NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2022

BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — PlayStation-maker Sony is escalating its competition with Xbox-maker Microsoft by buying the video game studio behind one of Xbox's hit games. Sony Interactive Entertainment said Monday it would spend $3.

Tamron Hall, Viola Davis and Danielle Brooks are among those mourning Cheslie Kryst, the former Miss USA and “Extra” correspondent, who died Sunday.

An investigation says lockdown-breaching parties by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff represent a "serious failure" to observe the standards expected of government.

The world is searching for cobalt. A small town in northern Ontario reminds us of its dark past, writes Charlie Angus.

Spotify’s market value dropped more than $2 billion in the last few days after Neil Young pulled his music over Joe Rogan’s podcast. Shares have tumbled around 12% from where it closed last week.

Up to 763,000 gallons of sulfuric acid waste coming from Austin's Samsung facility spilled into a tributary of Harris Branch Creek in northeast Austin, according to a City of Austin memo released Thursday. City officials say the discharge could've been ha

Greg Bay was stopped on Highway 91A in Queensborough around 4:45 p.m. Saturday, waiting for police to deal with some kind of incident, when he heard galloping.

North Korea confirmed Monday it test-launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam, the North's most significant weapon launch in years, as Washington plans steps to show its commitment to its Asian allies

Access to information consultant Michael Dagg is appealing to the Federal Court, asking a judge to order Library and Archives Canada speed up his freedom of information request — which the 73-year-old has been told will take decades.

A powerful winter storm swept through northern Europe over the weekend, killing at least four people, destroying houses and cars, closing bridges, causing flooding and halting transport while leaving thousands of households without electricity.

Five years after an attack at a Quebec City mosque that claimed the lives of six people and injured 19, survivors and Muslim community members will gather on Saturday to close off a week of events marking the tragedy.

The bodies of a family of four found frozen in a Manitoba field near the Canada-U.S. border last week will not be flown back to their home in India, a relative says.

Four oil executives in Peru have been barred from leaving the country as authorities investigate a massive oil spill that forced Lima to declare an environmental emergency earlier this month.

China Unicom is the latest Chinese company to be banned in the US over national security concerns.

Five members of Canada's Olympic delegation were placed under COVID-19 protocols upon arrival in Beijing although it's unclear whether than means they tested positive and are in quarantine.

A snow-covered bridge collapsed Friday morning in Pittsburgh just hours before President Joe Biden was scheduled to talk about infrastructure in the area. Pittsburgh Public Safety announced around 7 a.m. that the bridge on the outskirts of Frick Park had

Canada maintained its unbeaten record and took a step closer to Qatar 2022 with a 2-0 victory over Honduras in CONCACAF World Cup qualifying play Thursday.

A vaccine collaboration between McMaster University in Hamilton and a former Chinese partner stalled years ago and they are now independently racing to develop similar COVID-19 boosters, The Fifth Estate has found.

Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher says he had no idea what he was getting himself into when he convinced Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to let him film a documentary, but he knew that his film would resonate with people.

Latvia is already Canada’s biggest military deployment, with about 540 soldiers. It has led a NATO battle group in the country since 2017

The Ontario NDP is raising red flags over political donations made to Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative Party by the directors of a company that got a sole-sourced provincial contract to run vaccine clinics.

The federal agriculture minister says she's optimistic that shipments of Prince Edward Island potatoes will start to head to Puerto Rico within two weeks, and to the mainland U.S. shortly after that, ending a ban in place since November.

A thunderstorm that created a downburst last summer near Sambaa K'e, N.W.T., caused visible tree damage in an area more than 60 kilometres long and up to nine kilometres wide. A scientist says we should expect more of these types of storms in the near fut

The owner of an industrial composting facility in the B.C. Interior is condemning what he says is misinformation after images of thousands of pig carcasses piled near the Similkameen River appeared in local media.

Tesla has quietly unveiled a fleet of new ‘Tesla Semi’ electric trucks as part of its new financial result report. Yet, there’s no word on the status of production and customer deliveries. The situation around the Tesla Semi has been unclear o

A Canadian Second World War veteran who made international headlines when he asked for 100 cards on his 100th birthday died in Toronto on the weekend. He was 101.

A key player behind the convoy travelling to Ottawa to protest a vaccine mandate for truckers is distancing her movement from the increasingly extremist rhetoric online being associated with the protest.

The parliamentary budget officer has found the cost of cleaning up orphaned oil and gas wells in Alberta and Saskatchewan already dwarfs the money collected from industry to pay for it, but critics immediately called it a massive underestimate.

