NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2022

Landslides and torrents of mud triggered by rain demolish poor neighbourhoods and shanty towns.

Eurozone inflation hit a record 8.1 per cent in May amid surging energy and food costs fuelled in part by Russia's war in Ukraine.

Supreme Court officials are escalating their search for the source of the leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, taking steps to require law clerks to provide cell phone records and sign affidavits, three sources with knowledge of the effor

It's now been 10 days of power outages from the major May 21 storm that blew through the Ottawa-Gatineau area and while slow progress is being made, thousands of people remain without power.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday his government was introducing new legislation to implement a "national freeze" on handgun ownership and prevent people from buying and selling handguns anywhere in the country.

Egypt has uncovered 2,500-year-old wooden coffins and bronze statues in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, the country announced on Monday.

Kelvin Redvers says he hopes the incident is a learning moment for event organizers and it helps expand the festival's idea of what counts as formal wear.

A lengthy and detailed report by former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour on sexual harassment and misconduct in the Canadian military is set for release today.

Input costs for growing canola has skyrocketed, making this one of the most expensive canola crop Alberta farmers have ever planted.

Hurricane Agatha, the season's first, headed for a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns on Mexico's southern Pacific coast Monday amid warnings of dangerous storm surge and flooding from heavy rains.

Recent wild boar sightings are a reminder that the elusive animals remain a threat to rural and urban habitats. Researcher Ryan Brook says Edmonton and Saskatoon will likely be among the first Canadian cities to contend with urban wild boars.

A Smiths Falls, Ont., couple say they're pleased the town has rescinded an order to uproot their "naturalized" lawn, but fear the battle isn't over yet.

A Ojibway woman says she was among at least 30 people who walked out of Rumor's Comedy Club in Winnipeg on Friday due to several racist and homophobic comments they heard from the stage.

The firearms bill is expected to mark a revival of sorts for Bill C-21, proposed gun-control legislation that died on the order paper when a federal election was called in August

Paul Boemer was aboard the USS Oklahoma when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, killing 429 crew members. He has finally returned home to St. Louis.

Warnings of critical fire conditions blanketed much of the U.S. Southwest on Saturday as crews in northern New Mexico worked to stop the growth of the nation's largest active wildfire.

The federal government has put out new policy directives for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission aimed at improving competition and giving consumers more options for their telecom services.

The health authority in western Manitoba expects to be down 20 doctors by the end of the summer, as it currently struggles with finding staff at two personal care homes and to prevent ERs from closing temporarily.

Justices found that a sentencing provision that allowed for consecutive, 25-year blocks of parole ineligibility periods for multiple first-degree murders to be "cruel and unusual" punishment.

The end result is locking decades worth of taxpayer dollars into an antiquated model of elderly care that’s failed during the pandemic.

The British government unveiled a 15 billion-pound emergency aid package featuring a 25 per cent tax on profits at oil and gas firms, to help offset increases in the cost of living.

The deluge of offerings comes after a change last summer to federal law, which made it legal to gamble on individual sporting events. Previously, gamblers had to parlay their bets, or bet on more than one event at a time.

When Frank Gardner found himself sitting on an empty airplane long after everyone else had disembarked, waiting for someone to bring him his wheelchair, he tweeted in exasperation: “It’s happened again.”

Trucks with horns blaring and a noose dangling from a hand-held prop resembling a gallows were the backdrop of a protest outside a Liberal party fundraiser in Surrey, B.C. on Tuesday night that grew so ugly Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to canc

Lawyers representing the families of more than half of the people killed in the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia say they are boycotting four days of public inquiry proceedings in response to a ruling that they will not be able to directly question

Several parts of the country, including British Columbia and Canada's Maritime provinces, are likely to see wetter-than-normal conditions this summer, according to AccuWeather's annual summer forecast.

A man accused of being a member of the Islamic State helped plot to murder former President George W. Bush in retaliation for waging war against Iraq, the F.B.I. said on Tuesday.

When Canadian tornado expert David Sills studied the forecast on Saturday morning, he never expected the line of storms headed for Windsor, Ont., would soon strengthen into Canada’s first derecho in decades, wreaking havoc across southern Ontario and Qu

Quebec's majority government held a vote on its language bill and passed the contentious piece of legislation into law.

Travellers who have a flight planned at Victoria International Airport (YYJ) on Tuesday afternoon are being warned of travel disruptions due to police activity.

