The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association (MWBA) was made for people like Ellen Hatt. Hatt, a 25-year-old from Halifax, finished her four-year run on the Acadia women’s basketball team in 2019. Graduation, however, brought an abrupt end to her basketball career. “It was such an identity for me. But there was …

A 40-year-old innocent woman was killed in southeast Calgary on Tuesday in what police are calling a brazen and reckless late-night road rage incident. Friends and family have identified the woman as Angela McKenzie, a mother of five children. A family member told CBC News that the children’s father died a few …

Since flood waters rose in her community, K’atl’odeeche First Nation Chief April Martel has barely slept except for a 10-minute nap here, an hour there, if she’s lucky. Volunteers are hard at work on the reserve, going door to door to ask residents to leave their homes early, pack the essentials and …

A group of protesters stood outside Equinor headquarters in St. John’s Wednesday to denounce the approval of the Bay du Nord oil project. (Ted Dillon/CBC) Enivronmental law group Ecojustice has launched a lawsuit against the federal government that aims to overturn the massive Bay du Nord oil project off Newfoundland’s east coast. Ecojustice, …

Quebec is asking the federal government to close a popular, unofficial border crossing south of Montreal because the province can’t handle the number of asylum seekers entering the country, but refugee advocates are rejecting Quebec’s claims. More than 100 refugee claimants are entering Quebec every day from the United States …

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the aggressive verbal harassment he endured outside a campaign event in Peterborough, Ont. was one of the most troubling experiences of his political career. Singh was accosted Tuesday by protesters before and after a rally at the campaign office of provincial NDP candidate Jen Deck. …

Workers arriving at the Amazon warehouse in Hamilton on Wednesday morning were met by a handful of people in bright yellow vests with pamphlets and signs saying “Amazon needs a union!” Members of Teamsters Local 879 said they stepped up their efforts after hearing from some workers at the Mountain fulfilment …

Finance Canada is defending its $10 billion loan guarantee for Trans Mountain to help the company finish its pipeline expansion after opposition parties and environmental groups called it a fossil fuel subsidy. This financial support comes after the government said in February that no more public money would be poured …

Nunavut hunters and environmental groups say shipping activity from Baffinland’s Mary River mine is having a real and potentially lasting effect on narwhal numbers in the area. They’re calling on the mining company to, again, alter its shipping plans this year as a precaution.    In a letter to Nunavut regulators last week, the Pond …

Warning: This story contains graphic language and images of human remains It must have been a cold, lonely, frightening death for Gavril Vanyushev. The young Russian soldier was killed on the outskirts of Kyiv in a sleepy, forested hamlet about 50 kilometres west of the Ukrainian capital. Retired schoolteacher Kateryna Karabchuck, …