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Throngs of people lined the streets of downtown Halifax Saturday to see a sitting prime minister walk in the city’s Pride parade for the first time.

A transgender inmate in British Columbia has won a years-long battle to serve the remainder of her sentence for first-degree murder at a women’s prison.

The federal government is promising more funding to support residents affected by raging wildfires in British Columbia as some of the thousands of people displaced prepare to return home.

A new tip-sharing edict at Lone Star Texas Grill has created divisions inside the workplace as servers, kitchen staff and managers are poised to share a bigger cut of the gratuities. “It’s very tense,” said Nick Cossette, who works in food preparation at the Lone Star in the ByWard Market.

Respecting treaties with Indigenous Peoples, paying taxes and filling out the census are listed as mandatory obligations of Canadian citizenship in a draft version of a new study guide for the citizenship exam.

A Canadian yoga innovator who started working out of an old garage in Toronto more than a decade ago and expanded worldwide has died of a suspected drug overdose in Victoria.

SAN FRANCISCO — Could Alzheimer’s disease be prevented one day with a vaccine?

The Surrey Creep Catchers, a controversial group of vigilante pedophile hunters, have been ordered to destroy all videos and "stop collecting, using and disclosing" the personal information of two individuals caught up in their sting operations.

Ottawa police have obtained a Canada-wide arrest warrant for a suspect in two fatal shootings and an attempted homicide in the city’s west-end.Alam Buoc of Ottawa, 30, is wanted by police for two counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of Abdulrahman Al- Shammari, 26, and Dirie Olol, 27, on Monday.

Employees at a Tim Hortons in Winnipeg have voted to unionize.

Justin Trudeau may be Rolling Stone's new poster boy, but their cover story is being accused of some glaring ignorance of Canada.

The head of a company that pays people to donate blood plasma says he’s hoping to get at least 1,000 donors a week at a newly opened clinic in New Brunswick.

Canada Post drivers will be expected to obey the law and not park their trucks in bike lanes, the corporation announced this week, though the policy will apply only in Toronto.

A passenger struck a Quebec bus driver in the head with a baseball bat after a dispute over a cat, police said Thursday.

If he were to abide by a request from the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF), Peter Bahlawanian says it might force him to close up shop in Montreal.

Canadian officials are praising a U.S. decision to drop a contentious border tax proposal, suggesting its death signals an open-mindedness in the Trump administration on open borders and free trade.

REGINA — The RCMP is now reviewing the Regina police department’s investigation into the death of a 29-year-old who plunged 10 storeys down a hotel laundry chute.

On a recent Wednesday evening in Kelowna, a row of Harleys was parked outside the Hells Angels clubhouse on Ellis Street.

Thieves have stolen the bells of two historic New Brunswick churches.

In a testament to the human spirit, a two-year-old Ottawa boy fended for himself for 10 days after his mother was killed in their fifth-floor apartment of a public housing building in Mechanicsville, the Ottawa Citizen has learned.

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