NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2023

The commander of the Royal Canadian Navy has released a new video warning the force is in a "critical state," with ships that are beyond their life cycles and a severe shortage of sailors to operate them.

A Regina man is getting swamped with parcels, and they're not Christmas gifts.

An arrest and seizure of allegedly counterfeit $2 coins in Quebec, and a second arrest in Ontario, suggests a new counterfeit toonie variety is across Canada, a coin expert says.

A 19-year-old man accused of trafficking a firearm to the 16-year-old boy who killed two Edmonton police officers has been charged with manslaughter.

Poland's new government was sworn in on Monday. The so-called "Cabinet of experts" with Mateusz Morawiecki at the helm is young and includes more women than ever before. But will it last beyond December 11?

Finland is temporarily shutting down its 1,340-kilometre long eastern border with Russia after seeing an abnormally large number of migrants arrive this month — a situation its prime minister describes as a "hybrid attack" orchestrated by Moscow.

Dominic LeBlanc, Canada's public safety minister, said Tuesday his government is still working on new legislation targeting online harm — something first promised in 2019 but which has yet to be tabled.

New Zealand's incoming government plans to repeal restrictions approved last year, an initiative that sought to stop the next generation smoking.

Rescuers in India were on the verge Tuesday of reaching 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks in the country's north, after drilling their way through debris to get to them, officials said.

In what may be a Canadian first, a Nova Scotia veteran says she feels validated after the Veterans Review and Appeal Board overturned a decision by Veterans Affairs Canada and recognized the trauma she experienced after an alleged sexual assault as a crit

RCMP in Prince George, B.C., are warning parents about the dangers of sexual extortion online after the suicide of a 12-year-old boy in their community.

Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of three young men of Palestinian descent who were attending a Thanksgiving holiday gathering near the University of Vermont campus. The 48-year-old suspect is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday.

India’s high commissioner to Canada says his government is cooperating with an American investigation into an alleged thwarted assassination attempt, but not Canada’s investigation into the June killing of a Sikh leader in B.C., because of a disparity

A federal housing advocate is accusing every level of government in Canada of failing to uphold the Inuit's right to housing -- and therefore denying their human rights.

Four people are now dead after a shooting at a Langside Street home early Sunday morning, CBC News has confirmed with family.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says that the interests of banks, government and Canadians are aligned when it comes to the process of renegotiating millions of mortgages over the next 18 months.

Chinese health authorities have provided the requested data on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children, and have not detected any unusual or novel pathogens, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

After a blizzard tore through Nunavut's western Kivalliq region earlier this week, some residents in the 2,800-person community of Arviat were left without power for four days.

Black Friday took on a whole different meaning after a second stabbing incident took place early Friday evening at CrossIron Mills in Balzac, leaving three people hospitalized.

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.

International networks of sophisticated criminals have claimed untold millions of dollars from Canadian government coffers while facing few to no consequences, an investigation by The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada’s Enquête has found.

Ireland's prime minister on Friday condemned anti-immigrant protesters who rampaged through central Dublin after three young children were stabbed, saying the rioters simply wanted to cause chaos, not protect the country's way of life.

An evacuation order remains in place Wednesday for 25 homes in the Southern Interior community of Penticton, B.C. due to fears of a potential rockslide.

Conservative Sen. Don Plett apologized Thursday after two female senators accused him of physical intimidation and verbal harassment in the Senate chamber during debate on a carbon pricing bill earlier this month.

European Environment Agency says half of deaths could have been avoided by cutting pollution to recommended limits

The Chinese government has expanded its campaign of closing mosques to regions other than Xinjiang, where for years it has been blamed for persecuting Muslim…

The Government of Saskatchewan announced Wednesday that it will stop withholding income assistance from First Nations people who receive more than $15,000 in per capita distributions from settlements.

Three Independent senators say they were bullied by Conservative Leader Don Plett in the Red Chamber after a member of their group moved to put off debate on a controversial bill that would exempt farmers from certain provisions of Ottawa's carbon tax reg

A week after the man who killed their family members was found guilty for multiple counts of first-degree murder, Ali and Hina Islam sat down with CBC's Adrienne Arsenault to discuss the aftermath of the Islamophobic attack and how they are healing.

While Canadian government officials had been operating under the assumption that Wednesday's vehicle explosion at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls was terror-related, according to national security sources, U.S. officials are now saying that while the

During his bail hearings in October 2019, federal prosecutor Judy Kliewer alleged former RCMP intelligence official Cameron Ortis was in the final stages of a plan to pass state secrets to a "foreign entity."

