NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2021

Doorbell cameras have gained popularity as online deliveries surge amid the pandemic. But experts warn the internet-connected cameras come with their own set of surveillance and privacy concerns.

W5 investigates the deadly fallout that COVID-19 restrictions are having on those struggling with addiction.

A prominent American animal rights group wants people to stop using animal words as insults.

It was the presence of the grand piano that convinced Edmonton antique hunter Alex Archbold to take a chance and purchase Bette-Joan Rac’s estate after her death.

A CBC Marketplace investigation into alternative lenders reveals ”outrageous” interest rates, misleading details about the true cost of long-term loans, and what experts call “abusive” practices and an industry that is “almost like loan sharking

Feeling a little disconnected in a world of virtual meetings, events and lectures? No one's confronted that new reality quite the same way as Montreal student Aaron Ansuini when he tried to contact his prof.

At first, police said an officer had been shot and was in hospital with serious injuries. Later, police said it wasn’t clear if the officer had been injured by a bullet or something else. Now the 31-year-old suspect faces a range of charges.

Charmed Playhouses has been making playhouses for the rich and famous for five years. Now, it's working on plans to open a 'play cottage' resort in Alberta this year after a successful test run last summer. 

A Louisiana cemetery removed their whites-only provision after a local policeman was denied burial.

The warning comes days after China stepped up military activities near the self-governed island.

A new study finds that ice is disappearing around the globe at an alarming rate and glaciers represent a significant amount of ice loss. Researchers in Canada say the retreat of glaciers will have major impacts on water security in Canada.

An Alberta government cabinet meeting in Calgary ended abruptly and the ministers, including Premier Jason Kenney, whisked away by police for their safety on Thursday after an intruder tried to get inside the building.

Two Canada Post workers in Regina were temporarily suspended earlier this month after they refused to deliver the latest sample edition of the Epoch Times, a paper founded by Chinese-American followers of Falun Gong and known for its critical coverage of

China says it will no longer recognize a typo of U.K. passport known as British national (overseas) as a valid travel document or form of identification amid a bitter feud with London over a plan to allow millions of Hong Kong residents a route to residen

Canada's top court has refused to hear a case involving the limits of police oversight in which a Black family alleged police brutality after 19 Toronto police officers smashed in the front door of their home.

More than a dozen cities have passed facial recognition bans in the past couple of years, but police say there are loopholes

A growing number of officials and organizations in Canada, including police and prosecutors, are calling on the federal government to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs. In British Columbia, change has already started.

Several TD bank customers from across Canada tell CBC News they discovered one or more fraudulent DoorDash charges made to their debit card account in December. Each victim said they have never used the food delivery service.

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of a Pakistani man convicted and later acquitted in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.

A decade-long warming trend in the Gulf of St. Lawrence continued in 2020 with deep waters reaching record highs, according to ocean climate data released Tuesday by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Security chiefs warn of "individuals frustrated with the exercise of governmental authority".

France's court of appeal has ordered Canadian academic Hassan Diab to stand trial in connection with a 40-year-old bombing attack outside a Paris synagogue — three years after a lower court set him free due to a lack of evidence.

A pair of professional investment firms that placed big bets that money-losing video game retailer GameStop's stock will crash have admitted defeat in the David vs. Goliath battle that has seen retail investors on Reddit drive shares to record high after

United Conservative MLAs defeated a motion proposed by the NDP that would have asked cabinet to release confidential information it considered before deciding to invest up to $7.5 billion in the Keystone XL pipeline.

The Alberta Teachers' Association says it will be taking the government to court over a ministerial order signed last month that they say gives teachers less control over their pensions.

“Today, I join Canadians in paying tribute to the over six million Jews who were murdered and the countless other victims who suffered under the heinous crimes perpetrated by the Nazi regime. The pain and loss endured during the Shoah will never be forg

The fallout from the merger of two oilpatch majors — Cenovus Energy and Husky Energy — is expected to land in downtown Calgary this week as workers begin to receive layoff notices.

A proposal to rebuild North America's early warning defence network poses a host of new challenges — both political and fiscal — for the Trudeau government.