The highly coercive and potentially lethal systems of control used against the Uyghurs and other minority groups in China’s internment camps have been revealed in the Xinjiang Police Files - a giant cache of secret documents shared with the BBC.

The sighting has raised alarms over networks that smuggle exotic animals to India.

A Brampton, Ont., man was owed more than $5,200 in airline vouchers after his flights were cancelled in the early days of the pandemic. But instead, his travel agency used them to pay for other people's trips. He's one of thousands of people battling with

Canada’s intelligence community will need to grapple with the growing influence of anti-democratic forces in the United States — including the threat posed by conservative media outlets like Fox News — says a new report from a task force of int

Four crumpled steel transmission towers around Ottawa hint at the scope of the challenge facing crews still working to restore power to tens of thousands of residents three days after the region was swept by storms.

Rapid analysis shows situation would be unlikely without global warming.

Marineland has banned a number of people from its premises, some of whom have never visited the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction, days before the facility was set to open for the season.

In their 2022 budget, the federal government committed to creating an Employee Ownership Trust. Our series Work in Progress looks at how EOTs and other worker-owned business models could shake up the Canadian business scene.

At least 5 people died as a probable “derecho” swept through Ontario and Quebec.

Before Michelle Gagnon figured out her that her cat liked playing fetch outside in the snow, Bodhi was a skittish kitten.

Twenty "high end rally cars" travelling from Vancouver to Calgary for a race were intercepted and ticketed earlier this month for erratic driving, according to Mounties.

The earliest heat advisories on record are in effect for New York and Boston.

The attack 'was a very traumatic event,' that will 'have a lasting impact on the victim,' says Surrey RCMP constable

Rapidly rising water levels have caused deteriorating and dangerous conditions in Whiteshell Provincial Park, as well as a significant threat to public safety.

Bill 96 is set to become law next week. What exactly is, and isn’t, in Bill 96? And how will it work in practice? Here’s what we know so far.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has conceded defeat in a national election, saying that while vote counting is incomplete, the opposition Labor Party looks likely to form a government.

A severe thunderstorm with “almost hurricane force winds,” according to one meteorologist, materialized out of nowhere Saturday afternoon, downing hydro lines, cutting power and smashing up houses across Ontario.

"It was just that fight-or-flight response to get it to drop her," said a North Saanich mom who scared off an eagle that attacked her beloved goose, Frankie.

Some are calling attention to a comment about 'Anglo-Saxon words' that Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre made while appearing as a guest on controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson’s podcast. The term has been used by those on the far

Canada will ban Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. from this country's 5G wireless networks, said Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne in a news conference Thursday afternoon.

China has reinstated market access for two Canadian grain trading companies that have been prevented from exporting canola seed to China since March 2019, Ottawa says.

Ahead of her Thursday court appearance, Crown prosecutors are arguing Ottawa protest organizer Tamara Lich should be back in jail because she is violating her bail conditions by continuing to support the Freedom Convoy.

The regulatory body found that large swathes of the U.S. and parts of Canada are at an elevated or high risk of energy shortfalls during the summer's hottest months.

Seven confirmed and one probable case of monkeypox have been discovered in the United Kingdom since early May.

When Julie Johnson noticed a furry creature snuggled up in bed with her and her husband in the middle of the night, she didn’t think too much of it. After all, they have three dogs. But when they woke up the next morning, they found an entirely unfamili

The cost of living continues to rise at the fastest pace in decades, with Canada's official inflation rate rising at a 6.8 per cent annual pace in April, a new 31-year high.

Available rental inventory in all of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and northwest Queens was just 7,669 in April — several thousand less than the number of entire-apartment and -home Airbnb rentals available in New York right now: 10,572, according to AirDNA.

The Eastern Airlines jet crashed into a mountain after a steep dive. The plane slammed into the ground with such force that it created a 66-foot deep hole in the ground

Alberta's superior court is lifting its vaccine requirement for prospective jurors this week but concerns raised by one of the people charged in the Coutts border blockade could still hold weight because judges will have the discretion to require a fully

A brutal heatwave is wreaking havoc on the health and livelihoods of India's working poor. With no other means of livelihood, they toil through the day in soaring temperatures to ensure they and their families don't go hungry.

The provincial government is monitoring a weather system that could bring between 20 and 50 millimetres of rain to southern Manitoba over the next five days.

