NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2021

An Edmonton NDP MLA's office was vandalized with graffiti reading "Antifa liar."

Ahmed Abdullah al-Harbi resurfaced in Saudi Arabia after telling other activists he’d revealed their names to Saudi authorities.

Members of Vancouver’s Jewish community are reacting to a t-shirt created by a local woman comparing the COVID-19 vaccine rollout to the Holocaust.

In an effort to encourage Canadians to keep in touch during the pandemic, Canada Post is sending every household a free postcard to mail to a loved one.

Shooting up like a rocket, Alberta's sky-high debt is soaring past the $100-billion mark with the glaring admission there is no plan to restore balance to the books.

OTTAWA - The federal government ran a deficit of $248.2 billion through the first nine months of its 2020-21 fiscal year as spending soared due to the...

Saudi Arabia's crown prince likely approved an operation to kill or capture a U.S.-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly declassified U.S. intelligence report released Friday that could escalate pressure on the Bide

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says he assumes security authorities signed off on an arrangement to allow a company owned by a Chinese police force to run Canada's visa application centre in Beijing.

Parks Canada is welcoming six plains bison to Waterton Lakes National Park, a move that is ecologically significant for the park and culturally significant for Indigenous communities in southern Alberta.

A B.C.’s babysitter’s conviction in the 2011 death of a toddler may have been the result of a miscarriage of justice, according to a special prosecutor appointed by the province.

During an appearance on The Late, Late Show with James Corden that aired early Friday, Prince Harry said he decided to step away from his work as a front-line member of the royal family to protect his wife and son, as well as his own mental health.

The chief executive of the fund that manages Canada Pension Plan investments has resigned after it was revealed that he decided to travel to the United Arab Emirates, where he arranged to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Hundreds of cybersecurity workers at Canada's foreign signals intelligence agency have voted to strike, a move that comes amid growing conerns about cyber attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sectors that rely on government funding, like post-secondary institutions, are awaiting Alberta's new budget on Thursday with trepidation.

Cash Anderson was a vivacious 13-year-old boy. His mom, Melanie, said he would wake up early all the time to get outside and skateboard, and he always had to make sure his fiery red curls were sitting just right before school.

One of the largest police investigations into organized crime in Ontario's history has fallen apart after police allegedly illegally intercepted phone calls as part of a multimillion-dollar probe into suspected Mob activity in the Greater Toronto Area, CB

Canadians say that the consistency of local butter has changed. Experts may have found the culprit.

All election participants will have to swear allegiance or face five-year ban under bill to be tabled next month

The Chinese telecoms giant is also pivoting into coal mining technology amid US sanctions on its phones.

Christopher Pekny was making a device to be used at his child's gender-reveal party, police say.

Due this fall, it features clever fast-charging tech and an expansive interior.

A once-secret U.S. State Department document suggests that former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau may have asked one of Quebec's top business leaders to "make it as tough as possible" for the newly elected Parti Québécois government in 1976 and to quietly

The Trudeau government has agreed with the Senate that Canadians suffering solely from grievous and incurable mental illnesses should be entitled to medical assistance in dying — but not for another two years.

Marly Edouard of Laval called 911 on Friday afternoon to report a threat against her life. A little less than 48 hours later, she was found dead outside the condo building where she lived.

After two days of silence and criticism from other political leaders, Premier Jason Kenney on Monday condemned the racist elements and symbolism of a weekend torch rally on the Alberta legislature.

Scientists are concerned by falling sperm counts and declining egg quality. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be the problem.

It tore up the roads but ultimately saved lives by providing power in a pinch.

Members of Parliament voted Monday to label China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslims a genocide, and to call on the federal government to formally adopt that position, without the support of the Liberal cabinet.

The Alberta government has yet to release details on how it will "optimize" the province's parks by getting other people to run them.

After his car struck two people in a crosswalk, the driver of a Volkswagen Jetta told a Calgary police officer he'd been speeding, he had downed 12 ounces of alcohol and was worried he'd go to jail for drunk driving, yet police didn't get a breath or bloo

CBC News reached out to the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety with an interview request for Minister Christine Tell about the family’s concerns, including whether or not Kimberly was supplied with any winter clothes upon her release an

Inuvik sends around 100 tons of waste cardboard to its landfill each year. A pilot project of the Aurora Research Institute hopes to change that.

