Retail sales fell by almost six per cent in April, the biggest slump in a year, as the third wave of COVID-19 across Canada closed stores and kept shoppers' wallets tightly shut.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole said today he's troubled by the cancellation of Canada Day celebrations in some municipalities and accused "a small group of activist voices" of continually talki...

The Trudeau government is proposing legal changes intended to curb online hate speech and make it easier for the victims of hate speech to launch complaints.

Residents who fled their homes due to an out-of-control wildfire west of Edmonton will be able to return Wednesday evening.

On Wednesday, organizers announced that this year's festival, which is scheduled to take place Sept. 9-18, will be an in-person affair again.

Alberta will provide $8 million to support Indigenous-led research into undocumented deaths and burials in residential schools, Premier Jason Kenney announced Wednesday.

Winners of back-to-back bronze medals, the Canadian players have aspirations of reaching the medal podium for an unprecedented third consecutive time at the Tokyo Olympics — but with a loftier goal....

Over 43% of adults in First Nations communities are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. As of June 18, a total of 588,916 vaccine doses were administered to individuals aged 12 and older in 687 First N...

A school in Edmonton that will open next year has been named after Joey Moss, a legendary locker-room attendant for the city's national hockey and football teams.

"What if, instead of security guards at city hall, there was a team of compassionate and caring anti-racist grandmas present to care for those in need?" Activist group Not One More Death is posing thi...

In the span of 17 years, Jason Thornhill has transformed a flat section of prairie southeast of Calgary into a destination for gardeners, campers and train lovers. The land had the good fortune of hav...

Scientists and members of the Homalco First Nation are trying to figure out what triggered a massive landslide in rural B.C., and how badly it affected salmon habitat.

As First Nations in Quebec plan possible searches of former residential school sites, documents that could help that process have still not been turned over by the Quebec government and the Missionary...

Few recent events have rattled this country more profoundly than the reported discovery of the remains of more than 200 children on the grounds of a former residential school in B.C.

The number of people applying to enter Nova Scotia, some lured by a campaign encouraging them to move to the province, increased sharply before the third wave. It alarmed public health officials, and ...

More Ontarians living in designated hot spots for the delta COVID-19 variant are eligible to book earlier second vaccine doses starting today.

After going unclaimed for weeks, the $70 million Lotto Max jackpot has finally been won.

I never fully understood my culture or the history of our people as a child but simply knew I was Mi'kmaw and that the adults and elders in the community would tell us it was something to be proud of....

An out-of-control wildfire has forced the evacuation of some residents living between Evansburg and Wildwood in Yellowhead County, just west of Edmonton.