A growing number of university students across the country are reporting disabilities — and receiving academic accommodations — with Maritime institutions leading the way.
Ozempic was first approved to treat diabetes in Canada seven years ago. Now the largest study of its kind suggests it and other medications like it have a host of other potential health benefits beyond obesity, but could also bring increased risk of other conditions.
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a punishing 25 per cent tariff on everything imported to the U.S. from Canada. In return, the Canadian government says it will impose retaliatory tariffs of its own. Here's what would happen if Canada takes that route.
Many, including Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, argue trans inmates shouldn’t have any choice about where they serve time, while trans activists say the current rules don’t really offer much of a choice anyway.
Montreal needs to come up with a plan to avoid dismantling homeless encampments and supervise them when necessary, according to a new city-commissioned report.
City joins Toronto and Mississauga in calling on upper levels of government to increase social assistance rates to meet basic needs.
A planned extension of Highway 686 would connect Fort McMurray to Alberta's northwest. The planning is being done with significant involvement of First Nations. Fort McMurray has long championed the project, saying it would provide the region with economic opportunities and another egress route.
An app designed by kids at Egadz and used by group homes is reducing the number of missing person reports for habitual runaways filed with Saskatoon police.
A Mississauga, Ont., man says he was detained in the Amritsar, India, airport on New Year’s Eve without food or medical assistance for 36 hours before Indian officials ejected him from the country.
While recent headlines have focused on returning U.S. president Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs against Canadian products, retailers in this country have also been considering the possible impact of the additional tariffs he’s threatened on goods coming from China.
Jennifer Craft got a $1,245 bursary from the Ontario government to help cover child-care costs while she was in nursing school back in 1996. But the province recently sent a collection agency to get the money back — claiming she failed to file the correct paperwork some 30 years ago.
A deal on ending public financing for foreign fossil fuel projects — which Canada co-led on the world stage — has died in the face of key holdout countries and the incoming administration of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump.
Tariffs on crude oil — or witholding it entirely — in response to Trump's threats would cause pain on both sides of the border.
Sudan is plagued by cascading tragedies: an ongoing internal military conflict, a growing risk of famine and an epidemic of sexual assault. Canada has welcomed just a fraction of refugees from the country compared to other conflicts, and some Sudanese Canadians feel they face discrimination from the government.
A coal company suing the Alberta government is arguing that recent comments made by Alberta's energy minister back up the company's claim for compensation.
Quebec City is hoping to see the introduction of more refrigerated skating rinks as warmer winters risk impacting outdoor hockey.
Join the U.S.? No way, according to most Canadians polled in two recent surveys. However one of the surveys found a sizable chunk of Canadians, nearly a quarter, were at least open to the idea.
The Trudeau government is planning a first round of counter-tariffs that could be unveiled as soon as incoming U.S. president Donald Trump is sworn in on Monday, Radio-Canada has confirmed.
Millions of Canadians do not have access to a family doctor. Thousands of internationally trained physicians living in Canada could help bring that number down but are currently unable to work as doctors because of several hurdles.
Despite being caught leading a drone smuggling network while in prison, a convicted drug trafficker wasn't charged. He was released and later re-arrested, this time for his involvement in a drug selling platform that sold opioids to a minor who died of an overdose.
Metrolinx pursued a potential commercial naming rights arrangement last year, involving an online casino brand and a downtown Toronto GO station, but the proposal was subsequently quashed, CBC News has learned.
Emboldened by her partner's conviction and motivated by a recent rash of killings police say are a result of intimate partner violence in Nova Scotia, a woman whose intimate images were shared online without her consent asked a court to lift a publication ban protecting her identity so she could raise awareness.
Canada's telecommunications regulator says internet customers will receive a subsidy aimed at making service more affordable in the North. Northwestel customers will also be credited on their bill after prolonged outages.
Casey Stoney is ready to bring joy back to the pitch for the Canadian women’s soccer team — but first, she plans to establish trust. Following the drone-spying scandal that unravelled at the Paris Olympics, Stoney joins the role at a precarious time for the program.
When City of Hamilton staff agreed to buy 40 tiny homes from a Brantford, Ont., company, they say they didn't know MicroShelters was a new corporation that would go through an American company to order the tiny homes from China.
The government of British Columbia says if president-elect Donald Trump follows through with his promise of a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods once his presidency begins, it could result in the province losing about $69 billion by 2028.
