Quebec's chief coroner has ordered a public inquiry into the deaths of a 43-year-old mother and her seven-year-old daughter in a major fire in Old Montreal last week.

An American family doctor is frustrated with what she says has been a challenging two-year-and-counting bureaucratic journey to be accepted into Canada.

A wildlife rescue in B.C. is caring for two orphaned bobcat kittens who have become as inseparable as 'real sisters' even though it's highly unlikely they are actually from the same litter.

Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been denied bail as he appeals his sexual assault convictions in Toronto and an 11-year prison sentence.

The federal government announced 14 new properties will be added to the Canada Public Land Bank, the list of federal properties that could be turned into new homes, including seven in Ottawa and two in Gatineau, Que.

A Saskatoon mom is desperately fighting eviction after she discovered mould in her suite and reported it to her landlord.

A Toronto senior says she can’t believe that two roofers took advantage of her, despite knowing she was recently widowed and suffering from a painful disability.

Energy Alberta wants to build a conventional nuclear power plant in northern Alberta. But is it really the best approach to meeting future electricity needs while fighting climate change?

A new poll from Securian Canada shows nearly one-quarter of Canadians surveyed participate in the gig economy.

Scientists Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto and John Hopfield of Princeton University won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning within artificial neural networks, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

Nearly two dozen provincial court cases ended in judicial stays of proceedings in the past year-and-a-half, following applications from accused criminals claiming they had a right to be tried within an 18-month window mandated by Canada's top court.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has an opening during a summit with regional leaders in Laos this week to step up Canada's contributions to help Southeast Asian countries facing escalating threats from China, according to experts.

Hyperbole has probably existed for as long as humans have been able to communicate. And some amount of conflict is inherent to democracy. But has any Canadian politician in recent memory embraced rhetorical conflict as enthusiastically as Pierre Poilievre?

Ten former students are suing a Markham, Ont. company for a collective $108,000 in tuition they paid to what turned out to be a business providing unapproved vocational programs. Ontario's superintendent of career colleges ordered the company to stop advertising and offering the program in July.

Wayne Hannan's time as a volunteer Scouts Canada leader spans 66 years, 12 prime ministers, countless sessions on safe seafaring — and a recent court action he took against the organization because it's been an anchor in his life and he'd like it to stay that way. 

Videos of a meteor streaking across the skies of southern Ontario have surfaced and small bits of the outer space rock may have made it to land, one astronomy professor says.

The day after a minivan was set ablaze outside Vancouver City Hall, a 78-year-old man has been criminally charged.

Days after a political sign was erected outside Lululemon founder Chip Wilson's Vancouver mansion, the waterfront property has been vandalized with graffiti.

Toronto Coun. Michael Thompson 'forced himself on' a woman who awoke to find him standing over her after she fell asleep drunk, the Crown alleged Monday, as the five-day sexual assault trial of the six-term politician began in Bracebridge, Ont.

A disgraced Winnipeg high school football coach convicted of sexual assault and luring will spend 20 years behind bars.

Federal lawyers are expected to argue in Federal Court this week that the government has no legal duty to provide First Nations with clean water, even if Liberal ministers suggest otherwise at news conferences, in response to a national class-action lawsuit launched by a northern Manitoba First Nation.

In a video of an online meeting, the B.C. Conservative leader appears to be in support of putting health officials involved in the COVID-19 response on trial in a way similar to how Nazis were prosecuted after the Second World War.

A disgraced former high school football coach was taken into custody Monday afternoon in front of a Winnipeg courtroom packed with supporters of his victims, after being sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing nine players over more than a decade.

Alberta's minister of public safety and emergency services, Mike Ellis, told a federal committee Monday that the provincial government had reduced decision-making power during the immediate aftermath of the Jasper wildfire, but still must foot the recovery bill.

A lucrative Airbnb rental has turned into a nightmare for a Toronto host after his guest was arrested and the unit was raided by police, leaving him with what he says is almost $40,000 in damages and lost income. 

Police say that they are investigating an apparent road rage incident in North York that may have involved gunfire.

Billionaire businessman Frank Stronach, who faces multiple sex assault charges, has had his case put over to next month as lawyers work to have the matter moved to a court in Toronto.

Lawyers representing the Ontario man accused of selling hundreds of suicide kits with deadly effect around the globe have filed to intervene in a case in Canada’s highest court, arguing there is no way he can be charged with murder under Canadian law.

As millions in federal funding flow into a Labrador group whose claims of Inuit identity have been rejected by Indigenous organizations across Canada, a national Inuit leader worries the Liberal government is putting the rights of Indigenous Peoples at risk.

On the anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks in Israel, police departments in cities across Canada are increasing their presence in Jewish and Muslim communities, as well as at the locations of planned protests.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is headed to Laos this week to try and advance trade and political ties with world leaders at a regional summit amid tension over the conflict in the Middle East.

Scurvy is a disease that likely conjures up images of sickly sailors from hundreds of years ago, but doctors in Canada are being warned to look out for the condition now, as a result of growing food insecurity.

Ceremonies, events and protests are being held across Canada today to mark the anniversary of a Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza.

The significant redistribution that has added six ridings to the electoral map, and the collapse of the Opposition B.C. United party, formerly the B.C. Liberals, coupled with the rise of the upstart B.C. Conservatives as the NDP's main challenger make forecasting the B.C. election particularly tough.

The Archbishop of Toronto is among 21 new cardinals Pope Francis named Sunday and the lone new cardinal from North America.