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For years, senior Calgary Transit officials have told city council that it would cost $400 million to add turnstiles or other measures to Calgary’s CTrain system to keep out those who don’t actually pay a fare. This figure was said to come from a 2014 study. CBC News filed a freedom …

The lawyer for a Fraser Valley naturopath facing investigation for his business selling fecal microbiota transplants to families of autistic children argued in a B.C. courtroom Tuesday that his client isn’t obligated to follow scientific evidence. Naturopath Jason Klop was in B.C. Supreme Court petitioning for a judge to order …

The sunlit conference room at the luxury German resort of Elmau Castle, nestled in the green mountain folds of Bavaria, was about as far removed from the bloody, missile-littered landscape of Ukraine as one can get. That is both a literal and figurative statement. The leaders of the world’s wealthiest …

WARNING: Details in this story may be distressing for some readers. Katie Potts never expected her journey home from a camping trip last summer would end with her waking up lying on grass, confused, bleeding and afraid. She had fallen asleep in the passenger seat as she and her boyfriend …

The United States opened the NATO leaders summit in Madrid on Wednesday by putting some serious firepower on the table to bolster the alliance’s defences throughout Europe. It will be adding a rotational brigade of troops to Romania where a battle group led by France was recently established, and plans to further …

Canadian sports icons including Stacey Allaster, Donovan Bailey and Angela James are among the 85 new appointees to the Order of Canada this year. This year’s list of appointees also includes Canada’s first Indigenous female MP, the first MP for Nunavut, and a number of contributors to the arts, including Emmy nominated actress Sandra Oh. …

Alberta’s continuing care homes are preparing for a further easing of restrictions as the province lifts public health orders related to COVID-19 for the sector at the end of the June. And while the overarching orders — put in place by Alberta’s chief medical officer of health — will be rescinded, …

The debate over the need for better access to Granville Island has been reignited by a widely shared social media post from a concerned citizen living in Vancouver. The renewed debate comes several years after a plan was initiated to solve traffic congestion by the federal agency that manages the site. Mark Melnichuk, in a Reddit …

The ongoing war in Ukraine moved from being a distant, abstract conflict to something more tangible for the leaders of the world’s seven wealthiest democracies on Monday with an address by the embattled country’s president. Volodymyr Zelensky told G7 leaders that despite their efforts to arm his country and to isolate the regime of Russian President Vladimir …

One of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s new cabinet ministers faces a September court date over charges that he violated the province’s Endangered Species Act during his time as mayor of a cottage country town, CBC News has learned. Graydon Smith, appointed Friday as minister of natural resources and forestry, was …