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Parents and students have been on pins and needles this weekend. They've been anxiously waiting to find out if school will go ahead tomorrow. The union representing 55,000 education workers and the provincial government had until 5 p.m. eastern today to negotiate a deal to stop a strike — and they managed to reach a deal. Mike Drolet has more.

In the U.S. tonight, a tragic mass shooting in a Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub. At least 5 people are dead and 25 others injured after a lone gunman opened fire in the crowded club. Colorado's governor, the first openly gay man elected governor in the U.S., called the attack "sickening." The suspect was injured and has been arrested. Jennifer Johnson has the latest.

NASA has successfully sent a capsule to visit the moon for the first time in 50 years, as the Orion spacecraft flew around the far side of the lunar surface. Orion is expected to shatter NASA’s distance record for a spacecraft designed by astronauts, reaching a maximum distance of nearly 433,000 kilometres from Earth. Eric Sorensen explains how this milestone puts humanity one leap closer to a new chapter of exploring the moon.

The man who Colorado officials called a “hero” after he tackled the gunman who opened fire inside a Colorado Springs gay nightclub, killing five people, spoke out on Monday. “I’m not a hero. There’s real heroes out there, right?” Richard Fierro said as he described the events inside the nightclub. “There are five people that I could not help. One of which was my… was family to me,” he added. Fierro, who is a decorated army veteran, says he and another man tackled the suspect and held him down during a lull in the shooting. He said he had been at the club with his wife, their daughter and her friends.

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday touted Russia's "great Arctic power" at a flag-raising ceremony and dock launch for two nuclear-powered icebreakers that will ensure year-round navigation in the Western Arctic. The Arctic is taking on greater strategic significance due to climate change, as a shrinking ice cap opens up new sea lanes. Vast oil and gas resources lie in Russia's Arctic regions, including a liquefied natural gas plant on the Yamal Peninsula.

Heather Purcell believes fate played a role in her witnessing a local act of heroism over the weekend when a taxi driver, whose identity is unknown, pulled an unconscious man from a burning car in Saint John, N.B. On Saturday, shortly after dropping her husband off at work, Purcell came to a stop sign when she saw a car engulfed in smoke. Moments after noticing a taxi parked along the road nearby, the taxi driver stopped her and asked her to speak with 911 operators he had on the phone, saying he had trouble speaking English.

A Surrey, B.C. family of seven has been awarded $33,600 after they were wrongfully evicted from their home of about two years. Tenants Natalie and Ryan Egger began leasing month-to-month on Dec. 7, 2018 but were served a two-month notice to leave their South Surrey house on Sept. 9, 2021, as it had been sold to their new landlord who planned to move in.

University of British Columbia researchers have partnered with Wet'suwet'en First Nation to create a biofoam— a new, biodegradable packaging material. It can decompose in a matter of weeks, whereas Styrofoam can take up to 500 years, as it bloats up to 30 per cent of landfills around the world.

It's a tragedy few can comprehend and one no paramedic could be prepared for. For Jayme Erickson, Nov. 15 was the day her “life was changed forever.” The paramedic had responded to a multi-vehicle collision west of town with her shift partner around 4:30 p.m. Once there she said there were two patients; one of which was a passenger who was entrapped in the vehicle and critically injured.

A newborn baby was killed in a Russian missile attack that hit a maternity hospital in the city of Vilniansk in southeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said. Reuters video showed a part of a two-storey maternity hospital reduced to rubble, and rescue workers sifting through that rubble. Two hospital wards were seen covered in rubble and a glass door to the hospital was shattered.

The United Kingdom’s top court ruled on Wednesday that the Scottish government cannot hold a second referendum on independence without approval from the British parliament, dealing a hammer blow to nationalists’ hopes of holding a vote next year.

Farmers in British Columbia's Fraser Valley are facing unprecedented pressure from a nationwide avian flu outbreak, with multiple commercial poultry farms dealing with cases of the highly infectious virus.

Twinkle, twinkle, shooting star, these people wonder where your pieces are. University researchers and students in southern Ontario are on the hunt for fragments that broke off a meteorite during the past weekend.

A surge of respiratory virus cases is overwhelming children's hospitals across Canada, delaying critical pediatric surgeries.

Two more instances of a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) employee inappropriately discussing medically assisted death with a veteran have emerged, despite the department's initial claims there was only one case, first reported by Global News.

A New Brunswick family is alleging the RCMP mistakenly told them their son was dead after a body was found in a public washroom outside Moncton City Hall earlier this week.

Black Friday is seen by many as the kick-off to the holiday shopping season. Images of long lineups outside big box stores and chaos in malls come to mind as people hunt for the ultimate deals.

Alberta's provincial government introduced regulations prohibiting its schools from enforcing mask mandates, while simultaneously promising parents "guaranteed" access to in-person learning for students.

Truck drivers, who brought Spain to a halt earlier this year, began a new strike on Monday, as hundreds marched through the capital Madrid demanding changes to road freight rules and protesting at the cost of living.

It's been a busy weekend for U.S. President Joe Biden — but not because of work. Yesterday, Biden's granddaughter got married at the White House. And today, his family got together again to celebrate his birthday. Biden is now the first sitting U.S. president to turn 80. As Mike Armstrong reports, critics wonder if the oldest commander-in-chief might be too old.