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P.E.I. government MLAs could have breached the Conflict of Interest Act if they accepted tickets to NHL games or other gifts without claiming them on their public disclosure statements, opposition MLAs charged in the legislature Wednesday.

Calgary police say they are looking into an arson in the northwest community of Hillhurst early Tuesday that may be connected to threatening letters sent to nearby residents.

A painting by renowned Canadian artist Emily Carr that sold for $50 US at a barn sale in New York State fetched $290,000 Cdn at a Toronto auction on Wednesday night.

An airline that launched flights from Iqaluit to Montreal this past summer has now cancelled its route. 

City council is being asked to approve a one-time, $19-million investment next year to help fund the low-income monthly transit pass as budget deliberations entered a third day. If council doesn't, Calgary Transit warns the cost could be passed along to riders.

Brampton city council has approved a new bylaw that prohibits "nuisance demonstrations" outside places of worship in the municipality following a series of violent clashes earlier this month. 

The fire chief in Dawson City, Yukon, is urging people to keep on top of cleaning their chimneys and woodstoves after a fire destroyed a home on Tuesday morning.

Alberta MP Randy Boissonnault has resigned from cabinet amid allegations about his business dealings and criticism of his shifting claims about his Indigenous ancestry.

A provincial byelection has been called for Lethbridge-West, a southern Alberta riding that has been without a representative since the summer.

Toronto police said an infant has died after being reported missing in a midtown neighbourhood on Wednesday.

Environment Canada issued a fog advisory for the London area and southwestern Ontario Wednesday morning as commuters travelled treacherous roads to their early destinations.

Jordan O'Brien-Tobin, the man who stabbed a 16-year-old to death at a TTC subway station in 2023, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Calgary Zoo officials confirmed on Wednesday that the recent death of a two-year-old gorilla last week was an accident resulting from human error.

Tens of thousands of people, primarily on Vancouver Island, were without power overnight after hurricane-force wind gusts from a "bomb cyclone" system blasted southwest British Columbia on Tuesday night and into Wednesday.

The lawyer representing six people who allege they were sexually abused by Tony Humby is calling for a public inquiry.

Oliver!, based on the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, is coming to Sudbury's YES Theatre this Friday.

Every time they walk by the bedroom of their 30-year-old daughter, Shavonne, at their home in Westville, N.S., Wesley and Sheila Lees feel heartbreak from her loss and the way she died.

Growing up in Saint-Quentin, a small village in northwestern New Brunswick, Pascale Joëlle always felt different.

Snowy, icy and windy conditions have created hazardous driving in many areas of western Manitoba on Wednesday as a jolt of winter arrived overnight.

The snow has fallen and while temperatures continue to drop in Saskatchewan, non-profit organisations are trying to find solutions for people needing a place to stay warm. 

A central P.E.I. school's decision to remove a tribute to students who died has sparked an online backlash, and even made its way to the floor of the legislative assembly. 

An Edmonton architectural firm and development company are teaming up to try to save the old Royal Alberta Museum building.

Thick fog in parts of the region has led to school buses being cancelled in Windsor and Essex County for the Wednesday morning commute.

Chief Chris Skead of Wauzhushk Onigum Nation says the 14-acre lands of Anicinabe Park in the city of  Kenora, Ont., have been used by First Nations people for thousands of years, and they want it back under their control. 

Months after a report showed violence in Toronto's shelters has spiked 280 per cent over the last decade, the city is proposing a three-year plan that it hopes will make shelter clients and workers safer. 

A team of scientists, including one in Saskatoon, say they have strong evidence that the COVID-19 virus jumped from infected animals to humans, rather than originating from a laboratory leak. 

Two months after Josclyn Johnson's 18-month-old daughter started daycare, the centre announced it was leaving the national $10-a-day program, which has left Johnson considering a line of credit to pay the new $2,310 monthly fee or leaving the workforce to care for her child.

Kitchener is now a bird-friendly city.

Islanders in need of health care without a primary physician can use walk-in clinics or virtual care, but Green Party MLA Matt MacFarlane wants to know just how accessible the services are to those in need.

A Yukon-based clinical social worker has had her professional registration stripped — at least temporarily — for pushing conspiracy theories, but that's not stopping her from offering services.

After two years of Pierre Poilievre as their leader, many Conservative MPs say they are much less free now than they were before his arrival.

Four companies currently dominating a multibillion-dollar market in the United States are being accused of sharing detailed, sensitive inside information with each other as part of an alleged conspiracy to raise the price of their goods and make more money off consumers.

A Toronto music school featured on one of Taylor Swift's albums is now hoping to expand, launching a $19.89 fundraising campaign aptly named after the pop superstar's album 1989.

The City of London is reaching out to Londoners living in new subdivisions, in particular ones where the developer —  instead of the city — remains responsible for maintaining roads and other infrastructure. 

Nothing is preordained in soccer, but if there was anything like a certainty before the Canadian men faced Suriname in Toronto on Tuesday night, it was that Jonathan David would score.

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One hundred potential immigrants earmarked for another island in Atlantic Canada may be headed to Newfoundland and Labrador. 

With a week to go before election day, Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative and Liberal leaders touted pieces of their platforms while the NDP leader cast her ballot.

A New Brunswick judge has ruled that Aboriginal title can be declared over privately owned land — even land they're not fighting to reclaim, according to a recent decision by the Court of King's Bench.

A Québec Solidaire MNA who has been at the centre of a political firestorm issued an apology to Coalition Avenir Québec ministers on Tuesday, but he stopped short of retracting the statement he made about racism and the negative portrayal of ethnic and cultural groups at the National Assembly that triggered the controversy in the first place.

As a family of four from India struggled through a brutal snowstorm that would eventually take their lives near the Manitoba-U.S. border almost three years ago, they called one of the people who had sent them there to ask for help, the Minnesota trial of two alleged human smugglers heard Tuesday.

Alec Karakatsanis says body cameras are "one of the most dangerous developments in modern policing."

Some Indigenous leaders are now backing calls for Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault to resign over conflicting claims about his family's background.

After 18 hours of deliberations, a Calgary jury has convicted a man of first-degree murder — and his female friend of manslaughter — in the case of a victim found dead in a southwest alley.

Rogers Sports & Media says it has laid off a few dozen employees in its audio business, citing uncertainty in the advertising market.

The former Summerside city councillor who pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from a veterans' group stood in a P.E.I. provincial courtroom Tuesday and apologized before a judge and about a dozen victims and their supporters.

Alberta's annual inflation rate was the highest in the country in October, according to new data released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday. 

Toronto city staff are calling for a general contractor accused of overbilling to face an additional suspension to stop it from bidding on new contracts as an investigation continues into the allegations.

A Naramata, B.C., man was handed a life sentence Tuesday for the gruesome killings of two brothers murdered during a drug deal in May 2021.

The head of an N.W.T. women's association says she is disappointed after the City of Yellowknife rejected its plan to open a daycare in the Niven neighbourhood.