Following a major water main break and calls from the city to reduce water consumption, some Calgary businesses are making extra efforts to conserve.

Blue Jay Davis Schneider has some help with his all-star vote campaign: His two sisters.

Antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents are on the rise across Toronto since war broke out in Gaza, fraying nerves in both communities and straining the resources of the police officers who investigate them. The National got special access to the city's Hate Crimes Unit, following officers as they work to keep up with the city's rising tide of intolerance.

A female-led Montreal company paving the way to relieving menstrual pain has come out victorious in a Canada-wide pitch contest.

In a bid to draw attention to the ongoing and dangerous problem of keeping exotic wildlife in captivity, either in zoos or as house pets, World Animal Protection Canada is building a new database and interactive online map to document all the events it can find.

Quebec has changed its adoption laws to allow anyone adopted there to request the name of their biological parents, even if the parents don’t want their identities revealed. The province estimates up to 70,000 adoptees could apply.

If there's anything people can agree on these days, it's that flying sucks. Which may partially explain the online roasting of WestJet's new UltraBasic fare, where travellers can board the plane and that's about it.

Some parliamentarians were accused this week of conspiring with foreign governments, but their exact numbers and their identities remain a mystery to the public — and to many of their colleagues.

The father of the 13-year-old girl killed in a Burnaby, B.C., park in 2017 recounted the harrowing ordeal of losing his daughter in front of a packed courtroom at B.C. Supreme Court, where Ibrahim Ali was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

U.S. officials are investigating «reports of a plane crash» in the Salish Sea on Friday.

Canadian businessman Frank Stronach has been charged in connection with alleged sexual assaults that spanned over four decades.

Ibrahim Ali has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years in the 2017 murder of a B.C. teenager.

Ibrahim Ali has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years in the 2017 murder of a B.C. teenager.

The City of Calgary is urging residents to limit their water use for the next few days as crews work to repair the major water main break that occurred Wednesday night. Officials say they're hopeful the cause can be determined on Friday.

A sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin this morning in Vancouver for Ibrahim Ali, who was convicted in December of the first-degree murder of a 13-year-old girl from Burnaby, B.C.

In an update on Friday morning, Calgary officials are urging the public to follow all the guidelines around water conservation because at the current rate of consumption, the city could run out of water.

A Midland, Ont. man was shocked when he was driving down the road and his front wheel came loose from his car.

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) workers are in a legal strike position and their union has set a deadline of this afternoon before job action could start. Here are answers to questions about how this could impact you at Canada-U.S. borders.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we explore the many benefits of a school's do-it-yourself carbon offset project, imagine what a city would look like with a one-kilometre-tall battery in its skyline and see what it takes to fish for 'ghost gear.'

With a 10-store presence in Quebec, and a handful of others sprinkled between Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Halifax, Simons is opening two locations in Toronto this year at Yorkdale Shopping Mall and the Eaton Centre, in additions to locations in Mississauga and Ottawa.

Ontario has long faced calls to end segregation in its jails, but a CBC investigation shows prisoners are being isolated more often. In Hamilton, it's happening at a higher rate than elsewhere in the province, meeting the UN's threshold for torture. An advocate for incarcerated people recalls her time in segregation as being «in a little cream-coloured box with nothing.»

Canada's northernmost NHL team is seeking to do what none of its peers on this side of the border have been able to do during the lifetime of Connor McDavid: Take home the Stanley Cup.

Rescue crews have suspended the search for three mountaineers who failed to return from a difficult climb near Squamish, B.C., on Friday.

British Columbia's highest court has struck down an appeal by the City of Langford, which argued that a million-dollar payout to a woman who was hit in the face with a roller-hockey puck at a municipal arena was disproportionately high for her injuries.

A man convicted of murdering a 13-year-old Burnaby, B.C., girl has repeatedly told a pre-sentencing hearing that he didn't kill her, after refusing to listen to his interpreter during an impact statement by the girl's father.

Conservative MP Brad Redekopp apologized in the House of Commons on Thursday after an Indigenous colleague from across the political aisle called him out for linking an offender's criminal record to his race.

Two people are dead after a crash at a motorsports park in B.C.'s Okanagan on Wednesday, according to the RCMP.

Stephen Lecce is out as education minister in a major shuffle of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's cabinet. Lecce, who has served in the role since 2019, will now serve as energy and electrification minister in a swap with Todd Smith.

A new institute is in the works that would track Indigenous economic prosperity in Canada by collecting data on population, businesses, land and resources. The First Nations University of Canada announced Thursday that it will set up the centre with help from two foundations.

Pro-Palestinian protesters at McGill university said they are barricading themselves in the administration building as part of a «global call to action.»

Muslim groups say all political parties need to work harder to stamp out Islamophobia in Canada, and allow more space for people to criticize Israel without being painted as antisemitic.

The city of Calgary is under a mandatory water advisory where officials are telling all residents and businesses to strictly limit their water usage following a major water main break on Wednesday.