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Smack in the middle of the Alberta prairie, a couple of hours away from Edmonton, and even Red Deer, sits one of most crucial points in Canada’s oil infrastructure. Despite being a key hub for Alberta oil heading south to the U.S. and elsewhere in Canada, Hardisty has faced many of the challenges small towns…

Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon has commented publicly on an airport bag tag scheme in which airport employees have been allegedly using unsuspecting travellers as drug mules. He was challenged by Conservative MP Dan Albas in committee testimony this week, who asked: “How is it that people right now are being detained, arrested, and then caught…

A man convicted in the brutal killing of his three children has been granted conditional discharge by the British Columbia Review Board. In 2010, Allan Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder for the first-degree murders of his three children: Cordon, aged five, Max, eight and Kaitlynne, 10, at their Merritt,…

Trimming development fees would make dozens of housing projects across the country more economically viable in a time when Canada looks to seriously boost construction, says the nation’s housing agency. Development charges, which municipalities levy on housing developers to pay for the new infrastructure such as roads, water and transit needed for these projects, are…

Canada’s unemployment rate fell to 6.6 per cent in May and the economy added 88,000 jobs, the first significant employment gain since November 2025. The data, published by Statistics Canada on Friday, showed the increase was driven by an addition of 154,000 full-time positions. Part-time work declined, recording a loss of 66,000 positions. The increase…

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Canada’s artificial intelligence strategy on Thursday, with a plan to for “large-scale AI data centres” and a goal of massively increasing the country’s computing capacity by 2030. That means lots of new AI data centres, with the hopes of increasingly keeping Canadian data within the country’s borders. But…

Toronto police say their investigation into the disappearance of a teen who was missing for almost two weeks is complete and no criminal charges are being laid.

Premier Wab Kinew says there is no opposition among Indigenous leaders in northern Manitoba to the liquefied natural gas pipeline he hopes to see built as part of an effort to expand the Port of Churchill.

Four days after a collision on Highway 33, and after an extensive search involving volunteers, a mini Australian shepherd was reunited with its owner near Kelowna.

Some Halifax-area residents are fighting a proposed stargazing park in their neighbourhood, saying the project would ruin their quiet way of life. But the development’s owner says its scale is being exaggerated.