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A Wet'suwet'en leader who will have her sentence reduced after a judge found RCMP breached her Charter rights during her arrest at a pipeline blockade says it doesn't feel like justice was served.

Emily Ritchie wasn't nervous about finding a doctor in Denmark.

As egg prices surge amid the ongoing bird flu outbreak affecting poultry farms, authorities report a rising trend of smuggling attempts at the U.S. and Mexico border.

Musk blew up at the Danish astronaut, calling him a derogatory slur after the former ISS commander said his claims were false.

The drugmaker Novo Nordisk can meet present and future demand in the U.S. for its drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.

Bird flu has been detected in rats for the first time in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

Apple Cider Vinegar, a dramatic retelling of Gibson’s story released this month, doesn't recount what happened after it was revealed in 2015 that she wasn’t sick.

During the coldest month of winter, the Mi'kmaq honour Apuknajit, the February full moon, with a Midwinter feast and ceremony. 

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Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette looks and feels like himself again at spring training after an injury-plagued 2024 season. 

Earthquakes Canada said the quake near Grande Cache would have been lightly felt in the surrounding areas of Edson, Grand Prairie and Whitecourt, as well as in Prince George, B.C.

Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette looks and feels like himself again at spring training after an injury-plagued 2024 season.

A Manitoba-wide Indigenous stand-up comedy contest will comes to its conclusion Thursday on a Winnipeg stage.

The challenge facing Montreal snow-removal crews this week is without precedent: two big storms back to back have left more than 70 centimetres of snow to clear.

Seasonal flu vaccines need to be updated each year because the virus changes so frequently. But the U.S. hasn't contributed its information on what's spreading there since January, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said.

The Centre for Whale Research says it has confirmed a new killer whale calf in a pod of endangered orcas that live off southwest British Columbia is female. 

The agency says it has seized various products from stores in New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario that have been found to contain "dangerous ingredients."

An internationally-celebrated exhibit featuring the work of 18 Indigenous architects from across North America is finally in Edmonton, after debuting in Venice in 2018. 

An independent group of physicians on Vancouver Island is renewing calls for B.C.s Ministry of Health to make good on a promise to create space for overdose prevention at acute care facilities. 

Mounties received a report late Monday night about two men who were skiing in the mountains southeast of Golden, but had failed to return home.

Travelling for international meetings or even joining a call with Canadian counterparts has become impossible for some U.S. government scientists, under new directives since U.S. President Donald Trump took office. 

Shannon Driscoll struggled with painful and heavy periods her whole life. 

A caravan of people pull up over the Montana hills as the sun is about to rise. People get out of their vehicles to see about a dozen bison crowded together in a corral.

As Terri Malcolm weaves sinew into the web of her dreamcatcher, she feels a deep connection to her ancestors and the women around her, she says.

Bundle up — that's the advice from Environment Canada after it issued extreme cold warnings for the Prairie provinces for the next two days.

After two years of not being able to fully open, the skateway on Ottawa's Rideau Canal is again the centre of celebrations for Ottawa's Winterlude festival.

The grand staircase in the Manitoba legislative building was lined with red dresses on Friday, highlighting a path that led to a table with candles. hearts and framed photos of women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered.

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An Alberta wildlife photographer and conservationist is calling for changes to the province's cougar hunting laws after a female cougar with kittens was killed near Canmore.

After surviving a life-threatening heart infection and undergoing emergency surgery, an Ontario man is celebrating both his recovery and his birthday on Valentine’s Day.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the quake happened just before 10 p.m. between Victoria and Port Angeles, Wash., on Thursday.

Alcohol causes 800,000 deaths across Europe each year but just a fraction of the population is aware of the risks, the WHO's Europe office said.

Six Assembly of First Nations regional chiefs accused their national leader of stoking division on the issue of child-welfare reform, suggesting she may be too cozy with the Canadian government, a letter obtained by CBC Indigenous shows.

A massive effort is underway in the Bow Valley, west of Calgary, to protect the area from a similarly disastrous that hit the town of Jasper, Alberta in the summer of 2024.

More than 2.77 million students were impacted by the PowerSchool data breach, according to numbers provided by multiple school boards.

As cases of seasonal influenza surge, health officials are closely monitoring a growing threat—the potential fusion of human and bird flu strains.

Some hormonal birth control products, including the pill, vaginal ring and skin patch, may increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke, new research suggests.

Sweethearts, friends and family dance a two-step style around drum groups, all coming together to dance in what is called a kahomani.

New research says the world's peatlands — squishy, waterlogged, buggy habitats — are vastly under-protected, despite the critical role they play in regulating the environment. 

Two years ago, on a late November morning, Sylvie Hudon woke up shaking like a leaf.

As migratory birds return to Canada this spring, health officials are bracing for a potential surge in bird flu cases as many may be carrying the virus.

Zelenirstat, a cancer-fighting pill made in Alberta, may have the power to save lives — but millions more in clinical trial funding and donations are needed to make it a reality.