The federal government has introduced a new bill to repeal mandatory minimum penalties for certain drug offences, and while the change is a significant shift away from incarceration, some B.C. leaders say it could have gone further.

When Charlottetown resident Lillian Reynolds looked out her kitchen window Sunday morning and saw a seal wiggling down the sidewalk, she did a double take. ‘I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing,’ said Reynolds, who called 911 and turned in the seal.

A woman who lost her family’s life savings to scammers posing as Hong Kong authorities says she was “scared to death” and that four banks should have done more to protect her. A wire fraud expert says banks are obligated to make sure customers aren’t exploited and should do more to protect victims.

The federal government’s new hotel quarantine requirement is now in effect for air travellers. Here’s the latest on what we know, including the hotel cost and who is exempt.

There was a small earthquake in northern New Brunswick early Sunday morning. According to Natural Resources Canada, a 2.6-magnitude earthquake was recorded in a wooded area just south of Mount Carleton Provincial Park at 4:23 a.m AT. 

When a massive winter storm struck Texas, Karen Christensen was glad she still had her winter clothes more than two decades after leaving Canada.

Darlene Nuqingaq’s project has been awarded the $1 million Arctic Inspiration Prize to create a music education program that will have Inuit youth instructors and mentor Inuit youth musicians.

Shirley Chan says she’s made about six emergency calls to 911 over the years, each time requesting Vancouver’s specialized Car 87 mental health team when her adult daughter was in crisis.

China’s envoy to Canada is telling Canadian parliamentarians to butt out of his country’s internal affairs through their pending vote on declaring a genocide against ethnic Muslim Uighurs in its Xinjiang province.

The province backpedalled on Twitter Friday evening, after a pandemic “self-care bingo card” posted to the account earlier in the day spurred frustration and anger.