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Montreal's ombudswoman described homelessness experienced by Indigenous people in the city as a "humanitarian crisis" in a report released Wednesday.

Liberal lawmakers on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are vowing to defend access to legal abortions, but the issue's divergent and divisive history in each country guarantees they'll go about it in very different ways.

Temperatures at unprecedented levels have led to critical water and electricity shortages.

A House of Commons committee says the federal government needs to tell Canadians if it’s collecting data about their movements and allow them to opt out of that collection. 

Ontario's election campaign began in earnest Wednesday with the party leaders promising to either build or cancel a planned highway that would cut through and serve key battleground areas.

The Ontario Liberals offered a stark choice at the start of the provincial election campaign on Wednesday: $10 billion more for schools or Doug Ford’s Highway 413.

The Liberals endured a day-long grilling over fossil fuel subsidies from the New Democrats on Tuesday.

Only two political parties managed to raise more money in the first quarter of this year than at the end of 2021: the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois.

Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is set to review what qualifies as a Canadian film or TV program as part of a move to modernize the country's broadcast laws.

Rescinding the constitutional right to an abortion would be just the beginning, President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, as the world confronted anew the possibility that women in the United States are poised to lose the right to choose.

The senior hydrologist with Yukon’s Department of Environment says there is a concern for flooding with record−high snowpacks in many of the basins the territory monitors.

A push from the Bloc Québécois for the House of Commons to confirm the right to an abortion failed Tuesday, as Conservative MPs were warned against commenting on the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that has thrown the issue back into the domestic spotlight.

High school students making art that changes an existing message learn how meaning is constructed, giving them a tool to challenge and engage with both dominant narratives and modern memes. The winner of a Toronto youth arts award says this is needed now more than ever to fight the rampant disinformation and other hazards of the internet and social media.

The “urban heat island effect” creates extra-hot temperatures that kill. But cities can prescribe powerful treatments, like green spaces and reflective roofs.