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A new drug will soon be available to treat Rett syndrome. Amanda Marcotte's daughter is unable to tell whether she's OK with the potential side effects. So as a mother, Marcotte has to make the decision for her, and contemplates what are the right reasons.

Despite criticism that the island of Montreal has been overrun with bike paths since Projet Montréal came to power, Mayor Valérie Plante's administration has only added another 220 kilometres since 2017. The difference? Those additions were protected lanes on busier and larger traffic arteries.

A road trip across the Americas took a violent turn for a couple from Gatineau, Que., when they were viciously attacked by armed assailants in Panama last week.

In a high-tech attempt to save history from the ravages of time, a Canadian company has come up with a new app to tell the stories of more than 300,000 slain soldiers around the world.

Via Rail's service standards have eroded substantially over the last decade, with many more trains arriving late.

Families are grappling with the consequences of growing gun violence in Hamilton and across the Greater Toronto Area this year. Several of the region's police forces have warned of an alarming rise in shootings since January.

Researchers say intense wind recorded on the Sunshine Coast earlier this week was actually a tornado. There were no reported injuries, but the tempest did cause some damage.

A small community of about 8,000 people is mourning the loss of a beloved local nurse, whose estranged husband has been charged with her Monday death, which occurred just east of Trail, B.C. 

The Alberta government is asking rural municipalities to send letters pointing the finger at specific oil and gas companies that aren't paying their property taxes — but one rural leader says there's no hope for enforcement.

On Saturday, Jonathan Sénécal and the Montreal Carabins will face rival Laval Rouge et Or in the RSEQ championship, with the winner headed to the national semifinal Mitchell Bowl.

The last of four people sentenced for concealing an Edmonton man’s body in a ditch following his death in 2021 will serve 17 months in jail.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall for several brands of bread and buns due to pieces of metal in the products.

The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) has taken the makers of an AI chatbot to court over what it says are a violation of its terms of service, due to the chatbot scraping CanLII's database in bulk.

The Wabanaki-Labrador Indigenous Health Research Network has had its funding renewed by the federal government for another five years. The network aims to improve the health of Indigenous peoples and build capacity for Indigenous health research in the Atlantic region.

Half the complaints about the RCMP in New Brunswick collected over eight years allege neglect of duty. The finding comes as several municipal leaders question whether they're getting their money's worth from the Mounties.

More than a dozen Conservatives wrote to the federal government on behalf of communities in their ridings calling for them to receive funding through the Housing Accelerator Fund — a program Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has promised to cut. 

Most of the opposition parties on Parliament Hill are ditching the high-profile annual United Nations conference on climate change this year, citing human rights concerns in the host country Azerbaijan little more than a year after the mass exodus of nearly 120,000 ethnic Armenians from their homes in the once-disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. 

Quebec's police watchdog says Tasers and pepper spray were allegedly used before police shot two men in Salluit, Que.

The government of Canada has expressed concerns directly to Russia following reports that Moscow was behind a plot to put incendiary devices on planes flying to North America.

Justice Carrie Sharpe, who led a fatality inquiry into the death of Tim Hague after he was knocked out in an Edmonton boxing match in 2017, has made 14 recommendations for changes to the way combative sports are regulated in Alberta.