The Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan says it has made a 'horrific and shocking discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves' near the former Marieval Indian Residential School.
Indigenous communities are grappling with renewed trauma from the findings of hundreds of unmarked graves near former residential schools.
The sea-view side of a beachfront condo tower collapsed in the Miami-area town of Surfside early Thursday morning, killing at least one, trapping residents in rubble and twisted metal and sending a cloud of debris throughout the neighbourhood.
About 130,000 canisters of bear spray have been recalled in Canada due to canisters not functioning properly when users need them for protection against bears.
The border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick remains blocked in both directions on Wednesday morning, as residents on both sides of the border continue to protest Nova Scotia's restrictions on travellers from New Brunswick.
After 13 years of near silence in the conservatorship that controls her life and money, Britney Spears passionately told a judge Wednesday that she wants to end the 'abusive' case that has made her feel demoralized and enslaved.
Alberta has created an $8 million fund to aid the search for unmarked graves and undocumented deaths linked to residential schools across the province.
In a speech to his caucus, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole shared his opposition to any push to 'cancel' Canada Day celebrations following the discovery of unmarked graves of Indigenous children at a former residential school.
The United States' top military officer on Wednesday hit back against a growing conservative movement opposed to teaching certain theories about racism at educational institutions, saying military university graduates should be 'open-minded and be widely read.'
Astronomers calculated that 1,715 stars in our galactic neighbourhood -- and hundreds of probable Earth-like planets circling those stars -- have had an unobstructed view of Earth during human civilization, according to a study Wednesday in the journal Nature.
New rules unveiled by the federal government for international travel have been met with confusion and frustration as Canadians weigh family vacations against rules for quarantining unvaccinated children.
With Manitoba meeting and exceeding its COVID-19 vaccination target, the province will begin its first step of reopening this weekend, increasing gatherings, and giving fully vaccinated Manitobans more eased restrictions.
Blink-182 singer and bassist Mark Hoppus is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, he said Wednesday on his social media accounts.
The House of Commons rose for a two-month summer hiatus Wednesday, after passing the Liberal minority government's key bills amid inflamed partisan tensions and speculation that MPs won't sit again in Ottawa before a federal election call.
The Liberal government waited until the House of Commons was about to adjourn for three months to introduce a bill aimed at protecting Canadians from online hate speech.
Here are a few resources available to help Indigenous peoples in crisis in Canada.
An Ontario family who purchased their dream home said their experience has become a nightmare because of what they learned after waiving a home inspection.
Concerns about whether COVID-19 vaccines will cause long-term fertility-related issues have rekindled as more children aged 12 and over are vaccinated in Canada and elsewhere, but experts say time-tested scientific research around vaccines shows these claims are baseless.
As provinces begin to loosen COVID-19 restrictions and vaccination rates increase, many Canadians can’t wait to start hugging their friends and family. But experts say if you plan on meeting up with someone and would like to hug, it’s best to ask first.
A South Korean pilot project aiming to stop suicide attempts on bridges spanning the Han River by using AI-enabled CCTV cameras has been met with mixed reactions from privacy experts on whether such a program could work in Canada.
Building new habits can be difficult, but throughout the pandemic many people have had new habits forced upon them. Experts say, for better or worse, it might be difficult to break them when rules and restrictions ease.
The University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) has announced positive early results from phase one trials of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate: COVAC-2.
On CTVNews.ca, CTV News' Chief Financial Commentator Pattie Lovett-Reid shares her advice for Canadians who sold their vehicles during the pandemic and are in the market for a new ride.
A three-year-old boy, suffering from a terminal illness, was able to meet his heroes in heavy metal band Metallica.
In this edition of Indigenous Circle, Merella Fernandez has the story of how the discovery of 215 unmarked graves in B.C. inspired one Ontario artist's creations.
From CTV Kitchener: Officials are investigating the cause of a massive fire that destroyed 12 under-construction homes and damaged others.
A diver in Michigan found a message in a bottle nearly 100 years old, and reunited the note with the owner's daughter after searching on Facebook.
A Saskatoon man has captured a video of a beaver standing underneath a Canadian flag near the Meewasin Trail.
The Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan says it has made a 'horrific and shocking discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves' near the former Marieval Indian Residential School.
Here are a few resources available to help Indigenous peoples in crisis in Canada.
About 130,000 canisters of bear spray have been recalled in Canada due to canisters not functioning properly when users need them for protection against bears.
Indigenous communities are grappling with renewed trauma from the findings of hundreds of unmarked graves near former residential schools.
For a good many Maritimers, the latest restrictions on travel at the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border affect them on a personal level.
The border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick remains blocked in both directions on Wednesday morning, as residents on both sides of the border continue to protest Nova Scotia's restrictions on travellers from New Brunswick.
Russia is prepared to fire upon intruding warships, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday in a tough warning in the wake of a Black Sea incident in which a British destroyer sailed near Crimea in an area that Russia claims as its territorial waters.
