NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2021

Canada defeats the U.S. to claim the gold medal in the women's hockey world championship on Tuesday in Calgary.

Yukon's real estate market has shown no sign of cooling down in recent months, with the average sale price for detached home in Whitehorse jumping 19 per cent — or more than $100,000 — since last year.

Longer blades, taller towers among the reasons wind power is growing in the US.

North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the UN atomic watchdog said in an annual report, highlighting the isolated country's efforts to expand its arsenal.

The Fuggerei is a landmark in Augsburg, Germany, not only because it resembles a medieval village, but also because the rent hasn't changed in 500 years. Residents pay about $1.30 — or 0.88 euros — per year for their apartments and commit to daily spi

The onetime CEO of ARM China, Allen Wu, has reportedly seized control of ARM’s Chinese business venture, ARM China. Mr. Wu is accused of attempting to launch his own company, Alphatecture, by leveraging his position at ARM China to do so. Companies were

Leaded gasoline has finally reached the end of the road, the UN environment office said Monday, after the last country in the world to use it stopped selling the highly toxic fuel.

A new logging proposal has residents in Grande Cache, AB, worried about the impacts on the local caribou habitat.

A Canadian Institute for Health Information report found that most Canadians with a terminal illness would choose to die at home if they could access palliative care, but only 15 per cent are able to do so. Community paramedics aim to be part of the solut

A crowd full of strangers filled a northwest Calgary park on Saturday to celebrate a boy's rainbow-themed birthday.

Japan’s Aramitsu Kitazono was left with cuts and bruises after being hit by the e-Palette vehicle at the athletes’ village

Weather forecasters warned residents along Louisiana's coast to rush preparations Saturday in anticipation of an intensifying Hurricane Ida, which is expected to bring winds as high as 225 km/h when it slams ashore on Sunday.

British Columbia's beekeepers say they’re on guard after a nest of Asian giant hornets was found and destroyed Thursday just south of the border in Washington State.

Alberta researchers unlocking the genetic secrets of lodgepole pines that can survive attacks by mountain pine beetles hope the trees can help a new generation of hardier forests take root.

Thousands of people are thought to be buried at the site - one of the largest ever found in Ukraine.

Ten federal agencies, from the departments of Agriculture to Veterans Affairs, said they intended to grow their face-scanning capabilities by 2023. One watchdog official said, “Even with all the privacy issues and accuracy problems, the government is pr

Known as ATLAS, the software mines various federal databases for derogatory information. It runs autonomously on Amazon servers.

Experts say it is to be expected and boosters may be needed, at least for some people, ahead of winter.

The Bearspaw First Nation in southern Alberta will soon be able to establish its own savings trust fund with more than $50 million in the bank after settling a dispute with the federal government.

When residents of an affluent estate community in Alberta started hearing noise from a nearby power plant, they didn't expect their complaints of sleepless nights would lead to a months-long investigation that would find the company had set up operations

It took the arrest of one of its top intelligence officials to make it happen, but the RCMP says it's now keeping better tabs on the "character" of the people it employs.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - An NDP government would ban the opening of any new for-profit care homes for seniors, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Tuesday.

Human rights violations against Afghan women and girls have also been reported, the UN says.

The family of an Ottawa woman says she lost about $23,000 of her life savings after fraudsters gained access to her personal bank account and transferred money through a series of bogus transactions.

A video tweeted by incumbent Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland, who served as deputy prime minister in Justin Trudeau's government, was given a warning label Sunday from Twitter, which marked it as "manipulated media."

The Newfoundland and Labrador government has done a U-turn on a previous plan to publicly release information about pre-existing problems at Come By Chance, and now says it is confidential.

A U.S. government watchdog found multiple problems with the construction, manufacture and design of the Keystone XL pipeline, validating President Joe Biden's decision to revoke its permit, leaders of several House Democratic committees said on Monday.

The death toll is expected to rise after record-breaking rainfall triggered widespread flooding.

