,

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she told Prime Minister Mark Carney 'we have a very serious problem' with her province's separatist movement during Carney's early days in office. 'There were legitimate issues in Alberta that caused people to lose hope in Canada,' Smith said. 'The prime minister and I together decided that we were going to work to address them.'

Just as Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation leaders were preparing to talk to the media early Wednesday afternoon, RCMP announced the suspect in custody has been released and confirmed there were no longer any suspects in custody in relation to Monday's shooting.

Just as Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation leaders were preparing to talk to the media early Wednesday afternoon, RCMP announced the suspect in custody has been released and confirmed there were no longer any suspects in custody in relation to Monday's shooting.

Pelican Narrows declared a state of emergency in 2024 amid ongoing violence and has since enacted a series of measures aimed at reducing crime.

A long-awaited centralized daycare waitlist will make it easier for families to find suitable child care in Nova Scotia, officials with the Education Department said Wednesday. The province is in the early stages of building a new online portal set to launch in 2027.

King Charles received Louise Arbour at Buckingham Palace in London on Wednesday, before the former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada is sworn in as Governor General next week.

People who regularly travel on O’Chiese Road are exposed to a higher level of risk for road injuries, according to a 2025 report commissioned by the O'Chiese First Nation.

Alberta will start to roll out new drivers licences starting July 2 that will include an individual’s health card number, finally eliminating the paper cards that have been the bane of Albertans for decades.

Alberta will start to roll out new drivers licences starting July 2 that will include an individual’s health card number, finally eliminating the paper cards that have been the bane of Albertans for decades.

Long before your feed told you what to listen to, Quebec culture had a different tastemaker: MusiquePlus. Well, music fans can rejoice now that the TV channel that helped launch the careers of many Quebec stars is being revived as a new kind of influencer on TikTok.

Four migrants working as fruit pickers in slave-like conditions in southern Italy have been burned to death. The murder case is prompting fresh national soul searching over the exploitation of farm workers.

Canada captain Alphonso Davies trained on his own Wednesday as the men's national team continued preparations for the FIFA World Cup.

Newfoundland’s Port of Argentia is a tourism hub with booming Marine Atlantic ferry bookings but a looming strike means the terminal could soon go quiet — and that has people worried.

South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Park say they aren’t backing down from satirizing U.S. President Trump in the show’s upcoming season — even if, as they say, the latest group trying to censor them now “has a military.”

Canadian university sport will introduce women's flag football as a pilot sport. U Sports and Football Canada will collaborate on flag
football's introduction and execution for the 2027-28 season.

The federal government says it will direct the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to review its recent decision tripling streamers' financial contributions to domestic content.

B.C. Ferries says the elevated price of fuel, driven by the U.S.-Israel war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has meant it has had to absorb rising costs in recent months.

Felix Auger-Aliassime’s run at the French Open ended on Wednesday in Paris after dropping a 6-4, 4-6, 4-6, 4-6 quarterfinal match to Italian Flavio Cobolli.

Felix Auger-Aliassime’s run at the French Open ended on Wednesday in Paris after dropping a 6-4, 4-6, 4-6, 4-6 quarterfinal match to Italian Flavio Cobolli.