The Northwest Territories got a taste of warmer weather on Tuesday, with temperatures climbing above zero for the first time in months in some communities.

The Bank of Canada is maintaining its benchmark interest rate at 0.25 per cent as some economists had predicted an increase amid surging inflation levels.

Police arrested and charged a man after he allegedly spat on and punched a car occupied by a Muslim woman and her kids, uttered violent and Islamophobic threats and damaged a local mosque’s property on New Year’s Day.

In a warning issued Tuesday, Environment Canada said temperatures in the area are expected to plunge down to anywhere from -21 C to -27 C, with wind chill values making it feel more like -28 to -33.

A survey of a small segment of the land surrounding a former B.C. residential school has identified 93 sites of "potential human burials," according to representatives of a nearby First Nation.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is calling on Twitter to remove a tweet from an Ontario politician who labelled federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra a 'terrorist.'

A British Columbia First Nation has announced the grim discovery of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school.

Ex-pontiff blames ‘editorial oversight’ for previous statement he was absent from 1980 meeting over suspected paedophile priest

A number of federal departments and agencies say they are working together to respond to a recent cyberattack that targeted systems at Global Affairs Canada.

Elon Musk has a very specific vision for the ideal factory: densely packed, vertically integrated and unusually massive. During Tesla Inc.’s early days of mass production, he was chided for what was perceived as hubris. Now, Tesla’s original Californi

Burkina Faso's army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and the national assembly, and closed the country's borders.

France’s case against Ottawa academic Hassan Diab in connection with a bombing outside a Paris synagogue 40 years ago will go to trial in 2023 — more than five years after he was set free due to a lack of evidence.

In recent years the People’s Liberation Army has ratcheted up its missions, which it says are training drills, to near-daily frequency

A little-known Chinese technology company that took over a WeChat social media account set up for Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday it wanted to buy an account with a large fanbase in Australia, and was unaware it was his.

One year after Fort Frances, Ont., became the first municipality in Ontario to ban single-use plastics, some businesses and customers say the transition to recyclable and compostable alternatives has been relatively smooth.

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Canada is being sued by a former employee who claims he was constructively dismissed because he was "too much on the side of the community."

Would-be immigrants around the world are seeking information about a Canadian immigration officer who has left their applications largely untouched for years. They wonder if the person is still working, assigned to their case or even exists.

As much as $9 million of debt plus a rapidly deteriorating structure caught up to York Condominium Corporation No. 82, which runs the 321-unit building in Toronto's Jane and Finch neighbourhood.

Moscow has rejected Britain's accusation that the Kremlin is seeking to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine. Britain said earlier that Russian intelligence officers were in contact with a number of former Ukrainian politicians as part of plans for an

Firefighters on Saturday were battling a wildfire that broke out in the rugged mountains along Big Sur, forcing hundreds of residents on this precarious stretch of the California coast to evacuate and authorities to shut its main roadway.

A frozen smoothie product that was sold online across Canada has been recalled after reports of illnesses caused by cyanide poisoning.

This week's warning for southern B.C. and western Alberta, including Glacier, Banff, Yoho and Kootenay national parks, has been extended to the South Rockies and Lizard Range regions.

As temperatures hovered around -35 with the wind chill, why did four people — two adults, a teenager and a baby, believed to be members of the same family from India — end up in the Manitoba field near the Canada-U.S. border where they froze to death

Two Canadians were killed Friday and one more wounded in a shooting at a hotel along Mexico's Caribbean coast, state authorities said.

Under the city’s zero-COVID regime, people are paying US$25,665 to charter flights to get their pets back to home countries

A U.S. Homeland Security agent believes the four people, including an infant, who were found dead on Wednesday on the Manitoba side of the Canada-U.S. border may have been victims of a wider human smuggling operation.

A first-of-its-kind “green” Shell facility in Alberta is emitting more greenhouse gases than it’s capturing, throwing into question whether taxpayers should be funding it, a new report has found. Shell’s Quest carbon capture and storage facilit

The collapse of Qing Quentin Huang’s prosecution is unfortunate, says national security expert Aaron Shull, because it means “the case will never be heard on the merits and that just sends all the wrong signals.”

A class-action lawsuit launched on behalf of Canadians who underwent open heart surgery between January 2010 and July 2018 alleges the manufacturer of contaminated medical devices used during the surgeries failed to adequately warn hospitals of the risk.

Marking a significant shift in Alberta energy history, wind generation provided more power to the province's energy grid than coal several times this week.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is giving no indications of plans to rein in government spending after a critical report by the parliamentary budget officer questioned the Liberals' case to spend tens of billions in planned stimulus

Newly unsealed documents reveal what Sherman family, friends and business associates told homicide detectives.

Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko returned to Kyiv on Monday and was sent to court to face controversial treason charges, a legal process that exacerbates Ukraine’s political divide at a time when the Russian military remains massed at the cou

Belarus has failed to produce any evidence of a bomb threat that was used to justify the diversion of an airliner to Minsk — and which led to the arrest of a dissident journalist — according to UN investigators.

A temporary solution has been found at St. john’s International Airport. They resumed normal operations at 8:00 this morning but caution that it is not a permanent solution. Large, commercial passenger flights hadn’t been able to land at YYT since

More than a dozen former employees of Toronto businessman and convicted fraudster Rob Roche have filed complaints over unpaid wages at his PPE supply company, raising questions about how his firms managed to obtain government pandemic support.

Study calls for cap on production and release as pollution threatens global ecosystems upon which life depends

"Ultimately, the dissenters, the ones who will not cave in, are going to be those who are faithful to the Bible."

Kenney relieved Justice Minister Kaycee Madu of his duties after it came to light that Madu called Edmonton’s police chief about a traffic ticket.

Globe and Mail analysis shows the flow of federal tax dollars to McKinsey has increased sharply since the Liberals came to power in 2015 and nearly doubled last year during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic

French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour was fined 10,000 euros ($11,400) on Monday for inciting racial hatred, over remarks in which he called young migrants killers, thieves and rapists.

Methods used in Sky Net program range from family intimidation to state-sanctioned kidnappings, says rights group

A suspected drone attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting a key oil facility in Abu Dhabi killed three people and sparked a separate fire at Abu Dhabi's international airport on Monday, police said.

The Nunavut government has confirmed that traces of fuel have been found in Iqaluit's water supply, five weeks after officials lifted a do-not-consume order for the city's water.

Greater Manchester police said on Sunday two teenagers were detained in South Manchester, England, as part of an ongoing investigation into a hostage-taking incident on Saturday at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.

Ukraine said Sunday that Russia was behind a cyberattack that defaced its government websites. Meanwhile, the Canadian government is urging people to avoid non-essential travel to Ukraine, in a new advisory citing "Russian aggression."

Potato importers in Puerto Rico say there are empty shelves at some grocery stores across the Caribbean island as they struggle to find enough supply to fill the void created by the export ban on P.E.I. potatoes.

A new poll suggests support may have slipped for a key element of Quebec's secularism law, known as Bill 21.

On a clear winter day this weekend, Simone Engels captured photographs of what appeared to be an iceberg floating on the Strait of Georgia.

Novak Djokovic's hopes of playing at the Australian Open were dashed Sunday after a court dismissed the top-ranked tennis star's appeal against a deportation order.

Four hostages are safe and their captor is dead after an hours-long standoff that began when the man took over services at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting on a live stream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was c

The bubbling tension needs to be resolved if Canada is to make serious progress in moving to a low-carbon economy, Heather Scoffield writes.

Martin Shkreli must return $64.6 million US in profits he and his former company reaped from raising the price of the life-saving drug Daraprim, a federal judge ruled on Friday while barring Shkreli from participating in the pharmaceutical industry for th

Six employees from what began as an Ottawa-area family business more than 50 years ago are presumed dead in a catastrophic explosion and fire that witnesses likened to an earthquake. Here's what we know about the business.

An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular fashion near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, sending tsunami waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground. It has also prompted a tsunami advisory for British Columbia's coast.

Ontario minister of long-term care Rod Phillips says he is resigning at the end of next month. Minister of Legislative Affairs and Government House Leader Paul Calandra will fill the role next, says the Ford government.

Canada is joining Mexico’s official complaint today requesting a dispute settlement panel to settle a claim that the U.S. is violating the new NAFTA by insisting on a stricter interpretation of a key provision on auto parts.

Canadian research institute Citizen lab says the cellphones of nearly three dozen journalists and activists in El Salvador, several of whom were investigating alleged state corruption, were hacked and implanted with sophisticated spyware typically availab

The rare alert sent to MPs comes after a long-running investigation into Christine Ching Kui Lee.

Russia is plotting to stage acts of provocation to create a pretext to invade Ukraine, a US official says.

The Akwesasne Mohawk Police say instances of human smuggling near the Ontario-Quebec border has increased in recent months and people illegally attempting to cross into the U.S. have put community members at risk.

Canada is joining Mexico’s official complaint today requesting a dispute settlement panel to settle a claim that the U.S. is violating the new NAFTA by insisting on a stricter interpretation of a key provision on auto parts.

