NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2023

KAMLOOPS - On saturday. A high of thirty one degrees was recorded at the Kamloops Airport on saturday, making it the hottest place in Canada that day.

The U.S. Army identified on Saturday the three soldiers who were killed when two helicopters collided in Alaska while returning from a training mission.

Federal government says that most EI officers are still working through the strike and processing has not been affected

Evacuation flights to bring Canadians home from Sudan have ended, Canada's defence minister confirmed on Sunday, amid reports of gunfire near the airfield used in the airlift. Ottawa announced the development after the Canadian military's final flights

A brutal assault on an Uber driver in Abbotsford has caused more drivers to come forward with their stories of abuse on the job.

A man from Dildo, N.L. has captured the attention of already-enthralled iceberg lovers after photographing an oddly-shaped hunk off the coast of Newfoundland.

The Supreme Court of Canada is set to rule Friday on an appeal by two men found guilty of first-degree murder in the gang executions of six people in Metro Vancouver more than 15 years ago.

Canada has conducted its first two evacuation flights to get Canadians and other foreign nationals out of Sudan. Now the federal government is promising more airlifts — depending on conditions on the ground — as its critics accuse it of moving too slo

A 10-month-old baby in Tennessee developed a life-threatening condition last year and spent 27 days in the hospital with failing kidneys after drinking raw milk from a cow-share, health officials in Tennessee reported Thursday. At least five people wer

Rallies planned to draw attention to public safety issues in seven communities across British Columbia drew underwhelming crowds, but captured the attention of policymakers nonetheless.

Nurses in British Columbia have ratified a new three-year collective agreement covering about 51,000 registered, psychiatric and licensed practical nurses in the province.

A Chinese coast guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel steaming into a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing a frightening near-collision in the latest act of Beijing's aggression in the strategic waterway.

The federal government introduced legislation Wednesday that would change the Criminal Code to give victims of sexual assault the opportunity to opt out of publication bans.

A lab has been seized by one of the sides involved in fighting in Khartoum, according to the WHO.

Minister says best way forward on gun control bill is to find an ‘objective definition’ of assault-style rifles

More than 100 refugees have been offered jobs as continuing care assistants in Nova Scotia under a new federal program, but it’s already been two years since some were accepted into the program and they're still waiting.

It’s part of a plan to lure more people into policing and eliminate officer shortages across Ontario.

Recently available data from Quebec shows that the cost for surgery in a private, for-profit clinic costs the government up to two-and-a-half times that of the same treatment in public facilities.

The president of Alberta’s energy regulator apologized Monday for how the agency handled an oilsands tailings pond leak at an Imperial Oil mine that wasn't publicly disclosed for nine months.

With the formal coronation of King Charles less than two weeks away, a new survey suggests Canada's new monarch could have a tough road ahead when it comes to winning over Canadians — with support for his wife, Camilla, even weaker.

Canada's intelligence agency warned MPs and senators ahead of the 2021 election that their public conversations probably would be monitored by foreign states and that threat actors could target their staff, according to recently obtained documents.

U.S. President Joe Biden officially announced on Tuesday that he is running for re-election, asking voters to help him "finish the job" started with his first term while drawing a contrast to Republican politicians he said are clawing back the rights of A

Longtime CNN host Don Lemon is out at the cable news network a little over two months after apologizing to viewers for on-air comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, CNN announced Monday.

Thirty-nine bodies have been found so far on land owned by a pastor in coastal Kenya who was arrested for telling his followers to fast to death.

A Halifax man searching for a place to live is frustrated after discovering Paramount Management, a Halifax rental company, will only consider new rental applications if prospective tenants are willing to pay a holding deposit of half a month’s rent.

Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning for the Quebec City region, which could see an additional 15 millimetres of rain through Tuesday morning.

China’s representative to France Lu Shaye, former ambassador to Canada, is known for controversial remarks

With the formal coronation of King Charles less than two weeks away, a new survey suggests Canada's new monarch could have a tough road ahead when it comes to winning over Canadians — with support for his wife, Camilla, even weaker.

Belgian customs have destroyed more than 2,000 cans of Miller High Life advertised as the ″Champagne of beers” at the request of houses and growers of the bubbly beverage

Five years ago, after a man deliberately drove a van down a busy Toronto sidewalk in one of Canada's worst mass murders, the country was confronted with a previously obscure extremist movement, which experts say remains a growing threat.

Around 300 workers at Wapasu Creek Lodge, north of Fort McMurray, Alta., are facing termination after voting to reject salary and benefit cuts.

April 25 is the tentative date for the City of Iqaluit to reactivate its water treatment plant. The plant was shut down in October of 2021 after fuel contamination was detected.

The federal and provincial governments will officially welcome German auto maker Volkswagen to Canada on Friday, unveiling what will be a massive plant in St. Thomas, Ont., that will employ up to 3,000 people.

Tornadoes plowed through Oklahoma during another deadly spring storm in the U.S., killing at least three people and damaging dozens of homes in a hard-hit rural town. Forecasters warned Thursday that more severe weather was still possible.

