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The Refugee Team for the Paris Olympics will feature 36 athletes from 11 countries in 12 sports. They were picked from more than 70 scholarships, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said at the team announcement on Thursday.

Halifax police have charged a fourth teen with murder in the death of 16-year-old Ahmad Al Marrach, who was fatally stabbed last week outside the Halifax Shopping Centre.

The huge influx of newcomers to Alberta has helped drive the job market in Calgary into strange territory, with record levels of employment and surging levels of unemployment at the same time.

For Premier Doug Ford, there's more at stake in Thursday's provincial byelection in Milton than just one seat at Queen's Park. 

Representatives of convicted sex offender and disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard recently served one of his accusers with a lawsuit in Manitoba. Nygard was charged with sexually assaulting April Telek and a month later, he sued her for defamation.

F1 Exhibition opens Friday at the Lighthouse Artspace near the city’s waterfront. It’s billed as a groundbreaking show that gives fans an inside look at the sport’s greatest stories.

An Egyptian-born kickboxer who once faced an uncertain future in Canada has had a turn of fortune, both inside and outside the ring.

Samah El-Nazli, a mother of four living in a makeshift tent in Rafah, is among millions of Gazans in overcrowded camps struggling to access food, water and sanitation as the war continues. She and others are opting to use birth control to delay their periods rather than scrambling to find costly feminine hygiene products.

A new ride-hailing app promising fair pay to drivers is launching today, starting in the Toronto area, to take on Uber and Lyft. The company believes it will attract drivers by paying them 100 per cent of fares and charging only a membership fee to work for the service.

Starting when they were six years old, twin brothers Attila and Richard Csanyi survived "horrendous" physical, sexual and emotional abuse in a Toronto foster home — experiences that would impact them for the rest of their lives, Richard told the inquest into his brother's death.

Satya Patel grew up in the concrete jungle of Mumbai. She was in for a rude awakening when she left her career in India and moved to rural Canada.

Residents of Baie-Saint-Paul, Que., are still picking up the pieces a year after flooding destroyed homes and led to the deaths of two Quebec firefighters in the Charlevoix region.

It might seem like documentaries are everywhere we look, affecting and influencing how we perceive society and the world at large. But even as audiences clamour for true stories on their screens, the documentarians making them and festivals that feature them are sounding alarm bells about the future of the format.

The LGBT Purge Fund broke ground on the future site of its national monument in downtown Ottawa, the first step in the construction of a landmark meant to recognize the discrimination faced by 2SLGBTQ+ people across the country.

Internal budget cuts at the Department of National Defence have driven the Canadian Armed Forces to make radical changes to training for fighter pilots and for soldiers destined for Latvia — an overhaul that experts warn could undermine military readiness.

A research team at the University of Alberta is looking into why some trees in Alberta are more resilient when faced with drought, disease and the risk of wildfires by sequencing tree genomes.

The House of Commons foreign affairs committee has agreed to hold hearings on the decision by Global Affairs Canada to grant waivers to aerospace companies over the possible use of Russian titanium.

Ontario's Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has suspended Ineos Styrolution’s environmental compliance approval (ECA), as the company remains embroiled in a weeks-long controversy with Aamjiwnaang First Nation over benzene emissions.

The Municipality of South Bruce, a collection of Ontario farm towns about a 40-minute drive from Canada's largest nuclear power plant, has set the table for an historic vote on whether it will host a nuclear waste dump.