MILAN - Dr. Laura Bennion and her husband, Dr. Ian Auld, are used to spending time apart. Read More

The U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team could have its biggest fan in the crowd — should it advance to the gold-medal game at the Winter Games. Read More

Months into the Great Depression, R.B. Bennett's Conservatives clinched a majority in the 1930 federal election. His triumph, cemented with strong Prairie support, dislodged prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Read More

Every dog has its day. For Nazgul, a two-year-old Czechoslovakian wolfdog, it was Wednesday morning at the Milano-Cortina Games.  Read More

The mother of a Tumbler Ridge victim, 12-year-old Maya Gebala, who remains in a coma, says that her daughter's belongings were stolen. Read More

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump has “a lot tools” to ensure that the Iranian regime doesn’t acquire nuclear weapons, amid indirect talks between Washington and Tehran and an American military buildup in the Middle East. Read More

OTTAWA — Edmonton Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux has crossed the floor to the governing Liberals, according to a social media post by Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday. Read More

Nine months before voters are to pass a sort of judgement on Donald Trump's second term, Americans may have begun to grasp the heavy cost of returning him as president. Read More

A second day of U.S.-brokered meetings in Geneva between Russia and Ukraine broke up after barely 90 minutes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Moscow of attempting to prolong the process. Read More

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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre overwhelmingly won his leadership review in January with 87.4 per cent support of the vote. He will be the party leader for the foreseeable future and into the next federal election. Read More

In a discovery that’s equal parts groundbreaking and gross, scientists have identified what may be the world’s oldest fossilized predator vomit. At nearly 290 million years old, it offers a glimpse into how ancient land animals fed before dinosaurs evolved. Read More

In a country that prides itself on pluralism and fairness, public broadcasting carries a special burden. The CBC is not just another media outlet competing for ratings. It is funded by taxpayers — including its Jewish community — and is entrusted to be honest, not biased. When that trust falters, the consequences ripple far beyond the newsroom. When bias is obsessive — particularly against an identifiable group — it can incite and validate hate. Read More

A Lebanese immigrant ordered deported in December 2019 after he was convicted for possession of fentanyl and hydromorphone for the purposes of trafficking has won another chance to stay in Canada. Read More

Ukrainian and Russian negotiators were to resume a second round of U.S.-mediated peace talks in Geneva on Wednesday, though neither side signalled they were any closer to ending Europe's deadliest conflict since the Second World War. Read More

Iranians shouted slogans against the leader of the Islamic republic on Tuesday as they gathered to commemorate protesters killed in a crackdown on nationwide demonstrations that rights groups said left thousands dead, according to videos verified by AFP. Read More

They were monster wins over monster rivals. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is distancing himself from comments made by one his MPs who told a right-wing U.S. news outlet that some in Canada were engaging in a "hissy fit" of anti-Americanism, which was counterproductive in trying to deal with the U.S. Read More

In the intensive care unit at B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, a week after the Tumbler Ridge tragedy, Cia Edmonds is still singing and talking to her daughter, Maya Gebala, “(telling) her how proud we are and that the entire world is cheering her on,” she posted in a Feb. 17 update. Read More

The U.S. and Iran made progress in nuclear talks in Geneva on Tuesday, with Tehran’s negotiators scheduled to return with a new proposal in two weeks, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, a cautiously upbeat assessment that suggests the chances of an imminent military clash are low. Read More

Lindsey Vonn may not be able to stand on American soil for a while, but she is back in the United States. Read More

OTTAWA — Days after she retired in January, the former top bureaucrat at the Department of National Defence warned that the billions in additional defence spending promised by the Carney government is "nowhere near what we need" and is only serving to "plug in the holes in the wrong way". Read More