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The emergency department at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre was dealing with nearly double its usual number of critically ill or injured patients when a patient died while waiting for care there earlier this week, the head of the hospital says.

A northern Alberta Indigenous leader has accused Imperial Oil Ltd. of a nine-month coverup over a massive release of toxic oilsands tailings on land near where his band harvests food.

Authorities say two men from Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., are facing seven charges related to the trafficking, transfer, possession and storage of firearms

Decriminalization of up to 2.5 grams of drugs, including cocaine, began in B.C. on Jan. 31

B.C. will ask for changes to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act to bring Canadian law into harmony with the U.S. and U.K.

Yukon's finance minister painted a rosy picture of the territory's future on Thursday, as he tabled a $48.2-million surplus budget, and predicted the territory will stay in the black for at least the next few years.

Mounties were called after the 14-year-old girls were found Wednesday in St. Theresa Point First Nation, a fly-in community about 610 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg

After waiting more than 500 days to find out whether he can continue to use psilocybin therapy under an exception to Canada's drug laws, a Saskatoon man who is terminally ill with cancer got his answer: No.