Dr. Mark Wainberg, a celebrated Canadian scientist known internationally for his ground-breaking research on HIV/AIDS, has died after an incident swimming in southern Florida. He was 71.
Citing evidence of the risks to developing brains, the Canadian Psychiatric Association is urging the government to outlaw sales of cannabis to people under the age of 21, and to restrict the quantity and potency of cannabis products that can be purchased by people aged 21 to 25.
A new discovery of the earliest dinosaur relative has challenged scientists’ previous theories on their evolution and fills in the missing evolutionary link.
The sculptor of Wall Street's "Charging Bull" says New York City is violating his legal rights by forcing his bronze beast to face off against the "Fearless Girl."
Ohio's government watchdog says two prisoners took computers from a disassembly program and used them to access their prison's network, create inmate passes for restricted areas, and apply for credit cards under another inmate's name for a planned tax fraud scheme.
An Alberta man is set to be sentenced in Canada after admitting to travelling to Ireland to have sex with a teenage girl.
Canadians have been running out of space to bury their dead for years, but there are few easy solutions to what one landscape architect calls a 'looming crisis.'
Dr. Sarah Dawn Jones brought a patient roughly 30 oxycodone pills a month, even as records show thousands of pills were prescribed in his name, the man's roommate told the Nova Scotia doctor's drug-trafficking trial Wednesday.
Police investigators watched and tearfully celebrated Wednesday as a former RCMP counter-terrorism officer who tortured and starved his son in the basement of his family's suburban Ottawa home was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
A former RCMP counter-terrorism officer has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars for torturing and starving his young son in the basement of the family's home.
Dozens of countries were hit with a huge cyberextortion attack Friday that locked up computers and held users' files for ransom at a multitude of hospitals, companies and government agencies.
Britain's health service was hit Friday by a huge international cyberattack that froze computers at hospitals across the country -- an attack that shut down wards, closed emergency rooms and brought medical treatments to a screeching halt.
Russia's top diplomat accused the United States on Wednesday of carrying out an unlawful attack against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces as he opened a fraught meeting with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Laying bare deep and dangerous divisions on Syria and other issues, President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that U.S. relations with Russia "may be at an all-time low." His top diplomat offered a similarly grim assessment from the other side of the globe after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow on Wednesday as the two countries traded sharp accusations about a chemical weapons attack in Syria.
Fire officials will sift through the burned remains of a home in New Brunswick where the bodies of an elderly mother and her three sons were found.
Human rights activist Malala Yousafzai will address the Canadian Parliament Wednesday after receiving honorary citizenship for her work on girls' education.
Malala Yousafzai, the irrepressible Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who famously survived a Taliban bullet in 2012, has become an honorary Canadian citizen.
Five things to know: Malala Yousafzai receives an honorary Canadian citizenship; United Airlines promises to review its policies on the removal of passengers; the Bank of Canada releases new projections; the provincial election campaign kicks off in British Columbia; and an indigenous company has an ambitious plan to bring high-speed internet to remote First Nations communities.
After people were horrified by video of a passenger getting dragged off a full United Express flight by airport police, the head of United's parent company said the airline was reaching out to the man to "resolve this situation."
United Airlines sought to quell the uproar over a man being dragged off a plane by announcing on Tuesday that it would no longer ask police to remove passengers from full flights and would compensate customers who were on the flight when the man was removed.
The chief executive of United Airlines said the carrier will no longer ask police to remove passengers from full flights after the uproar over a man who was dragged off a plane by airport officers in Chicago.
B.C.'s political parties wasted little time taking potshots at one another on the first official day of the election campaign ahead of the provincial vote on May 9.
Philippine troops battling militants in a central province have killed a key Abu Sayyaf commander who had been blamed for the beheadings of two Canadians hostages in 2016.
A member of Qatar's ruling family has paid $2 million to a Greek shoe salesman's firm to secure "proof of life" and ultimately free relatives and others kidnapped in Iraq over a year ago, presumably by Shiite militiamen.