The original cost for the offshore oceanographic science vessel was supposed to be one-tenth that amount

Something other than the sun lit up northern Alberta skies Monday morning.

Cambridge University team say their findings could be used to spot people at risk from radicalisation

The prime minister is expected to announce a new process this week to select a governor general to succeed Julie Payette, who resigned exactly a month ago in the wake of a workplace review that found she presided over a “toxic” and “poisoned” work

It wasn't what Cody Reid and his colleagues expected to find as they completed track inspections Thursday morning just outside of Trail, B.C.

Pouce Coupe Mayor Lorraine Michetti has apologized and vowed to take a First Nations awareness program in her community.

Molson Coors has locked out employees at its Toronto brewery, after the union rejected what the company called its “best and final offer.”

China's envoy to Canada is telling Canadian parliamentarians to butt out of his country's internal affairs through their pending vote on declaring a genocide against ethnic Muslim Uighurs in its Xinjiang province.

Three people are dead after a gun store shooting in a New Orleans suburb, according to the Louisiana sheriff's office.

A commercial airliner dropped debris in Colorado neighbourhoods during an emergency landing Saturday.

Several former pro wrestlers who claimed in lawsuits that World Wrestling Entertainment failed to protect them from repeated head injuries are taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hold a virtual bilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday.

Millions of Hyundai and Kia vehicles run the risk of sudden engine fires and failures — and drivers say recalls have done little to address the safety issues. Marketplace and Go Public join forces to investigate the potentially dangerous engines, exposi

Alberta's police watchdog is at a "critical breaking point" as its chronically under-resourced team continues to grapple with overdue files, its executive director told an Edmonton Police Commission meeting Thursday.

Canada vowed on Thursday to make Facebook pay for news content, seeking allies in the media battle with tech giants and pledging not to back down if the social media platform shuts off the country's news as it did in Australia.

According to the Business Council of Alberta, Alberta's finances are on a 'concerning trajectory' with both a revenue and an expense problem, and trying to…

The two Rafale aircraft hit electrical lines on a low-altitude training flight in the south.

The federal government has introduced a new bill to repeal mandatory minimum penalties for certain drug offences — penalties the Liberals say have disproportionately harmed Indigenous and Black offenders and those struggling with addictions.

Frostbite treatment in Yukon has seen "dramatic change" in the last few years, according to a local doctor who's helped pioneer a new approach.

A detective has resigned after stealing opioids from Toronto police evidence lockers because of drug addiction, the force confirmed Thursday.

Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest payments. It sent $900M instead.

US firm to spend $1bn converting plant in Cologne to become its first electric vehicle facility in Europe

While Canadians were being urged to stay home during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a judge with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice was cleared to fly to the Turks and Caicos for "personal" reasons and preside over her court cases remotely, C

RCMP have charged Travis Patron, the leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party, after he posted an allegedly anti-Semitic video on YouTube.

Email app Hey reveals that two-thirds of the messages it handles contain the hidden trackers.

The deputy grand chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation says winter roads to northern First Nations are going in late again this year nd Derek Fox says he's worried some communities won't get all of the supplies they need before the season ends.

More than four years after Brayden Bushby threw a trailer hitch from a moving car in Thunder Bay, Ont., striking Barbara Kentner of Wabigoon Lake Ojibway First Nation in the abdomen, family members will have a chance to tell the court how that action caus

For an hour a day, seven days a week, a Mill Woods restaurant serves up free meals to anyone in need. What started as a way to help people at the beginning of the pandemic, is still going nearly a year later.

Freezing weather in Texas led to a chain of events that left almost 5 million customers in northern Mexico without power Monday as a shortage of natural gas disrupted electricity production.

BBC Panorama has obtained secret video messages showing the daughter of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum imprisoned against her will.

The federal government introduced new gun control legislation today that would introduce a buy-back program for blacklisted firearms, allow municipalities to ban handguns and increase criminal penalties for gun smuggling and trafficking.

The Houston area is in for more freezing weather and another winter storm. Brown outs all over the state.

A comedian's joke about a young disabled boy launched a nearly decade-long free speech battle.

More than 7,000 pepper the Yamal peninsula, world’s biggest natural gas reserve, and many may be ticking time bombs.

This year's seasonal ice cover is the lowest in its 51-year recorded history say forecasters with the Canadian Ice Service.

While cost can be a barrier, interest is growing in net-zero homes that both produce energy and use it wisely.

