NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2021

The military's head of personnel — one of the more prominent leaders in the Canadian Armed Forces — is on indefinite leave with pay as he faces an investigation over an allegation of rape that dates back almost three decades.&

Military police say they detained a navy officer as he exchanged documents with a Russian official.

As the first Indigenous justice appointed to a Canadian Court of Appeal in 2004, Harry LaForme seemed like an excellent candidate for the Supreme Court of Canada years later.

A new study confirms what Quebecers already know very well: we have the worst roads in Canada. We’re also paying a heavy price for them, too.

U.S. President Joe Biden is to travel to Pittsburgh today to unveil his $2-trillion US plan to re-engineer America's infrastructure.

Vancouver police say they have arrested a 42-year-old man suspected of arson in three fires at Masonic lodges in Metro Vancouver on Tuesday morning. Fire crews extinguished two blazes at Masonic lodges in North Vancouver and a third at a Masonic hall in V

Arkansas lawmakers passed a measure on Monday that could make the state the first in the country to prevent doctors from providing certain types of care to transgender youth, part of a wave of U.S legislation that would restrict transgender rights.

After a year of handwashing, mask-wearing and physical distancing, the province is seeing an extraordinarily mild flu season, Alberta doctors say.

When it comes to climate change, experts say few things have been as tricky to predict as its impact on hurricanes. However, a new report suggests that many regions affected by hurricanes will likely experience storms of greater intensity as a result of E

The Windsor Assembly Plant will be shut down for four weeks starting Monday, according to the union representing workers there.

A three-man crew used chainsaws and a hand-over-hand jack to lift 15 tons of ice and truck out of a river before it could plunge 40 feet to the bottom.

With a number of banks said to be exposed to Archegos, investors are on the lookout for signs of contagion. U.S. stocks fell from all-time highs as traders weighed the level of contagion from forced block trades through financial markets.

Bloody crackdowns and massacres initiate anger and stronger desire for a future without the Tatmadaw

Two wildfires east of Highway 2 caused evacuations in southern Alberta during Sunday afternoon’s wind storm.

The Canadian government plans to formally apologize to members of the No. 2 Construction Battalion — the country's first and only segregated military unit — for the treatment they endured during and following their service in the First World War.

A global pandemic, anti-racism protests and a turbulent U.S. presidential election had Americans glued to their screens in 2020, but as people consumed more news, they began to trust media less, surveys suggested. The CBC documentary Big News takes a look

Australian coal company Atrum Coal announced Friday it would pause operations at its Elan project, located just north of Grassy Mountain, citing upcoming consultations on coal policy scheduled by the Alberta government.

The Lester B. Pearson school board held a series of virtual assemblies this week related to the origins of the N-word. The Black presenter says a white teacher interrupted his anti-racism presentation and directed a swear word at him.

H&M disappeared from the internet in China as the government raised pressure on shoe and clothing brands and announced sanctions Friday against British officials in a spiralling fight over complaints of abuses in the Xinjiang region.

Two teenage girls have been charged in the carjacking death of an Uber Eats driver this week in Washington, D.C., police say.

Six people are injured and a woman is dead after a stabbing incident on the North Shore Saturday afternoon.

U.S. Department of Energy Announces Goal to Cut Solar Costs by More Than Half by 2030

The Grand Banks fishing schooner Bluenose was launched in Lunenburg, N.S., exactly one century ago.

The chief counsel for the Department of Justice conceded the possibility Friday the judge overseeing Meng Wanzhou's extradition proceedings may find that a Canada Border Service Agency officer breached the Huawei executive's rights by giving the RCMP the

A charge of first-degree murder has been laid following an altercation in southwest Edmonton in which a man was hit by a vehicle that then fled the scene.

A doctor was charged Friday with first-degree murder as part of a police investigation into multiple suspicious deaths at Hawkesbury and District General Hospital in eastern Ontario, near the border with Quebec.

A high-profile sexual assault case involving the Canadian military has come to an end following years of legal battles. Former warrant officer André Gagnon pleaded guilty today to assaulting former master corporal Stéphanie Raymond — a case that helpe

A leading gun-control group is urging MPs to vote against the Liberal government's new firearms bill, saying it is too weak to salvage.

Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) on 29 January issued a request for information (RFI) for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) pr...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says it is “absolutely essential” countries such as Canada repatriate Canadian women and children currently being held in Syrian prison camps.

