NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2020

As Canada Day approaches, experts say we have no one but ourselves to blame for the proliferation of Canada geese, so ultimately, it's up to us to find a way to live in peace with the species.

The beaver is transforming the Arctic landscape in a way that could be exacerbating global warming.

American authorities allege that nearly 4.3 tonnes of marijuana was found in a truck trying to cross the border from Ontario into New York.

Air Canada is indefinitely suspending dozens of domestic flight routes as the airline struggles to fill seats during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Police say a man is dead after being attacked by a pit bull in Kamloops, B.C., on Monday morning.

A company wants to use an advanced balloon to fly customers from Earth's surface in Alaska to the highest reaches of the planet's atmosphere.

The first time Sonja Wild saw a dolphin using an empty seashell to scoop an unwitting fish into its mouth, she got so excited she almost forgot to photograph it.

The Canada Border Services Agency says it turned back 21 people who tried to enter the country from the U.S. in May to claim asylum.

A noose found at a downtown construction site is being treated as a hate crime.

Bankrupt U.S. shale pioneer Chesapeake Energy on Monday laid out its long-term plans and detailed dramatically reduced drilling through the end of the year, with half the rigs as it had to start 2020. Chesapeake on Sunday became the largest U.S. oil and g

A Winnipeg woman has been sentenced to six years in jail after entering the United States to purchase a chemical weapon.

Parts of Delhi are placed on alert and residents are forced to close windows and doors.

Diversification of the economy, bolstering the oil and gas sector and a massive injection of infrastructure spending are all expected as Premier Jason Kenney announces his long-term reboot plan for Alberta today. Watch it live here at 11 a.m. MT (1 p.m. E

Toronto police say one person was arrested and charged on Sunday afternoon in connection with graffiti and racist slurs reported earlier this week on a Toronto Transit Commission train.

A state-orchestrated campaign is slashing births among the minority Uighurs of China's far west Xinjiang region with brutal efficiency, according to an investigation by The Associated Press.

A growing list of companies say they'll join an advertiser boycott on Facebook in protest of what they say are the site's failures to stop the spread of hate. Here's what we know about the companies that have joined the boycott.

New statistics show 21 people were apprehended by the RCMP crossing into Canada from the U.S. in May, despite the shutdown of the border.

A large, multinational technology company got a nasty surprise recently as it was expanding its operations to China. The software a local bank required the company to install so it could pay local taxes contained an advanced backdoor.

The brand new Lamborghini was a wreck after just 20 minutes.

Canada's highest court opened the door to a proposed $400-million class-action lawsuit against Uber today after it sided with a driver in a case over whether workers can settle disputes with the ride-hailing company through a costly, foreign arbitration p

The Royal Canadian Legion, the national institution founded by veterans for veterans, has commenced a legal battle with a Canadian insurance giant.

The Saskatchewan government is continuing its push for nuclear power, announcing Wednesday the establishment of an office to aid in the planning and development of small modular reactors in the province.

Jessi Combs is awarded the fastest land-speed record by a female, a feat she died trying to achieve.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's speechwriter once wrote an article dismissing the "bogus genocide story" of Canada's residential school system and said Indigenous youth could be "ripe recruits" for violent insurgencies.

Communist Party media in China rebuked and threatened Nova Scotia lobster shippers this week for expressing concerns over new roadblocks to getting products into China.

A U.S. environmental group says that country's toilet paper industry is driving boreal deforestation in Canada and fuelling the climate crisis. But the Forest Products Association of Canada says the report contains numerous false claims and accusations.&n

Bout, made famous by the 2005 film 'Lord of War,' has long been known as one of the world's most notorious arms traffickers

The self-balancing vehicle was launched 19 years ago with the aim of revolutionising personal transport.

Alberta's NDP Opposition says a new government bill that calls for broadening the use of referendums is an anti-democratic power grab by Premier Jason Kenney that would allow him to game public opinion while introducing big money back into politics.

What started as an amusing tweet by a Calgary researcher turned into a lively online debate about the nature and mysterious origins of a drink known only as Cronk.

Veteran conservative politician Jay Hill has been named interim leader of the separatist Wexit Canada party, following the resignation of founder Peter Downing.

CEO publicly invites engineers to give Canada a try instead as company sets up website to recruit engineers affected by ban

An animal-rights activist has been killed at a protest at a slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario. Regan Russell, described as one of the pioneers in Canada's animal-rights movement, was run over by a transport truck filled with pigs outside the Fearman's

Subtropical Depression Four strengthened into Tropical Storm Dolly well off of the northeastern United States coast on Tuesday. Not only did Dolly become a rare June D-named storm, only the third in recorded history, but it also will go down in the histor

A former soldier with PTSD is suing the federal government, accusing it of mishandling his case file and causing him to miss out up to $1,000 per month in benefits.

