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More than 7,000 academics are gathered in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., this week for the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, presenting papers on everything from scatological censorship in children?s books to the brand power of ParticipACTION. In this week-long series, the National Post showcases some of the most interesting research. Fart. Poop. Pee. Bum. ...

Canada?s newest national park is now in an unlikely place ? in the backyard of the country?s largest, metropolitan hub, the Greater Toronto Area. And on Friday Rouge National Urban Park was promised more than $140-million dollars over the next 10 years, and more than $7.5-million annually, from the federal government. The forested area and ...

MONTREAL ? The unpredictable nightly protests that helped spur a government crackdown have largely been a Montreal-only affair ? until now. Since Premier Jean Charest passed a law last week limiting protests in the province, defiant demonstrations have popped up in cities not known as hotbeds of activism. Small groups from Granby, south of Montreal, ...

Long-time First Nations advocate and former Kamloops band chief Manny Jules has advice for aboriginal communities: Tax.

Canada’s newest national park is now in an unlikely place – in the backyard of the country’s largest, metropolitan hub, the Greater Toronto Area. And on Friday, Rouge National Urban Park was promised more than $140-million over the next 10 years, and more than $7.5-million annually, from the federal government. The forested area and wetland, ...

MONTREAL ? On Friday night, the regular nightly demonstration in Montreal began amid a cacophony of clattering pans in the park where it always gets going. There were similar get-togethers in other neighbourhoods, with the increasingly popular pots-and-pans protest being shouted down in one area by an angry passerby. Police once again declared the main ...

Former VPD officer Lori Shenher wrote a book on the investigation of Robert Pickton. The Post unearths previously undisclosed aspects of the unpublished manuscript

His visit to is Alberta next week is unlikely to do much to change their minds, says Alberta Premier Alison Redford

MONTREAL ? Though they often end with riot police and pepper spray, Quebec?s ongoing student protests can have a playful side too, as illustrated this week when students took to Montreal?s streets dressed as pirates. But costumes don?t mean it?s all fun and games. One protest chant denounced Bill 78, the emergency legislation adopted last ...

Students would be able to call anti-homophobic clubs ?gay-straight alliances? under changes to proposed legislation that previously allowed principals to veto the name.

Pastor Charles Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina told his congregation during a May 13 sermon that the Bible and God opposed homosexuality and that gay and lesbian people should be put in concentration camps.

In a Skype interview from her Toronto apartment where she is recovering from her double lung transplant, Campbell thanked DeGeneres for her support and surprised her with a ?Dance Dare? video.

With Quebec tuition protest arrests at 2,500 and counting, Ontario students and unions say they?re gearing up to join their counterparts in demonstrating against tuition hikes.

Officials in Timmins in northern Ontario have declared a state of emergency as a wildfire that has been burning for days continues to grow.

The 21-year-old Ottawa woman was waiting in Toronto for a double-lung transplant last February when she received a surprise Skype call from the popular TV host

Mulcair has suggested the Alberta oil exports raise the value of the Canadian dollar, which in turn hurts the economy in other parts of the country

John Moore: It?s the older generation that?s entitled, not students Setting aside the fact that this intergenerational hectoring dates back to Socrates, let us ask: Who exactly is making the charge? Quebec has had low tuition rates for a half century. That means almost every living adult in the province, having already been afforded a ...

CSIS has been aggressively tracking suspected smugglers to prevent another influx of boats on Canada?s shores

Gary Peters said Thursday he and Cynthia Vanier had worked on a plan to fly Saadi Gaddafi to Venezuela as part of a scheme to mediate talks with Canada and Venezuela to end Libya?s civil war

You may have heard the protesters before you actually saw them on Thursday night