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Storms, hurricanes and floods driven in part by climate change will cost the federal disaster fund $902 million a year over the next five years, well above past averages, the parliamentary budget officer predicted Thursday.

Homeless campers on the grounds of Victoria's courthouse are staging a block party as they face eviction.

The leader of an al-Qaida-inspired plot to explode truck bombs in downtown Toronto during the morning rush hour will have his Canadian citizenship reinstated under legislation introduced by the Liberals on Thursday.

TORONTO -- Molson Coors Canada says it's offering a limited release pale ale brewed from a 108-year-old recipe found deep in the company's archives.

BIG TANCOOK ISLAND, N.S. -- One of Canada's last remaining one-room schools is down to its last remaining student.

As Quebec Court Judge Daniel Bedard read from his decision to convict Stefanie Trudeau of assault for the excessively violent arrest she made three years ago, without cause, the question was no longer if she did anything wrong that night.

Donald Trump wants a wall on the border -- just not the northern one.

A lawyer for a Canadian teacher ordered back to prison in Indonesia said the man plans to appeal a Supreme Court ruling that overturned his acquittal on charges of sexually abusing three children at a prestigious international school in the country.

Friends and family of a British woman who died in a Calgary hospital after a collision with a snowboarder at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort say the RCMP should be conducting a criminal investigation into her death.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is criticizing the federal government for quietly approving a hefty increase to MPs' office budgets.

Manitoba government documents suggest polar bear encounters with people have reached record levels on the shores of Hudson Bay with more of the mammals ending up in a specialized jail in Churchill.

VANCOUVER — The RCMP spent just over $900,000 in overtime pay over the course of a five-month undercover operation that led to the arrests of two terrorism suspects in British Columbia.

A family in the Newfoundland town of Conception Bay South says it's been told, in no uncertain terms, to get rid of its three chickens.

Canada is a land of extremes, from car-freezing cold to crop-searing heat and drenching rains to drought. But you ain't seen nothin' yet.

A zoo owner shot and killed a five-year-old male lion named Zeus that had escaped from its enclosure at a small private zoo near Wendover Sunday afternoon.

GODS LAKE NARROWS, Man. -- The leader of a remote northern Manitoba First Nation says the inquest into the fatal RCMP shooting of a man on his reserve essentially condones killing indigenous people.

Two weeks after a saucy Canadian website poked fun at Donald Trump by inviting disaffected American voters to move to Cape Breton, the island's moment in the American spotlight continues unabated.

Plans to move female prisoners into a separate unit at a men's penitentiary are a "less than ideal" fix for overcrowding, says an inmate advocate.

Hospitals that receive public funding have an obligation to offer legal health services, including doctor-assisted death, says a member of the provincial-territorial expert advisory group on physician-assisted dying.

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — Twenty counts of animal cruelty have been laid against a dairy farm and seven of its employees in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley, about 18 months after a disturbing video surfaced showing farm animals being viciously beaten.

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