The Bank of England unveiled the new £50 note on Thursday, nearly two years after saying it would honor the pioneering mathematician who died an outcast because of his homosexuality.

The UN human rights office said on Wednesday it confirmed the accuracy of published remarks by the independent expert who led an investigation into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi alleging that a senior Saudi official had made a threat against her.

Amir Attaran has been a Canadian citizen for about 20 years, as well as holding U.S. and Iranian citizenship, and was a permanent resident of this country…

A 26-year-old registered nurse in Toronto was on her way to a city shelter to help administer COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday morning, when a dump truck hit her Mini Cooper from behind and continued to push her toward a busy highway.

The Supreme Court of Canada will release its decision today on whether the federal Liberal government's carbon pricing regime is constitutional — a ruling that could derail Ottawa's efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions through a carbon tax-and-rebat

Two decades ago, a landmark Supreme Court ruling changed the way Indigenous offenders were sentenced. Now an Edmonton activist and a defence lawyer have joined forces to take a similar approach with Black Albertans.

MPs will vote soon on a motion introduced by Liberal MP Majid Jowhari calling on Canada to officially recognize Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day — marking the date in 1834 when slavery was abolished in the British Empire.

Upon further investigation, he also found a string and cereal with black marks, which may or may not be rat droppings. He had already eaten a bowl

Mild temperatures and a lack of sea ice have disrupted life along Labrador's northern coast this winter, and give a glimpse into what will become the norm in decades to come.

The vessel's operator reportedly encountered a 'loss of the ability to steer the ship,' amid poor visibility caused by a dust storm and a freak wind reaching…

Exclusive: public figures considered to be permissible targets for otherwise-banned abuse, leaked moderator guidelines show

George Weston Ltd. is putting its Weston Foods bakery business up for sale and doubling down on its core retail and real estate operations, the company said Tuesday.

Consumers get most of the benefits of unpaid costs, but companies get a slice, too.

Canada's biggest oil-producing province Alberta is expected to see the fastest growth in renewable energy capacity between 2018 and 2023, the Canada Energy Regulator forecast in a Tuesday report, as new wind and solar projects help replace coal-fired elec

A motion condemning hateful and racist symbols in Alberta did not go up for a vote in the legislature Monday because the UCP government spent much of the allotted time discussing rodeo.

A senior Canadian military officer has announced his departure from the armed forces after an affair he had with an American civilian became public.

A father has been arrested on suspicion of child endangerment after he carried his 2-year-old daughter into the elephant habitat at the San Diego Zoo to take a photograph with the animals.

Authorities in Colorado responded to a shooting at a supermarket Monday.

A party-ending curfew imposed after fights, gunfire, property destruction and dangerous stampedes broke out among huge crowds of people could extend through the end of Spring Break in Miami Beach.

Two of North America's largest railroad companies announced a merger Sunday that would connect freight customers to Canada, the United States and Mexico on a single network for the first time in history.

If a stranger harms you, your dog will not look kindly upon them. But your cat won’t react the same way. Here’s why.

Observers of Alberta politics, both casual and serious, would be forgiven for feeling a bit off kilter these days. It's hard to find solid footing. But what is actually happening and what could that mean for the government or the province?

Norway has got the go-ahead to construct a $300 million underground route to allow vessels navigate the country's treacherous Stadhavet Sea.

Recently I was given two LED desk lamps to improve lighting for video meetings, these are just lamps with three controls, on/off, temperature, and brightness. In the misguided vein of “make it an IOT device with an app to monetize human data” mentalit

The southern Alberta pilot project allows victimized families to remain in their homes, while removing the perpetrators — putting the onus on abusers to disrupt behaviour patterns and receive treatment.

The Philippines asks China to withdraw more than 200 ships from disputed waters in the South China Sea.

Miami Beach officials voted on Sunday to extend an 8 p.m. curfew and emergency powers for up to three weeks to help control unruly and mostly maskless crowds that have converged on the party destination during spring break.

Police have charged a woman who they say attacked a stranger wearing a hijab, berating her with racial slurs and punching her in the face in a downtown Calgary park on Sunday. The incident took place near the location of two weekend protests against publi

The Canada Revenue Agency has been reporting hundreds of thousands of Canadian bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, despite the fact that they fall below the mandatory reporting level provided for in an agreement between Canada and the United St

A move so bad you’d have to be stoned to think it was a good idea. But chess’ grandmasters are taking it to the mainstream

The FDA has warned not to drink or use the water.

