The mayor of Halifax is speaking out against a plan circulating on social media to forcibly remove a statue of Edward Cornwallis from a downtown park that bears the name of the city's contentious founder.
An Ontario warehouse worker will retire $23.6 million richer thanks to a lotto win over the weekend -- a life-changing surprise he nearly missed had it not been for his perceptive wife.
A Japanese military history buff has apparently undermined a new theory that Amelia Earhart survived a crash-landing in the Pacific Ocean during her historic attempted round-the-world flight in 1937.
An Alaska woman received the best wedding gift ever, “hands down,” when the young man who received her deceased son’s heart surprised her on her wedding day.
Climate change will likely emerge as a key component of the latest NDP leadership debate as the candidates square off in a province where the government is in a fight with Ottawa over carbon pricing.
NDP leadership contenders vying for the same job found some common ground Tuesday night in their vociferous opposition to Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister on carbon pricing.
Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau is staying firm on Canada's commitment to sexual and reproductive health rights in the face of criticism by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, in a letter protesting the government's focus on contraceptives and abortion in its aid policy.
A Ferrari driver’s need for speed will go unfulfilled for quite some time, after his vehicle was impounded and his licence suspended for doing more than twice the speed limit in B.C.
Strangers on a Florida beach formed an 80-person human chain to rescue nine members of family who had been caught in a riptide and pulled too far from shore.
More than 70 per cent of Canadians disagree with the government's decision to settle a lawsuit with Omar Khadr for a reported $10.5 million and an apology, according to the results of a new poll.
More than 70 per cent of Canadians polled disagree with the government's decision to settle a lawsuit with Omar Khadr for a reported $10.5 million and an apology, according to the results of a new survey.
A commissioner on the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women will resign at the end of this week.
A lobster fisherman with a passion for freeing whales from deadly fishing line was killed soon after he cut the last piece of rope from a massive whale in the waters off eastern New Brunswick, friends and colleagues confirmed Tuesday.
The Calgary police homicide unit is investigating after three bodies were found Monday in a burned-out vehicle at a construction site on the city's northwestern edge.
U.S. aviation authorities are investigating an apparent close call involving an Air Canada flight at San Francisco International Airport.
Investigators looking into what caused an apparent close call involving an Air Canada flight at San Francisco International Airport are expected to examine whether human error or controller procedures played a role in the incident, an aviation expert said Tuesday
With the Calgary Stampede in full swing, animal rights activists are demanding the immediate suspension of chuckwagon racing following the death of a horse that fractured its leg. Other top headlines this Tuesday morning include the deteriorating wildfire situation in B.C. and former U.S. president Jimmy Carter on a mission in Canada.
William Sandeson arranged a drug deal to kill a fellow university student and steal nine kilograms of marijuana, a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge said Tuesday before sentencing the former medical student and track athlete to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
A Halifax medical student involved in dealing drugs has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for the first-degree murder of 22-year-old Taylor Samson.
A new video show one couple's terrifying journey by car to flee B.C.'s West Chilcotin region due to wildfires on Sunday.
The head of emergency management in British Columbia says the province's wildfire situation will remain challenging for several weeks.
A meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump's eldest son and a Russian lawyer during the presidential campaign occurred at the behest of a Moscow-based singer with family ties to Trump's businesses, according to a participant in the talks. Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged Monday he made time for the meeting hoping to get information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump's eldest son revealed Tuesday that he was eager to hear damaging information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government -- disclosing a series of emails that marked the clearest sign to date that Trump's campaign was willing to consider election help from a longtime U.S. adversary.
U.S. President Donald Trump's eldest son released an email chain Tuesday that shows him discussing plans to hear damaging information on Hillary Clinton that were described as 'part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump.'
U.S. President Donald Trump's eldest son released an email chain Tuesday that shows him discussing plans to hear damaging information on Hillary Clinton that were described as 'part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump.'