Only combatants, not civilians, were struck in an air strike this week in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the country's military spokesman said on Thursday.
An outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority who was a candidate in parliamentary elections called off earlier this year died after Palestinian security forces arrested him and beat him with an iron rod on Thursday, his family said.
The United States' top military officer on Wednesday hit back against a growing conservative movement opposed to teaching certain theories about racism at educational institutions, saying military university graduates should be 'open-minded and be widely read.'
Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, the son of pro-democracy icons who helped topple dictator Ferdinand Marcos and had troublesome ties with China, died Thursday, a cousin and public officials said. He was 61.
The final edition of Hong Kong's last remaining pro-democracy paper sold out in hours Thursday, as readers scooped up all 1 million copies of the Apple Daily, whose closure was yet another sign of China's tightening grip on the semi-autonomous city.
A zip line that will transport you from Quebec to Ontario has opened up in the Ottawa area, just in time for summer.
Ojibwe artist Mike Cywink wanted to create art that would pay homage to the victims of residential schools and help them deal with trauma.
The creators behind 'Tough Turban' talk about how developing a more protective turban can keep Sikh motorcycle riders safer on the road.
Morocco is planning to include these ancient Berber granaries, one of the oldest banking systems, in UNESCO's world heritage sites list.
This Ukrainian couple chained themselves together for four months to try and save their relationship. It didn’t quit work out as planned.
The Toronto Police Service made the largest drug takedown in its history, seizing over 1,000 kg worth of cocaine and methamphetamine.
The Vancouver International Airport has opted to hire a contractor to cull its expanding rabbit population, despite an offer to deal with the rabbits in a non-lethal way,
A Saskatoon man has captured and shared a very Canadian video of a beaver standing underneath a Canadian flag near the city's Meewasin Trail.
School staff are no more likely to contract COVID-19 at work than they are in day-to-day life in their communities, a new study out of B.C. has found.
A man allegedly wielding a large knife and yelling threats made it to the front door of Premier Doug Ford’s Toronto home on Monday night, a source says.
Humpback whales are making a significant comeback in the waters around Vancouver Island and northern Washington state, according to researchers at the Pacific Whale Watch Association.
One person has died and two people are reported injured Monday after a tornado ripped through the Mascouche region, north of Montreal.
The Manitoba government is committing $2.5 million to help identify, investigate, protect and commemorate residential school burial sites in the province.
With Canada Day just over a week away, two more B.C. municipalities have opted to cancel their festivities following the discovery of more than 200 children's remains at a former residential school.
A man has been arrested in connection with a violent, homophobic assault on Toronto Island that left a man with significant injuries earlier this month, Toronto police say.
The House of Commons rose for a two-month summer hiatus Wednesday, after passing the Liberal minority government's key bills amid inflamed partisan tensions and speculation that MPs won't sit again in Ottawa before a federal election call.
An army reservist who was ordered suspended from the Vancouver Police Department for having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate has been working as a military assistant to Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.
The Liberal government is asking the Federal Court to prohibit disclosure of documents related to the firing of two scientists at Canada's highest-security laboratory.
A new study has found that long-term symptoms after mild COVID-19 infection can persist for up to six months, including in young people.
Jaxen Green arrived premature, the size of Sharpie marker on Feb. 5. He was so tiny a ring could wrap around his foot, but four-and-a-half months later he's a big miracle - weighing seven and a half pounds.
Concerns about whether COVID-19 vaccines will cause long-term fertility-related issues have rekindled as more children aged 12 and over are vaccinated in Canada and elsewhere, but experts say time-tested scientific research around vaccines shows these claims are baseless.
A South Korean pilot project aiming to stop suicide attempts on bridges spanning the Han River by using AI-enabled CCTV cameras has been met with mixed reactions from privacy experts on whether such a program could work in Canada.
Astronomers calculated that 1,715 stars in our galactic neighbourhood -- and hundreds of probable Earth-like planets circling those stars -- have had an unobstructed view of Earth during human civilization, according to a study Wednesday in the journal Nature.
A marriage of art and artificial intelligence has enabled Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to recreate parts of the iconic 'Night Watch' painting that were snipped off 70 years after Rembrandt finished it.
After Britney Spears spoke out during her conservatorship hearing, Justin Timberlake took to his verified Twitter account to say, 'After what we saw today, we should all be supporting Britney at this time.'
Blink-182 singer and bassist Mark Hoppus is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, he said Wednesday on his social media accounts.
Rachel Zegler, who will make her feature film debut in December in the long-awaited Steven Spielberg-directed 'West Side Story' has been cast to play iconic Disney princess Snow White in an upcoming live-action reimagining of the story.
Statistics Canada says retail sales in April posted their largest drop since April last year at the start of the pandemic as governments moved to deal with its third wave.
About 130,000 canisters of bear spray have been recalled in Canada due to canisters not functioning properly when users need them for protection against bears.
