Just over two months after it was announced Algoma Steel would receive $500 million in government loan guarantees, the steel producer said it was issuing 1,000 layoff notices to workers at its plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. The layoffs raise questions as to why it was receiving millions of dollars yet still cutting jobs.

The ruling released Tuesday from Justice Ward Branch says there's «some basis in fact» to support the plaintiffs' allegations that the «horrific fire» was caused by railway operations, where CN and CP have parallel tracks that run through the town.

An Ontario man has cycled 30,000 kilometres around the world to raise money for cancer research in honour of his late wife.

A day after being named federal culture minister, Marc Miller is drawing ire from several Quebec officials, including the premier of his home province.

Shelley Spence made the findings in her annual report released Tuesday, which contains a series of health-related audits that also found very few family doctors are participating in the province's Health Care Connect system — key to helping Ontario meet its goal of attaching everyone to primary care — and the government hasn't adequately planned its medical school expansion

A Winnipeg woman is warning others about what can go wrong in online banking after a credit union is holding her responsible for a debt of more than $174,000 from fraudulent transactions.

The federal government suspended the regulations meant to rein in Canada’s worst polluter, but it hasn’t explained how it is going to ensure the country’s climate goals will be met. Carbon pricing, though, is expected to play a dominant role.

The five-bed palliative care hospital unit in Lunenburg, N.S., is still searching for staff, four years after it was first announced.

City of Ottawa staff are looking to ask the federal government to deem the ByWard Market a national historic site to help celebrate its 200th birthday.

The Metis Settlements of Alberta say they’re interested in purchasing a stake in a proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast and want to work with First Nations in British Columbia who oppose the project and plan to bring forward an emergency resolution at the Assembly of First Nations meetings in Ottawa Tuesday.

The Ontario Provincial Police sergeant who led the investigation into Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney testified at their first-degree murder trial Monday, outlining evidence collected in the case against the couple. The Crown showed multiple images and played audio recordings of women interacting with the boys in their care.

Polytechnique Montréal is expanding its scholarship program honouring the 14 women who were killed at the engineering school 36 years ago.

Every school in Manitoba must undertake a safety review and send the assessment to the province's Department of Education, the provincial government says, responding to a child being assaulted last week.

CBC meteorologist Ryan Snoddon says people should prepare for potential power outages and ferry and bridge delays or closures as wind gusts reach 70-90 km/h.

Seventeen teenagers were killed on Nov. 29, 1960 when a train crashed into their school bus as it was travelling from Chipman, Alta., to Lamont.

Jamal Borhot, who travelled to Syria with his cousin more than 12 years ago, has been found guilty of terrorism offences after a judge ruled that the evidence shows he was fighting for ISIS. 

Prime Minister Mark Carney will make changes to his front bench this afternoon after Steven Guilbeault resigned from cabinet last week.

This unique form of theft has been happening all over the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. Thieves on the hunt for cash break through the walls of banks using excavators that experts say anyone capable of ordering a key online can drive off the lot. 

Toronto's speed cameras may be gone, but this time there are no mysterious vandals wielding power tools, no blurry suspect photos and no police investigation.

A U.S. podiatrist says he is leaving the province because his patients have to wait years to see a surgeon for procedures on their feet, even though he's trained to do the procedures in his clinic.

Jason Huang says a WestJet employee grabbed his phone and threatened to deny him boarding when he began recording his conversation during airport check-in. Legal expert say passengers are within their rights to record these interactions, and video and audio recordings may help in battles for compensation.

An Ottawa couple says they’ve lost out on more than $381,000 after hiring Ottawa contractor Giuseppe «Joey» Peloso and his company Magnolia to renovate their kitchen, when plumbing broke and flooded their home. Plaintiffs in other lawsuits against Peloso and his business include other customers, subcontractors, investors, the Republic of Austria and Embassy of Niger.

Cleanup is still underway east of Cranbrook, B.C., after a train derailment caused a propane leak and forced the evacuation of some rural properties along the Kootenay River this weekend.

The Vancouver Whitecaps are heading to the MLS Cup final for the first time in the club’s history after a commanding 3–1 win over San Diego FC in Saturday night’s Western Conference final.

Dr. Mariia Kuzeikiv, an Ukrainian surgeon, is learning skills that could help her save lives in the war while in Hamilton, Ont.

A 70-year-old American ALS patient came to Saskatchewan chasing the promise of healing offered by the Dr. Goodenowe Restorative Health Center in Moose Jaw, Sask. But former Goodenowe employees say that as her condition worsened, Goodenowe centre management left Susie to fight for her life on her own.

Four million people pour into Banff National Park each year — a level of visitation the park’s first wardens could never have imagined in 1885. As Banff turns 140, Parks Canada is rethinking what it means to welcome so many people while still protecting the landscape for future generations.

A search of another Winnipeg landfill for the remains of First Nations women will begin on Monday, CBC News has learned.