Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said the strategy to lift all remaining health restrictions was proposed by the province's chief medical officer of health, not by the Alberta government.

Ontario students will return to the classroom full-time in September with remote learning continuing to be an option, the province confirmed in its official back-to-school strategy — but the plan is...

The federal government has denied Alberta's request to amend the Criminal Code to allow people to carry pepper spray for self-defence.

TheraPsil has sent a 165-page proposal to Health Canada outlining regulations for so-called magic mushrooms based on the same ones the federal government first created 20 years ago for medicinal canna...

An award-winning artist based in Kingston, Ont., has made inaccurate claims for decades of being Indigenous and a Sixties Scoop survivor, according to family, members of 11 First Nations, and other c...

Banks, businesses and government offices were shuttered Wednesday as Lebanon marks one year since the horrific explosion at the port of Beirut.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced mounting pressure Tuesday to resign, including from U.S. President Joe Biden and other onetime Democratic allies, after an investigation found he sexually harassed nea...

A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who had a public feud with officials from her team has boarded a plane to Vienna.

The British navy says the hijackers who boarded a vessel off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman have left the targeted ship, without elaborating.

A Belarusian activist living in exile in Ukraine was found hanged in a park near his home in Kyiv early on Tuesday, and Ukrainian police said they had launched a murder case.

Saskatchewan Roughriders president-CEO Craig Reynolds is the special guest on this week's Rider Rumblings video podcast.

Isaac Harker will be the Roughriders' backup quarterback for the second straight season.

"I think the pandemic has amplified the need for that — not only to be active, but to have more space to be more active."

One person was rushed to hospital with serious injuries after a crash in North Central Regina on Monday night.

A fire that destroyed a Regina duplex on Monday was the result of arson, according to the city's fire department.

Saanich police stopped a suspicious vehicle in the area of McKenzie Avenue and the Patricia Bay Highway on Monday and found 10 replica firearms and drugs believed to be fentanyl, methamphetamine and psilocybin. A man and a woman known to police w...

FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The British navy says the hijackers who boarded a vessel off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman have left the targeted ship, without elaborating. The notice on Wednesday came after the Br...

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $26 million jackpot in Tuesday's Lotto Max draw.The jackpot for the next draw on August 6 will be at an estimated $34 million.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Republican candidates heading into their first televised debate Wednesday in California’s looming recall election face a gamble: whether to pile up on Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom or try to undercut each other in front of a sta...

The chairwoman of the Greater Victoria School Board announced her resignation from the position in a message on Twitter late Tuesday. “This is not a step I thought I would be taking, but I recognize the importance of aligning my values with my ...

School isn’t quite back to normal, but there are fewer pandemic restrictions than last year.

Third doses for those who are immunocompromised among ideas being pondered to prevent wastage of thousands of expiring Moderna vaccine doses.

‘It is so uplifting. I’ve read each and every single message,’ says Almeera Khalid, who has the opportunity to do a postgraduate degree in forced migration and refugee studies at Oxford University this fall, in part thanks to Star readers who d...

It may take several attempts. It may fail. But it’s important to try, and to help with these conversations, we’ve put together a basic guide on how to approach the topic, Amir Imani and Sabina Vohra-Miller write.

In calls between world leaders, it’s not always easy to tell how the discussion went, Edward Keenan writes.

For the first time this year, the Art Gallery of Windsor will be open to the general public.

Windsor Regional Hospital is the second hospital in Ontario and the first in this region to announce staff must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to frequent testing. “We recognize the importance of immunization to reduce the risk of ser...

Eighteen of the busiest City of Windsor buildings will have their entrances and washrooms outfitted with touchless technology thanks to $3.2 million in government funding announced Tuesday. The money will also be used to upgrade four kilometres of mu...

McGregor’s Luc Warnock turned things around in a big way on Tuesday. Of the five area golfers to qualify to play in the 116th Canadian Men’s Amateur Golf Championship, the 20-year-old Warnock had the worst opening-day round on Monday. “Honestly...

Tasbir Singh, 32, of Windsor, had no knowledge that his transport truck trailer was loaded with more than 1,000 kilograms of cannabis, says his lawyer.