Rookie MP-elect Blake Desjarlais reflects on the campaign, his upbringing on the Fishing Lake Métis Settlement and how the prejudice he faced as a teenager is driving his desire for a more just society.

Fossilized footprints discovered in New Mexico indicate that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ago, researchers reported Thursday.

Portugal is scrapping many of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions, after becoming the world leader in vaccination rollout — though the prime minister cautioned that the pandemic isn't over and "the risk is still there."

Health officials say the remoteness of communities like those in Forty Mile County doesn't insulate them from the spread of COVID-19 and its potentially deadly effects.

Canada’s rural-urban divide wasn’t nearly so pronounced in decades past. But our electoral system has progressively siloed rural and urban areas in their respective echo chambers, writes Colin Walmsley of Fair Vote Alberta.

Britain is signalling its interest in working with the Canadian military in the Arctic by offering to take part in cold-weather exercises and bring in some of its more advanced capabilities — such as nuclear-powered submarines — to help with surveillance and defence in the Far North.

Scientists in England have come up with a new way of figuring out the age of lobsters. They say their findings could help maintain healthy lobster stocks and manage fisheries more sustainably.

Tired of waiting for Quebec to acknowledge reports of forced sterilizations, a group of Indigenous researchers and others are collecting testimonies from First Nations and Inuit women to document the practice in the province.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how climate change is being taught in Canadian classrooms and a study that says more birds flocked to cities during the pandemic.

After Dear Evan Hansen premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, it was met with widespread scorn and derision. But how did a beloved Broadway musical provoke one of the most united critical hate-ons since Cats? And, most importantly, is all the hate warranted?