Residents of a town in northern Nova Scotia are struggling to come to grips with the death of a young family — including 4 children — after the travel trailer they were staying in caught fire.

Norm Macdonald, the Canadian-born comedian who became an influential cast member of Saturday Night Live after he joined in 1993, has died. He was 61.

First-year students, many on their own for the first time, say they’re worried about possible sexual violence on the Western University campus in London, Ont., after a number of reports to officials and on social media.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health now says the province’s controversial lifting of all COVID-19 public health restrictions in early July set the trajectory for the explosive fourth wave of the pandemic.

Health-care workers in Alabama say Saskatchewan could learn from the tragic consequences of their state’s inaction in the battle against COVID-19.

As the polls tighten, and with time running out, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole sharpened his attacks on the campaign trail today by calling on voters to make election day a referendum on his primary opponent.

Up to 70 per cent of all scheduled surgeries and procedures in the Edmonton health zone will be immediately postponed as Alberta Health Services works to free up space and frontline staff to care for patients with COVID-19.

The start of the 10-day trial of Const. Nathan Parker, a Niagara Region officer charged with assaulting a fellow officer who shot him 10 times, has been postponed until Tuesday due to a COVID-19 issue.

RCMP say firefighters were called to a camper fire on a remote road in Millvale, N.S., Sunday evening and discovered that a family of six from Amherst, N.S., including two adults and four children, had died.

B.C.’s COVID-19 vaccine card system is now in effect as the province aims to curtail cases and hospitalizations in the fourth wave of the pandemic. Starting Monday, those 12 and over must show proof of at least one dose of vaccine, two doses as of Oct. 24.