Beijing may have poured more than $4 billion into its upcoming Winter Olympics, but it’s struggling to field a respectable national team and opportunities for young hockey players are few, leading some to come to Canada to develop their skills.

Alec Baldwin said in a TV interview that he did not pull the trigger of the gun that fired a live bullet and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust.

Kaillie Humphries, the reigning world champion in both monobob and women's bobsledding, was sworn in as a citizen in San Diego on Thursday, ending her long saga to become an American and have the right to compete for the U.S. at the Olympics.

Before the pandemic, about one in seven women would experience postpartum depression or anxiety. A new paper’s researchers say that number has increased to one in three. New local solutions have cropped up as a result.

A provincial court judge has fined an Edmonton police officer $2,000 for an assault on an "unsuspecting and unresisting" Indigenous man during an August 2019 arrest captured on video.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will release her fall economic and fiscal update on Dec. 14.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we explore how Indigenous resistance is keeping carbon emissions out of the atmosphere and learn that there is a pecking order among birds when it comes to being fed.

Canada has imposed new sanctions on Belarusian officials over human rights violations in that country — measures taken in coordination with the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union.

Veteran sports broadcaster Brian Williams has announced his retirement, ending a five-decade career that saw him rise to prominence as one of Canada's leading authorities on the Olympic Games.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says people who aren't vaccinated will be excluded from nonessential stores, cultural and recreational venues, and that parliament will consider a general vaccine mandate, as coronavirus infections again topped 70,000 newly confirmed cases in a 24-hour period.