Ashley Burke

A longtime friend says the Hunka family was unaware 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka would be honoured in Parliament last week in front of Ukraine’s president, setting off an international controversy.

The Conservatives say it’s “unacceptable” that the federal government allowed a Canadian woman with ties to ISIS to re-enter the country.

The Ontario Court of Justice has granted more freedom to a Canadian woman repatriated in April from northeastern Syria who was married to a notorious ISIS militant.

Families of serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo’s victims are trying to convince the Supreme Court of Canada to give them access to his records in advance of future parole hearings.

The Liberal Party is beta-testing new videos attacking Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, one of which compares him to former U.S president Donald Trump.

Hockey Canada says an adjudicative panel has completed its final report into whether there should be sanctions against any former World Junior players allegedly involved in a 2018 group sexual assault in London, Ont. But the results aren’t being made public because one of the people involved filed an appeal.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said hello and had a brief exchange with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday at a summit in San Francisco, but did not formally meet with him.

Senior military officials insist their investigators and prosecutors did nothing wrong and they won’t be making any changes in response to two military sexual assault cases that were stayed in civilian courts.

The federal government will award a multibillion-dollar, sole-sourced contract to Boeing to replace its aging military surveillance planes, Radio-Canada has learned.

Canadian Iranian human rights activist Hamed Esmaeilion — who lost his wife and child in the destruction of Flight PS752 by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — says his parents have now been banned from leaving Iran, despite their permanent resident status in Canada.

A new report from Statistics Canada says the percentage of military members who reported being sexually assaulted by another member of the military more than doubled between 2018 and 2022.

Minister of Sport Carla Qualtrough said Tuesday she’ll be announcing a “formal, independent mechanism” early next week to review systemic abuse and human rights violations in Canadian sports.

The federal government is launching a three-person commission in the new year to investigate systemic abuse and human rights violations in Canadian sports.

Five former 2018 world junior hockey players are expected to surrender themselves to police in London, Ont., to face sexual assault charges in a high-profile case that embroiled the sport’s governing body in controversy, the Globe and Mail reports.

News that five players from Canada’s 2018 World Junior team are expected to face sexual assault charges is raising questions about next steps in the high-profile case.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday it’s not “necessary” for the NHL to suspend without pay four players who have been criminally charged with sexual assault.

The Canadian Armed Forces has received more than 21,000 applications from permanent residents eager to join the chronically understaffed military full time — but CBC News has learned that fewer than 100 of them have made it into the regular force in the year since they were allowed to sign up.

Then-public safety minister Marco Mendicino’s chief of staff was briefed by the head of the Correctional Service of Canada about Paul Bernardo’s upcoming prison transfer almost two weeks before it happened — but the minister wasn’t told about it until after Bernardo had been moved, says an internal government email.

The military is dropping its aptitude test from the application process for dozens of jobs and accepting more new recruits with pre-existing medical conditions — trial efforts meant to boost the Canadian Armed Forces’ dismal recruitment numbers.

Canada’s electronic intelligence agency says the same hacking group that the U.K. and China sanctioned for an alleged cyberespionage campaign tied to Beijing has also targeted Canada.