In 2017, Adobe announced it would deactivate Flash at the end of 2020. Earlier this month, on January 12, Adobe carried through on its plans, deactivating Flash installations around the world. One result, according to Apple Daily, was chaos in a Chinese r

As haggises are stabbed open across the country, they conceal a terrible secret

Ramesh Sangha, MP for Brampton Centre, has been removed from the Liberal caucus and will sit as an Independent.

Northwestern Ontario Sen. Lynn Beyak, who came under fire for arguing that the country's residential school system was "well-intentioned" and for posting letters with derogatory comments against Indigenous people on her website, has announced her retireme

As temperatures continue to remain high, parts of Australia are facing their worst fire risk in a year.

A report commissioned by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the land-claim body that represents Inuit in the territory, says the fastest possible internet speed in Nunavut is eight times slower than the national average.

Some Alberta rivers and streams have already been heavily contaminated by coal mining, unreported government data suggests.

Giving the homeless shelter is cheaper than dealing with the consequences of rough sleeping

Sales of electric cars rose by 43% while overall car sales slumped by a fifth last year

Dutch police said on Saturday they had arrested the alleged leader of a multibillion-dollar drug syndicate who is listed as one of the world's most-wanted fugitives and has been compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Protests erupted in dozens of cities across Russia on Saturday to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin's most prominent foe.

Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday. He was 87.

The Alberta government is thinking about selling its profitable land titles, corporate and personal properties registries to a private company, according to public documents posted to its online procurement site.

Contractors are working to build up the winter road into Fort Chipewyan, after it was closed earlier in January due to safety concerns.

Temperatures have been unseasonably balmy by Iqaluit standards this winter and Tuesday officially had the warmest maximum temperature for a Jan. 19 since records began in 1946.

The Canadian dollar was little changed against its U.S. counterpart on Thursday, holding near its strongest level in nearly three years as global equity markets advanced and after the Bank of Canada left interest rates unchanged a day earlier.

Parler has since found a home in DDoS-Guard, a Russian digital infrastructure company. But now it appears DDoS-Guard is about to be relieved of more than two-thirds of the Internet address space the company leases to clients — including the Internet add

Gov.-Gen. Julie Payette and her secretary, Assunta di Lorenzo, are resigning after an outside workplace review of Rideau Hall found that the pair presided over a toxic work environment.

An independent consulting firm has completed its review into claims of a toxic environment and workplace harassment at Rideau Hall, and sources say the report is scathing.

It's been nearly a year since Alberta's UCP government announced it was killing the province's 44-year-old Coal Development Policy, but what this means exactly is still confusing and unclear to many people.

The N.W.T. government has signed a five-year deal with a Florida-based firm to supply and deliver fuel to radar sites in the North.

Last year Joyce Obaseki discovered that the RCMP's national police database listed her and another woman as the same person for nearly two decades and as a result had linked the other woman's criminal charges to Obaseki.

The Public Health Agency of Canada's latest flu report says the flu numbers up to early January fall below the threshold to declare the start of the 2020-2021 flu season.

Alexei Navalny's report alleges a vast property was paid for "with the largest bribe in history".

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, the former truck driver responsible for the Humboldt bus crash, is now waiting for the Canada Border Services Agency to write a report that will recommend whether he be allowed to stay in his adopted country or be deported.

Greenpeace Canada has warned Alberta’s inquiry into alleged foreign-funded anti-energy campaigns that it will consider legal action if the inquiry’s final report contains any reference to the environmental charity.

Falling costs and growing political ambition is accelerating this trend

Government security experts aren’t usually consulted by Global Affairs Canada when that department purchases equipment, including sensitive gear needed to protect diplomats and embassies, a procurement review has found.

From lack of animals on the landscape to safety concerns, to stories of changes in the snow and wind, several northerners discussed the ‘weird’ season and its impact on hunting this year.

Frenchwoman Jeanne Pouchain has an unusual problem. She's officially dead. She has been trying for three years to prove that she is alive.

