NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2020

International Trade Minister Mary Ng says she's keeping a close watch on a trade investigation into the Canadian lobster industry requested by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Mexico and Canada have closed thousands of kilometres of border to all but essential travel, roiling plans for vacation, work, and school. For cash-strapped Americans, it has also cut off access to medicines and health-care services that they can't afford

Still considered by many a fringe view of economics, MMT as it is popularly known suddenly seems to be moving into the mainstream as governments borrow and spend.

The Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society is fielding concerning calls from people who have taken in wild animals, looking for help.

Arvin White Cow takes a break at Galt park in Lethbridge to explain his fears about the closure of a supervised drug consumption site. He says he's addicted to alcohol, not the hard drugs, but he worries about his friends who will no longer have a safer p

Conservation officers say they will try to trap a black bear that was filmed on Saturday tapping a runner with its paw on a popular trail in B.C.'s Lower Mainland.

Shinzo Abe announces his resignation on health grounds after a resurgence of a chronic disease.

Chinese authorities have arrested at least 10 people, including a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, after its coast guard intercepted a speedboat believed to be heading to Taiwan, media reports said Thursday.

A large black bear wandered into Last Call Liquor Store in Revelstoke on Monday night.

It appears the days of having the controversial Trump name emblazoned on a prominent hotel tower in downtown Vancouver are coming to an end, with a staff member at the Trump International Hotel confirming Friday that the hotel is closing.

Robert Joamie has a harrowing story to tell after getting lost for four days out on the land near Pangnirtung earlier this month. Joamie only brought his gun, some bullets and a Pepsi with him to hunt caribou.

With administration set to give recommendations for Wood Buffalo's flood mitigation strategy next month, residents in Fort McMurray's Longboat Landing are in a rush to convince the municipality to buy out the neighbourhood.

The Saskatchewan government is planning for a rare earth processing facility to be built in the province. On Thursday, the province announced $31 million for the facility, which is to be built as part of the 2030 Growth Plan.

A decision was made at Edmonton Police Commission two years ago behind closed doors to buy a $500,000 armoured vehicle. The mayor calls it 'tone-deaf' but the chief defends the purchase.

In February, non-profit EU solar panel recycling body PV Cycle announced it had collected 5,000 tons of modules in France, of which 94.7% could be recycled. A reader asked us about the remaining 5.3%

A young humpback whale has become trapped in a fishing weir off the coast of Campobello Island.

Seven months after an Edmonton software engineer was arrested by Iranian intelligence agents, imprisoned, interrogated and coerced into becoming a state informant under threat of death, he still feels trapped.

Salma Lakhani was on Wednesday installed as Alberta's 19th lieutenant-governor, the first Muslim in Canadian history to serve in the vice-regal position.

In the summer of 2018, as it became even harder for journalists to work effectively in Xinjiang, a far-western region of China, we started to look at how we could use satellite imagery to investigate the camps where Uighurs and other Muslim minorities wer

Making their strongest statement yet in the fight against racial injustice, players from six NBA teams decided not to play post-season games on Wednesday in a boycott that quickly reverberated across other professional leagues.

A federal court judge has refused to give Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou access to sensitive information contained in reports about her arrest produced by Canada's spy agency.

Around one-in-five mortgages in Alberta remains in deferral, the highest rate of any province in the country, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Top Trump adviser Peter Navarro disparages Canada and Canadian military efforts in the war in Afghanistan in a new book, "The Madman Theory: Trump Takes On the World."

Hurricane Laura is forecast to rapidly power up into a 'catastrophic' Category 4 hurricane, even stronger than previously expected, as it churns toward Texas and Louisiana, gathering wind and water that swirls over much of the Gulf of Mexico.

Republican National Committee delegates have approved a resolution condemning the Southern Poverty Law Center, calling the legal advocacy group dedicated to fighting extremism "a far-left organization with an obvious bias."

Families and survivors had their first chance to confront the white supremacist who killed 51 worshippers in a mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques as his four-day sentencing hearing began Monday.

An Ontario man convicted of supporting an al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group has been rearrested after national security officials learned of information suggesting he "may pose a risk to public safety."

Canada's assessments of U.S. policy, Iraq's weapons capabilities, regional implications of an invasion and resulting instability proved to be generally on the mark

A Danish journalist working on a documentary about Indigenous resistance to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in British Columbia was banned from entering Canada, despite presenting press credentials and a 14-day quarantine plan.

Belarusian authorities on Monday detained three leading activists who have helped spearhead a wave of protests demanding the resignation of the country's authoritarian president following his re-election in a vote opponents say was rigged.

As wind energy deployment increases and larger wind‐power plants are considered, bird fatalities through collision with moving turbine rotor blades are expected to increase. However, few (cost‐) effective deterrent or mitigation measures have

Flight of the Monarch Day was held in Toronto Saturday, as well as various other locations across Canada, in an effort to raise awareness around declining monarch butterfly populations and ways to help the fluttering insects.