In my writing on technology and culture I try to be judicious about citing scientific studies. The issues involved in our ongoing wrangling with digital innovations are subtle and often deeply human. Attempts to exactly quantify what we’re gaining and l

A federal judge on Friday blocked part of an Alabama law that made it a felony to prescribe gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors.

A driver who struck and killed a woman and her three young daughters in Brampton, Ont., nearly two years ago has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.

The Nunavut Impact Review board has recommended Baffinland's Phase 2 expansion not be be allowed to proceed, citing "the potential to result in significant adverse ecosystemic effects."

A Montreal family was reported to youth protection without warning based on their son's behaviour at daycare. The couple questions whether race played a role in the decision, and point to research that shows Black families are more likely to be reported.

KELVIN CHAMUNORWA’S mother was a middle manager at a bank in Zimbabwe. She worked there for 25 years, steadily contributing to a pension. But horrendous inflation, which reached an annual rate of 231,000,000% in mid-2008, wiped out her savings. When she

David Milgaard died in a Calgary hospital this weekend, a source close to the family has confirmed.

Author and activist Morningstar Mercredi is calling for an end to forced and coerced sterilization, in the hopes that women — especially Indigenous, Métis and Inuit women — will never suffer the physical and mental trauma it inflicted upon her.

Saturday was Ottawa's fourth consecutive day of record-breaking highs, marking the longest run of weather over 28 C before May 15 in the past century.

Newspaper decries ‘egregious’ move by DoJ to obtain details of Stephanie Kirchgaessner as part of investigation into media leaks

The first data has been announced from a Phase 2 trial testing LSD as treatment for anxiety. The results indicate one to two LSD sessions can generate rapid and sustained reductions to anxiety but larger trials are needed to validate these findings.

Calling a man "bald" is now classed as sexual harassment, a judge in a U.K. employment tribunal has ruled.

With an early-season heat wave searing much of Texas over the weekend, the nonprofit that manages power to more than 26 million customers wants them to turn up their thermostats.

The first clue was the timing — late afternoon before a long weekend. It's a classic move for governments to make controversial announcements when fewer people are paying attention.

The International Boxing Association is launching an investigation into Boxing Canada after athletes' claims of widespread abuse.

A nearly $1-billion US tentative settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by families of victims and survivors of last June's condominium collapse in Surfside, Fla., an attorney said Wednesday.

Hong Kong police made the arrests in connection with a defunct fund set up to support people facing prosecution stemming from 2019 prodemocracy protests. Zen and Ho were later released on bail

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said that protesters yelled “horrible” things — including calls for his death — as he left a rally at the campaign office of Ontario NDP candidate Jen Deck in downtown Peterborough on Tuesday, and that this sort of

A 40-year-old woman was killed in a late-night road rage incident on Tuesday that involved a shooting and multi-vehicle car crash. She was innocent, said police.

Amazon has pulled several children’s clothing items displaying the sexually explicit message "I love c--k" from its Canadian e-commerce website, following a CBC News investigation.

Israel and the TV channel trade accusations over who was to blame for shooting Shireen Abu Aqla.

The race to reach eight workers trapped in a flooded, Canadian-owned zinc mine in West Africa is making progress.

An Okanagan township that sold a man's property at a tax auction without any notice of the sale or the steps necessary to prevent it deserves to face "significant consequences," according to a B.C. judge.

Canada's spy agency was concerned extremists might commit violence and recruit members when the Freedom Convoy rolled into Ottawa earlier this year, its director told lawmakers on Tuesday night.

Long known by foodies for its tapestry of multi-cultural flavours, Toronto will now have a place on one of the most coveted of culinary maps: the Michelin Guide.

An Alberta man who officials say is connected to multi-million dollar hay fraud "scams" in the U.S. has had a trial set in the province for similar allegations.

The World Meteorological Organization also certified a flash over South America that lasted a record 17 seconds.

Although it's supposed to be restricted by surveillance rules at local, state and federal levels, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has built up a mass surveillance system that includes details on almost all US residents, according to a report fro

The Alberta Court of Appeal says the federal government's environment impact law is unconstitutional.

A hunter in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, says it's 'very scary' finding plastic inside the bellies of a fish that Inuit rely on as a source of food. A recent study, published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth Environment, says plastic pollution in the Arctic co

The deadly strain of avian flu ravaging Canada's poultry industry is also felling an unusual number of wild bird species and has even jumped species, killing a pair of juvenile foxes near St. Marys Ont., according to wildlife experts.

