NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2018

The Ontario government says it is scrapping the Drive Clean vehicle emissions testing program and replacing it with a new system that will focus on heavy-duty vehicles such as transport trucks.

Mexican state and federal authorities have taken control of Acapulco's police after a recent spike in homicides sparked suspicions that criminal groups had infiltrated the department, a joint force said in a statement.

Whether for security, convenience or the cool factor, millions of Canadians are automating their homes with the latest smart home gadgets. But a Marketplace investigation reveals that the convenience might come at a cost.

Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2018 lowest extent on Sept. 19 and again on Sept. 23, according to NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Analysis of satellite data by NSIDC and NASA

The Large Hadron Collider is at it again, showing us new wonders in the world of particle physics. Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration have observed two new particles that have never been seen before

All 47 passengers and crew survived a plane's crash landing in a Pacific lagoon Friday morning, wading through waist-deep water to the emergency exits and escaping on local boats that came to the rescue in the Micronesia archipelago.

While large appliances in our home are becoming more energy efficient, smartphones and other small electronics are taking up more power, according to BC Hydro.

The European Union's trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom is coming to the defence of Canada's NAFTA negotiator, Chrystia Freeland, after Donald Trump slammed the foreign affairs minister.

Plants in the Arctic are growing taller because of climate change, according to new research from a global scientific collaboration led by the University of Edinburgh. While the Arctic is usually thought of as a vast, desolate landscape of ice, it is i

Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users with contact information collec

Federal lawyers want closed-door hearings in a high-profile court case about allegations of Canadian Security Intelligence Service spying on anti-pipeline activists.

Canada's privacy watchdog is accusing the federal government of dragging its heels as privacy concerns reach "crisis levels."

Well, that was a slap in the face. "I'm not sure who got more of a surprise -- the seal, the octopus or me,"

The Manitoba government is writing off the second of two loan segments that helped finance a new stadium for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.

The union representing Air Canada pilots says a near-collision at San Francisco's airport involving one of the airline's jets should be a wake-up call for the federal government to properly address pilot fatigue for overnight flights.

The U.S. consulate in Hong Kong confirmed on Wednesday that China had denied a request to dock by the U.S. navy's amphibious assault ship the USS Wasp

There were once more than 60,000 sei whales in the North Pacific, before their population was devastated by whalers.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he rejected a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau because of Canada's dairy tariffs and negotiating style.

Up to 750,000 young Canadians now have no immunity whatsoever against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and measles

It started with tourists being kicked out of a hotel - but the spat has continued to escalate.

Popular image of man ogling another woman deemed degrading and discriminatory

The family of Tori Stafford is angry after they received official notice that child killer Terri-Lynne McClintic has been transferred from a maximum security prison in Ontario to a minimum security aboriginal healing lodge in southern Saskatchewan.

Mineral weathering intensified by thawing permafrost is likely increasing the amount of carbon dioxide released into the air and water, according to a study from the University of Alberta.

Researchers looking for a possible great white shark mating site off Nova Scotia have tagged their first shark in Canadian waters. One of Ocearch's other tagged sharks, an adult male named Hilton, has a made a splash in Nova Scotia for his wry Twitter fee

A U.S. judge ordered federal protections restored for grizzly bears in the Northern Rocky Mountains on Monday, a move that blocks the first grizzly hunts planned in the Lower 48 states in almost three decades.

U.S. President Donald Trump poured scorn on the "ideology of globalism" and heaped praise on his own administration's achievements Tuesday in a speech to the UN General Assembly that drew headshakes and even mocking laughter from his audience of fellow wo

A U.S. government agency says a killer whale that is part of the endangered southern resident population appears to have lost weight. The whale known as K25 is a 27-year-old adult male who has been documented in aerial photos since 2008.

Officials behind the country's system to alert mobile devices about impending natural disasters say there are still several kinks in the system to iron out, even as the alerts are being credited with saving lives just last week.

Environment Canada has confirmed that a third tornado touched down in Calabogie, Ont., on Friday. The tornado touched down shortly after 4:15 p.m. ET and tracked roughly 15 kilometres east to White Lake.

An assault charge against former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roberto Osuna was withdrawn Tuesday after he agreed to a peace bond. Osuna was charged with a single count of assault on May 8. Roman Cota, the mother of their three-year-old son, was visiting Tor

The Crown's theory that a Burnaby dad killed his newborn daughter because her crying interrupted his plan to watch hockey is "preposterous," according to a B.C. judge.

Ottawa will no longer pay for benefits for incarcerated relatives of veterans in the wake of the controversy over treatment for Christopher Garnier, a convicted killer who never served in military and got PTSD from murdering an off-duty police officer.

The Seattle City Council has unanimously approved plans for a privately-funded $700 million renovation of KeyArena, clearing one of the last major hurdles in the city's bid to land an expansion NHL franchise.

Victoria police are appealing to the public for help after a one-of-a kind tricycle was stolen from an Oaklands home on Saturday. The customized tricycle belongs to a teen girl with mobility challenges and is her main source of transportation because she

There's a magnet in a secure room in Tokyo. The last time its designers switched it on, it blew open the heavy doors designed to keep it contained.

