A former bureaucrat accused by the Ontario government of embezzling $11 million in COVID-19 relief funds is now facing criminal charges in the matter.

Scientists in B.C. and Washington state are hopeful that three pregnancies discovered in the critically endangered southern resident orcas’ J pod could help save the species. But other threats remain.

With Alberta’s health-care system “collapsing right in front of our eyes,” the leaders of four unions representing thousands of health-care workers are calling on Premier Jason Kenney to ask for help from the military and Red Cross.

Key travel players in Canada are reporting increased demand for bookings to sun destinations in the months ahead, despite a global pandemic that has yet to end inside or outside the country’s borders.

As millions of voters head to the polls Monday to vote in the federal election, here are the COVID-19 safety measures Canadians can expect at the polls on voting day.

Returning to campus this fall, Canadian post-secondary students are coming face-to-face with new COVID-19 vaccination policies. While some systems are being praised for getting students and staff safely back on campus, others are leaving questions about just how the new policies are being enforced.

After a severe anaphylactic reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine, Codi Darnell writes she is hesitant to get a second dose even though the rest of her family is double vaccinated. The vaccine passport system in B.C., which does not allow for exceptions, makes her feel like a second-class citizen.

Canadians might go to bed Monday night without knowing the final results of the federal election. They might not even know who won by Tuesday morning. That’s because this year, Elections Canada isn’t counting hundreds of thousands of local special ballots — votes from Canadians living in their ridings who opted to vote by mail — until Tuesday.

Investigators are looking for three male suspects in connection with Thursday’s double shooting and kidnapping in Hamilton that left a father badly injured, one of his sons dead and another son with gunshot injuries.

The trial of Const. Nathan Parker, who was shot by one of his fellow Niagara police officers in 2018, has stalled in a Hamilton court until next Wednesday over questions about improper access to evidence.