Residents in the northern Alberta community of Chateh, west of High Level, could be out of their homes for several months after flooding forced them to evacuate Sunday and Monday.

Queen Elizabeth will not attend the opening of Britain's Parliament on Tuesday for the first time in nearly 60 years, as she struggles with difficulties in getting around.

Someone in Metro Vancouver has been slapped with a $230 fine for "attracting dangerous wildlife" by leaving hot dogs, tuna, and pet food out on their property, according to the BC Conservation Officer Service.

More human remains were found at Lake Mead over the weekend, less than a week after a body in a barrel was discovered at the reservoir.

An Ontario man has been charged after approximately 10,000 counterfeit toonies were discovered circulating in Canada.

Several Freedom Convoy protesters say thousands of dollars of items seized during February's enforcement efforts are unaccounted for, and that getting back those items that are in police possession has been a laborious process.

An Ottawa nursing school graduate had the ride of her life Thursday night, stopping to help at a crash on the Vanier Parkway — and ending up having her own car stolen by one of the drivers involved.

Peguis First Nation in Manitoba is no stranger to flooding — but that wasn’t always the case. A few generations ago, the community lived on prime farmland just north of Winnipeg, far from the flood-prone delta on the Fisher River where it is today.

John Lee was elected as Hong Kong's next leader Sunday, after winning over 99 per cent of votes cast by a largely pro-Beijing election committee.

The Montreal police (SPVM) arson squad is investigating after a fire at a former federal cabinet minister's residence destroyed two vehicles.

Canada's commissioner of competition intends to oppose Rogers Communications Inc.'s proposed $26-billion merger with Shaw Communications Inc., the companies said in a statement early Saturday.

On Monday, more than 67 million registered voters will cast ballots to choose the next president of the Philippines, and in doing so decide the country’s next chapter.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Ukraine on Sunday, meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and showing support for the embattled country.

It is the seventh severe dust storm in weeks, turning skies orange and causing breathing problems.

Canada's economy added 15,300 jobs in April, the third monthly increase in a row after a major hit from Omicron earlier in the year.

The mistake was described as a “rostering error” by an airline spokesperson, as the flight was forced to do a u-turn over Ireland.

Human remains found in a construction dumpster outside a vacant Rosedale home earlier this week have been confirmed as belonging to a little girl as young as four years old, police say.

Leslyn Lewis lit into Pierre Poilievre for being a trucker-convoy poser, a supporter of the cause when it was safe and convenient

Canada has become one of the first countries in the world to require online crowdfunding platforms to report to its anti-money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog, government officials told a special committee examining the truck convoy protest.

Hate crimes officers in Edmonton announced Wednesday a total of 22 new charges against four people in six separate incidents they believe were 'motivated by hate.'

Two fugitives who were accused in gang murders and had outstanding warrants for their arrests were among four B.C. men found dead, and now identified, after a mysterious small plane crash in a remote part of northwestern Ontario.

If the government wants to solidify reproductive rights in Canada, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh suggests it start by launching pharmacare with a full slate of birth control options.

Heavy snowfall in central Manitoba will make driving conditions on several highways treacherous, Environment Canada warned on Tuesday.

The Saskatchewan government is boosting the minimum wage to $13 per hour in October and says it will increase it to $15 in 2024.

Comedian Dave Chappelle was tackled during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night. Security guards chased and overpowered the attacker, and Chappelle was able to continue his performance while the man was taken away in an ambulance.

The federal government is making changes to two of its biggest housing programs in the hope the move will speed up the construction and repair of badly needed affordable rental units.

Due to the summer's drought and winter's supply chain issues, cattle feed is still hard to come by in Alberta — and what's available comes at a cost.

The Canada Revenue Agency violated its own policy while granting a secretive tax deal to a major corporation exposing itself to potential reputational damage, according to documents filed in court.

Few details are known, but OPP investigators say it's believed the handguns were coming from the United States when the drone got stuck in the tree.

Shocking footage shows a large twister snaking through the city of Wichita.

EDMONTON — Thousands of Alberta cottagers and homeowners are waiting anxiously to see if a provincial regulator will allow a large cattle feedlot to be

The number of Canadians living to 100 and beyond reached a record high in 2021. Some centenarians say getting there is all about keeping your hands busy, having a loving family and enjoying life's small pleasures.

The unusual case of an alleged fake psychologist working with the Ottawa Police Service has taken another surprising turn — one that's adding to the distress of the police officer at its heart. The prosecutor withdrew a public mischief charge against a