John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States to face tax charges punishable by decades in prison, authorities said.
As provinces begin to loosen COVID-19 restrictions and vaccination rates increase, many Canadians can’t wait to start hugging their friends and family. But experts say if you plan on meeting up with someone and would like to hug, it’s best to ask first.
Bumble is giving its entire team a break. The dating app has shut down its offices around the world this week 'as a way to thank our team for their hard work and resilience,' it said.
A Saskatoon man has captured and shared a very Canadian video of a beaver standing underneath a Canadian flag near the city's Meewasin Trail.
The Habs haven't been this close to the Stanley Cup finals in 28 years.
In the case of the cursing cheerleader, the U.S. Supreme Court notched a victory for the free speech rights of students Wednesday, siding with a high school student whose vulgar social media post got her kicked off the junior varsity squad.
Not so long ago, Tadej Pogacar was a just a promising outsider still learning the ropes of cycling's biggest race. His rise to become the second-youngest winner of the Tour de France in September last year has changed everything: the 22-year-old returns to the three-week event as the odds-on favorite to defend his title.
On CTVNews.ca, CTV News' Chief Financial Commentator Pattie Lovett-Reid shares her advice for Canadians who sold their vehicles during the pandemic and are in the market for a new ride.
The experts at Edmunds are here to help you narrow your selection by naming the top convertibles for 2021.
Some turban-wearing motorcyclists in Canada have had helmet exemptions for years, but a Sikh man wants riders like his father to feel safer with his new protective turban that features bulletproof laminate and foam that hardens on impact.
An invasive species known as the yellow crazy ant has been eradicated from a remote U.S. atoll in the Pacific.
Australia said Tuesday it will fight against plans to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef's World Heritage status due to climate change, while environmentalists have applauded the UN World Heritage Committee's proposal.
RCMP arrested another 11 people at blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southwestern Vancouver Island.
The wildfire detected in Yellowhead County on Tuesday afternoon is still burning out of control a day later, Alberta Wildfire says.
Humpback whales are making a significant comeback in the waters around Vancouver Island and northern Washington state, according to researchers at the Pacific Whale Watch Association.
The threatened reign of successor Annamie Paul is the most bizarre, messy and unfortunate political drama among many raging on Parliament Hill as MPs prepare for what sounds like an election campaign launch in late summer, Don Martin writes in his exclusive column for CTVNews.ca.
Having Fredericton MP Jenica Atwin quit the Greens over Middle East political differences helped change the channel on a bad news day for the Liberal government, Don Martin writes in his latest column for CTVNews.ca.
Many Canadian politicians are oh-so-deserving of an electoral spanking for actions that introduced, spread, slowed and then revived COVID-19 across the country, writes Don Martin in his exclusive column for CTVNews.ca, adding that with the third wave becoming a ripple, a road back to popularity and power has opened up for incumbent political leaders.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should focus his apologies on current political mistakes, writes Don Martin in his exclusive column for CTVNews.ca.
For far too long in this pandemic, the light at the end of the tunnel was an oncoming train wreck. Today, there’s reason to hope that the light is actually a way out of the darkness, writes Don Martin in his exclusive column for CTVNews.ca.
While investigating the tragedy of flight PS752 in which a civilian passenger plane was shot down by the Iranian military in January 2020, W5 found numerous reports of shootdowns of civilian planes by militaries and combatants around the world. We went looking for statistics on how many lives have been lost in this unimaginable manner.
Now that Iran has issued its final technical report about Flight 752, which was downed by a surface-to-air missile from Iran's military in January 2020, W5 investigates what Canada's options are to respond to the "incomplete" investigation.
If aliens are sending us signals, are we set up to detect them? Dan Riskin speaks with planetary scientists, radio astronomers, and computer scientists who explain how the search for ET has ramped up in the last few decades. But if they're successful, is there a way to predict what alien creatures might look like?
CTV W5 investigates the challenge of accessing sexual assault evidence kits in Canada. Avery Haines speaks with survivors who were denied access to evidence kits.
Despite being the first Western scientist to study giraffes in their natural habitat, Canadian biologist Anne Innis Dagg says her career was cut short by sexism. W5 science journalist Dan Riskin explores her legacy and the consequences of sexism in academia.
A Canadian woman speaks out about her nightmarish ordeal to remove all traces of her videotaped sexual assault from the largest porn website in the world. Watch the documentary 'Pornhub' on Saturday at 7 p.m. on CTV W5.
Now that COVID-19 is in its third wave in many parts of the country, it’s important to see how medical professionals are coping on the front lines. W5 looks into how doctors, nurses and personal support workers are handling stress, anxiety and burnout.
W5 investigates a controversial Christian sect that has divided the small town of Aylmer, Ont. The Church of God Restoration and its fervent pastor have made headlines for their "anti-lockdown" rhetoric, causing turmoil in the once-sleepy town.
