Beading classes at the Maskwacis Public Library might be focused on teaching the basics now, but students are preparing to use those skills on some big projects — including their own regalia.
Indigenous hip-hop group Winnipeg's Most is performing in the city this week for the first time in 12 years, as a tribute to founding member Jamie Prefontaine, a.k.a. Brooklyn.
Canada will soon have a second laboratory capable of working with the most dangerous pathogens in the world — home to Canada's Centre for Pandemic Research.
If you're one of the estimated more than six million Canadians who can't find a family doctor, it might be because they're focusing on specialty care, the results of a new report suggest.
The Assembly of First Nations national chief is calling for action from the federal government following two reports from the Auditor General released Tuesday showing continued shortcomings in Indigenous housing and policing.
Two peregrine falcons living in a nesting box atop the Assumption Life building in Moncton for the past 13 years are about to become famous — thanks to a new live video feed that will allow them to be observed 24 hours a day.
Family doctors are often the first place Canadians turn for medical care, but the proportion of adults with access to a primary care provider has declined, a new survey suggests.
Scientists at the University of British Columbia say they have identified a potentially new population of killers whales that hunt the planet's largest predators in the open ocean.
A coalition of Indigenous economic organizations wants the federal government to adopt new definitions of what constitutes Indigenous businesses and organizations into its procurement process.
Employees of the health services offshoot of Telus Communications are only reimbursed for certain drug prescriptions if they fill them through the company's own virtual pharmacy, CBC News has learned.
With the federal budget approaching, Inuit leaders and New Democrat MPs are urging the Trudeau government to tackle tuberculosis in Indigenous communities.
The body tasked with selecting the future storage site for Canada's nuclear waste has reaffirmed its confidence in the project's safety, but others remain concerned about the potential risks of burying spent nuclear fuel hundreds of metres below the earth's surface.
You may have seen the sight of a very young child completely engaged in a handheld device while the parents enjoy a little peace and quiet. But a new study shows that too much time alone on those devices could have a detrimental effect on the child's ability to speak fluently.
British Columbia grain farmer Malcolm Odermatt says all he can do is pray for rain this spring after repeated droughts sabotaged his harvest last year.
Children in England will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, according to the country's National Health Service (NHS).
When athletes from Greenland walked in to the opening ceremonies of the Arctic Winter Games in Alaska on Sunday, they walked is as Team Kalaallit Nunaat.
The late Brian Mulroney's legacy with Indigenous peoples in Canada is marked by its contradictions — failures remembered for their good intentions, successes accompanied by catastrophic disappointments.
At the seafront pizzeria La Rambla in Maccarese, Italy, a short drive from Rome, chef Carlo Del Buono stood at the kitchen counter, throwing a few fistfuls of cricket powder into a bowl of pizza dough made with wheat flour.
When artist Owisó:kon Lahache retired from teaching three years ago, she wanted to find a way to bring music, art, and history to her community in a fun and interactive way.
For the past two decades, geologists have wrestled with whether humans have changed the planet enough to kick off a completely new epoch in geological time called the Anthropocene. Now, a subcommittee of Earth scientists has reportedly made a decision: No, we haven't.
A sprawling international study of humpback whales in the northern Pacific has found their population has shrunk significantly since 2012 — despite the once-endangered species' remarkable comeback from the brink of extinction.
On April 8, the moon's shadow will glide across Mexico, into the United States and finally into Canada, producing one of nature's greatest spectacles: A total solar eclipse.
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