When Lance Cardinal was approached by the Edmonton Oilers to act as an Indigenous consultant, the Cree artist and designer knew the first thing he wanted to do was create a land acknowledgment.

Canada's central bank is keeping its benchmark policy interest rate right where it is, but is signalling that higher rates are coming soon.

Pope Francis has agreed to visit Canada to help ongoing efforts at reconciliation with Indigenous people following  the discovery of hundreds of potential burial sites at former church-run residential schools, the Vatican said on Wednesday.

Russia has recorded another high for daily COVID-19 deaths as authorities across the country moved to keep most people off work in line with a Kremlin order aimed at stemming the spread.

It started as a pleasant outing but turned into an ordeal that resulted in a woman getting lost in the woods, pleas for help being sent on a dying cellphone and a community of Facebook group members rallying to her aid.

Jacqueline Flett, a Métis woman who lives with diabetes, says she was told to leave the hospital's wait room by security guards who said nurses claimed she was using the camera on her phone to take photos or video, which isn't allowed in hospitals.

The business community in Yarmouth will soon open a five-unit apartment building exclusively for doctors to help those experiencing a housing shortage in Nova Scotia.

For the first time in Canada's history, women will lead each of the departments of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Defence.

To meet goals set at past UN climate conferences, as well as the federal government's own emissions targets, considerable change is necessary. What's clear is that meeting current climate goals in Canada won't be simple or cheap.

The upcoming UN conference provides a unique opportunity for Canada to become a world leader in climate policy, writes Thomas Gunton, the director of the Resource and Environmental Planning program at Simon Fraser University.