Alert issued over reported epidemic of 'undiagnosed pneumonia' among Chinese children

Report comes after Canada claimed ‘credible allegations’ linked Indian agents to June murder of Sikh separatist in Vancouver

Some Canadian housing advocates say Ottawa needs to move faster to get newly pledged money out the door to spur much-needed construction. The government committed $16 billion for rental and social housing in Tuesday's fall fiscal update, but funding won't

The incident last Tuesday (November 14) in which Australian sailors suffered minor injuries from sonar pulses from a Chinese destroyer couldn’t have come at a worse time for Anthony Albanese.

Ten years ago, Ukrainians took to the streets in protest after the president tried to wrench the country away from the West and turn it back toward Moscow. A decade later, they’re fighting on two fronts, battling the Russian invasion and the internal pr

Amherstburg, Ont. resident Jennifer Duguay says she’s still in disbelief that she crossed the border to get a biopsy after she was denied care in Windsor due to ongoing hospital delays caused by a ransomware attack.

Canada's consumer price index rose by 3.1 per cent in the year up to October, down from 3.8 per cent the previous month but in line with what economists were expecting.

Police in Mission say they are seeking the owner of half a kilogram of cocaine that was hidden in a public restroom's ceiling. Read more.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland will announce billions of dollars in loans and other incentives for housing construction, CBC News has learned.

From 2021 to 2022, measles deaths increased 43 percent. The World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are sounding the alarm over the global rise of measles cases, deaths, and outbreaks as vaccination rates struggle t

Global Affairs Canada is dismissing the idea that Canadian Michael Kovrig was involved in espionage after a recent report cited Michael Spavor alleging Kovrig's work in China led to the two being detained in the country for years.

Canada’s top soldier says the military’s ability to keep funding a “persistent presence” of warships in the western Pacific is facing challenges on the current budget. Gen. Wayne Eyre was speaking during the Halifax International Security Forum

A 28-year-old man is facing more than a dozen charges in connection with three suspected hate-motivated incidents in Toronto that saw a taxi driver, as well as a woman wearing a hijab, sprayed with a foreign substance and worshippers at a Toronto mosque a

A 7-1 majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Quebec’s Autorité des marchés financiers can proceed with trying to have Fred Sharp, Canada’s kingpin in the Panama Papers, banned for five years from the province’s stock market.

Group of four men in their 20s and 30s struggled to find accommodation in Calgary while training for the 2026 Winter Olympics until an unlikely solution was offered

Self-proclaimed "Queen of Canada" Romana Didulo and her followers left a rural Saskatchewan school earlier this week after officials paid a visit about a heater propped up on a propane tank in the school — a fire code violation that was seen i

The decline of local newspapers accelerated so rapidly in 2023 that analysts now believe the U.S. will have lost one-third of the newspapers it had as of 2005 by the end of next year — rather than in 2025, as originally predicted.

Red warnings have been issued for almost 3,000 cities across Brazil, which have experienced an unprecedented heat wave, the BBC reports. Records were broken in many areas, including the city of Rio de Janeiro where the temperature reached up to 52.5C.

Trade Minister Mary Ng suggested Wednesday that Canada won't restart its trade talks with India until Narendra Modi's government cooperates with the investigation into the murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver last June.

One hundred police officers were deployed and two people were arrested after protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war surrounded a Vancouver restaurant Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was visiting Tuesday night.

A prolonged decline in male fertility in the form of sperm concentrations appears to be connected to the use of pesticides, according to a study published Wednesday.

Maj. Kendrick Barling faces a long list of charges after border officers seized more than a dozen prohibited firearms and allegedly found undeclared guns "hidden" among his belongings when they were shipped back to Canada.

Britain's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government's contentious plan to send some migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda is illegal, striking a major blow to a key policy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government that has drawn international atte

Forty labourers have been trapped in the tunnel after a part of it collapsed on Sunday.

Ahead of the highly anticipated meeting on Wednesday between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Chinese state media have taken a new tone…

The province wants to implement new rules for restaurants, including banning unpaid trial shifts for potential new employees.

Rich Moore, 71, failed to return home after a plan to scale a 12,500ft peak in August with a hunter finding his remains and the dog

Burning garbage, dilapidated trailers, metal, human excrement and "tons" more refuse of varying origin are what those who tread into a South Okanagan encampment find.

The annual Who's Hungry report is calling on all levels of government to step up with haste as it reveals one in 10 Torontonians are relying on a food bank.

Delegates in Nairobi for talks in what experts say could be most important multilateral treaty since Paris accord

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is repeating his call for the government of India to cooperate with Canada on the ongoing criminal investigation of the killing of a Canadian pro-Khalistan activist in B.C.

One-time Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard, who was accused of attacking five women in the private bedroom suite of his downtown Toronto office building, was found guilty by a Toronto jury on Sunday of four counts of sexual assault.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will be on U.S. soil next week. He'll meet with U.S. President Joe Biden for the first time since a spectacular blowout. The goal now: to stabilize relations with a rocky year ahead. Can they? Here are five clues to watch for.

Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland left their homes on Saturday after increasing concern about a potential volcanic eruption caused civil defence authorities to declare a state of emergency in the region.

A union leader says a prison in British Columbia's Fraser Valley is experiencing an “insane” drug problem, with drones making multiple deliveries to prisoners each day.

An increase in serious near-miss aviation incidents is a "clear warning sign that the U.S. aviation system is sharply strained," National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chair Jennifer Homendy will tell a U.S. Senate panel on Thursday.

The first comprehensive, in-depth history of Canada's war in Afghanistan was quietly published last summer by a federal government printer. Canadians will have a hard time getting their hands on a copy, however.

Canadian officials have confirmed they're investigating an alleged "threat" against Air India, as a video circulating online advises Sikh travellers to avoid the airline as of Nov. 19.

His comments come after shots were fired at two Jewish schools in Montreal overnight and clashes between students at a university in the same city late on Wednesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised as a 'historic step' a recommendation by the European Union executive on Wednesday to invite Kyiv to begin membership talks as soon as it meets final conditions, even as it fights to repel Russia's war.

They come from First Nations communities across Canada, and on Indigenous Veterans Day, Nov. 8, Canadians will have the opportunity to honour their unique contributions and bravery.

A crew bus and one truck involved with the Shania Twain “Queen of Me” tour were involved in a rollover near Wolseley, Saskatchewan.

A wall with Canada? The idea came up during a Republican presidential debate, from a candidate insisting his party's border policies aren't tough enough.

Nutrition experts are reviewing data on ultra-processed foods for 2025 guidance.

Reeling under hazardous air quality levels, India's capital New Delhi shut down all schools for an extended period on Wednesday, the latest in a series of measures to protect residents from growing air pollution.

Police are investigating attempted arson attempts after vandals threw Molotov cocktails at a Montreal-area synagogue and a Jewish center across the street overnight on Monday.

The federal government urgently needs to change how the RCMP's federal policing wing functions or risk seeing national security files fall through the cracks, says a special intelligence and security committee.

Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser said Tuesday he won't stop working directly with municipalities to build more homes faster — even if that upsets premiers who say Ottawa is engaging in jurisdictional creep.

Flexible office-space firm WeWork has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing over $18.6 billion of debts in a remarkable collapse for the WeWork's bankruptcy filing, which lists over $18.6 billion of debts, is a remarkable collapse for the on

The EPA had strong limits on its use until the Trump administration reversed them; now the agency wants to ban it

On Sunday, daylight time ended and most of Canada set their clocks back an hour to standard time, but some experts say the practice is harmful to our health and should be done away with.

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in education, health and social services are on strike Monday, with unions announcing three more strike days later this month.

Bell Aliant says it has restored service to most of its customers that lost internet following a copper wire theft in Fredericton. The company posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that crews will continue to work on Sunday morning to finish the job.

The 35-year-old man had his 4-year-old daughter inside the car whom he had reportedly taken by force from the mother in a possible custody battle, say police

Chinese warplanes fired flares in front of a Canadian military helicopter over international waters of the South China Sea on Sunday, an operation that Canadian military officers said was dangerous and could have had caused significant damage.

SNOLAB in Sudbury has taken to social media to apologize after a staffer made a disturbing comment about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on X.

Family doctors across Canada have overwhelmingly sent a message to put a pause on adding an extra year to their residency training, but so far, the College of Family Physcians of Canada will only commit to reviewing that non-binding "guidance" at its boar

The British government's struggle to respond coherently to the pandemic throughout 2020 is being laid bare by former Downing Street staff.

Nearly all coastlines of the French mainland are under severe weather warnings Thursday morning. The weather service reported wind speeds of 180 km/h along the Brittany coast

Police are investigating disturbing acts of vandalism in Vaughan after multiple skinned goat heads were found at residents' homes. One was thrown through a window.

After increasing its immigration targets several times in recent years, the federal government announced Wednesday it's aiming to maintain its target of welcoming 500,000 new permanent residents in 2026.

French customs agents last year seized the oligarch's 27-metre yacht "La Petite Ourse", as part of sanctions by the European Union for his ties to President Vladimir Putin.

An online survey which the Liberal government used as a basis for choosing the design of Canada's national memorial to the Afghan war was not scientific, but the veterans minister says that doesn't mean it should be discounted.

A Thorburn, N.S., man who fled from police with an axe after allegedly attacking a woman is being charged with second-degree murder.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the Liberals are dividing Canadians around climate change with a recent shift in carbon tax policy that will mostly impact people living in Atlantic Canada.

Gloria Hooper will lay a wreath at the cenotaph in Ottawa during the national Remembrance Day ceremony, representing all families who have lost a child in service to Canada.