The federal government signed its first-ever modern treaty with a Métis government during a ceremony with the Manitoba Métis Federation in Winnipeg on Saturday, in what leaders hailed as a pivotal moment for Canada and the Métis people.

An Israeli airstrike on a car in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday killed five people, a Palestinian health official said. Some were reported to be employees of the charity World Central Kitchen.

A group of Vancouver Island doctors and other health-care professionals say they’re frustrated with the decision to halt the overdose prevention sites.

The Syrian army said on Saturday dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the city of Aleppo, forcing the army to redeploy in the biggest challenge to President Bashar al-Assad in years.

Beverly Tupper, from the remote northern Alberta community of Fitzgerald, was sent to Edmonton on a medevac flight. The flight was from Fort Smith, N.W.T., and Alberta doesn’t cover medical transports from outside the province.

Fire retardants — including toxic, regulated compounds — were found in roughly 85 per cent of products analyzed by researchers of a recently published study. The items tested include kitchen utensils, food trays and even children’s toys.

It’s an idea that thrills cancer researchers: a blood test that has the potential to screen for a sweeping number of cancers before symptoms appear. More than 250,000 Galleri tests have been sold in the U.S., but data on its accuracy is mixed

In the age of influencers, it’s not uncommon to see audience members filming the screen for social media — especially for the premiere of Wicked. Does that mean the movie theatre experience is changing? Or should theatres embrace the social media potential?

James Morrison did everything that he was told to live a successful life: go to school, get a job and save money. Now at 36, he says he can’t afford to buy a home and is weighing the costs of having more children.

There are good arguments for increasing defence spending — beyond the fact that doing so might strengthen Canada’s position with the United States and appease the president-elect. But that still leaves a big question to answer: How should the federal government pay for it?

In what may seem like a call-back to 1980s whale culture, a resident orca off the coast of Washington state was recently spotted sporting a dead salmon on its head. 

Managing money online is becoming increasingly widespread in India as more people use digital apps and QR codes for large and small transactions, including giving money to transgender people who resort to begging. Some trans people say digitalization helps them earn more and keeps them safer.

A group of Canadian news outlets — including CBC/Radio-Canada, Postmedia, Metroland, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and the Canadian Press — has launched a joint lawsuit claiming copyright infringement against ChatGPT creator OpenAI.