The first confirmation through DNA of the identity of remains of one of the men lost in the Franklin Expedition is the highest-profile recent development in the ongoing quest to solve the mystery surrounding the fate of the 19th-century polar mission.

Farmers say they just want the right to repair their own equipment, but industry is wary of any push that could allow modifications affecting safety and privacy. U.S. President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order designed to help farmers, somethi

Henri weakened slightly to a tropical storm early Sunday but still packed wind gusts of up to 120 km/h in some areas as it was slated to pummel a long stretch of northeastern coastline, where millions on New York's Long Island and in southern New England

A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul's international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military says.

The United States is extending restrictions on non-essential travel at land and ferry border crossings with Canada until Sept. 21.

Fox News stars have, for months, said that asking people to reveal their vaccination status is anti-American and a threat to personal freedom

A Canadian bombardier fed cannabis cakes to troops during a drill involving guns and live ammunition.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Khorasani, also known as Mawlawi Ziya ul-Haq, was taken from an Afghan government prison and executed. Khorasani had been arrested by Afghan security forces in an operation in May 2020. Khorasani headed the group

Toys "R" Us Canada will soon have a new owner as part of a deal that will see retail entrepreneur Doug Putman take over the chain from investment conglomerate Fairfax Financial.

The future of the new landmass depends on what materials it was made from to avoid erosion

An Ontario woman says she was incensed after receiving a fundraising letter from the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario that looks like an invoice — something opposition parties are already criticizing as a "scam."

The wildfire started Monday evening, in the height of France's summer vacation season, about 40 kilometres inland from the coastal resort of Saint-Tropez.

A Montreal man was handed a sentence of 18 years Wednesday morning for sexually exploiting a young girl from the time she was 8 to 11 years old.

The Alberta Electric System Operator, or AESO, predicts thousands of electric vehicles will hit the streets and highways in Alberta — exactly how many will be determined over the next two decades.

BHP is offloading its oil and gas assets in an all-stock merger of its petroleum division with Woodside, which will create one of the world’s top ten independent energy companies by production

The Trudeau government is dropping its quest to have a court prohibit the disclosure of documents related to the firing of two scientists at Canada's highest security laboratory.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said today that Canada has no plans to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.

Tropical storm Grace swept over Haiti with drenching rains just two days after a powerful earthquake battered the impoverished Caribbean nation, adding to the misery of thousands who lost loved ones, suffered injuries or found themselves homeless and forc

The battery will store energy in order to bring electricity to homes even when the sun’s not shining (at night and on cloudy days), meaning other more polluting power sources will not be required.

Paul Theodore Hellyer, a long-serving MP and former cabinet minister, died in August weeks after suffering a head injury due to a fall.

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole said late Sunday he is opposed to mandatory vaccinations for federal public servants and instead prefers a regular rapid testing regime to keep workplaces safe from COVID-19.

Hay from the Maritimes could make its way to the Prairies later this week as livestock producers in Western Canada struggle with devastating drought conditions.

A scuffle broke out at a church in Edmonton Sunday morning, while protesters gathered there in response to a Catholic priest who called reports of unmarked graves at former residential schools "lies."

Afghanistan's embattled president left the country on Sunday, joining his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signalling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.

Canadian voters will head to the polls on Sept. 20. Following a meeting with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau this morning, Gov. Gen. Mary Simon approved his request to dissolve Parliament, triggering the issuing of the election writs and formally beginning

Families of those missing after Turkey's worst floods in years anxiously watched rescue teams search buildings on Saturday, fearing the death toll from the raging torrents could rise further.

Crops are failing to grow without much rain or reprieve from unrelenting heat during what one expert says is shaping up to be the worst drought in Canadian history.

A major earthquake struck western Haiti on Saturday morning, likely causing high casualties and widespread disaster, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and sending shock waves across the Caribbean, where people fled their homes for fear they might collapse.

Matthew Taylor Coleman, a surfing school owner, said he believed children had ‘serpent DNA’, according to FBI

The Canada Border Services Agency says its marine operations team has seized a large amount of a chemical used in the production of fentanyl, effectively preventing billions of doses of the potentially deadly drug from hitting the streets.