Canadians are being warned to avoid some fresh peaches from a California company after a salmonella outbreak in the United States. Prima Wawona has recalled fresh peaches with various brand names due to possible salmonella contamination.

WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says "we have the technology to stop it".

Two tropical stormjs advanced across the Caribbean Saturday as potentially historic threats to the U.S. Gulf Coast, one dumping rain on Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands while the other was pushing toward the tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, whose spra

All ballots have now been cast in the federal Conservative Party's leadership race, and by the end of the weekend Canadians will know who will be taking the helm of the party positioning itself to be a government-in-waiting.

Humanity will have burned through all the natural resources that the planet can replenish for 2020 by Saturday, according to researchers who said the grim milestone is slightly later than last year after the pandemic slowed runaway overconsumption.

The site of a hotly-contested $595-million capital project now returns to relative obscurity.

This Atlantic hurricane season has set all kinds of records. Most notably, we have already run through the "K" name, with Tropical Storm Kyle forming on August 14 off the coast of the Carolinas. This beat the earliest ever "K" storm, the highly memorable

China is targeting top scientific and technological expertise in the U.S. and other advanced nations through an expanding network of 600 talent-recruitment stations world-wide, a new report partly funded by the U.S. State Department has found.

UK-based offshore drilling contractor Valaris has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States, offering creditors to swap some $6.5 billion of its $7.8-billion debt pile for equity

Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than 1.25 metres of water, a new study said. After two years when summer ice melt had been minimal, last summer shattered all reco

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online scheme ostensibly raising funds for U.S. President Donald Trump's wall on the Mexico-U.S. border.

The satellite that provides internet to Haida Gwaii has reached the end of its life, and while some residents can switch to another service provider, others are left with no options.

A German icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the High Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour because of lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions.

Colombians who fled to Canada during five decades of armed conflict in the Latin American country country are now telling their stories of displacement and violence to the Colombian Truth Commission. The effort aims to understand what happened, and help i

All that glitters is not gold as scammers posing as stranded motorists keep targeting Good Samaritans with worthless trinkets, the OPP warns. The force keeps getting complaints from motorists who encounter the typically well-dressed and well-spoken fra

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was in a coma in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after drinking a cup of tea that his spokesperson said she believed was laced with poison.

A new fence is now under construction on the American side of the U.S.-Canada border near Lynden, Washington.

Popular pasta sauce brand Ragu has stopped selling their products in Canada, according to the company's social media.

Another group of international flights have arrived in Canada with passengers who have now tested positive for COVID-19.

Current owner Jeff Lowe announced the decision after "false accusations" were made against him.

Calgary is in the midst of a heat wave, so it's probably hard to imagine that around this time in 1992, the city was dealing with a persistent overnight frost. Gardeners, in particular, may remember that summer with frustration; temperatures dropped be

Cronk came on the radar earlier this summer after a Calgary researcher tweeted out some vintage ads from the Calgary Herald, published in the late 1880s, and the discussion went viral.

Geoff Shoesmith has seen his share of competition from the gas station down the road from his long-time family business but never did he expect the RCMP to get involved or that he'd end up in hospital with a concussion and a black eye.

New video footage shows Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri was shoved twice before pushing back against Alameda County sheriff's deputy Alan Strickland while trying to reach the court after the team won the NBA championship in June 2019.

Soldiers who ousted Mali's president and government in a military coup that drew condemnation abroad promised on Wednesday to restore stability and oversee a transition to elections within a "reasonable" time.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to hit the reset button on his Liberal government that is now mired in an ethics controversy by seeking to prorogue Parliament until October, CBC News has learned from multiple sources.

Fish market favourites such as orange roughy, common octopus and pink conch are among the species of fish and invertebrates in rapid decline around the world, according to new research. In the first study of its kind, researchers at UBC, the GEOMAR Hel

Up to 300 Pizza Hut restaurants will be closed, most of them dine-in locations not well suited for carryout and delivery at a time when millions of people are sheltering and eating at home.

A rare white orca was spotted off the southeast coast of Alaska earlier this month, creating excitement for researchers and whale watchers alike.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning on a major summer reset of his government, starting with a small shuffle to move Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland into the finance minister job on Tuesday. He is then expected to move to prorogue Parliament

Gov. Gen. Julie Payette has incurred unnecessary costs and security risks on account of her disregard for the taxpayer-funded RCMP detail paid to protect her, according to RCMP sources.

A thermometer at Death Valley's Furnace Creek in the Southern California desert has soared to 54.4 C (130 F), the highest global temperature in more than a century, the U.S. National Weather Service said.

The CFL has cancelled its 2020 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It marks the first year the Grey Cup won't be presented since 1919.

For only the second time in 12 years, Marc-Andre Bernier and his underwater archeology team at Parks Canada will not be heading north this month to explore the wrecks of the doomed Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin and his crew.