California has banned certain applications of ‘dark patterns’ — elements of UI design that trick or frustrate users. The updated regulation strengthen’s the state’s landmark California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), originally passed in 2018.

As Canadian immigration officials decide the fate of an interpreter who worked for the Nazis, the Jewish community of a Russian city, decimated by the unit he worked for, is watching.

A former social worker who now owns a campground outside Drayton Valley, AB., is combining the two careers in an effort to help vulnerable people find meaningful work.

Marketplace finds out why outbreaks of E. coli keep happening with romaine lettuce — and meets a B.C. family whose young son was sickened, and will never be the same.

Dozens of people are rescued from floodwaters, as torrential rains batter the country's east coast.

A father and son charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of two Métis hunters shot to death in northern Alberta last spring have been denied bail.

Gardeners in the town of Okotoks south of Calgary, Alta. are asking the town to do more about problem deer who are feasting on prized plants and shrubs.

In the early days of the pandemic, scam centres were shut down. But now they're back in full swing, with scammers posing as tax officials and bank employees, convincing unsuspecting Canadians to pay up or risk serious consequences.

Denmark is in second place, followed by Switzerland and Iceland in the World Happiness Report.

Vancouver police are investigating an alleged stalking incident after a woman came forward with video of a frightening scene of a stranger allegedly stalking her.

After grappling with Canadians' climate concerns in recent election cycles, Conservatives engaged in fierce debate today over a policy proposal from a Quebec riding to declare that "climate change is real."

After grappling with Canadians' climate concerns in recent election cycles, Conservatives engaged in fierce debate today over a policy proposal from a Quebec riding to declare that "climate change is real."

'We should not be funding groups acting as a mouthpiece for Beijing,' says Conservative MP Michael Chong

Jason Kenney’s governing United Conservative Party has lost support to the Opposition NDP for the first time in its brief history, a poll released Thursday suggests.

The court hearing for Canadian citizen Michael Spavor, detained by China since late 2018 on suspicion of espionage, ended on Friday after around two hours.

The Alberta government is launching formal consultations in order to design a plan to reduce plastic, packaging and hazardous household waste in landfills, Minister of Environment and Parks Jason Nixon announced Wednesday.

The business of making plant protein based products is on the rise globally and now Calgary is home to a new facility of its kind with Lovingly Made Ingredients.

Cheetah Resources, the company that owns the Nechalacho project, said a mining fleet will mobilize next week at its rare earths project.

A lawyer for Meng Wanzhou accused Canadian authorities Wednesday of having a “flagrant disregard” for the Constitution, the courts and the truth in their eagerness to assist American law enforcement officers in their attempts to extradite the Huawei e

When warm and cold air masses collide, bad things can happen.

When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.

The fine is the largest in the agency's history.

One of the most prominent women in the Canadian military has resigned, saying she is “disgusted” by ongoing reports of sexual misconduct in the Armed Forces and dismayed that it has taken this long for the problem to come to the fo

The former U.S. diplomat who freed a 4-year-old Canadian girl from a detention camp in northeastern Syria Friday is calling on Canada and other countries to repatriate all of the children stranded there.

Canada and Germany have signed an agreement to team up on green energy innovation and trade — with an eye to hydrogen as the market for the low-carbon fuel heats up.

Despite all the challenges of 2020, the U.S. solar industry broke several records. The U.S. Solar Market Insight 2020 Year-in-Review report, released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, found that the industry installe

An impending upgrade of the North American Aerospace Defense Command could create economic opportunities for Inuit if it’s done right, says Clint Davis,

A 19-year-old man is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a student in Leduc on Monday.

The new features have been criticised for collecting data when users are "most vulnerable".

Three different reports have downgraded India's democracy recently - and the government is not happy.

Apple doesn't provide tools that effectively ease a major headache for FaceTime users.

New proposed legislation would allow Albertans to recall municipal politicians and school trustees, in addition to MLAs, making it a Canadian first.

