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Whether they're a backpacker for life or a luxury travel lover, it may be hard to figure out what to get someone with an insatiable wanderlust. While it might be a tad cost prohibitive to give the gift of travel to the frequent fliers in your life, we've explored the world of travel gear and goods as a happy compromise.

The mother of a teenage boy who drowned last summer has praised the Duke of Cambridge for his bravery in trying to save the boy's life.

It's been almost three years since Sulemaan Ahmed sent out a tweet that would kick off a monumental campaign to change Canadian public policy.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he's hopeful the newly struck North American free-trade deal will be signed ahead of next week's deadline — and suggests Canada could sign even with stinging U.S. tariffs in place.

By ParticipACTION's Flip Livingstone and exercise scientist Dr. Leigh Vanderloo

EDMONTON — Alberta's cannabis Crown corporation has stopped issuing any new pot retail licences after only receiving 20 per cent of the stock it ordered amid a Canada-wide supply shortage.

Federal Liberals will not be extending a so-called "leader's courtesy" to give the NDP's Jagmeet Singh an easier path to the House of Commons

New research has found that sugar in sweetened drinks could be more harmful to health than sugar found naturally in foods such as whole fruit, possibly increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has introduced legislation to force an end to rotating strikes by Canada Post employees.

Dolce & Gabbana canceled a Shanghai fashion show hours before it was scheduled after an outcry over promotional videos that many people complained were racist.

TORONTO — Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea says about 150 jobs in Canada could be impacted over two years as it adjusts to changing customer behaviour.

TORONTO — A woman who became the first female Indigenous dean of a Canadian law school has launched a lawsuit against the university, alleging it racially discriminated against her and forced her to resign from the post earlier this year.

New Australian research has found that men and women who are more extroverted may have more sex than their more introverted counterparts.

TORONTO — A member of Premier Doug Ford's caucus is criticizing the government's decisions to cancel a planned French-language university and scrap the office of the French-language services commissioner.

A new survey of Canadians' financial situations shows a great number will likely take on debt to fund the holiday season, even at a risk to their own mental well-being.

For a long while after his HIV diagnosis in 2015, Randy Davis chose not to declare his status publicly. He was worried he'd be judged, isolated and defined solely by his illness — one that continues to be deeply misunderstood by many.

It was in 2017 when Hana Nelson, eight months pregnant and covered in fish slime and scales, was reminded her company definitely needed a new filleting machine. Nelson, an entrepreneur with a background in sustainable development, knew starting and operating her Halifax seafood business Afishionado Fishmongers would be an uphill battle. But looking back, she had no idea how badly even a tiny company like hers would depend on automation to survive.

SAINT-ALEXIS, Quebec ― Dairy farmer Pascal Thuot's cows wander freely in a huge indoor pen. Gone are the days of restraints and enclosures at his farm in Quebec's Lanaudière region. Milking is done automatically, without human intervention.

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FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Steve Kelly remembers days not long ago when Fort McMurray could still be called Fort McMoney.

"There was a time when you could call your cousin and say, 'Hey, there's work up here, c'mon up,'" he says. "It's just not the same place that way anymore."

Kelly is tall and thick, and has a shock of hair that runs like a three-dimensional "I" atop his otherwise shaved head. He relocated from Newfoundland to Fort McMurray in 1996, and took a job at an animal shelter. Читать дальше...

In Williams Lake, B.C., you're either a logger, mill worker, miner or rancher.

TORONTO — Canadians tend to be more positive on Twitter than their American counterparts, according to a new study from an Ontario university that suggests the language we use may help explain the national stereotypes we hold to be true.

oYes, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are exercises in capitalist excess. But let's be honest: most of us love a deal, and with just over a month before Christmas, we all appreciate anything that can help out our wallets.

Constituents say a Progressive Conservative MPP — who told the legislature he's gotten "nothing but compliments" on the provincial government's new labour bill — has ignored their concerns.