A 3.9 magnitude earthquake was confirmed six kilometres north of Banff on Saturday, according to Earthquakes Canada.

A fuel tanker exploded Saturday at the Islam Qala crossing in Afghanistan's western Herat province on the Iranian border, injuring at least seven people and causing a massive fire that consumed more than 500 trucks carrying natural gas and fuel, according

The long-promised bill would flesh out last spring’s ban of many firearms, propose stricter storage provisions and target gun smuggling

The panel that evaluates international trade disputes in the United States has squashed a complaint about Canadian blueberries.

For years, U.S. investigators found tampering in products made by Super Micro Computer Inc. The company says it was never told. Neither was the public.

International travellers staying at federally appointed COVID-19 isolation hotels have complained about lack of communication and an environment of secrecy.

Canada's recently appointed Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Art McDonald says the senior leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces needs to better reflect Canada’s diverse populations after he was criticized online for a tweet about the importance of d

Bombardier Inc. says it will lay off 1,600 people and stop making Learjets in a bid to improve profitability.

Ontario police fatally shot a one-year-old boy during a standoff near Lindsay last year, the province’s police watchdog has confirmed.

The prosecutions office says it reviewed RCMP investigations into the comments and didn't recommend charges because there was no reasonable likelihood of conviction.

About 380,000 public and private-sector workers will receive one-time payments of $1,200 for putting themselves at risk on the job during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed Mike Duffy's appeal of a lower court decision that held the P.E.I. senator couldn't sue the Senate for damages related to the 2013-15 expenses scandal.

A First Circuit appeals court has overturned an earlier victory against suspicionless phone searches at the border, dealing a legal defeat in a lawsuit including NASA scientist Sidd Bikkannavar.

Long-time Tory MP Pierre Poilievre has now been tasked as the so-called ‘shadow minister’ for jobs and industry after being removed from the finance critic post

The Canadian government and security agencies are reviewing an audio recording in which a man — identified by sources as Iran's foreign affairs minister — discusses the possibility that the destruction of Flight PS752 was an intentional act, CBC News

Two members of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's caucus are challenging the province's COVID-19 economic restrictions and have joined a national coalition pushing against public health restrictions.

Conservative leader says the “Ottawa knows best” approach is the wrong one for dealing with the crisis in long-term care, which dates back decades but...

Colonies of snow penguins built by university students are cropping up around Alberta to protest cuts to post-secondary education.

RCMP say the woman left her neighbour's house in Dawson Creek, B.C., where she had been drinking alcohol, early Sunday morning, when temperatures fell below -40 C.

One woman is in a critical condition amid unverified reports that live ammunition has been fired.

Civil liberties advocates are urging the Canadian government to find a more transparent way of tackling white supremacy and neo-fascism after 13 groups — including the Proud Boys — were designated as terrorist entities last week.

A hacker gained access to the Oldsmar's water treatment plant, bumping the sodium hydroxide in the water to a "dangerous" level, according to Sheriff Gualtieri.

Blink and you could easily miss it. Wedged between a doctor's surgery and a hairdressing salon, London's thinnest house is only identified by a streak of dark blue paint.

A 26-year-old Michigan man was killed in an explosion that occurred during a baby shower, according to Gaines Township authorities.

A Louisiana woman has sought medical treatment after mistakenly using Gorilla Glue spray adhesive in place of actual hair spray.

A gallery owner says photographs, including one of the England cricket team, have been rejected

Two Canadian government scientists escorted from the National Microbiology Laboratory amidst an RCMP investigation and internal review have been let go from the Public Health Agency of Canada, CBC News has learned.

In the wake of mounting opposition to its sudden decision to cancel a 44-year-old policy on coal development, the Alberta government now says it will reinstate that policy and consult with the public about future changes. Watch Energy Minister Sonya Savag

Cuba announced Saturday that private activity will be authorized in most sectors, a major reform in the communist country where the state and its companies dominate economic activity.

An Ontario woman was secretly followed and videotaped by the organization that should have been helping her recover from a workplace injury. Instead, Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board tried to use the videos to discredit her. Experts say all

Indian rescue crews struggled to reach trapped victims Sunday after part of a glacier in the Himalayas broke off and released a torrent of water and debris that slammed into two hydroelectric plants. At least nine people were killed and 140 were missing i

Bob McDonald's blog: A simple backyard procedure results in see-through wood with enormous potential as a building material.

