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There are growing calls for British Columbia to end its drug decriminalization pilot because of public safety concerns. The pilot project is supposed to last for three years, but after one year, police and politicians are pressuring the premier to change course.

Two years after border officials discovered live turtles, turtle eggs and turtle husbandry items in packages marked as “children’s building blocks,” a Calgary man has been fined $35,000 after admitting to offences under little-known federal legislation. 

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says it's a good idea to have a physician who accused the province of exaggerating COVID-19's impact on hospitals now lead a review of pandemic-era health data.

Eric Dejaeger was granted bail Tuesday while awaiting his trial on eight new counts of sexual assault.

The San Juan County Sheriff's Office says it has recovered the bodies of two people from its waters, but their identities have yet to be confirmed. The discoveries come three days after a search began for two kayakers last seen off the shore of Sidney, B.C.

Skylar Park is officially headed to her second Olympic Games. Winnipeg's Park and Josipa Kafadar of Burnaby, B.C., were named to Canada's Olympic taekwondo team on Tuesday, becoming the first Canadian athletes to officially be granted their tickets to Paris.

Fresh research suggests Western Canada's once-dwindling caribou numbers are finally growing. But the same paper concludes the biggest reason for the rebound is the slaughter of hundreds of wolves, a policy that will likely have to continue for decades.

If you're dining in France and your food includes Moutarde de Meaux, it is highly likely the mustard seed came from Saskatchewan.

A deepfake video of P.E.I. chef Michael Smith generated by artificial intelligence is pitching an offer of free cookware in return for people's credit card details — and Smith is angered by Facebook’s lack of response to his complaints about it.

Most Albertans subject to wildfire evacuations in 2023 followed them and left their properties behind. But officials reported encountering those who refused to leave.

A First Nation in central British Columbia says it will take a step toward "energy sovereignty" when it builds what officials say will be the largest off-grid solar farm in Canada.

The provincial government has assembled a panel of MLAs to study the possibility of allowing alcohol sales in grocery stores, following Ontario's move to allow beer, wine and coolers in supermarkets and corner stores starting in 2026.

Newly released documents highlight what provincial officials knew about the spread of COVID-19 in fall 2021.

Longtime Canadian sprinter Aaron Brown believes all athletes in an Olympic final, not only the winner, should be paid thousands of dollars by World Athletics when the best in track and field gather this summer in Paris.

Moffet, Que., over 700 kilometres northwest of Montreal, has been bustling with new projects. The village received an award recognizing the revitalization efforts, which have increased its population by 27 per cent.

Playing in the NFL has been a dream for Theo Johnson, and this week, the Windsorite will participate in the NFL Draft just a stone's throw from home.

Joy Thompson has finally reunited with her daughters in Canada. It comes after a CBC investigation last year uncovered a tangled tale that began in 2018 when they tried to get jobs in the country where their mother has been living since 2004.

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's new book, Closer Together, is out Tuesday. Part memoir, part self-help guide, it looks at emotional well-being in today's world.

First Nations leaders didn't hold back at a news conference at Queen's Park on the unresolved deaths of Indigenous people in Thunder Bay, Ont., and called for the police service to be disbanded in the wake of the latest OPP charges. But it was the stories of the families of Mackenzie Moonias, Jenna Ostberg and Corey Belesky that put faces to the need to get answers and accountability.

Canada Post is refusing to collect firearms that were banned by the federal government in 2020, complicating Ottawa's plans for a buyback program to remove 144,000 firearms from private hands, federal sources say.