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A new font to typeset Salish Indigenous languages means so much more than just the words that it will be used to write, one of the people behind its creation says.

One of the architects of the law that governs Canada's prison system says it's understandable people want revenge on killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo, but that's not what the prison system is designed for.

Weather maps hang on the walls and precipitation reports flash across screens in the Winnipeg office where major decisions about Canada’s battle against an unprecedented wildfire season are made.

“It's just not an education story — it's a social story,” Chief Russell Wesley told Canada's National Observer.

El Niño could push global temperatures past the 1.5 C tipping point, the World Meteorological Organization warns.

Connor McTavish and three companions had just planned to explore the site of a shipwreck in Alberni Inlet on Vancouver Island last month when he spotted something in the corner of his eye.

Canada is dealing with a series of intense wildfires that have spread from the western provinces to Quebec, with hundreds of forest fires burning. And we're sharing the smoke with our neighbours to the south.

Fossil fuel giant BP — which left the oilsands to dive into Canada’s offshore market last year — is planning to drill an exploratory well in a marine refuge off the coast of Newfoundland. Rules around marine refuges mean that exploratory drilling is allowed, but oil production is not.

The Trudeau government is earmarking $1.5 million for LGBTQ community organizations to boost security measures at Pride parades and other events this summer.

Emotions ran high in a Yukon First Nations community on Monday as officials announced the search for unmarked graves would begin at a former residential school site.

British Columbia officials have sought to rebut claims that drugs prescribed through the province's safe supply program aimed at curbing overdoses are being re-sold to young people, helping fuel the deadly drug toxicity crisis.

The BC Wildfire Service says the Donnie Creek wildfire has grown into one of the largest blazes over the last century in the province.

Clint Blyth continues to see his stream banks erode each year.

Max Fawcett talks to the Calgary 2021 mayoral runner-up Jeromy Farkas about political highs and lows and Alberta's post-election blues on the latest episode of Maxed Out.