NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2024

This is the first sedition case against journalists in Hong Kong since the territory's handover in 1997.

Tropical Storm Shanshan slowly made its way northeast through Japan toward the capital Saturday, setting off a mudslide that killed three people, halting trains and leaving underground passages brimming with water.

Tributes for NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and his younger brother streamed in Friday as the star forward's death left the hockey community reeling. 

A First Nation in Manitoba said they have discovered "indication of human remains" on the site of a former residential school.

A senior intelligence official with Canada's border officer says he's not convinced the system failed when a man, who allegedly took part in a violent attack on behalf of ISIS overseas, was allowed to immigrate to Canada and eventually receive citizenship

The Calgary Airport Authority says it will take at least a year and a half to fix part of its domestic terminal that was hammered by hail earlier this month.

Convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki has been handed four life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years for the murders of four Indigenous women.

Alberta's premier says the province is planning to lease new hospitals to Alberta Health Services with the option of transferring operations to another operator if it decides AHS isn't doing a good job.

Whooping cough cases are on the rise in Canada, with some provinces reporting sharp increases compared to pre-pandemic averages.

By year's end, 96 percent of the US's grid additions won't add carbon to the atmosphere.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday Canada will impose punitive tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles — copying a similar initiative that the U.S. is already pursuing to stop a flood of what’s been described as unfairly state-subsidized

Housing Minister Sean Fraser said on Sunday that the federal government will curb the number of temporary foreign workers coming into the country after a post-COVID surge that some researchers say has driven up youth and immigrant unemployment rates.

The Canada Industrial Relations Board has ordered thousands of rail employees back to work after a bitter contract dispute shut down the country's two major railways.

A stuck 138-metre cargo ship that had been blocking traffic in the St. Lawrence Seaway near Montreal has been freed.

The final edition of The Telegram newspaper’s daily print hit the stands in St. John's, N.L., on Saturday, marking the end of a 145-year run and a move to weekly print version with daily stories online.

The dispute that has brought Canada's two biggest railways to a standstill could soon be over. Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon announced Thursday afternoon that he's sent the dispute to binding arbitration.

Starting next week, the federal government will impose new restrictions on nicotine pouches to make it illegal to sell them anywhere but from behind a pharmacy counter.

Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers after the parties failed to agree on a new contract before the midnight deadline.

Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri has deleted a post on X that claimed the affordability crisis has driven parents to traffic their kids.

Brazil will begin imposing restrictions on the entry of some foreigners from Asia who use the country as a launching point to migrate to the United States and Canada, the justice ministry's press office said Wednesday.

Life expectancy for British Columbia's First Nations people has dropped by more than six years since 2017, says a report tracking Indigenous health issues.

Births in the United States dropped again between 2022 and 2023, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The national birth rate has been steadily declining for the last 17 years, with a particularly steep drop

A new report from the United Nations says migrant workers in Canada are facing various forms of abuse, with little recourse.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has promised to scrap plans to expand eligibility to those with mental illness.

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs wants Canada's governor general and prime minister to rescind the senate appointment of Charles Adler over what the assembly calls "grossly offensive" comments about Indigenous communities made by the broadcaster in 1999.

RCMP checkpoints at the entrance to the Jasper townsite have been removed but visitors are still being told to keep their distance from the wildfire-ravaged community.

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos pleaded guilty Monday to committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with the federal fraud case that led to his expulsion from U.S. Congress.

The good news: There's little risk beyond the rash. The bad: The rash is awful.

The union representing thousands of workers at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. says it has served a 72-hour strike notice to the railway.

Parks Canada says a wildfire that forced everyone to flee the Alberta town of Jasper and destroyed close to a third of its buildings is now listed as "being held."

People forced from their homes by a monster wildfire have begun returning to Jasper, Alta., to sift through the ashes of their devastated community.

The attack, which has been widely condemned, left a Palestinian man dead and about a dozen injured

The B.C. Supreme Court has certified a class-action lawsuit against global agriculture firm Syngenta over claims that its herbicide products cause Parkinson's disease.

Women in the U.S. can expect to live shorter lives than women in similarly wealthy nations, according to a brief from the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit research group focused on health care.

The owners of three Calgary child-care programs are speaking out after being shut down this week, accusing the provincial government of racism.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency.

