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The gift card industry is estimated to be worth more than $11 billion dollars in Canada, and it’s growing. But critics say there’s little oversight when things go wrong, setting up consumers to become the victims of possible international fraud.

Since catching COVID-19 in 2022, Nathanael Rafinejad, 29, can't stand longer than a few seconds at a time and has relied on a wheelchair. They are one of thousands of Quebecers with long COVID, a chronic condition that can prevent once healthy, active people from functioning as they once did.

Hundreds of Conservative backers filed into RBC Place for a rally on Sunday dubbed "Bring It Home," Poilievre's first in the southwestern Ontario city since late 2023.

Alberta's Brad Jacobs defeated Manitoba's Matt Dunstone 5-3 to win the Brier on Sunday night at Prospera Place in Kelowna, B.C. It was the second career Brier title for Jacobs, who previously won in 2013.

Saskatchewan farmers are feeling the weight of an escalating global trade war after China announced retaliatory tariffs on Canadian canola oil, peas, and oil cakes.

The chief of the K'ómoks First Nation on Vancouver Island says members have voted in favour of both a treaty and constitution, opening the door for the nation to reclaim a culture that faced eradication under the Indian Act.

The first organized game was played in Montreal back in 1875. But people in Délı̨nę, N.W.T., Windsor, NS., and Quebec City have different opinions.

Megan Banning never thought her music recordings from the 1980s would ever come out of her basement. But after her son brought her story to an American podcast, everything changed.

The planet is warming, and the ice on the north coast of Labrador is shrinking. Inuit elders and researchers tell us how ice is connected to Inuit ways of living, what’s at risk for their people and future generations if it all disappears, and how they’re combatting the climate crisis.

City School, the program that offers free post-secondary and employment-pathway courses for adults in Hamilton, closes at the end of March, a decision by Mohawk College in December. Students, teachers and community partners are hoping it might be saved.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree announced the Inuit Child First Initiative will be renewed for another year at the signing of a new Nunavut Agreement Implementation Contract in Ottawa. 

The senior said he was denied his right to vote despite bringing proper ID to his polling station in the riding of Bay of Quinte — and his family fears many others were turned away for the same reason.

"Our mutual respect and admiration of the falls is a reflection of how we should really be with one another," says Niagara Falls N.Y., Mayor Robert Restaino.

As measles infections tick up and up across multiple provinces, local public health alerts of new cases come with detailed descriptions of the person's whereabouts before they were diagnosed. Here's why the dates and times matter to control the contagious illness.

Nobody was killed but 12 were injured by bullets and flying glass, police say, while shooters remain at large.

Health officials in British Columbia say two new travel-related cases of measles have been confirmed in the Lower Mainland, bringing the number of those recently infected to four.

With just days to go until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves federal politics, his office says five new appointments have now filled all the vacancies in the 105-seat Senate.

A family of four was rescued by the RCMP after wandering for hours in the woods and becoming lost as they were crossing the border into Quebec from the United States.

Leader John Rustad says Brodie mocked and belittled testimony from survivors in a podcast appearance. Indigenous leaders say Brodie's remarks were hurtful and amount to residential school denialism.

A Six Nations man killed in Buffalo, N.Y., this week in a double homicide is being remembered as "an amazing artist" whose death marks "a terrible loss" for the arts as well as the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Jordan Celotto was from Six Nations of the Grand River, a Haudenosaunee First Nations reserve in Ontario.