The United States is planning to re-impose tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada, Bloomberg reported late on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Toronto police have laid further charges against an officer who allegedly took part in a scheme to provide encrypted police radios to tow truck drivers.

Influential economist Jeffrey Sachs also warns the world is headed for a period of "massive disruption".

A state inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women in Minnesota is taking lessons from Canada on how to make sure its upcoming report doesn't end up gathering dust on a shelf.

Russian state news agency Tass says a prominent member of the protest group Pussy Riot has been detained by the police anti-extremism division.

Military police are investigating reports of a service member spreading racist pictures even as top defence officials apologize for their slow response to questions about systemic racism in the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces.

German payment service provider Wirecard said Monday it has concluded that two accounts that were supposed to contain 1.9 billion euros (US$2.1 billion) probably don't exist, deepening troubles that last week prompted the resignation of its chief executiv

As lockdown measure continue to be slowly lifted across the country, many are looking for ways to plan a vacation safely. While airlines such as Air Canada have begun offering flights to certain destinations, those who are more reluctant on flying are hit

Doctors treating Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medallist Alex Zanardi say he remains stable after a crash on his handbike but is at risk of unforeseen complications.

In a Media release put out by the Halton Regional Police service earlier today the death of a 60 year old woman was reported to have taken place at Harvester Road and Appleby Line. There was no mention of who the person was other than to say that next

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is investigating after the gruesome discovery of dozens of dead and dying dogs aboard a recent flight from Ukraine.

A stabbing rampage that killed three people as they sat in a British park on a summer evening is being considered a terrorist attack, police said Sunday. A 25-year-old man who is believed to be the lone attacker is in custody.

The settlement ends the federal investigation of the company's involvement in a scheme where several engineering firms conspired to rig bids for municipal contracts between 2003 and 2012 in Montreal and the Quebec City area.

Five hundred and fifty-seven days after Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were first detained by Chinese authorities, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today he is "disappointed" that China has now formally charged the two men with spying.

The CH-148 Cyclone was cutting-edge tech when it became the Canadian military's new maritime helicopter. After a crash killed six service members, investigators are being confronted with some awkward questions about how ready both the machine and the mili

Hertz said Wednesday it has put its plans to sell $500 million worth of stock on hold because the offering is being reviewed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Two families of the victims of the Nova Scotia mass shooting are launching a proposed class-action lawsuit against the RCMP that questions not just how the force handled the rampage, but its actions in the weeks that followed.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he stands by his actions and words in the House of Commons after he was kicked out on Wednesday for calling a Bloc Quebecois MP a racist.

Starting this year, Nunavut Day will be a statutory holiday, meaning employees in territory-regulated industries will be eligible for a day off with pay. Previously, the July 9 holiday only applied to government of Nunavut employees.

Lucien Lessard, now 91, plans to be part of an annual ceremony commemorating those who worked on the Second Narrows Bridge, which collapsed on June 17, 1958. It remains one of British Columbia's worst industrial accidents.

The province made amendments to Bill 194, which will prevent Saskatchewan municipalities from creating bylaws banning firearms.

North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a dramatic display of anger that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul am

It's no secret that police and other law enforcement agencies have a history of using mobile phone location and other data to target or investigate individuals, and the wave of mass protests in support of black communities and against police brutality thi

A decade after World War Two, Canada built a jet which pushed technology to its limits. But its demise showed why smaller nations found it difficult to compete in the Jet Age.

Fighting the urge to push something off until later starts with understanding why we want to in the first place, says Tim Pychyl, an associate professor of psychology at Carleton University.

Trans Mountain says oil is flowing again through its pipeline after as much 190,000 litres of light crude spilled from a pumping facility in Abbotsford, B.C.

Alberta Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer removed the entire committee that vets potential provincial court judges and recruited new members through a closed process that experts say is long outdated.

The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a watershed victory for LGBT rights, ruling that a landmark federal law forbidding workplace discrimination protects gay and transgender employees.

A Russian court on Monday sentenced an American businessman to 16 years in prison on spying charges, a sentence that he and his brother rejected as being political.

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has cancelled a pivotal meeting on Monday for a hospice society in Delta, B.C., that won't allow medical assistance in dying.

