As Canada prepares Tuesday to blow out 158 birthday candles, Alberta plans three days later to formalize rules making it easier to have an independence celebration of its own.

The federal government is working to break down the interprovincial trade barriers that Mark Carney campaigned on — but one expert says they're still more of a plan than a reality.

Dr. Alec Cooper is spending time in front of a microphone reciting common sayings, elaborate poems and his favourite books as part of the process to clone his voice before his disease progresses further.

A Toronto senior is speaking out after she was left without her Old Age Security benefit for months because of a simple error by Service Canada that left her in a dire situation: the wrong year was allegedly entered into its system.

A federal byelection will be held in the Alberta riding of Battle River–Crowfoot on Aug. 18, Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced, setting the stage for Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre's potential return to the House of Commons.

Winnipeg’s iconic Portage and Main intersection has reopened to pedestrians for the first time in 46 years. Long considered the coldest intersection in Canada, it was closed to foot traffic in 1979 in favour of an underground concourse.

Although business owners say they are selling more Canada-themed products this year leading up to July 1, many have also noted a decline in «elbows up» merchandise sales.

Superior Court Justice Donald Bisson ruled last week that the class action can move forward, but limited it to Quebec residents because the case hinges on that province's consumer protection laws. In 2024, hundreds of thousands of Canadian customers were told via email they had won a boat in what Tim Hortons has called a technical error.

The stubby, a Canadian beer bottle that was once a fixture in fridges from coast to coast, is now being reinterpreted as a subtle form of economic self-defence as trade tensions with the U.S. heat up.

Kids facing one substitute teacher after another. French taught by a non-speaker. Uncertified adults supervising classrooms. What's behind teacher shortages that plagued this school year and what's being done to improve the situation for the next?

Since more businesses and organizations have started asking for people’s social insurance number, experts are cautioning people to be very selective about who they share their SIN with.

To meet the federal government’s promise to “build, baby, build,” the country is going to need a whole lot more skilled trades workers. But a shortage of shop class teachers in Canadian high schools might make them hard to find. 

With Quebec’s moving day fast approaching, more than 2,000 households across the province are still searching for housing — 320 more than at the same time last year.

Since the National Overdose Response Service (NORS) launched nearly five years ago, it's been reaching drug users who wouldn't typically use consumption and treatment sites. 

Judgement puts on hold a provincial law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.

The shrouds were removed from the brand new walk signals at the intersection of Portage and Main on Friday morning and the remaining construction barricades hauled away, as 46 years of prohibited pedestrian crossings came to an end at Winnipeg's famous corner.

The final numbers are in on last years' Alberta budget, and the bottom-line figure is an $8.3-billion surplus.

Tommy Chan knows he ran five kilometres on Tuesday, May 20. He just doesn’t remember it. He says he had a post-run heart attack and was searching for a way to say thank you to the bystanders who stepped in.

With more jump in her step these days, Canadian national team forward Jordyn Huitema is excited to play Costa Rica in a women's soccer friendly Friday in Toronto. It's a far cry from being victim to a home invasion a few weeks ago.

Recreational and sport swimming are the leading causes of drowning in Quebec. And in half of those cases, the person was alone when it happened, according to the Quebec Lifesaving Society.

Black and Middle Eastern people in Hamilton continue to be overrepresented in use-of-force incidents recorded by the city's police service. «Every year, the results are the same, but we never get any changes,» says a McMaster University researcher whose team examines such data from across Ontario.

Canada banned all senior Iranian officials who served from 2003 onward from entering the country and vowed to crack down on members of the regime currently here. But the case of Mahdi Nasiri in Canada is raising questions about how effective that crackdown is.

Nearly a year after her mother was sentenced to prison for defrauding Inuit organizations to help pay for her education, an Ontario woman went public for the first time about the case — and Jordan Archer's story has again stirred up anger and frustration among Inuit.

The lawyer for Jeffery Turnbull, a Hamilton police constable accused of sexually assaulting a colleague in 2022, used the trial's closing arguments to portray the woman as an unreliable witness whose testimony misaligns with the known facts.  

A Canadian citizen died while in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this week, the agency says.

International students facing possible visas restrictions amid a legal dispute between U.S. President Donald Trump and Harvard University may have a back up plan to return to school in the fall — studying in Canada.