The federal government has made it legal to gamble on individual sporting events, bringing legitimacy to a murky industry on which Canadians already spend billions of dollars a year.

The vandalism, including Nazi slogans, was seen on Monday night but it's not known when it happened.

Special forces troops are on standby to help evacuate Canada’s embassy in Kabul, a defence source tells CBC News.

The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), a multilateral international agreement aiming to regulate international trade in conventional arms, entered into force on 24 December 2014. The treaty is a direct response to the absence of regulations and lax controls on the

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning on kicking off the federal election this Sunday and voters can expect to head to the polls on Sept. 20, according to sources.

Regular flights to Kimmirut resumed Wednesday after seven days of cancellations, which caused a backlog of passengers and groceries destined for the hamlet. Seven other Nunavut hamlets have also seen recent cancellations due to weather.

12-year-old Berkeley Trayhorne has been permanently released by the Dalmeny Minor Hockey Association after a prolonged and heated dispute over dressing room access. Volunteers on the local board said they feared a "compromising situation" among fully dres

RCMP say a 34-year-old man has been charged with dangerous operation of an aircraft after a helicopter landed near a local Dairy Queen.

A Toronto company that was paid to store potentially life-saving stem cells from the children of roughly 3,000 clients across Canada removed the samples from storage before providing Health Canada access to its lab to conduct a surprise inspection last we

A Samsung tablet obtained by the BBC unveils chilling details of how mercenaries fought in Libya’s war.

According to the paper, their findings imply that facial recognition systems are “extremely vulnerable.”

The verdict will further test the strained relationship between the Canadian and Chinese governments. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the sentence "absolutely unacceptable and unjust."

An 'Olympic' bat that broke the record for longest-recorded migration from the U.K. recently died following an altercation with a Russian cat.

Brian Pallister announced Tuesday he is stepping down as Manitoba's premier, but the timing of his departure is still being determined. "I believe that now is the time for a new leader and a new premier to take our province forward," Pallister said o

Canada's military has turned down a former military member's request that RCMP officers be asked to investigate her claim that a senior military leader raped her, CBC News has learned.

Three natural gas-producing sites in southern Alberta could host "up to one million" bitcoin mining machines relocated from China under a deal proposed by Nevada-based Black Rock Petroleum Company amid Beijing's ongoing crackdown on cryptocurrency product

Following the release of an alarming new report on climate change that the UN's secretary general said "must sound a death knell" for the fossil fuel industry, environmentalists in B.C. are asking why the province is still giving billions to subsidize oil

A Chinese court upheld on Tuesday the death sentence of Canadian prisoner Robert Schellenberg for drug smuggling — a day before another court is due to rule on the case of another Canadian accused of spying.

Two reports by Alberta’s privacy commissioner found Telus Health ignored the province’s health information privacy laws when it launched Babylon - a controversial virtual healthcare app touted by the Kenney government — last year.

Contractors found the 19th-centry relic while building a patio. Both experts and former owners of the property seem stumped as to how and when it got there.

A CBC investigation has cast doubt on the authenticity of a document that has been used by 1,000 people as evidence they are truly Algonquin and rightful beneficiaries of a nearly billion-dollar land claim agreement.

California water officials have shut down of a major hydroelectric powerplant at Lake Oroville in Northern California, citing the lowest-ever recorded water level.

Taliban fighters overran two provincial capitals in Afghanistan, including the strategic northeastern city of Kunduz and northern Sar-e Pul on Sunday, local officials said, as the insurgents intensified pressure on the north and threatened further cities.

Throughout B.C., fire crews are battling an ever-growing number of wildfires. As of Saturday afternoon, 283 such fires are burning in B.C., 31 of which are considered wildfires of note by the BC Wildfire Service.

In the year and a half since the pandemic began, deadly gunfire in the U.S. has spiked. National data shows homicides increased by 30 per cent in 2020 — and it’s a trend that’s continued this year.

