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Canadian confectionery company Candy Funhouse is searching for the perfect candidate for what is most likely the sweetest job ever — chief candy officer.

As rent prices spiked over the past two months, affordable pockets of rental housing became harder and harder to find.

Advocates for police reform in Newfoundland and Labrador say the latest watchdog report on alleged sexual misconduct by officers has laid bare gaping chasms in the province's system for pursuing complaints against police forces.

After 58 weeks of noise, needles and violence at the Meagher Park homeless camp, one neighbour says the return to quiet has been a "nice change."

Ontario is unlikely to meet its lofty goal of building 1.5 million homes by 2031 to alleviate the housing crisis, according to a new report from the Smart Prosperity Institute, an Ottawa-based think-tank.

Quebec's workplace health and safety board has ordered a food-processing company north of Montreal to reimburse two temporary foreign workers for charging them excess rent.

Farid Ahmad still can't believe it's been a year since Kabul fell to the Taliban after American and allied troops, including Canadians, left the country.

A private Saskatoon Christian school's rental agreement is being terminated because of the school's connection to widespread abuse allegations.

Terina Shaw, councillor for Regina's Ward 7, has removed herself from consideration to be a member of the city's proposed community safety and wellbeing committee, just one day before city council was set to discuss the matter.

A proposed gondola project that would carry passengers over the North Saskatchewan River has been grounded by Edmonton city council. 

The B.C. General Employees' Union (BCGEU) began targeted job action Monday at four B.C. liquor distribution centres across the province.

The number of people walking and cycling increased on a stretch of Yonge Street in midtown Toronto after patio areas were expanded and bike lanes created as part of a pilot project, according to city data released on Monday.

The death tally keeps rising as officials continue to investigate the fish kill discovered late last week in eastern P.E.I.'s Morell River.

Toronto city council appointed a former district manager of its bylaw enforcement division Monday to be an interim councillor for Ward 1, Etobicoke North.

The RCMP say a man has been shot dead after officers responded to reports of a woman trying to escape a vehicle travelling along the Trans-Canada Highway near Kamloops, B.C.

Betty Hardisty, an elder living in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., has wanted to tan a hide her entire life. 

For the last three years, callers to the federal government's Canadian sport helpline who wanted to report bad experiences in hockey were referred to either a law firm or an insurance claims adjuster chosen by Hockey Canada, CBC News has learned.

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Ontario is offering to give education workers who make less than $40,000 raises of two per cent a year, and 1.25 per cent for everyone else in a proposed four-year deal.

At two minutes to midnight, the towering lights of the Charlottetown Driving Park glare down and illuminate the horses and track.

London police are searching for the driver of a black pickup truck that allegedly targeted cyclists who were riding south of the city on Sunday morning.

Canada's housing market continued to cool in July, with the average home price clocking in at $629,971 — a figure that drops by another $104,000 when excluding the Greater Toronto Area and Vancouver markets — as compared to June's average price of $665,850. 

Conservation advocates and experts are concerned a proposal for a Calgary-to-Banff passenger train is chugging along without addressing some key environmental issues in and around the national park.

Veteran news anchor Lisa LaFlamme says she was "blindsided" as Bell Media ended her contract at CTV National News after 35 years, a "business decision" it says will move the chief news anchor role in "a different direction."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are set to sign a green energy agreement later this month in Newfoundland that could prove pivotal to Canada's nascent hydrogen industry.

Sudbury police have arrested and charged a 34-year-old man with first-degree murder after a woman was found dead in a home in the city's west end.

Nova Scotia Power has asked to delay public hearings on its proposed 10 per cent general rate increase so it can continue talks with the provincial government on "solutions" to mitigate the impact of rising fuel costs on rates.

More human remains were found Sunday in the same area where police have searched for missing Saint John man Kyle LeBlanc.

Anita Neville will be Manitoba's next lieutenant-governor, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday.

While many people were able to flee Aghanistan after the fall of Kabul a year ago, the families of some Canadian citizens who assisted Canadian military forces are now being hunted by the Taliban government.

In a west Edmonton apartment, Karima Delijam, 32, and her 14-year-old daughter Soraya Yasa talk over tea on a calm summer day.

The family of a woman who was killed in a deadly crash on Highway 17A in Delta, B.C., last fall is calling for police to reopen the investigation into the collision, saying the case should have resulted in criminal charges.

Inspired by the recent Supreme Court decision in the U.S. to overturn Roe v. Wade, an upcoming variety show being staged in Windsor, Ont. is speaking out on women's rights to safe and legal abortions and raise money for local charities.

After his parents desperately raised $3 million over four years trying to find a cure for their son's rare genetic disease, Michael Pirovolakis is one step closer to possible recovery.

The director of a Kitchener, Ont., health care clinic for refugees says he's worried newcomers making their way to Waterloo region won't be able to get the health care they need as the clinic is now turning new patients away as a result of capacity issues.

A brand new food festival is going to be announced on the Island later this week.

Emerging from the waves at the foot of the mountains on an uninhabited island about an hour south of Haines, in southeast Alaska, stands a relic from the Klondike gold rush.

Two families say they feel they're being unfairly targeted by administration at the Calgary Islamic School, Palliser School Division and the Muslim Community Foundation of Calgary because they went public about a fee dispute last year.

Canadians are getting creative trying to cut the long waits for passports that have been dragging on for close to five months after a surge in post-pandemic travel demand overwhelmed the system.

A man in southwestern Ontario is sleeping on a couch in his realtor's basement, hoping nightmare tenants will vacate his home ahead of a months-awaited hearing with the Landlord and Tenant Board. 

Inspired by her father, who is hard of hearing, St. John's singer Carolina East is making sure as many people as possible are able to experience her music.

Halifax district RCMP are treating the death of a man whose body was found on the side of a road in East Preston, N.S., as a homicide. 

Some buyers who years ago purchased builds in a housing development in Stayner, Ont., are fuming and calling for government intervention after they were told they would need to fork over $175,000 above what was agreed upon in contracts with the developer before their homes will finally be built.

Baroula Rodrigues says she can't understand why she's been banned from taking Montreal's paratransit service and can no longer ride alongside her husband who suffers from Parkinson's disease.

Members and supporters of the LGBTQ community in a small Manitoba city left a mark at its city hall Sunday, hoping to send a clear and very visible message to local political leaders that they should do more to support them.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney condemned a controversial prize-winning essay that's been criticized for being sexist and racist during his provincewide radio call-in program, but also appeared to downplay the controversy it generated.

A B.C. immigration lawyer with deep ties to the province's South Asian and political communities has been sentenced to 22 months in jail after pleading guilty to 17 charges including forgery and the misrepresentation of facts.

Safety inspectors are on strike as the CNE is set to return on Friday after a two-year hiatus, and the union says it's worried about public safety during the 18-day fair.

There have been rapid changes over the past two years in the Arctic, but few more dramatic than the collapse of the Milne Ice Shelf on northern Ellesmere Island in 2020. 

Four people were sent to hospital Saturday night after a pickup truck drove into a restaurant in southeast Calgary.