Ontario ministers provide update as wildfires burn in province's northwest

Mike Harris, Ontario's minister of natural resources, is appearing alongside the ministers of emergency preparedness and Indigenous affairs as wildfires continue to burn across a broad swath of the province's northern region.

Spain will deploy its military to restore order at its border with Morocco in Ceuta after thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory.

Three people have received preventive rabies treatment following exposure to a stray cat in the Montérégie.

A man who gave his son the gun he used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison.

Tens of billions of dollars' worth of announcements by the Liberal government this summer has critics and analysts calling out a lack of detail on Ottawa's spending plans.

For his family, six-year-old Zafeer Munir was their lifeline and now that he’s gone, his mother, father and sister don’t know how they are going to carry on.

English golf star Charley Hull might have thought she nailed a prank on her longtime caddie, Adam Woodward — but according to many fans on social media, it was more of a swing and a miss.

Canada's largest grocer is focusing on a new, profitable business: generic GLP-1 drugs. Loblaw says sales are up 40 per cent year-to-date.

The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned part of the Conflict of Interest Act ruling that decisions made by the commissioner on the conduct of public office holders can be reviewed by a court on questions of fact and law.

UEFA member federations agreed Thursday to boycott all FIFA competitions in protest at Gianni Infantino's plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private equity investors.

Wildfire officials in British Columbia are urging people to abide by evacuation orders, after they say crews were forced to rescue a resident who had stayed in a fire zone.

The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,500 people in eastern Congo, official data released on Thursday showed, marking a 50 per cent increase in around a week that shows the emergency continuing to outpace response efforts.

Fierce winds whipping through southern Manitoba Wednesday night reached speeds as high as 133 km/h, leaving a trail of downed trees and knocking out power for thousands.

The Justice Department used the Secret Service and FBI to go to extraordinary lengths to bolster its contentious case against former FBI director James Comey, his lawyers claim, including allegedly interviewing Sammy (The Bull) Gravano, the Mafia underboss who in the past admitted to participating in 19 killings.

The book published in 1858 was returned to the library in the seaside town of Kiama last week by a man who had found it during recent home renovations inside a tea crate bricked into a sealed fireplace.

The Penticton Art Gallery says they made an error after donated pieces of art ended up discarded at the local Value Village. The decision prompted major backlash from local artists and members of the community.

Quebec's independent police watchdog is looking into the arrest of a man who had been on the run for four days in the Mauricie region.

David Cifaldi and his two hiking companions were crossing Montana's ominous Froze-to-Death Plateau and approaching the top of the state's highest peak when their adventure took a bizarre and dangerous turn: Cifaldi slipped and impaled himself on his trekking pole as he fell.

A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight into Thursday killed at least eight civilians, including children, and wounded more than 50 others, officials said.

Canadians went one-two in the women's 100-metre T47 final on Day 7. Toronto Sheriauna Haase took gold in a Games-record time of 12.23 seconds, lowering her own national record in the process, while Chloe Dunbar raced to silver in 12.33.

Canadian weightlifter Xavier Lusignan won a bronze medal in the men’s 110kg final on Thursday at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Canadian weightlifters Xavier Lusignan and Etta Love won their first career Commonwealth Games medals on Thursday in Glasgow.

About 2,088 people in northwestern Ontario remain under evacuation due to wildfires in the region, according to a spokesperson for the province's minister of emergency preparedness and response. Meanwhile, some communities are starting to send their members home. Here's what we know about how wildfires are affecting communities across the region.

An Iranian strike hit a Chinese firm's building in northern Kuwait Thursday morning, severely damaging the structure and killing a worker, Kuwait's military said, hours after Jordan's air defences shot down five missiles launched from Iran.

The provincial government has called off an inquiry it ordered into the conduct of an eastern P.E.I. municipality's councillor who put a sign on his property that some saw as an attack on Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Jenny Kierstead and her daughter, Sophie Kierstead-Abbass, are training educators through their resilient youth program after struggling with their own mental health following the death of their relative, Lisa McCully, in the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.

Starting this fall, Alberta employers will have to cover the cost of health insurance for employees over the age of 65.

Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine light roughly five kilometres wide, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light. What could this mean for Canadians?

Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine light roughly five kilometres wide, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light. What could this mean for Canadians?

AI now answers our questions, and increasingly carries out tasks for us, from planning itineraries to preparing research. The web is increasingly becoming a place where machines – rather than humans – go to learn things. What does that mean for the future of the human-centred web?