World’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, the Swedish Academy has announced. The academy cited the author’s “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”. Continue reading...

September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to honour the children who never returned home ...

A shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk.

Ontario's health minister says she and her colleagues from across the country are set to hold an emergency meeting to talk about federal funding.

Whatever happens on Oct. 19, Alberta will be a worse place.

A new CBC Podcast tells how Vienna Luke, the victim of a historic sexual assault, went undercover as an RCMP agent to record a confession from the family member who assaulted her years earlier.

As Alberta careens toward a chaotic and divisive vote on separation seemingly drafted to discourage the United Conservative Party’s dominant separatist faction from trying to force Premier Danielle Sm...

More seats have opened up at the University of Manitoba for the emergency medicine residency.

The proposed model would be secure or semi-secure units with 24-7 staff, including nurses and health care aides, similar to a dementia unit

Seventy landowners and many other volunteers have helped return their gentle, chortling song to the Cowichan Valley.

Free, confidential support from Calgary and Alberta settlement agencies and Elections Alberta, plus a plain-language summary of the Charter rights that protect everyone in Alberta.

Health care system is no longer on the brink of collapse but caving in before our eyes, an ER doctor says

CBC News recently spent a day aboard the “Let’s Talk Alberta” bus, speaking with passengers about what motivates them at a time when Albertans are weighing their vote in an Oct. 19 referendum.

People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us

Staff at Henwood Treatment Centre were told last week program ending, future of facility uncertain

A caver has been rescued after being trapped vertically underground at the Rat's Nest Cave in Canmore, Alta., in an operation that deployed volunteer-built underground radio technology for the first time.

Alberta's Kids Help Phone received 29 per cent more text messages at night compared to same time last year.

A medical student is helping bring together health-care professionals from across the country through a shared passion for music.

A survey posted this week says waitlists for specialists increased by 10 per cent in 2025 alone.

The federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize the use of pesticides — even ones that Health Canada has deemed u...

An estimated 20,000 Alberta kids are on a waitlist for the Family Support for Children with Disabilities program. In the meantime, parents are losing their jobs or are unable to find work because chil...

Better incentives, stronger connection to the system, and real accountability can improve care.

An estimated 20,000 children are stuck on Alberta’s Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) waiting list, facing years of delays to get speech, behavioural and other treatment or therapy ...

Review reveals rise in users and rates of psychosis in countries where cannabis is sold commercially

Edmonton police publicly objected when Alberta crown prosecutors agreed to let Rattlesnake plead guilty to manslaughter instead of murder.

Apparently no one in the United Conservative Party cabinet has to buy their own groceries these days! How else do you explain the lamest stunt in Alberta political history? Premier Danielle Smith and ...

Safety infrastructure has recently been installed in developing communities over hot-spot intersections with high pedestrian incident rates.