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An Ontario judge has granted an injunction to keep 10 supervised consumption sites open while he considers a Charter challenge of a new provincial law that bans the sites from operating within 200 metres of schools or daycares.

Pete Lee's lovingly worn knitted sweater with the Montreal Canadiens logo on the back and the Rocket's No. 9 on the sleeves wasn't expensive. But for the London, Ont., resident's family, the Habs-inspired jacket's value is immeasurable.

The trial for Randall McKenzie and Brandi Stewart-Sperry, accused of the first-degree murder of Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala of Ontario Provincial Police, has begun in Cayuga, with the Crown presenting a timeline and witness interviews, and saying body-cam footage worn by the officer will be important in the proceedings.

A Toronto court has ruled that a woman accused of killing three people in three Ontario cities last year is unfit to stand trial at this time and must undergo psychiatric treatment.

Ontario released its 2024 Sunshine List Friday, the annual list that documents public sector employees with salaries of over $100,000, with Ontario Power Generation president and CEO Kenneth Hartwick topping the list again with a salary of just over $2 million.

"I didn't get the balance right," the premier said on Friday morning following a backlash over concerns that the proposed legislation would give the government the power to bypass the legislature.

Newfoundland and Labrador's Department of Education ordered its schools to destroy thousands of books purchased two years ago because they contained 'inaccurate information' about the territories, culture and history of the province's Indigenous peoples. 

Strategic voting, once a taboo for New Democrats, is resurfacing as party faithfuls — including Tom Mulcair and a former top aide to ex-premier Rachel Notley — openly talk about voting Liberal to stop a Conservative win.

On Monday, applications open for an Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) pilot program that could grant workers permanent residency – an end goal that is typically challenging for many due to extensive requirements and lengthy waits.

The Ontario school board that launched a review after the death of one its students last year says it wants some good to come out of the process, though some details, including the boy's cause of death, remain unclear all these months later. 

Canadian scholars who receive some of their funding from the U.S. government sources are flagging a troubling new questionnaire they have been receiving. It asks political and ideological questions about their research.

There's a growing backlash to sharenting, the trend of sharing your kid's life online — especially for profit. But as Utah joins the list of U.S. states legislating protections for the children of influencers, some observers say Canada's laws are lagging.

Wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen recounts the moment he came within a metre of a rare spirit bear or kermode and captured intimate portraits of the iconic animal.

The fear of measles has some parents with infants in Alberta looking for ways to avoid exposure and take advantage of early vaccination opportunities.

The Ontario premier says U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has told him that President Donald Trump's impending tariffs on the auto industry may not apply to all finished cars coming into the United States from Canada.

One of the country's top Conservative strategists who just helped Ontario Premier Doug Ford win a sizable majority government says Pierre Poilievre urgently needs to make a pivot and start talking more about the issue voters care about most — the U.S. threat — or he risks losing the federal election.

Police in Quebec’s Eastern Townships are making a case of alleged mistreatment public as a reminder of the importance of properly caring for seniors.

If there’s one thing the former head of Canada’s public service wants Canadians to know right now, it's that their country still has a government. “Whether during prorogation, during dissolution, there’s always a functional government with its powers and its duties and obligations,” Michael Wernick said.