Canada's Kylie Masse secured silver in the women's 100-metre backstroke at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday in Japan.

Tunisia's young democracy is in jeopardy, after the president fired the prime minister and froze parliament. Today he imposed a curfew too. It all follows angry protests over the country's economic crisis and devastating COVID-19 outbreak that has collapsed the health-care system.

Director Theo Kapidistrias is this year's top winner of the Prism Prize for his work on the music video for Haviah Mighty's Thirteen, organizers said Monday.

Russian authorities have restricted access to the website of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny and to dozens of sites run by his close allies, Navalny's team said Monday.

Six decades after tonnes of mercury were dumped into the Wabigoon River, Grassy Narrows First Nation has reached a historic agreement with Ottawa for $68.9 million more in funding to build a home that will care for people experiencing the health impacts of the chemical.

The Quebec government says fully vaccinated residents who have received the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can receive a third dose of an mRNA vaccine before travelling — but health officials are warning that it's up to the recipient to seek their own advice.

Evacuees from Red Sucker Lake First Nation in northeast Manitoba began to return home on Monday after fleeing wildfires. But more than 2,000 people from four other First Nations are still stuck.

Moderna is in talks with U.S. regulators to expand the size of an ongoing trial testing its COVID-19 vaccines in children aged between 5 and 11, the drugmaker said on Monday.

Disney is planning on closing down almost all of its retail stores in Canada by next month.

Olympic hosts spend years preparing for the Games, along with billions of dollars and a lot of political capital en route to the finish line. But still, many cities want to host the event.