Border officials are still trying to determine how long the men were in Canada and Manitoba before they attempted to cross into the U.S. illegally.

A new report shows the federal government is falling short on its environmental targets, including a campaign promise to plant two billion new trees. It also found that the environmental benefits wouldn't be realized for decades, even if the program were

A former U.S. envoy to Ottawa says Trudeau’s reported NATO comments could prove to be a setback for future U.S.-Canada relations

Popular delivery app Uber Eats is branching out into delivering cannabis in B.C. But while the service promises a more convenient way of buying cannabis, it's unclear what effect — if any — its introduction will have on the provincial market

Jamil Jivani, a conservative commentator, is making the leap to electoral politics, in a bid to win a seat soon to be vacated by former CPC leader Erin O'Toole.

Most of the major U.S. professional sports leagues, plus the media companies Fox and NBCUniversal, are creating an alliance to ensure that sports betting advertising is done responsibly and does not target minors.

China has an aging population with stagnant growth, while India has a much younger population, a higher fertility rate and has seen a decrease in infant mortality.

King Charles will no longer include the phrase "Defender of the Faith" in his official royal title in Canada. A change to Canada's Royal Styles and Titles Act was first previewed in a brief mention on the final page of last month's federal budget document

Suncor has reported six million litres of water that exceed sediment guidelines have been released into the Athabasca River from a pond at its Fort Hills oilsands mine.

Pakistan News: PESHAWAR: A Pakistani court has ruled that a Chinese national arrested on blasphemy charges be held in jail for two weeks, pending trial, a police officer said Tuesday. Under Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws, anyone convicted of blas

Opposition leaders slammed what they called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's "lack of judgment" Tuesday after it was revealed he spent his Christmas vacation at the Jamaica home of a wealthy donor to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

Photos of the opening of Chinese overseas police stations in five countries, including Canada, were found on smartphone belonging to suspect arrested by FBI

As various countries continue to report high levels of invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) infections — which cause severe illness, and in rare cases death within days — Canadian physicians are also raising alarms over a rise in serious cases this s

Reported incidents of antisemitism in Canada declined slightly last year from their all-time peak in 2021, B'nai Brith Canada said Monday, noting that the change is so small as to be "almost insignificant."

A local crab harvester wants government to address rules surrounding the exportation of goods from this province. Hundreds of crab harvesters, plant workers, and more took to the steps of Confederation Building on Monday out of frustration with the price

Police in India have confirmed with The Fifth Estate that Rahul Bhargava, of the firm Education and Migration Services, was arrested and that they are still looking for his partners, Brijesh Mishra and Gurnam Singh. They face multiple charges under India'

Two men have been arrested on charges that they helped establish a secret police outpost in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government, U.S. Justice Department officials said Monday.

Researchers say Canada needs 30,000 new immigrants to either start up their own farms, or take over existing ones, to avoid a looming labour crisis in the agriculture industry. Some worry, however, current programs aren't set up to attract or support that

A heavy spring storm is headed for southwestern Manitoba this week, according to Environment Canada.

A group of climate activists threw paint on the entrance to the Prime Minister's Office in Ottawa on Saturday, while one of their supporters chained herself to the entranceway.

The family of Cindy Gladue says that Alberta Justice has lost her remains. A part of Gladue’s preserved remains were brought into the court room as an exhibit in the 2015 murder trial of Ontario trucker Bradley Barton

British Columbia's civil forfeiture office moved Friday to seize assets belonging to the Hells Angels, including three clubhouses in Nanaimo, Vancouver and Kelowna.

Wildlife officials are warning people in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood to be vigilant after seeing an increased coyote presence in the area.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to halt a legal settlement that would erase more than $6 billion in debt owed by former students of colleges - many of them for-profit institutions - who have said they were misled by schools about academics and

A tropical cyclone nearing Australia is forecast to be the most powerful storm in eight years to hit the country, bringing wind gusts of up to 315 km/h as it crosses the northwest coast, meteorologists said Thursday.

A total of 71 units were either flattened or damaged by the massive fire that ripped through a Vaughan construction site Wednesday — and the cause of the flames is still under investigation, the city's deputy fire chief says.

Norway's foreign minister claims the intelligence officers were operating under diplomatic cover.

South Florida kept a wary eye on a forecast that called for more rain as it cleaned up Thursday from nearly 30 centimetres that fell in a matter of hours, causing widespread flooding, closing the Fort Lauderdale airport, and turning thoroughfares into riv

Tammy Bouvette, now 39, has long insisted she did not abuse or kill a toddler who became unresponsive in the bathtub while under her care in Cranbrook, B.C., in 2011. Her lawyers and the Crown now say Bouvette suffered a miscarriage of justice.

De La Rue now expects full-year adjusted operating profit for the 2024 fiscal year to be in the low 20 million British pounds range.

Residents of Ottawa's Glabar Park neighbourhood say they're frustrated about always being among the last people to get power back after a storm-related outage.

Whitehorse Mayor Laura Cabott says she's concerned about more landslides along the escarpment by Robert Service Way, after a slide on Saturday closed the road.

