Canada

Just over a year ago, Avery, who was addicted to drugs and working on a sex trade stroll in Calgary’s southeast, found herself running for her life across farmers' fields after she says she escaped a brutal attack by a man Calgary police have now charged with drugging and sexually assaulting five women.  

Proposed changes in Bill C-48 would put the onus on accused to show why they should be granted bail

Three Mi'kmaw communities are celebrating their dramatically increased roles in the lobster fishery around Cape Breton Island this spring.

New national data shows the number of Canadian teenagers regularly using e-cigarettes ranks among the highest in the world, and experts say a lack of action […]

Inspired by the passion and reach of young activists like Greta Thunberg, Canadian groups like Seniors for Climate Action Now!, Climate Legacy and Grand(m)others Act to Save the Planet (GASP) are becoming increasingly visible and vocal.

Some of the basic rules of Canadian democracy exist not as laws but as unwritten conventions. That’s supposed to be a feature, not a bug. But NDP MP Daniel Blaikie has tabled a motion in the House of Commons that would put some of the big things in writing — such as the confidence convention.

A manufacturer near Windsor, Ont., has been making paper produce labels for over 20 years and recently started developing fully compostable ones, at a time when Canada is weighing banning plastic produce stickers.

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said she did not know the fire department had imposed moratoriums on safety regulations until she read the Globe’s story on the March 16 blaze