MPs of all stripes have agreed to investigate how a father and son accused of planning a terror attack in Toronto were allowed into Canada despite claims that the father had taken part in a violent terrorist assault overseas.

A Montreal man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Pennsylvania judge for operating a telemarketing scheme that defrauded American seniors of millions of dollars.

The town of Jasper also reported while 358 structures were destroyed, mostly businesses and homes, the total number of housing units lost is about 800.

Money will be used to boost funding for local, Indigenous broadcasting, per briefing

Alberta's premier is wooing UCP members with a pledge to protect vaccine refusers in the province's Bill of Rights. Activists in her party have pushed her government to go much farther.

There is no safe level of alcohol. A single drink a day could shave almost three months off your life. And drinking can boost your cancer risk by 23 per cent.

Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of starting a fire on the grounds of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Sunday, as Ukraine urged residents to remain calm and reported no sign of elevated radiation.

Provincial police said 36 motorcyclists have died on OPP-patrolled roads so far this year.

Homeowners in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Que., are calling for help after Friday's torrential rain led to backed up sewers flooding their basements — leaving some with thousands of dollars in losses.

In its first full year in practice, 2,838 patients died by MAID. The most recent government data shows 13,241 Canadians died by MAID in 2022, accounting for 4.1 per cent of all deaths in the country that year.

Officials with the Yukon government say dozens of dead fish found earlier this week in a creek near Victoria Gold's Eagle mine were likely killed by a discharge of contaminated water from the mine site.

Vancouver Fire Rescue Services say five homes are unsafe to occupy after a massive fire and crane collapse in the city's Dunbar neighbourhood.

The Forest Service told bottled water company BlueTriton Brands to stop piping water out of a California national forest. The company is suing to challenge the decision.

A chess player has been suspended by the Russian Chess Federation and is reportedly facing time in jail after she allegedly tried to poison her rival near the chess board during a tournament.

Canada's top court has dismissed the latest attempt by polarizing psychologist Jordan Peterson to challenge an order directing him to either undergo social media training or risk losing his licence to practise.

A different clade of mpox than the previous outbreak is spilling out of the DRC.

The Perseid meteor showerpeaks on the weekend, but be sure to keep an eye on the sky in the days leading up to it.

When the bullets started flying on a residential street near the corner of de Salaberry Boulevard and Davignon Street in Montreal's West Island just after 8 p.m., Houssam Abdallah, 52, positioned himself in front of the rounds.

A prominent fisheries biologist fears the Alberta's lake sturgeon may be in peril because of growing pressure on water resources.

The potential of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports is being welcomed by the Canadian head of General Motors as major producer BYD looks to enter the market.

The body of 22-year-old Mackenzie Trottier, who had been missing since December 2020, was found at the Saskatoon landfill, police confirmed on Tuesday.

Tropical rainfall and training bands: It's going to be a soggy mess.

So-called Therapeutic Use Exemptions are on the rise, posing an interesting question: Is allowing athletes to use banned drugs for medical reasons simply levelling the playing field, or creating unfair advantages?

The two men were arrested and charged at a 2022 border blockade in Coutts, Alberta.

The River Forecast Centre says water bursting through landslide debris could cause river levels downstream to rise extremely quickly along the Chilcotin and Fraser rivers.

Meta launched its Canadian news ban one year ago today — and a new report offers a bleak picture of its impact on the country’s journalism sector.

Peter Nygard's Toronto sexual assault case has been delayed once again, after prosecutors requested his sentencing be adjourned until September because of scheduling issues.

Global Affairs Canada says 21,399 Canadians have officially registered as being in Lebanon, though it expects many more are present in the country.

A Canadian warship passed through the Taiwan Strait in what Ottawa called a commitment to an open Indo-Pacific, drawing a rebuke from China that the naval exercise on July 31 undermined peace.

The Canadian Coast Guard has named its two new patrol vessels after northern glaciers.

Cait Alexander is demanding an apology from a Liberal MP who put a halt to a planned discussion about violence against women in favour of a debate about abortion rights.

L.A.'s BIG:LEAP experiment gave monthly payments to poor families for a year with no strings attached. Recipients saw lasting benefits, a study finds.