«Michael J. Fox is an actor who has won five Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Grammy Award. He is a world-renowned advocate for Parkinson’s disease research and development,» the White House said in a statement announcing the recipients.

Parts of southern Ontario could receive snowfall of 20 to 40 centimetres or more by Sunday, Environment Canada warns. The following areas are under a snow squall warning: Newmarket, Georgina, northern York Region, Barrie, Collingwood, Hillsdale, Uxbridge, Beaverton, northern Durham Region and Orillia. 

Lorenzo Berardinetti spent three decades serving the people of Scarborough in suburban Toronto as a politician, but has now spent more than a year living without a home after falling on hard times. Local politicians have started a campaign to get him back on his feet.

An American citizen convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Hill and dodging jail time in Whistler may just be the start of an asylum-seeking rush, according to a prominent legal expert.

A hunter from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., has been fined for moose hunting without a licence or proper documentation. He claimed Indigenous hunting rights but failed to provide any proof.

A Nova Scotia community is mourning the loss of two of its members after they were shot and killed in Halifax on New Year’s Eve.

A Calgary woman is struggling to return home after her husband died while diving in Mexico, leaving her stranded and facing financial hardship.

A 37-year-old man faces several charges related to a road rage incident in Temiskaming Shores on Monday.

Mayor Kevin Ashe announced the change in a nearly 13-minute video on the city's YouTube page on Dec. 30, 2024. The video highlights a number of incidents involving Coun. Lisa Robinson, before showing screenshots and airing audio of some graphic threats that Ashe says councillors have received as a result.

The City of Charlottetown is proposing a 'bike bus' to get students to bicycle to school.

A 37-year-old suspect has been charged in connection with a road rage incident last week in Temiskaming Shores.

A mother killer whale who famously pushed the body of her dead newborn for 17 days in 2018 has lost another calf, and researchers say she is again carrying the body in an apparent act of grief.

As users turn toward smoking instead of injecting hard drugs, the number of glass pipes recovered on Ottawa’s streets has begun surpassing the number of needles.

Entrepreneurs who are adapting robotic arms used for manufacturing automobiles to help with homebuilding say the construction industry in Canada needs to innovate. Using robots to do more on construction sites could speed things up and help with the shortage of skilled labour.

Mexican airline Aeromexico had the world's best record for on-time arrivals in 2024, according to an annual ranking released Thursday. Delta Air Lines scored the highest among U.S. carriers despite a computer outage that caused thousands of flight cancellations in July.

The Nēwo-Yōtina Friendship Centre, located on 11th Avenue, announced the approval in a post on social media earlier this week. 

RCMP recently applied for a terrorism peace bond to restrict the movements of the 18-year-old from Newmarket. Investigators have declined to provide details about the allegations and the accused.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is said to be reflecting on his future over the holidays after the resignation of his top cabinet minister, Chrystia Freeland, in mid-December. Here is a look at some of the scenarios that could play out in coming weeks.

Court backlogs are an ongoing problem for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick justice systems.

Pickering Mayor Kevin Ashe says the city is pausing all in-person meetings, moving them to a virtual format, for the time being due to “alt-right” threats.

A man is in critical condition after the 17-year-old driver of the car he was in stabbed him following an argument on New Year's Eve.

Canada's federal government is changing course on immigration with a wave of tighter caps on newcomers and new rules for permanent and non-permanent residents.

A Calgary army reserve officer was killed in an ice-climbing accident in eastern British Columbia over the holidays.

Halifax police are investigating three deaths that are connected – two of which they say were homicides resulting from intimate partner violence – in the city on New Year’s Eve.

Mounties are investigating and appealing for witnesses after an explosive device was discovered Wednesday on a beach in Kamloops, B.C.

The federal government promised to «pilot a new automatic [tax] filing service» in 2024 to help get benefits to low- and fixed-income Canadians — but ended up recycling a program from the year before that saw little uptake.

It’s believed Ania Kaminski and her father, Stanislaw Wardzala, were killed by Ania's spouse, 38-year-old Benedict Kaminski, last weekend in an attack that police called targeted and domestic in nature.

Strong winds and almost freezing temperatures didn't deter hundreds of brave souls from jumping into Lake Ontario in a New Year's Day tradition.

Mounties in British Columbia are warning the public to be honest after a missing hiker's friends delayed reporting her disappearance to police.

An armed robbery at a Holt Renfrew in downtown Vancouver ended with police arresting a 66-year-old man and seizing several weapons, including a pair of improvised explosive devices, according to authorities.

Police are seeking the public's assistance in locating an inmate who escaped from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert.

As Canadians take time off to celebrate, many federal offices, stores and businesses will be closed across the country on New Year's Day.

The coming year will see some changes to existing tax measures, but those changes are expected to have only minor impacts on individuals.