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Chase Joynt seeks a more expansive and nuanced telling of trans stories, and he’s not afraid to experiment with genre in Framing Agnes, a mix of creative and documentary filmmaking that won two awards at Sundance on Friday.

Chemical companies have produced more chemicals — including plastics — than the planet can safely sustain without potentially crossing a planetary boundary and causing irreversible harm to the environment or human health, says a team of international researchers.

A peer-reviewed study published Thursday by Stanford University researchers found that as much as 1.3 per cent of the gas used in typical U.S. stoves could be leaking into the atmosphere unburned.

Four vessels and more than 60 international scientists from Canada, Japan, the U.S., Russia and Korea are taking part in one of the largest-ever surveys of salmon in the North Pacific Ocean this winter.

"I am sickened to see protesters dance on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and desecrate the National War Memorial. Generations of Canadians have fought and died for our rights, including free speech, but not this. Those involved should hang their heads in shame," said Gen. Wayne Eyre, chief of the defence staff. 

Numerous convoys were held in conjunction with a national convoy against vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers that rolled across Canada this past week and arrived in Ottawa on Saturday.

By the afternoon, the swell of traffic forced police to close streets and warn there was no longer room for vehicles downtown, other than first responders.

Anyone with doubts that COVID-19 is simply a cold or a flu can see with their own eyes what the virus is capable of doing.

The Conservative election review by former Alberta MP James Cumming was presented Thursday to Conservative MPs on the final day of the party's two-day caucus retreat, which was held ahead of Parliament's return Monday.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says nobody wants a planned anti-vaccination protest on Parliament Hill this weekend to turn into a violent attempt to overthrow the government and warned people not to dismiss the protesters as simple freedom fighters.

A new program means Inuit living in each of the territory's 25 communities have a chance to win a snowmobile for getting their shots.

Young people should have a say in their wages and futures and that means giving them the vote, says the second-year U of T law student.

A group of people camped out in the snowy Nova Scotia wilderness to save a patch of forest have received their first piece of positive news since they started in early December.

Climate change is already killing people, but countries don’t have an easy way to count the true mortality cost of carbon. A new project might change that.