Jean Charest had no way of knowing how profoundly the 1988 Olympic 100-metre men's final would shape sport in Canada, but he can clearly recall the anticipation he felt 30 years ago as Canadian ...

Female firefighters in Halifax have faced systemic historic gender discrimination at work, according to a settlement involving the city, the Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service and former ...

General Motors workers leave the manufacturing plant in Oshawa, Ont., on Monday after GM announced its intention to shutter the 65-year-old plant as part of a global restructuring. (Lars ...

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Puerto Rico is slowly rebuilding its electrical grid and the generating stations damaged by hurricane Maria, but for some residents the sun holds the best promise of restoring light. And a hospital ...

HMCS Chicoutimi is on a 200-day deployment in Asia-Pacific waters to help monitor traffic in the region that might be trying to circumvent economic sanctions on North Korea. For the first time in 50 ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, centre, watches the test launch of a Hwasong-10 ballistic missile. In government-issued images such as this one, the background is often concealed by netting to avoid ...

In London's 19th-century sewers, crews in coveralls are waging a 21st-century battle. They're blasting away a monster that feeds on grease and garbage, and its name reflects the beast's potency for ...

Red Diesel, Moby Dick, Lemon Burst, or how about Girl Scout Cookies? All names for "bud," the cannabis flower, and when the black market product goes legal in Canada this summer expect some heavy ...

The text from a Toronto police spokesperson came at 8:30 on a Friday morning. A synagogue in the city's north end had been vandalized overnight. Our crew could meet detectives from the force's Hate ...

In his latest book 'On Tyranny, 20 Lessons from the 20th Century,' Timothy Snyder urges people to not sit by while the foundations of democracy are chipped away. (See Susan Ormiston's interview with ...

U.K.-based Carillion PLC, which was forced into bankruptcy on Monday, has 23,000 workers around the globe including 6,000 in Canada. Its Canadian contracts range from highway snowplowing in Ontario ...