Websites of Ukraine's cabinet, seven ministries, the Treasury, the National Emergency Service and the state services website, where Ukrainians' electronic passports and vaccination certificates are stored, were temporarily unavailable Friday after a hacki

What do a physicist and a cheesemaker have in common? Not much, maybe, unless they're the same person.

The People’s Party of Canada has been blocked from registering its name for a provincial party in Ontario by a Toronto man, who began running in election campaigns as a “Peoples Political Party” candidate years before Maxime Bernier created his nati

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says investigations continue after more diplomats fall ill.

Anwar Raslan, a former Syrian secret police officer, was convicted by a German court Thursday of crimes against humanity for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail near Damascus a decade ago.

Retired Major General Michael Lehnert has called repeatedly for the military prison to be closed. Two decades after the first detainees arrived, he still wonders how his country will get there.

Ontario Provincial Police are warning people to check their pocket change for fake toonies adorned by a strange-looking figurehead and inscribed with a bizarre typo.

Dutch athletes competing in next month's Beijing Winter Olympics will need to leave their phones and laptops at home in an unprecedented move to avoid Chinese espionage, Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reported on Tuesday.

A U.S. judge has rejected a bid by Britain's Prince Andrew to dismiss Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit accusing the Duke of York of sexually abusing her when she was 17 and being trafficked by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Vancouver, Toronto and Edmonton have the highest immigrant retention rates in the country, according to data published by Statistics Canada.

People with mobility challenges are struggling to move around Whitehorse with all the heavy snow.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has become increasingly alarmed about efforts by China and its agents of influence to covertly cultivate relations with elected officials

The Nova Scotia Securities Commission is warning Nova Scotians looking to invest with cryptocurrency about claims made by CoinRise, a crypto trading platform.

Alberta won't sign on to any handgun ban options Ottawa may offer, and says it's willing to take the fight to court if provincial jurisdiction is disregarded.

Residents who endured 10 days without central heat in their Saskatoon apartment building say they're glad things are working again, but that many questions remain.

Ukraine's SBU security service said on Monday it had detained a Russian military intelligence agent who was planning attacks on the country's largest Black Sea port of Odessa.

Groups of rescue operators converge to save them with airboats

OTTAWA - The House of Commons ethics committee is expected to hold an emergency meeting later this week to investigate the Public Health Agency’s deci...

Critics say series of charges over Covid rules and walkie-talkie possession designed to remove her as political threat

Kazakhstan's Health Ministry said Sunday that 164 people have been killed in protests that have rocked the country over the past week.

Nineteen people, including nine children, have been killed in an apartment fire in New York City's Bronx borough, officials say.

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly hasn't ruled out the possibility of Canada sending weapons to Ukraine as Russia amasses troops along the Eastern border, noting that her cabinet colleagues are working closely on the issue.

The Competition Bureau says Keurig Canada will pay a $3 million penalty for making false or misleading claims that its single-use K-Cup pods can be recycled.

At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted, officials said Saturday.

The bodies were those of eight men and two women, bound hand and foot and asphyxiated

Vancouver-area drivers are paying more than ever before, as the average price climbed to a record high on Friday.

Canada's trade surplus widened for sixth straight month, providing more evidence that the economy built up strength before the Omicron surge

The Swedish agency will work with military and government to fight fake news and misinformation.

Authorities say they've solved a publishing industry whodunit with the arrest Wednesday of a man accused of numerous literary heists in recent years, allegedly impersonating others in the industry to amass a veritable library of unpublished works.

The President of Kazakhstan said Friday he authorized law enforcement to open fire on "terrorists" and shoot to kill, a move that comes after days of extremely violent protests in the former Soviet nation.

This might be why your Honda's clock is forever stuck on the wrong time.

Some investment firms want bonuses withheld for bosses of coronavirus vaccine firms if distribution isn't fairer.

Combining the e-motor with a solid beam axle in back, while preserving the frame, helps keep towing and hauling numbers intact.

At CES in Las Vegas this evening, Sony’s Chairman, President and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida showed off a brand new prototype of its Vision S concept electric car, and announced that the Sony Group is starting a new division — the Sony Mobility Inc – whic

Fire tore through a duplex home early Wednesday in Philadelphia, killing 12 people, including eight children, fire officials said.

Automaker Stellantis' Chrysler brand said on Wednesday it plans to shift to an all-electric lineup by 2028 and introduce new products, including a utility vehicle, as it moves forward, the North American brand's chief executive said.