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Manitoba’s Nigerian community is keeping the memory of an international student fatally shot by police close this week, but as the first anniversary of his death approaches, they are also eager for answers that have yet to come. 

New impaired driving rules in New Brunswick taking effect Jan. 1 introduce immediate roadside suspensions and penalties. Police say the changes will reduce the number of court cases by avoiding criminal charges in some cases, while still acting as a deterrent.

Within hours of the Churchill Falls announcement earlier this month, the Newfoundland and Labrador government launched a media blitz to win residents over to the tentative deal.

Mégane Fortin’s passion for painting started when she was just five years old. More than 10 years later, she’s selling her paintings to buyers across the world and participating in international art fairs.

It's been six years since Elizabeth Barnes' diagnosis of breast cancer — around the same time her brother was diganosed. In this First Person column, she writes about trying to cope with the trauma of the treatment and his death.

Step into a music class today and you might just find laptops, turntables and MIDI controllers alongside the clarinets, recorders or violins most people expect to see. From elementary school through post-secondary, some teachers are expanding the definition of music education and encouraging more students to try music-making. 

Canada got back in the win column at the world junior hockey championship. It wasn't pretty. Oliver Bonk, Caden Price and Mathieu Cataford, into the empty net, scored as the wobbly host country picked up an unconvincing 3-0 victory over Germany on Sunday.

A B.C. RCMP officer is warning that child exploitation is likely here to stay, as a technological race between police and predators gains momentum.

Nearly 40 years ago, Calgary’s Big M Drug Mart challenged the Lord’s Day Act, sparking a Supreme Court case that redefined religious freedom and paved the way for Sunday shopping in Canada.

When you think of pigeons, you might conjure up images of grey speckled birds pecking bits of food off city streets. But there's a lot more to the feathered flock. In fact, some pigeons are quite fancy, according to Gary Parsons of Sarnia, Ont. — and he would know.

When RCMP Supt. Jean-Guy Isaya first started as a police officer 20 years ago, school outreach involved drug safety programs. Now the Mountie says there’s a growing need to teach counter-radicalization. It’s why the RCMP, along with its Five Eyes allies, put out a report earlier this month warning about the rising prominence of young people drawn to support terrorism.

For the first time in 140 years, the Quebec City ice slide will get revamped to keep the slide chilled as the city grapples with warmer winters and the effects of climate change.

The Halifax airport was closed for about 90 minutes Saturday night after a plane arriving from St. John's experienced a problem landing, which saw the plane skid down the runway and part of it catch fire.

Canada was embarrassed on home soil 3-2 by Latvia — a country it had thumped by a combined 41-4 score across four previous meetings — in a shocking shootout Friday.

Tired of watching people sleeping outside in the cold, a Toronto man is building tiny mobile homes attached to bicycles to give temporary relief to those who are unhoused

The relay squad of Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse ran away with The Canadian Press team of the year award for 2024 on Saturday.

Dayle Haddon, a Canadian-born actor, activist and trailblazing former Sports Illustrated model who pushed back against age discrimination by re-entering the industry as a widow, has died in a Pennsylvania home from what authorities believe was carbon monoxide poisoning.

Fort McMurray sits at the junction of two rivers, which makes it susceptible to ice jam floods in the spring. It experienced a large ice jam flood in 2020. Now, Fort McMurray has extensive infrastructure to prevent a repeat — and is building more.

From construction and demolition waste to old mattresses and furniture, officials in Surrey and Vancouver want residents to put waste in its place rather than dumping it in green spaces, ditches or other inappropriate spaces.