A spokesperson for O'Toole said the Peter McKay campaign contracted all the high-volume call centres

Human Rights Watch called the verdict "a frontal assault on freedom of the press that is critical to protect and preserve Philippines democracy."

Several workers of a high-profile company say they were pressured into giving up paid vacation days, then told to lie about it on their timecards or risk job losses. Labour experts say it's one of many cases where companies are being accused of breaking t

The largest wholesale food market in Beijing was shuttered behind police guard and the surrounding neighbourhood locked down Saturday after more than 50 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the Chinese capital.

The French-language school board and parents argued the province breached charter education rights.

Tesla has released its environmental impact report for 2019 today, and the report does a lot to address several myths which portray electric vehicles as actually more damaging to the environment than petrol cars.

Poaching of the big cats is on the rise, and a new study links their slaughter to corruption as well as investment from Chinese companies.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ordered the government of British Columbia to pay the province's sole French-language school board $6 million in damages for underfunding its school bus transportation system for a decade, and an additional $1.1 million for

A former employee of the Canadian Human Rights Museum says she was 'livid' when the museum's CEO claimed the stories of racism at the institution came as a surprise, because employees have been fighting for change for years.

The B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office has lost a long-running court case to seize clubhouses owned by the Hells Angels in Kelowna, Nanaimo and Vancouver.

The shuttering of Energy Efficiency Alberta and an end to cabinet approval for oilsands projects are proposed in an omnibus bill introduced by the government Thursday.

A former B.C. conservation officer who was fired for refusing to kill a pair of bear cubs won his dismissal case at the B.C. Court of Appeal.

Qatar is one of the world's richest countries, but around 100 laborers from Southeast Asia and Africa working on a prestigious stadium project have not been paid in seven months, Amnesty International claims.

A dozen conservation and Indigenous groups have written federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson asking him to force the Alberta government to reinstate environmental monitoring in the province's oilpatch.

Winnipeg police say a search for evidence related to a gun-making operation led to the city's first "ghost gun" bust.

On Wednesday, Britain will mark two months without burning any coal to generate power.

Under the withering microscope of government watchdogs, tech giants including Amazon, Facebook and Google have funded a bevy of political groups that have helped push positive polling and engaged in other fingerprint-free tactics designed to deter regulat

Japanese carmaker Honda said Tuesday that it has been hit by a cyberattack that disrupted its business in several countries, though it expects the overall impact to be contained.

The familiar scene of Confederate flags waved by fans at NASCAR tracks could soon be a relic of racing's good ol' boy roots.

The RCMP are investigating after a woman was attacked and killed by her own dog while she was walking the animal in a rural Nova Scotia community.

Victims of Syrian state torture are taking the stand in a Koblenz courtroom, in the world's first case of its kind. Many Syrians have been waiting for this moment and are hoping for justice.

A Calgary constituent says she was concerned when she received an email from her MLA's office stating that a bill had officially passed into law, when it hasn't yet.

Volunteers with the Toronto Wildlife Centre will no longer be out protecting a family of young foxes in The Beaches after experiencing hostility from members of the community.

The whale's lifeless body was seen Tuesday morning, drifting down the St. Lawrence River near Varennes, about 30 kilometres downstream from the city.

Mark Saunders is stepping down from his role as the chief of the Toronto Police Service.

A person is dead after a suspected "pitbull" attack about 70 kilometres east of Halifax, according to the RCMP. The dog has now been found and is dead.

Tropical storm Cristobal weakened into a depression early Monday after inundating coastal Louisiana and ginning up dangerous weather along most of the U.S. Gulf Coast, sending waves crashing over Mississippi beaches, swamping parts of an Alabama island to

Police in eastern Ontario have arrested a person in connection with a shooting and a fire in the village of Parham, Ont., approximately 60 kilometres north of Kingston.

The UCP government is taking money away from victims to fund policing initiatives in the province, say opponents of the proposed legislation changes who have called the move unethical and a "ploy."

The images come as a heinous parody to the tragic death of Floyd, 46, who died last Monday in Minneapolis after police officer Derek Chauvin put a knee in his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds.

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam says Wood Buffalo RCMP officers beat and arrested him in a Fort McMurray parking lot earlier this year. Alberta's Serious Incident Response Team has launched an investigation into the allegations of assaul

I's a really, really bad idea but one the Trudeau Liberals can't seem to walk away from: Regulating news and other content on the Internet. Last January the Liberals endorsed the idea, contained in a report from a panel appointed by the Trudeau cabinet

The man, who has not been identified, showed up wearing black paint at the anti-racism event in Nathan Phillips Square.