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A five-year-old golden doodle named Merv bolted from a cabin on Fishing Lake after Canada Day fireworks scared him, and went missing for 10 days. On Tuesday evening his owners got the call that he was...

While Europe struggles with similar trends to Canada of rising rents and skyrocketing home prices, experts say social housing models like Austria’s are among the best defence against a growing afforda...

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Academics are being warned to avoid all non-essential travel to the U.S. after a spike in cases of people being detained or denied entry.

Despite the annual pace of inflation cooling last month, Statistics Canada says consumers continue to pay higher costs for groceries.

Food security group says more than 93 percent of children in Gaza, about 930,000, are at risk of famine.

According to a study by Ipsos, Canada remains the top country expected to have a positive influence on world affairs.

Travelers at Newark Airport this week faced hours-long delays and disruptions. Tom Costello reports.

Workers have been fainting for years in Cambodia’s garment factories, where more than 57,000 people now produce Nike goods. A former medical worker at one of the company’s suppliers blamed overtime hours, among other factors.

Quietly, the NYPD has changed policy and will now make criminal cases against cyclists who go through red lights, a change that will have predictable and unpredictable ramifications.

A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral resources in shared waters.

Measles, once virtually wiped out in the United States, could become commonplace again if declining vaccination rates continue, a new model shows.

Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

It was called the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. This lofty-sounding legislation was the battering ram by which Hitler destroyed the independent civil service in Germany.

From overflowing landfills, water use and chemical run-off to climate-altering carbon emissions and microplastics, the planet is paying the price for fast fashion.

More people traveled from Canada to the U.S. in March 2022 when pandemic travel restrictions were still in place