Instead of sending in the troops to deal with what promises to be another dangerous wildfire season, Public Safety Canada is testing the capabilities of civilian-led first responders and relief providers.
Organizers of a pro-Palestinian protest at Western University in London, Ont., said they now plan to stay indefinitely — a shift from their original stated plan to stay for 12 hours when they set up camp on campus earlier this week.
Newfoundland and Labrador's chief medical officer of health says she's concerned about the surge of whooping cough cases in the province because of the risk to the youngest people in the province.
McGill University is seeking a court injunction against protesters at the pro-Palestinian encampment on its downtown campus, demanding that they dismantle the camp and refrain from any further occupation.
The president of the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) says it is ready to get back to the bargaining table after its members rejected the provincial government's latest contract offer.
Giulio Di Palma was shocked to return home from work one day in April to find the branches on half of his large spruce tree missing and a portion of the top cut off.
Peel regional councillors are asking Doug Ford's government to pay for the provincially appointed board initially meant to oversee the region's dissolution but now focused on reducing bureaucratic overlap, arguing it's unfair for Peel taxpayers to have to foot the bill.
Calgary police Chief Mark Neufeld says people had "ample opportunity" to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Calgary before officers used force to remove remaining demonstrators Thursday night.
Toronto basketball fans and players say news of a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in the city is not only exciting but long overdue.
Canadian Blood Services is apologizing to the 2SLGBTQ+ community for its "harmful" former policies that for decades prevented men who have sex with men from donating blood.
A video of a young girl being hit by a cyclist in Montreal while crossing the street to catch a school bus is being shared widely on social media and serving as a reminder of the province's Highway Safety Code.
Newfoundland Power is being told to launch a faster transition to smart meters, which advocates say will give customers more and better information on how they use power — and can save money.
There's confusion about the future of the new hospital for Ontario's James Bay coast, with the local health authority saying no funding was allotted in the recent federal budget, putting the long-delayed $2.7-billion project "in jeopardy."
Halifax's North End has changed dramatically in the past decade, and Treno Morton can't help but wonder what it would look like if its established Black residents had a real say in how it grew.
Settlements have been reached in lawsuits against Bathurst and its police force over the shooting death of Michel Vienneau in 2015 after police got a false Crime Stoppers tip he was trafficking drugs.
The Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) will go ahead with the planned expansion of its distribution centre after it says no human remains were found on the site.
Emotions are running high inside of a Portage Avenue apartment building after the city ordered residents to vacate Thursday night due to serious structural deterioration.
The latest numbers from the Saskatchewan Coroners Service show it could be another grim — potentially record-setting — year for drug toxicity deaths in the province.
Post-secondary leaders are calling for a new downtown Edmonton "education district" to support rapidly growing student ranks and spur development in the core.
According to his family, James Kochon went to the Stanton Territorial Hospital emergency room in Yellowknife on Tuesday last week complaining about leg pain.
The murder of an Ontario woman has sparked action from Canada's financial sector, but activists pushing to end intimate partner violence say banks need to do more to protect survivors.
The race to become the next mayor of Mississauga is now well underway, and whoever lands the job will lead the city with greater planning powers than the previous mayor possessed.
More than a dozen protesters remained at Western University's campus in London, Ont., on Thursday, long past the 12 hours originally planned for the encampment.
Rex Murphy, the controversial Newfoundland-born pundit and wordsmith whose writing and often-blistering commentaries were the focus of a decades-long career in Canadian media, has died at the age of 77, according to the National Post.
A Nova Scotia ocean technology research and development hub is going to court against Transport Canada, after the department approved a construction firm's proposal to dump 100,000 cubic metres of rock into Halifax harbour's Dartmouth Cove.
Families, friends and fellow students are mourning the deaths of three people — two high schoolers and a young father — who died in a car crash in Fredericton on Sunday.
A pro-Palestinian encampment has been set up in the main quad at the University of Alberta in Edmonton as protesters, demanding the school disclose its investments and cut any ties with Israel, joined similar demonstrations at dozens of campuses across North America.
Using shields, batons and flashbang explosives, Calgary police officers forcibly removed a group of protesters Thursday night from an encampment set up on the University of Calgary campus.