Marine life rescuers are asking the public not to get too close and to watch it from the shore.

Three paralysed patients are able to walk after an electrical patch is fitted to their spinal cords.

NASA scientists have combined data on our planet's rotation with a number of sophisticated models to find that melting ice is a major cause of a strange drift in our planet's wobbling spin.

Do not be shocked if it emerges that this most touchy-feely of governments has created an expensive, superfluous position to provide a soft landing for Payette

City officials have shut down a north Edmonton shisha bar called the Nyala Lounge, saying the move came in the interest of public and patron safety. But the owner says he should have been given a chance to defend himself in court.

While some of Alberta's cabinet raised concerns about United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney's trip to India, Premier Rachel Notley is taking a tongue-in-cheek tack.

The Ontario Liberals accountability for the cover up of a $15-billion deficit didn't end on election day, Premier Doug Ford says.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named two new senators to the Red Chamber Monday - one a former top Mountie, the other a prominent Saskatchewan businessman.

The generic drug industry says Canadian trade negotiators are fighting hard against the U.S. demands that would potentially cost drug plans tens of millions of dollars a year

B.C.'s privacy commissioner is investigating an alleged privacy breach involving the bankrupt computer retailer NCIX.

The first day of fall seemed more like the first day of winter in the Prairies as temperatures plummeted and snow fell. The snowfall amounts were so significant that they toppled trees and took out power lines in parts of Manitoba.

Cities built atop networks of culverts and sewers where creeks and rivers used to flow are looking for ways to bring forgotten waterways back to the surface.

Researchers have discovered a planet orbiting a star just 16 light-years away, the very star that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry said his fictional planet orbited.

For as long as there have been fish farms in this province, there have been fish escaping from cages into the wild. Conservationists have suspected those escapees breed with native fish, changing their DNA. Now they have proof.

Brian Wansink appears to have engaged in a practice in which researchers cherry-pick data points to get their work published, one expert said

Canada will create a new ambassador position dedicated to women, peace and security, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Saturday.

Two guide leaders who opposed the inclusion of transgender girls due to safety concerns have been expelled and had their units closed down.

Border Security Minister Bill Blair says most of the people who arrived in a surge of migrants last year have left.

Each rover weighs about a kilogram and will bounce across the asteroid's surface.

The Crown has opened its case against a transgender woman accused of fatally stabbing a man she apparently met on a website advertising sexual services.

A major immigration scandal is brewing in Quebec, Canada as it has emerged that some people were granted Canadian citizenship irregularly by duping officials.

Erik Solheim reportedly ran up a huge travel bill and showed scant regard for rules, according to a leaked draft internal UN audit report.

In a stunning political attack ad, six siblings of a Republican congressman are urging voters in Arizona not to re-elect their brother in November.

Investigators are looking into the deaths of two grizzly bears that were found shot in northwestern Alberta. The hunting of grizzly bears in Alberta has been suspended since 2006, and a conviction for illegally killing one carries a maximum fine of $100,0

A Hamilton man is facing murder charges in the shooting deaths of mobster Angelo Musitano and Mila Barberi and two other suspects are now the subject of an international manhunt, police announced at a news conference Thursday morning.

The window for Canada and the U.S. to land a NAFTA breakthrough this week is getting smaller, as officials sit down in Washington, D.C., today for what are expected to be the final high-level meetings this week.

A tornado tore through parts of Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., on Friday, seriously injuring four people, flattening buildings and knocking out power for almost 150,000 homes and businesses. Based on damage reports, the tornado was likely an EF-2, which have

A ceremony on Friday to raise the historic Haida totem pole at Peace Arch Provincial Park aims to right a wrong for three B.C. First Nations. The pole is a replica of a pole from the Haida village of Skedans and was carved for the Royal British Columbia M

In a stunning political attack ad, six siblings of a Republican congressman are urging voters in Arizona not to re-elect their brother in November.

Environment Canada posted the notices for Vancouver Island, Metro Vancouver, Howe Sound, the North Shore and the Sunshine Coast on Thursday morning. The weather could damage trees that are still recovering from a drier-than-normal summer, according to the

People were shocked to witness the birds, believed to be starlings, plunge to the ground near the BC Ferries terminal on Sept. 14. Kevin Beech says the scene was something reminiscent of an Alfred Hitchcock movie.

Environment Canada has posted updated rainfall warnings or special weather statements for the inner south coast, including Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and most of Vancouver Island. Up to 75 millimetres of rain is expected for Metro Vancouver, Howe

Members of the Cheslatta Carrier Nation were in the middle of a helicopter flight to assess damage from this year's wildfires when they saw what they thought to be two dead bears. But one was very much alive. The crew was horrified when they realized what

Fedeli says that with the commission's findings factored in, the province's public account shows a $3.7 billion deficit in 2017-18.

The Chinese government expressed anger on Friday and demanded the withdrawal of Trump administration sanctions laid a day earlier on its military for purchases made in Russia.

Canadian athletes are not mincing their words when it comes to the World Anti-Doping Agency's decision to reinstate Russia's drug-testing program (RUSADA) after a nearly three-year suspension over its widespread, state-sponsored doping scheme.