Officials in Kalamazoo have apologized for the arrest of a Black reporter who was covering a Proud Boys rally and counterprotests on Saturday, according to affiliate reports.

If confirmed, it's the planet's highest temperature ever measured in August and third highest any time.

The pandemic public rally is over for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government in Ottawa.Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic the Canadian public has been rallying to their leaders, giving them high job approval ratings and strong backing in term

A leading militant suspect who has been linked to beheadings of hostages, including two Canadians and a Malaysian, in the southern Philippines has surrendered after being wounded in battle, officials said Friday.

An intense multi-day heatwave kicked into high gear Friday, triggering power outages throughout California as the state's power grid became overwhelmed by energy demands. A Stage 3 emergency alert was declared around 6:30 p.m. by the California Indepen

The MV Wakashio, which spilled more than 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil off Mauritius, has split apart.

Greenland's ice sheet is likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests.

In an award-winning paper presented at the USENIX security conference this week, a team of academics from North Carolina State University presented a list of findings from operating a massive telephony honeypot for 11 months for the sole purpose of tracki

The federal government is granting permanent residency to some asylum seekers who cared for patients in hospitals and long-term care homes at the height of the pandemic last spring, in a one-time program that became more restrictive as Ottawa negotiated w

Canada's Competition Bureau has launched an investigation into online selling powerhouse Amazon.ca to examine whether the website's U.S. owners are "impacting competition to the detriment of consumers and companies that do business in Canada."

Ten years ago on August 13, 2010, the MV Sun Sea, a cargo ship carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils seeking asylum from civil war docked in Esquimalt.

Fears about spikes in US Covid-19 cases have led to some hostility between Canadians and Americans.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt the annexation of occupied land sought by the Palestinians for their future state.

The Alberta government has appointed eight new advisers, including a former Jason Kenney staffer, to shape a revamped school curriculum.

The federal government is turning to the private sector to design and run a massive buyback of newly prohibited firearms.

According to RCMP, one adult was swept under the falls while swimming, and two others were pulled under while trying to help.

An Alberta town has been fined $10,000 for not immediately reporting malfunctions with its drinking water system, and its former employee will serve house arrest for falsely filing reports.

Salmon fishing has had its ups and downs in recent years, but the overall trend is for fewer fish to return to spawn in the important Fraser River, which drains a large part of British Columbia and is vital habitat for salmon.

Critics are asking why the Parole Board allowed serial rapist Michel Cox to be released from prison and travel freely around Montreal. Cox has been charged in the kidnapping of a teenage girl in Outremont.

A serving member of the air force, who will be released on medical grounds, has sued the defence department for negligence over mould on navy ships, which he claims is at the root of his health problems.

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanouskaya says she fled to Lithuania for the sake of her children, after two nights of clashes following the contested re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.

A doctor is dead after he was attacked at his own clinic in Red Deer on Monday.

Two beluga whales have started a life closer to freedom after nearly ten years in captivity.

Puerto Ricans demanded answers Monday after botched primaries forced officials to reschedule voting at centres lacking ballots, an unprecedented decision being called a blow to the U.S. territory's democracy.

It's been more than two weeks since someone hacked into Tara McWilliams's online account with the Canada Revenue Agency, applied for COVID-19 emergency benefits and arranged for the payments to be deposited into a bank account on the other side of the cou

A first of its kind study from the University of British Columbia has found that melting glaciers will bring water shortages to one in four people living in Alberta.

A group that includes orthopedic surgeons, a developer and high-powered lobbyists says it has gained tentative political support from Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro for a proposal to build and operate what would be the largest private, contracted s

Belarusian opposition candidate Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya rejected on Monday official election results handing President Alexander Lukashenko a landslide victory, saying the vote was rigged and that protests that turned bloody on Sunday would continue.

Argonne National Lab says it has created a new eletrochemical process that can convert carbon dioxide and water into ethanol efficiently and at low cost.

Two 18-year-olds are dead after police believe they were thrown from their car during a tornado in Virden, Man. on Friday evening.

A 13-year-old has been charged with manslaughter after a 10-year-old boy was shot and killed south of Edmonton on Wednesday.

A German nudist had the last laugh after giving chase to a wild boar that had run off with a bag containing his laptop.

Organizers of the NW Film Center in Portland, Oregon announced this week that the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy would be pulled from the lineup after protesters complained.

A Toronto woman thought she had taken all the right steps to avoid a job scam. She didn't know that the company that hired her, which she thought was Canadian, was fake and using a stolen Ukrainian website.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent to satisfy Gov. Gen. Julie Payette's need for privacy at Rideau Hall, but she still hasn't moved into her official residence almost three years into her five-year mandate, CBC News has learned.

If the pandemic is keeping you from heading to your local watering hole, an Edmonton company will bring the pub to you.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has implemented a tariff of 10 per cent on aluminum imported from Canada.