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Although former premier Dennis King suggested the province might be looking to get out of its multimillion-dollar sponsorship agreement with the National Hockey League, the P.E.I. Legislature heard Thursday that the provincial government spent even more money on promotion at a major league event in January. 

Toronto city councillors have voted to give themselves a staff-recommended pay raise of nearly 25 per cent.

The city-designated outdoor sheltering site, north of the downtown core, will soon take up a smaller footprint with fewer residents and shorter operating hours.

The Yukon's education department says it's going to roll out a student outcome strategy in September, six years after the auditor general of Canada told the territory it needed one.

In a fiery legislature speech this week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said the Mark Carney Liberals "want this lady and Alberta to just sit down and shut up."

Saskatchewan agricultural producers are hoping to see some more clarity and engagement surrounding key issues from the incoming federal government.

Cedric Mullins had two home runs and singled in another run for a total of five RBIs as the Baltimore Orioles routed the Toronto Blue Jays 12-2 on Thursday in Major League Baseball's opening day.

The province's emergency overnight shelter and Community Outreach Centre will continue operating in its current location within Charlottetown despite a city council vote earlier this week, P.E.I.'s housing minister says.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced he would boost the amount that can be put into tax-free savings accounts, if the funds support domestic growth.

Buckingham Palace said the King's public engagements for the rest of the week were cancelled 'as a precautionary measure, acting on medical advice.'

Toronto council is sounding the alarm this week after a new report highlights major federal funding cuts that will hurt the city's ability to help newcomers who can find themselves relying on local shelters and other services.

Carney promised to bring retaliatory measures and reduce internal trade barriers after Trump announced new auto tariffs that will begin next week.

New Brunswick's chief medical officer says the government will begin analyzing data into a mystery brain disease that has affected hundreds of people in the last several years.

The 23-year-old figure skater said that his parents, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were initially scheduled to board a different plane.

It's a change of strategy. In 2021, Legault said the Liberals and the NDP were "dangerous" and strongly suggested he wanted the Conservatives to win a minority government.

Some Blue Jays fans booed the United States' national anthem at Toronto's home opener against the Baltimore Orioles.

While many celebrated the federal government's renewal of the Inuit Child First Initiative, some still worry that a vital program for kids in Nunavut is at risk of shutting down. 

It's election time, so receiving a text message from "Mary" or "Nancy" asking about your voting preferences might not seem all that unusual.

A Michigan patient died of rabies earlier this year after contracting the virus through an organ transplant, health officials said.

Canadian industry groups have slammed Trump's latest set of tariffs, which will see a 25 per cent tariff imposed on foreign-made cars.

Hildebrandt, who has endured eight pregnancies since her 53rd birthday, says she is unfazed by unfavourable reactions to her lifestyle choices.

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening 'large scale' tariffs on Canada and the European Union after slapping a fresh round of tariffs on auto imports.

Point To Point Parcel, located in Point Roberts, Wash., served customers on both sides of the border, but co-owner Beth Calder says they can no longer sustain the business.

The Toronto Blue Jays have put out an aggressive but unorthodox lineup for their home opener against the Baltimore Orioles.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow called the city's response to the biggest storm of this winter "a failure." On Thursday afternoon, we'll find out what city council will do about it.

The U.S. Army said the Hercules armored vehicle the four U.S. soldiers were in during a training exercise had been found submerged in a body of water.

Manitoba says it's responding to U.S. tariffs with $1.5 million in grants toward developing a made-in-Manitoba program.

Stratford residents will see another tax increase this year as part of the P.E.I. town's budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Twenty people are looking for a place to stay after crews put out an extensive fire at a motel in London, Ont., early Thursday morning. 

After an icy, wet night night across much of Alberta, a spring snow storm is expected to hit central and northern parts of  the province Thursday morning. 

'The rocket's frozen exhaust plume appears to be spinning in the atmosphere and reflecting the sunlight,' the Met Office explained.

Six people are facing charges after a large-scale cannabis network with a estimated annual value of more than $16 million was shuttered by the RCMP, police say.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will cut about 10,000 full-time jobs and close half of its regional offices, it said on Thursday.

Click on the video player above to watch live coverage of the 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships from Boston.

U.S. immigration authorities have detained and revoked the visa of a Turkish doctoral student at a Massachusetts university who had voiced support for Palestinians in Israel's war in Gaza, a development the state's attorney general called "alarming."

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services says everything it buys is under the microscope as it looks for alternatives to U.S. products, but adds it can't come at the cost of affecting patients.

Maple syrup producers in northern Ontario say the season is off to a strong start, with sap running well in the first few weeks of tapping.

A Nova Scotia judge has convicted a 74-year-old Halifax-area man of a number of sex offences for abusing his daughter over three decades, beginning when she was a young teenager and lasting until her late 40s.

A Nackawic, N.B., man says he suspected a fuel leak at a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Woodstock and complained to a manager months before it was shut down.

A Yale University professor is leaving the U.S. and taking a position at the University of Toronto (U of T) due to what he says is a "far-right regime" under President Donald Trump. 

A fungal superbug is spreading through hospitals and nursing homes at an 'alarming rate,' with the CDC recently calling it an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat.

U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently cited 'massive' amounts of fentanyl coming in from Canada as reasoning for his tariffs, but a new report appears to contradict him.

Wet floors, busted pipes, sewer problems and broken elevators have become all too common at the Sainte-Croix Drummondville Hospital, says Dr. Catherine Tétreault. 

WARNING: This story contains details of violence against Indigenous women.

The submarine, which was sailing off one of the beaches in the tourist promenade area, had carried 45 tourists of various nationalities.

An alarming spike in overdoses in Saskatoon has some front-line workers calling on the Saskatchewan government to expand its Take Home Naloxone program to include the more user-friendly nasal spray, not just injection kits.

WARNING: This article contains details of domestic violence.

The front-runners in the race to be Canada's next prime minister have to convince local voters to give them a seat in the House, and their individual battlegrounds are side-by-side.

Documents released through a freedom of information request reveal that B.C.'s former energy minister was told last September that at least seven "large-scale hydrogen projects" were being cancelled or paused because of issues including electricity supply, high cost and transportation.

The full implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in Canada is top of mind for some First Nations leaders in B.C. as federal election campaigns are underway.