National Lifestyle

Once a superhero franchise goes multiverse, it’s hard to go back.

The annual sunflower (Helianthus annus) has a long history in North America, with evidence of its cultivation for food, ceremonial and medical use by Native Americans dating back to at least 1,000 B.C.

“Happening,” Audrey Diwan's Golden Lion-winner at last year's Venice Film Festival , is set in 1963 France but the period detail isn't prominent.

It’s 1963 in France and Anne is an ambitious, 23-year-old college student who becomes pregnant. She doesn't want to be. She's not ready to be a mother. But abortion isn’t legal in the country and won’t be for another 12 years.

Grocery delivery startup Instacart is adding more Canadian stores to its app as it expands despite mounting competition, rising inflation and easing demand.

A study from an Ottawa hospital suggests that Nunavut Inuit are 25 per cent more likely to experience complications after surgery than non-Inuit patients, a result researchers say may be because of barriers to timely and culturally sensitive health c

TORONTO — It seems the Kids are all right.

Your sibling asked you to cover their rent for a couple of months while they were between jobs. Or maybe you loaned a friend a few hundred bucks for a car repair they couldn’t afford. You’d do anything to help those you love. And you did.

PRAGUE (AP) — Meda Mladkova, a Czech arts collector, patron and historian who was an impassioned promoter of Frantisek Kupka and supported artists in communist Czechoslovakia while she was in exile behind the Iron Curtain, has died. She was 102.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in more than a dozen states are following California’s lead in seeking to offer legal refuge to displaced transgender youth and their families.