Canada is hosting 176 countries in Ottawa for a conference aimed at making progress toward a global treaty on plastic waste.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says attempts by Air Canada staff to take her headdress from her on Wednesday have created "a pivotal learning moment in history."

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles has given Premier Doug Ford a deadline to reverse the ban on the wearing of keffiyehs at the provincial legislature or else she says the NDP will defy the ban.

The Ehattesaht First Nation says a killer whale calf that had been trapped in a remote Vancouver Island lagoon for more than a month is now free after she swam out on her own early Friday morning.

Province says people who don't pose threat to public safety will not be charged for mere possession.

The Ontario Provincial Police has launched a review after one of its officers was recorded vocally supporting — and possibly helping — protesters outside an event with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this week.

A charge against a Toronto man accused of flying what police called a "terrorist flag" at a pro-Palestinian demonstration earlier this year has been withdrawn. 

The Ontario Civilian Police Commission has ended the term of Malcolm Mercer as administrator of the Thunder Bay Police Service Board. Mercer, appointed two years ago to oversee a board and police service that were in turmoil, said he believes the reconstituted board and new chief are on the right track and functioning properly.

The mother of a three-month-old boy who died from a traumatic brain injury in 2020 burst into tears in a Winnipeg courtroom on Friday and later hugged a prosecutor after the infant’s father was convicted of manslaughter in the baby’s death.

The RCMP's federal wing is at a "critical juncture" and its ability to police key national security files — such as foreign interference, terrorism and financial crime — is on the line, says a recent report from the RCMP's independent advisory board.

Wildfires have become a prominent year-round concern for the Ktunaxa Nation community of Aq'am, from supporting members to researching and funding prescribed burns in the area.

Canada's Olympic fencing team in Paris will be country's largest in decades and its athletes are hungry to make history and earn a podium finish.

The federal government’s budget is setting aside $1.5 billion to implement pharmacare – a major financial commitment with the potential to have a wide-ranging impact on the country’s health-care system.

A dozen mayors from around Metro Vancouver say the federal attorney general and justice minister should deny parole for serial killer Robert Pickton and reassess the parole and sentencing system for "prolific offenders and mass murderers."