How new rules on exporting to the European Union have affected a British fishing firm.

The new Biden administration sees Huawei as a national-security threat and wants to discuss the issue with allies. Answers from the nominee for commerce secretary make clear the pressure on Canada to develop a policy on the Chinese telecom company will no

A majority of Republican voters said if former President Trump were to start a new political party they would likely join, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds.

BEIJING — Abdullah Metseydi, a Uighur in Turkey, was readying for bed last month when he heard commotion, then pounding on the door. “Police! Open the door!” A dozen or more officers poured in, many bearing guns and wearing the camouflage of Turk

A metastudy to be published in the journal Science shows that humans have drastically altered oceans' underwater soundscapes, in some cases deafening or disorienting whales, dolphins and other marine mammals that rely on sound to navigate.

In retrospect, 2020 feels like such a disorienting blur. It's like the entire year just vanished before our eyes, condemned to the pits of memories we wish to forget. Ever since COVID-19 changed our lives, forcing us to live in this 'new normal', the o

U.S. congressional investigators found 'dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals' in certain baby foods that could cause neurological damage, a House Oversight subcommittee said in a report released on Thursday.

A top doctor at the Russian hospital where opposition leader Alexey Navalny was treated immediately after his poisoning last summer has died, the hospital said on Thursday.

Shares in Canadian-based cannabis companies are surging this week partly because of a flurry of short sellers covering their bets against the stocks, right as U.S. lawmakers seem to be getting more serious about potentially legalizing the drug.

The co-founders of WE Charity say they now regret the organization's decision to invite prominent politicians — including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — to their events.

The Texas Department of Public Safety sent out a mistaken Amber Alert like no other on Friday, Jan. 29. The message published from the Texas Alerts system with an Amber Alert for Chucky the doll and his child, Glen.

Premier Jason Kenney is urging Albertans who have bought into conspiracy theories about COVID-19 being a hoax or part of a global effort to impose some kind of socialist order upon the world to "wake up and smell the coffee" and look at the actual da

A member of Canada's elite JTF-2 counterterrorism unit was injured last fall after his brand new handgun fired by itself. The incident has prompted special forces to pull the SIG Sauer P320 out of service. The military is facing question about the choice

The Defence Department revealed the first ship is now scheduled for delivery in the early 2030s as officials grapple with design and construction issues

Earth spiked a bit of a fever in 2020, partly because of cleaner air from pandemic lockdowns, which resulted in fewer cooling aerosols like soot and sulfates blocking light from the sun and creating a temporary warming effect, a new study has found.

Earlier this week, BP reported a net loss of $5.7 billion for 2020, citing oil and gas price weaknesses and demand destruction by the pandemic. Exxon, for its part, booked the biggest loss in its modern history, at $20 billion, including an impairment ch

The navy is cutting ties with a Calgary reservist who at one time was the online administrator of neo-Nazi web site. Leading Seaman Boris Mihajlovic will be released from the military following a command level review, the commander of the navy has said.

American technology firm Clearview AI violated Canadian privacy laws by collecting photos of Canadians without their knowledge or consent, an investigation by four of Canada's privacy commissioner has found.

Global Affairs Canada says a dual citizen of Canada and China was taken prisoner in Hong Kong and forced to choose between their two nationalities.

South Korea returned to first place in the latest Bloomberg Innovation Index, while the U.S. dropped out of a top 10 that features a cluster of European countries. Korea regained the crown from Germany, which dropped to fourth place. The Asian nation h

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to over three years in prison in a Moscow court hearing Tuesday, but not before calling the proceedings a vain attempt by the Kremlin to scare millions of Russians into submission.

The gunfight took place at an upscale gated community while agents were investigating child abuse.

Imperial Oil Ltd. reported a loss of $1.15 billion for its fourth-quarter as it took a $1.17-billion non-cash charge related to Canadian unconventional natural gas assets it doesn't think it will ever develop.

An out-of-control wildfire burning northeast of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed at least 59 homes and was threatening more Tuesday, with many residents across the region told it is too late to leave.

Four Alberta mayors are calling for the provincial government to halt its takeover of 911 EMS dispatch in their communities and launch an investigation after technological problems resulted in a 16-minute delay for emergency services in Calgary last Tuesd

Alberta government documents show repeated cuts to environmental monitoring despite contaminants in some waterways that exceed thresholds that are supposed to trigger increased scrutiny.