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The federal government’s pandemic-era loan program for small businesses suffered from contracting problems due to a lack of oversight, Canada’s auditor general says.

At the height of her daughter's addiction, Julie Nystrom says she started envisioning what life would be like without her child. Before long, she hired a private investigator to track down her dealer.

The Quebec government owns the stretch of green space along Notre-Dame Street East where the number of encampments has grown since the start of the pandemic. Some people staying on that land were handed eviction notices last month.

A Manitoba woman with no criminal charges spent a month in jail after public health officials ordered her detained to treat her tuberculosis, even though she wasn't infectious at the time.

An Ontario coroner’s investigation has identified 220 additional deaths linked to Indian residential schools in the province — deaths that were previously unknown to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, which has documented 436 deaths in the province.

Over the past three years, at least 38 hospitals with emergency rooms or urgent care centres in Ontario have experienced closures — about one in five of the province's 176 publicly funded facilities. Most are in rural areas.

Ethics experts say Canadians should think twice about becoming research participants, because the federal body that holds universities accountable to ethical standards has no jurisdiction over privately funded studies.

Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General is considering the merits of moving to a system in which prosecutors would screen criminal charges proposed by police before officers lay them, in order to help relieve the province's backlogged justice system.

Agents of the Indian government allegedly attempted to derail Patrick Brown's campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2022, according to sources who spoke to Radio-Canada.

The latest move from Canada Post comes after the union filed an unfair labour practice complaint with the Canada Industrial Relations Board over the layoffs of striking employees, saying the layoffs are an "intimidation tactic" that violates the Canada Labour Code.

On World AIDS Day, advocates are calling on the province make drugs that can prevent the transmission of HIV free for all Ontarians as recent data shows an uptick in cases in Canada. 

The historic Roxy Theatre in the Crowsnest Pass hasn't been open for 20 years, but there is hope the theatre in downtown Coleman, Alta., built in 1948 can be restored to its original glory.

Plows were working Monday to clear a closed stretch of a main highway in Ontario's cottage country after intense snow squalls battered parts of the region over the weekend, stranding motorists and prompting one town to declare a state of emergency.

Matty Matheson’s path to success has been anything but typical. The National’s Ian Hanomansing met the renowned chef at his popular Toronto restaurant to find out how a punk kid from New Brunswick who dropped out of culinary school became a Michelin-rated restaurant owner, business mogul, author and Emmy-award-winning producer of The Bear.

Two recent fatal police shootings in Manitoba are prompting renewed calls to lengthen and modernize police education in Canada — and one expert says we should look to Nordic countries for ways to do that.

Bigger farms and higher land prices have made it harder for young people to get a start in the industry, even as older farmers struggle to pass on their land.

Substantial progress has been made in fighting HIV/AIDS globally and more people with the disease are living longer thanks to advances in treatment, but a new study from The Lancet HIV medical journal suggests the world is still far from ending HIV as a public health threat, as evidenced by rising infection rates in countries like Canada.

Women are the breadwinners in a growing percentage of Canadian families, according to a new report. But this is less likely to be true if that woman has children, and the proportion drops the more kids she has.