The Conservative Party of Canada says party leader Erin O’Toole is “outraged” after discovering one of his MPs accepted money from a notorious neo-Nazi. The Conservative leader was reacting to a request for comment from PressProgress inquiring about

Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.

Search and rescue crews near 100 Mile House, B.C., are commending the actions of a 17-year-old who dug a snow cave to stay warm and safe after getting lost snowmobiling.

Transport Canada has announced that it will allow the return of Boeing Max aircraft to service in Canadian airspace on Jan. 20, concluding the government's review process.

The activist returned to Moscow from Germany months after a nerve agent attack nearly killed him.

One in six adult Canadians falls short of passing the most basic set of literacy tests, making them functionally illiterate, and this could mean problems as a post-COVID-19 economic recovery ramps up.

Indonesian rescuers retrieved more bodies from the rubble of homes and buildings toppled by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake, raising the death toll to 56 on Sunday, while military engineers managed to reopen ruptured roads to clear access for relief goods.

A pair of hockey dads went to extreme lengths to move a 70 million-year-old petrified tree from the Edmonton river bank to a paleontology museum. Indiana Jones would be proud.

Some public servants in Alberta have been underpaid for weeks after the introduction of a new payroll management system.

The National Rifle Association of America, the nation's foremost gun lobby, has filed for bankruptcy, according court documents filed Friday in the Northern District of Texas. The group said it plans to leave New York State, where it was founded in 187

A $3.5-million Alberta government public inquiry into alleged foreign-funded anti-energy campaigns has posted commissioned studies that experts say are based on junk climate-denial science, bizarre conspiracy theories and oil-industry propaganda.

The CBC "acted improperly" by firing a reporter who leaked to a news site that the network forced him to take down a tweet criticizing broadcaster Don Cherry, an arbitrator has ruled.

Ford Motor Co. is halting production of its most popular car model in Europe for a full month because of the shortage of semiconductors disrupting the world’s biggest automakers. The automaker’s Focus factory in Saarlouis, Germany, will idle from J

As global demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) surges during the pandemic, so has the human cost for those making it overseas, an investigation by CBC’s Marketplace has found.

The outgoing commander of Canada's military says he first realized the Canadian Armed Forces had a real problem with hate and racism three years ago, when navy sailors identifying themselves as "Proud Boys" confronted Indigenous protesters in Halifax.

West Vancouver billionaire Frank Giustra has been given the go-ahead to sue Twitter in a B.C. courtroom over the social media giant’s publication of a series of tweets tying him to baseless conspiracy theories involving pedophile rings and Bill and Hill

Emergency crews are searching for a missing worker after a bulldozer fell through ice at Suncor’s base plant.

Between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., anybody caught outside, be it driving or jogging, may be stopped and questioned by police. But Sarah Vresk says one Montreal officer took things too far when he insisted on searching her bag.

The U.K.'s biggest supermarket chains warned Wednesday that food supplies in Northern Ireland face disruption because of new checks imposed by Britain's departure from the European Union.

Rabbi Adam Scheier says a security guard at the synagogue on Côte-Saint-Antoine Road stopped the suspect and called for help. Police arrived shortly after and arrested the suspect.

The Archdiocese of St. John's is liable for the abuse at Mount Cashel in the 1950s, after Canada's highest court declined to hear one last appeal from the Catholic Church.

Christopher Marchant, one of the former paramedics charged with not properly caring for Yosif Al-Hasnawi the night he was shot and died, continues his testimony today.

Many elected officials posted statements on social media or responded to constituents’ queries regarding how they spent the holidays, but not all MLAs were accounted for. Here’s a list of which MLAs are confirmed to have travelled and which say they w

Lisa Montgomery is dead, the first female prisoner to be executed by the U.S. government since 1953

A new analysis of global sea level rise rates concludes the rising trend was 1.56 mm/yr−¹ from 1900-2018. This is the same rate as for 1958-2014 (1.5 mm/yr−¹), indicating there has not been a long-term distinctive change in sea level rise rates in t

A father-and-son team of rookie inventors say they pitched their patent-pending COVID-safe lid applicator to Tim Hortons, and got a good response. But after the deal fell apart over a price dispute, they say the chain took their idea without paying a cent

Vaccine independence is important, because relying on relationships with other countries doesn’t always work, researchers say.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning a cabinet shuffle involving a handful of ministers, CBC News has learned.