Wildfires rampaged through massive swaths of Greece's last remaining forests for yet another day Saturday, encroaching on more inhabited areas after burning scores of homes, businesses and farms.

Meng Wanzhou's lawyers accused Canada's attorney general Friday of bending the rules at the high-profile extradition proceeding in order to get evidence in front of the judge that counters allegations U.S. officials violated the Huawei executive's rights.

No charges will be laid against an Alberta man who shot and killed an intruder who broke into his home and beat him with a baseball bat, RCMP said Friday.

An investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Admiral Art McDonald has concluded and will not result in any charges against Canada’s top military commander.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation's collapse would have dire implications for our weather and life on Earth.

The drought on the Prairies is forcing cattle producers to make tough decisions. They're selling off cattle they simply can't afford to feed — but losing huge chunks of their herds will have long-term consequences for the industry.

Another British Columbia community has been devastated by a raging wildfire and more could be at risk from a blaze between Kamloops and Vernon in the province's southern Interior.

Border service officers have begun work-to-rule action while unions and the government continue to negotiate a new contract.

The London, Ont., decathlete sets a Games record as he crashes through the 9,000-points barrier, becoming just the fourth man in history to do so.

British police investigating the online racial abuse of England players following the team's Euro 2020 soccer final loss against Italy say they have made 11 arrests.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today he has asked the clerk of the Privy Council to explore making vaccines mandatory for federal employees and is pleading with hesitant Canadians to get their shots.

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A growing mystery around some of B.C.'s most endangered killer whales may have been solved, but experts say changes in the animals' behaviour still concern them.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Wednesday revised upward its outlook for the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, estimating there was a 65 per cent chance of an above-normal season compared with a previous report that called for

A wildfire tore through the northern Sierra Nevada town of Greenville in California, leaving much of the downtown in ashes and crews braced for another explosive run of flames in the midst of dangerous weather.

Ontario's Court of Appeal has dismissed the Ford government's bid to overturn an earlier decision that quashed its so-called Student Choice Initiative — a measure that sparked concern over the future of campus newspapers, student unions and other clubs

Crews searching the grounds and surroundings of the Shubenacadie Residential School have concluded their search, saying they did not discover evidence of unmarked graves related to the school.

RCMP have released video of a suspect after discovering a viable explosive device in the aftermath of a double shooting in Kelowna Saturday just before 7 p.m.

Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou will return to court Wednesday for the final weeks of an extradition hearing that has dragged on for more than two and a half years.

A petition to build the Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion in Edmonton has the support of some of Hollywood's biggest stars.

Many farmers in Alberta are trying to salvage the little crop they've managed to grow amid an ongoing heat wave.

Some of those who previously came to Canada say their work with the Canadian military and embassy has put their extended families at risk as the Taliban…

Poland has granted a visa to a Belarusian Olympic sprinter who said she feared for her safety and her team's officials tried to force her to fly home, where the autocratic government was recently accused of diverting a flight to arrest a dissident journal

A Belarusian activist living in exile in Ukraine was found hanged in a park near his home in Kyiv early on Tuesday, and Ukrainian police said they had launched a murder case.

In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are already 60-68% lower than gasoline.

Cuba's hotels and resorts sector is dominated by the holding company of the Cuban Armed Forces, GAESA. Cuban dissidents say Canadians who travel to Cuba are directly assisting repressive forces in the one-party state.

Wildfires raged near Turkey's holiday beach destinations of Antalya and Mugla and in the surrounding countryside for a fifth day Sunday as the discovery of more bodies raised the death toll to eight while villagers lost their homes and animals.

Canada's most decorated Olympian, Penny Oleksiak, says the COVID-19 pandemic provided her with the opportunity to step away from training and focus on her mental health – a gift she says helped her swim her way into the history books at the Tokyo Olympi

U.S. navy explosive experts believe a "drone strike" targeted an oil tanker that came under attack off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, killing two on board, the American military said Saturday.

Emancipation Day is being recognized by the federal government this year for the first time, but at least one Canadian community has celebrated it since before Confederation.