Liberal legislation aimed at limiting how long inmates can be kept in solitary
The federal government is introducing legislation that would limit how long prison inmates can be kept in solitary confinement.
The federal government is introducing legislation that would limit how long prison inmates can be kept in solitary confinement.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 has rattled an area of central Vancouver Island.
Toronto's suddenly dipping housing market appears poised to decline at a higher rate, according to early June numbers from one real estate expert.
As Canadians prepare for the country’s 150th birthday celebrations, the Canadian Heritage Department has unveiled new details about Prince Charles and his wife Camilla’s upcoming visit to Canada.
Officials say a woman has been charged with capital murder in the stabbing death of her 4-year-old daughter at a Houston apartment complex.
NASA says its planet-hunting telescope has found 10 new planets outside our solar system that are likely the right size and temperature to potentially have life on them.
Carrie Fisher's autopsy report shows the actress had cocaine in her system when she fell ill on a plane last year, but investigators could not determine what impact the cocaine and other drugs found in her system had on her death.
A breathtaking new photo series offers an inside look at the muddy, frigid, high-pressure, high-reward hunt for illegal mammoth tusks in northern Russia.
British authorities and Islamic leaders moved swiftly to ease concerns in the Muslim community after a man plowed his vehicle into a crowd of worshippers outside a north London mosque early Monday, injuring at least nine people.
A man rammed his car into a police vehicle in Paris' Champs-Elysees shopping district Monday, prompting a fiery explosion, and was likely killed in the incident, authorities said. France's anti-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation.
A 42-year-old Toronto man is facing numerous charges after allegedly fraudulently obtaining barbecues from Home Depot locations and reselling them online.
From treading water for 45 minutes to being exposed to gas to jumping through windows, candidates vying for a spot on a Quebec police force’s SWAT team are expected to survive a gruelling tryout if they want to make the cut.
Detectives investigating the massive fire at the Grenfell Tower in west London have released images and video footage from inside the building that show "the scale of the challenge" investigators face in recovering bodies.
Detectives investigating the massive fire at the Grenfell Tower in west London have released images and video footage from inside the building that show "the scale of the challenge" investigators face in recovering bodies.
A former New Brunswick jail has re-opened to Airbnb customers willing to pay a small fee for a one-night sentence in one of its cells.
Elder abuse expert Lynn McDonald routinely fields calls concerning financial exploitation, but none more dramatic than a recent incident involving a woman in Saskatchewan who was nearly bankrupted by one of her own adult children as she underwent hip replacement surgery.
A member of the president's outside legal team says Donald Trump is not under federal investigation, days after Trump appeared to confirm he was with a tweet about being the target of a 'witch hunt.'
If you treated your dad to a prime cut of sirloin this Father’s Day, you may have noticed a bigger hit to your wallet at the grocery check-out. But experts are divided on the extent of meatier prices at the butcher’s counter as Canada’s barbecue season heats up.
The researchers behind Canada's annual food price report say that while they expect food inflation to be slightly lower this year than previously estimated, shoppers should expect big jumps in the price of meat.
After almost a year of waffling, Britain on Monday finally opens negotiations with its European Union counterparts about leaving the bloc, with the final outcome, due in 2019, as important as it now seems unpredictable.
Shootings kill or injure at least 19 U.S. children each day, with boys, teenagers and blacks most at risk, according to a government study that paints a bleak portrait of persistent violence.
A charitable foundation in Montreal is tearing down the past in order to preserve its memory, as it prepares to honour the city's crumbling Griffintown Horse Palace by building a new stable to keep the site in use.
A $17-million research expedition to study the impact of climate change in Canada’s Arctic was halted off the coast of Newfoundland, and ultimately cancelled earlier this month, when an icebreaker carrying the 40 scientists was diverted to break up hazardous sea ice that floated south, due in part to climate change.
In an attack that British Muslims say was aimed directly at them, a man plowed a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers outside a north London mosque early Monday, injuring 10 people. London police are investigating it as a terrorist incident.
A vehicle struck pedestrians near a mosque in north London early Monday morning, killing one man and injuring 10 people in what police are investigating as a terrorist incident.