The longest prison sentence ever handed down in Manitoba may soon be slashed by two-thirds.  Lawyers for homeless serial killer John Paul Ostamas have filed notice with the top provincial court they want to see his sentence reviewed in light of a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision that struck …

In the heart of Saskatchewan’s boreal forest lies Waters Edge Eco Lodge. The tourism destination is located on the traditional lands of the Waterhen Lake First Nation. The people of that nation just got that land back. The nation recently bought the resort, located 50 kilometres north of Meadow Lake on …

A year after retirement, Maryse Clavet was eager to get out of the house and back to work.  She picked up a part-time job at a local bed-and-breakfast, doing everything from changing the sheets to checking in guests at the front desk. “I’m still young, I’m able to work,” Clavet …

Relatives of the people killed in the mass shootings across Nova Scotia in April 2020 waited hours — sometimes days — for information about their loved ones, often driving to crime scenes or scouring social media to get their own answers. Some victims’ homes weren’t investigated until calls began mounting from family …

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada will ban companies from importing or making plastic bags and Styrofoam takeout containers by the end of this year, their sale by the end of next year and their export by the end of 2025. The move to ban exports will be a welcome …

Canadian-born and Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis is under house arrest in Italy after a woman accused him of sexual assault on Sunday. Haggis, 69, is in Italy for a film festival that begins on Tuesday in Ostuni, a town in the southern Italian region of Puglia. The office of prosecutors …

The Ron Hynes memorial in Ferryland shows the legendary singer in silhouette. St. John’s artist Jud Haynes designed the eight-foot-tall monument. (Henrike Wilhelm/CBC) The melodies of Sonny’s Dream floated in the air in the Newfoundland outport of Ferryland this weekend when a new memorial for legendary singer-songwriter Ron Hynes was unveiled in his hometown. A …

Authorities in India and Bangladesh struggled Monday to deliver food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes during days of flooding that have submerged wide swaths of the countries. The floods triggered by monsoons have also marooned millions and flooded millions of homes. In Sylhet, …

Cree artist Tomson Highway will deliver this year’s CBC Massey Lectures to audiences across Canada in the series’s first live event since 2019. In his 2022 CBC Massey lectures, titled Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death and Accordions, Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes …

The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States. The stingray, captured on June 13, measured almost four metres from snout to tail and weighed slightly under 300 kilograms, …