Many hail July 1 as Canada Day, others may hearken back to when the nation's birthday was labelled Dominion Day, and some may wish to ignore it altogether, just like those who refused to celebrate the country's founding for the first dozen years of its existence.
Quebecers are significantly less likely than other Canadians to have learned about the Holocaust in school, to have read a book about the genocide in the Second World War or to have ever been in contact with a Jewish person, a new poll suggests.
A court battle is set to unfold on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, over the release of key evidence explaining what led to the wrongful murder conviction of a Nova Scotia man who spent almost 17 years in jail.
Bills are spending more than twice as long in the Senate since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's reforms to the upper house of Parliament, raising the question of who should get the credit for the chamber's more thorough approach — or the blame for its plodding pace.
Former prime minister Stephen Harper says he's willing to help the next British prime minister negotiate a divorce deal with the European Union — but he's not taking sides in the race to decide who that is.
After months of taking to the streets to demand pipeline project approvals and rallying last month to call for lower property tax increases, Calgary's business community is looking forward to heading outside for pancakes and parties as the Calgary Stampede kicks off this week.
Research into free-roaming plains bison in Saskatchewan's Prince Albert National Park says the herd could go extinct from overhunting in fields outside the protected area.
The Senate’s ethics officer says ex-senator Don Meredith created a poisoned work environment by harassing a half-dozen employees, plus a constable in the upper chamber's protection service.
Justin Trudeau kept his cards close to the vest on Saturday, June 29, 2019, as he wrapped up this weekend's high-stakes G20 meetings in Japan, acknowledging Canada's protracted impasse with China but offering few details about the ongoing effort to liberate the two Canadians caught in the crossfire.
The ranking U.S. diplomat on drug enforcement policy is to visit Ottawa in July to kick-start a fresh round of co-operation between the two countries on tackling the opioid crisis.
A rare encounter with several juvenile bluntnose sixgill sharks in waters off Vancouver implies the population may be larger than previously thought, says a marine biologist.
An infamous load of Canadian trash that had been rotting in the Philippines for more than five years has come full circle, arriving by ship at a port south of Vancouver on Saturday, June 29, 2019, morning.