Police in northern Alberta are investigating after receiving a complaint about a man wearing what appears to be a Ku Klux Klan hood into Canada Post in Grimshaw, Alta.

Canada could soon be adding more extremist groups like the Proud Boys to Canada's list of recognized terrorist organizations, in wake of the pro-Trump rioting in the U.S. Capitol, according to Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair.

As a shivering cold spell from Siberia sweeps large swaths of China causing temperatures to fall by up to 10 degrees Celsius, online sales of winter products — including hand warmers, heaters and scarves — have surged, data obtained by the Global Time

A jet carrying 62 people lost contact with air traffic controllers minutes after taking off from Indonesia's capital on a domestic flight on Saturday, and debris found by fishermen was being examined to see if it was from the missing plane, officials said

A persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of Spain with 50-year record levels of snow, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling on S

A man brandishing a knife was arrested Friday afternoon after threatening people inside a northeast mosque in Calgary.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stressed the need to drastically improve his nation's ties with the outside world as he addressed a major political conference for the third day.

Conservative Sen. Don Plett — who sparked controversy by travelling to Mexico on vacation over the holidays — co-signed a directive last year barring all MPs and senators from travelling outside Canada as part of inter-parliamentary delegations.

Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan said today in a news release that most of the so-called "ghost gear" collected were traps and pots from lobster and crab fishing.

Last year tied with 2016 as the world's warmest on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Friday.

Almost as far as the eye can see, trash spreads out over Serbia's Potpecko Lake, lapping against the dam that crosses it, and there's concern that it's threatening a hydroelectric plant.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk passed Jeff Bezos on Bloomberg's billionaires' list to become world's richest person on Thursday, a title the Amazon founder has held since October 2017.

About 50 Hong Kong pro-democracy figures were arrested by police on Wednesday under a national security law, following their involvement in an unofficial primary election last year held to increase their chances of controlling the legislature, according t

Alberta's United Conservative Party has the lowest public satisfaction in its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic of any provincial government — by a huge and growing margin, a new poll suggests.

Canada was held without a goal as the U.S. won the world junior championship gold-medal game 2-0 on Tuesday night in Edmonton.

Things began on Dec. 15 when a man and woman followed a delivery truck into Sandhills Estates, a rural subdivision southwest of Edmonton, stole a package then got stuck in the snow before making their escape.

Harm reduction advocates are angry and frustrated that Alberta Health Services has eliminated a mental health and addictions prevention team.

Conservationists will try to persuade a U.S. judge on Monday to stop the Trump administration from issuing leases to oil and gas companies in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Enrique Tarrio was detained as he entered the city ahead of a pro-Trump protest this week.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is in crisis mode with new cases exceeding 50,000 a day

In Kimmirut, wind gust reached 120 km/h on Dec. 26, and in Pangnirtung, winds were clocked at 136 km/h. That’s the highest on record for data that goes back to 1925, according to Environment Canada.

PSA and Fiat Chrysler are talking about consolidating vehicle platforms to save billions in engineering and manufacturing costs. That could mean job losses in Italy, Germany and Michigan.

Lukaszuk said there is a form submission process when ministers plan to be away from the office, which Allard referenced during a separate press conference on…

The Wikileaks founder is wanted in the US over the publication of thousands of classified documents.

The officer paid for the needy women's food instead of charging them for shoplifting.

Iraqi explosives experts were working to defuse a large mine discovered on an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf and evacuate its crew, authorities said Friday.

The press secretary for Alberta’s Education Minister appears to have deleted two social media accounts after a photo surfaced of him seemingly vacationing in Hawaii for Christmas.

Calgary police say Sgt. Andrew Harnett was killed on New Year's Eve after being struck by the vehicle of a driver trying to flee a traffic stop. The city's police chief and the president of the police association will speak live at 11:30 MT.