Ford said Tuesday it will spend $1.34 billion (C$1.8B) to turn its Oakville facility in Canada into an assembly plant for electric vehicles.

The roof of the Thunderbird School in O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation at South Indian Lake collapsed over the Easter weekend.

Airstrikes by Myanmar's military on Tuesday killed as many as 100 people, including many children, who were attending a ceremony held by opponents of army rule, said a witness, a member of a local pro-democracy group and independent media.

A man who became trapped inside a notable piece of Edmonton public art made of large silver spheres was arrested soon after firefighters helped him escape the structure.

A 59-year-old Alberta man has been charged with multiple offences in relation to incidents where he allegedly targeted women who worked in the sex trade in Calgary.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford, will appear before a parliamentary committee on Friday. The Prime Minister's Office says Telford will testify at the procedure and House affairs committee on the issue of foreign interference

The suspect has since been charged with uttering threats, assault with a weapon and dangerous driving.

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation's president and board of directors have resigned, citing the charity's entanglement in the foreign interference controversy.

French rescue workers have found four bodies in the rubble of buildings in the southern city of Marseille that collapsed following an explosion, police said on Monday.

Canada's parliamentary budget officer says he's troubled by what he describes as the selective use of facts from his new financial analysis of carbon pricing. Yves Giroux says the report has to be put into context alongside the costs of all other climate

Police in Surrey, B.C. are seeking public information as they investigate an act of vandalism at the Cloverdale Cenotaph and Museum of Surrey, in which a statue of a First World War soldier was pushed off the cenotaph.

A 40-year-old man was robbed and stabbed in an unprovoked attack near Alexander Avenue and Logan Avenue Saturday night, Winnipeg police say.

After tracking the woman, police say she is "actively avoiding execution of the warrant."

If the trend continues, Hydro-Québec will be able to restore power to 95 per cent of its customers who have been in the dark since Wednesday's ice storm by Sunday evening as promised, although some Quebecers will have to resign themselves to waiting long

China's military simulated precision strikes against Taiwan in a second day of drills around the island on Sunday, with the island's Defence Ministry reporting multiple air force sorties and that it was monitoring China's missile forces.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Saturday he is seeking the pardon of an Uber driver convicted of murder a day earlier in the July 2020 shooting death of a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin, the state capital.

Hundreds formed a ring around drummers and singers in the middle of Portage Avenue and Main Street in Winnipeg Friday evening to honour Linda Beardy after the mother of four was found dead in a city landfill earlier this week.

A young moose trudging through the snow looking for a meal spotted green plants in the lobby of a medical building in the Providence Alaska Health Park and decided to drop in for a dose of greenery.

The union representing more than 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) service workers voted 'overwhelmingly' in favour of strike action Friday. Members are in a legal strike position as of April 14.

A large tornado tore through southeastern Missouri before dawn on Wednesday, killing at least five people and causing widespread destruction as a broad swath of the Midwest and South kept a wary eye out for further storms that could spawn additional twist

Nephew of JFK and son of former attorney general launches long-shot challenge to Biden for Democratic nomination

Beijing was angered by high-level talks between the US House Speaker and Taiwanese President on Wednesday.

The leader of a First Nations advocacy group wants to see the Winnipeg landfill where the remains of two Indigenous women were found permanently shut down.

An Ontario man who once allegedly bragged he'd moved over 1,000 people across the Canada-U.S. border, is now facing a nine-count indictment alleging he was the "primary organizer" of a human smuggling network using Akwesasne Mohawk territory.

Multiple Canadian women and their children are on their way back to Canada after spending years held in camps in northeastern Syria for people with suspected ISIS ties, according to their lawyer.

Attorneys named other hosts and executives as witnesses in the case brought by Dominion Voting Systems

Ivan Dacko fought hard to keep his backyard chickens – even choosing to sit in jail for a few days – but his last egg-laying hen has been plucked from his home.

The craft gathered intelligence from military bases for days before it was shot down, US media reports.

The federal government is adding $3.4 billion to its $20 billion offer for First Nations child welfare compensation, says the Assembly of First Nations and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada.

A man who allegedly threatened one person with a knife and slashed another person's throat on a bus in B.C. is facing four terrorism charges, according to federal authorities.

Lawyer representing the Iordache family said that they recently learned that they had run out of options for staying in Canada

Cruising at a depth of 8,336 meters (over 27,000 feet) just above the seabed, a young snailfish has become the deepest fish ever filmed by scientists during a probe into the abyss of the northern Pacific Ocean.

The world thought it had all but eradicated ozone-depleting CFCs used in air conditioning and refrigeration. Turns out, emissions of some chemicals are still rising.

Ottawa academic Hassan Diab, 69, tried in absentia for deadly bombing targeting Jewish congregation

A review of the federal finances reveals just how big the government has become in recent years.

Canada's newly released budget considers consumers' wallets and e-waste.

Police in Gatineau, Que., say they've arrested six suspects accused of "hunting" people they thought were pedophiles in recent months.

A group called Ultima Generazione or Last Generation have poured what they described as a charcoal-based black liquid into the water of the Barcaccia fountain at the base of the Spanish Steps in central Rome.