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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 …

A confidential informant injured in a jailhouse attack by inmates after his identity was revealed by police has launched a multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit against Peel Regional Police. The lawsuit was filed after a criminal court judge determined that the informant’s Charter rights had been breached and charges against the informant …

There’s new life on the horizon for the historic Eau Claire and Bow River Lumber Co. building. It was moved from its original downtown location along Barclay Parade S.W. in October 2021 to make way for flood mitigation work in the area and has been sitting in a temporary location at a parking lot …

As the first person in her family to attend university, Zahra Fazal says she sometimes didn’t know where to turn to for information other than Google. After arriving at the University of British Columbia from her native Tanzania, she attended an orientation session that was filled with terms common on university campuses. She …