"Canada has a lot of problems... but [don't] think for a second that you're anywhere near what we have to take care of and correct," said Michael Moore.

Chavay Williams, 30, was fired from Playtime Preschool in Columbus for urging 21 kids, aged three and four, to fight each other on the playground and then sharing a video on Snapchat.

Months after cancelling hundreds of renewable energy contracts, the Ontario government introduced legislation Thursday to scrap a law that aimed to bolster the province's green energy industry.

At least three people were killed after a woman opened fire at a Rite Aid distribution center in Maryland on Thursday morning, law enforcement officials said.

The evidence is disparate. But scientists' worries are very real.

AHLOT is offering $50 per hour to five cannabis enthusiasts to sample various strains of marijuana

A steady stream of top-class technology graduates and a tax credit aimed at the industry have led a British video game startup to establish its first Canadian office in Edmonton.

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz says she fears for those facing Hurricane Florence because Trump hasn't learned any lessons from the devastating disaster in Puerto Rico.

Ghost nets kill millions of sea creatures worldwide and this B.C. example on the Fraser River highlights a largely unseen global problem. Roughly 640,000 tonnes of fishing gear is estimated lost or dumped into the world's oceans each year.

A 25-ward city council election will be held on Oct. 22, Ontario's highest court ruled Wednesday.The Ontario Court of Appeal granted the province a stay of Justice Edward Belobaba's ruling that declared Bill 5 as unconstitutional last week, meaning the ci

All restrictions on fires or forest use are being lifted in two of British Columbia's six fire centres for the first time since early summer.

Deadly effluent from a cement plant is believed to have killed off salmon fry, crayfish and trout in the Nicomekl River. The Nicomekl River originates in Langley and flows west to Crescent Beach in South Surrey where it drains into Mud Bay.​

A treaty to keep the fragile salmon species afloat calls for a 12.5 per cent harvest reduction in B.C. and lesser cuts in the U.S. The treaty covers pink, coho, sockeye, chum and chinook salmon and spans a territory from Cape Falcon, Ore., in the south to

A large area of land by a lagoon in western Greece is covered by a giant spider-web.

At least ten operators of Pegasus spyware have deployed the malware outside their country's border, new Citizen Lab report finds.

The third most senior Republican in Congress fired a shot across the bow of the government in Ottawa Tuesday urging Canadian negotiators to drop some of their hardball negotiating tactics or risk being left out of a new NAFTA entirely.

Fern Jackson, 22, is furious after she was served a meat hot dog at an IKEA in Devon. The lifelong vegetarian says she has never eaten meat in her life and became ill with stomach cramps.

A commercial container ship has for the first time successfully navigated the Northern Sea Route of the Arctic Ocean, a route made possible by melting sea ice caused by global warming.

A rural politician in eastern Saskatchewan says he's at a loss to explain why a newly built bridge collapsed just hours after opening.

Using your face unlock your phone is convenient. But now facial recognition technology is being pitched as the future of everything, from advertising to law enforcement. Here's why that might make you uncomfortable.

China on Tuesday announced a tariff hike on $60 billion of U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump's latest duty increase in a dispute over Beijing's technology policy.

A&W is the latest meat-focused company that sees growing opportunities in plants as some consumers turn away from traditional protein

Mangkhut has weakened from a typhoon to a tropical storm as it moves deeper into southern China, leaving death and destruction from the Philippines to Hong Kong.

A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was brought down by a Syrian missile over the Mediterranean, killing all 15 people aboard, the Russian Defence Ministry said Tuesday. It blamed Israel for the crash, while the IDF held the Assad regime responsible.

Three people in Alberta have pleaded guilty after being charged in a bizarre naked kidnapping case that may have involved hallucinogenic tea.

RCMP in North Battleford, Sask., have issued an Amber Alert for six-year-old Emma O'Keeffe, who is described as having brown, chin-length hair and was last seen wearing a navy-blue, long-sleeve T-shirt, black jeans, pink socks and no shoes.

An estimated 40 million to 50 million goldfish inhabit the waters of Lake Ontario, threatening native species.

A bride-to-be, thought to be from the US, has issued a fuming rant to her friends on Facebook, after they refused to cough up $3,000 for her destination wedding.

Police say a woman was killed by her own dog in Langdon, Alta., on Saturday evening.

The Border Patrol agent is suspected of killing four women earlier this month.

The Weather Channel defended veteran meteorologist Mike Seidel who was captured in a viral video attempting to compose himself as winds hit him but two people were seen walking behind him with no difficulty.

Veterans Affairs plans to launch a new ad ahead of Remembrance Day 2018, but it has struggled to craft a campaign that doesn't make people "feel guilty" or come off as a recruitment pitch, according to the in-house testing results.

Police issued a warning about the activity on Saturday afternoon after management at the store on Greenfield Street reported it but supposedly asked authorities not to intervene.

A Florida Taco Bell employee was fired after she was filmed refusing to serve a customer claiming she didn't understand English and couldn't take down their order on Wednesday evening.