A mayor in northern B.C. is asking the province to install cattle guards along a bridge on Highway 77 to fend off what he describes as an invasive herd of bison migrating from the Northwest Territories to graze.  In a letter to Transportation Minister Rob Fleming dated mid-July, Gary Foster, mayor of the Northern Rockies …

Former corporal John Lowe was angry and overwhelmed by a sense of helplessness as he watched the breathtaking collapse of Afghanistan a year ago. Everything he and other Canadian combat veterans had fought for there seemed to have been swept away in the wake of the Taliban takeover — a brutal event …

Organizers of last winter’s Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa want a court to release just over $450,000 in frozen funds to help pay for their participation in an upcoming public inquiry — after initially failing to request funds the group was entitled to from the inquiry itself. The inquiry, officially known as the Public Order Emergency …

Muscovites lined up near the Kremlin on Saturday to pay their respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who was widely admired in the West for his reforms and who lived long enough to see Russia’s leadership roll back much of that change. Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at …

A candlelight vigil is set to take place today to honour the six young people killed in last weekend’s Barrie, Ont., car crash. The six victims, all in their early 20s, were found dead at the site of a single-vehicle crash early Sunday morning, hours after police reported them missing. …

For the first time in 50 years, westslope cutthroat trout are swimming in Hidden Lake again — a feat of conservation that Parks Canada experts have worked on for more than a decade to achieve.  Nestled high up in the Skoki Valley of Banff National park, specialists laboured through trial and …

A doctor in Nelson, B.C., says after four years of trying to establish a safe supply program through conversations with the local health authority, he is making his frustrations public with hopes it will pressure officials into action.  Michael Vance, a family physician who focuses on addictions, says he’s had multiple …

Housing, Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen says the Department of Canadian Heritage will be improving its vetting process to make sure it doesn’t give money to organizations that espouse hatred — and those that do could be banned from future funding. In an interview with CBC’s The House airing Saturday, Hussen said the federal …

When Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently mused about potential reforms to the provincial health-care system, he referenced Shouldice Hospital as an example of the positive role privatization could play. His praise of the world-renowned private hernia clinic, one of only a few Ontario hospitals allowed to operate for profit, also raised the question of whether it’s a model that could …

A senior official with the World Economic Forum says Canada should be talking about more important things than conspiracy theories targeting his organization. Adrian Monck, managing director of the WEF, also argues that politicians espousing those theories should ask themselves whether they’re spreading disinformation coming from bad actors. “Canada should be talking about …