Between 2014 and 2019, Calgary saw the departure of nine head offices and 3,600 head office jobs, according to Statistics Canada. The number of head office jobs in Alberta fell by almost 5,500 positions while it rose by almost 2,800 positions in the rest

The indictment alleges that Sky Global installs sophisticated encryption software in cellphones that allow users to communicate with each other in a closed…

For the fifth time since 2010, a lack of ice means no visitors and an unstable future for the ice-dependent harp seal

The military's counter-intelligence unit secretly investigated Patrik Mathews — a former Manitoba army reservist and alleged recruiter for a neo-Nazi group — as a possible terrorist threat and produced classified reports months before he fled the coun

Researchers say they're not sure these iconic coastal ecosystems will be able to make a comeback anytime soon

Rogers Communications has signed a deal to buy Shaw Communications in a transaction valued at $26 billion, including debt.

A key section of Canada's elections law designed to curb misinformation during elections has been struck down and declared unconstitutional.

More than 150 people held as police accuse them of links to an ‘undesirable organisation’

The Canada Revenue Agency says it will lock more than 800,000 taxpayers out of its online platform tomorrow after an investigation revealed that some usernames and passwords may have been obtained by "unauthorized third parties."

The head of the Canadian Energy Centre (CEC) says a recent computer-animated Netflix family film centred on the exploits of the mythical ape-like creature known as Bigfoot depicts "misinformation" and "villainizes energy workers."

The poll found 40 per cent support for the NDP compared to 20 per cent for the governing UCP with the opposition party leading in all areas of the province

Canada added 259,000 jobs in February, recovering most of the jobs it lost in the previous two months.

Alberta is asking the federal government for $30 billion in funding to explore carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies, the premier’s office has confirmed.

They're billed as Canada's spies on the sea: an award-winning team gathering intelligence on illegal fishing. But the National Fisheries Intelligence Service has faced problems with sloppy techniques and apparent enforcement bias, according to internal fi

The federal government failed to properly redact sensitive information during a court case and is now asking the courts to put it back under cover. The incident is raising questions about how well the border and immigration departments are handling nation

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will vote against changes to a bill that would expand access to medical assistance in dying.

Deputy minister Jody Thomas said Beijing is turning its attention to Canada’s Northwest Passage as melting ice opens up Arctic sea lanes to shipping and resource exploitation, including fish, petroleum and critical minerals

Mexico's lower house of Congress on Wednesday approved a bill that would decriminalize cannabis for recreational, medical and scientific uses, bringing it a step closer to creating one of the world's largest markets for the plant.

A company that was ordered to pay three of the biggest financial penalties ever imposed by a Northwest Territories court never paid a cent for the environmental damage it was fined for.

A complaint over comments an Alberta judge made about a Nigerian-born medical examiner's accent is now before a member of the Canadian Judicial Council's conduct committee.

Marco Mendicino insisted the government is closely monitoring the company with regular audits and security screening of all employees who work there

'This was an armed aggression against the government that must be denounced in the strongest possible terms,' the judge said

Jigsaw puzzles have seen a boom in popularity as Canadians continue to hunker down at home. But puzzle makers have struggled to meet the explosion in demand.

As vaccine rollout continues to ramp up in Canada and the United States, some American politicians are calling on the Biden administration to reopen the Canada-U.S. land border by this summer.

As part of what it calls a new strategy, the federal government is launching a website to track progress on lifting long-term drinking water advisories on reserves.

Oxfam and other advocacy groups are accusing Canada, the U.S., UK and EU of blocking proposals at the World Trade Organization (WTO) that would enable poorer countries get vaccines more quickly. Rich countries are said to be blocking efforts by over 100 d

On Jan. 29, 2020, a group of hockey parents and billet families with the Edson, Alta., Junior A Aeros spent a long evening debating the wording of the letter they were writing, and worrying about the fallout. But they were in agreement — something had t

The closing of HuffPost Canada and HuffPost Québec was an abrupt development for the journalists who were in the middle of a workday when the announcement was made by new ownership.

A doctor who raised the alarm about heightened rates of cancer in a northern Alberta hamlet won the first ever Peter Bryce Prize for Whistleblowing.

An apartment building in downtown Halifax that was under construction when a crane crashed down on it during a storm in 2019 will open for rentals in May — under a new tongue-in-cheek name. The building on South Park Street, which was to originally be c

Cloud-based camera service Verkada exposed hardcoded password—and its customers.

Catastrophic flooding from a stream swollen by heavy rains prompted officials to order evacuations from a town north of Honolulu on Tuesday, just one day after fears of a dam breach resulted in the same on the island of Maui.

‘No adverse health effects’ detected despite three nuclear reactors being destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011