Migrants who were part of a group intercepted aboard two dinghies off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea stand on a rescue boat upon arrival at the port of Malaga, Spain, on June 9. (Jon Nazca/Reuters ...

Female firefighters in Halifax have faced systemic historic gender discrimination at work, according to a settlement involving the city, the Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service and former ...

HMCS Chicoutimi is on a 200-day deployment in Asia-Pacific waters to help monitor traffic in the region that might be trying to circumvent economic sanctions on North Korea. For the first time in 50 ...

In his latest book 'On Tyranny, 20 Lessons from the 20th Century,' Timothy Snyder urges people to not sit by while the foundations of democracy are chipped away. (See Susan Ormiston's interview with ...

In London's 19th-century sewers, crews in coveralls are waging a 21st-century battle. They're blasting away a monster that feeds on grease and garbage, and its name reflects the beast's potency for ...

The U.S. military's "nuclear triad" is made up of missiles, submarines and bombers, including the 2nd Bomb Wing's gargantuan B-52 Stratofortesses at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. Why keep ...

The text from a Toronto police spokesperson came at 8:30 on a Friday morning. A synagogue in the city's north end had been vandalized overnight. Our crew could meet detectives from the force's Hate ...

Beverley McLachlin was instrumental in Canada's most important legal decisions for nearly three decades, helping to shape the laws of the land, the powers of the government and the constitutional ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said that if it was ever going to be possible to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement she believed a deal would only happen at the last ...

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Jean Charest had no way of knowing how profoundly the 1988 Olympic 100-metre men's final would shape sport in Canada, but he can clearly recall the anticipation he felt 30 years ago as Canadian ...

Puerto Rico is slowly rebuilding its electrical grid and the generating stations damaged by hurricane Maria, but for some residents the sun holds the best promise of restoring light. And a hospital ...