NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2022

An RCMP officer who interviewed survivors of the deadly Christmas Eve bus crash near Merritt, B.C., says it's time for passengers to throw out their false sense of security on buses and buckle up.

From minimum wage increases, to restrictions placed on foreign homebuyers, CTVNews.ca breaks down some of the new laws and rules coming into effect across Canada in 2023.

There is no scientifically proven way to cure a hangover, but experts say you can prevent one — or at least keep that morning-after misery to a minimum. Here's how.

A powerful storm Saturday ushered in the new year in California, with much of the state witnessing drenching rain or heavy snowfall that was snarling traffic and closing highways.

China "stands on the right side of history," the country's leader Xi Jinping said Saturday in a New Year's address that came as questions swirl over his government's handling of COVID-19 and economic and political challenges at home and abroad.

A growing number of Canadians are aging alone, without immediate family members to help them with daily tasks or offer emotional support. These kinless Canadians are facing many challenges and more needs to be done to ensure they don’t fall through the

Newly released documents show an influential group that helps shape US food policy and steers consumers toward nutritional products has financial ties to the world’s largest processed food companies and has been controlled by former industry employees w

One of the hopes I have for 2023 is to see fewer profanity laden Trudeau flags across Canada. I say this as the person who ran against Justin Trudeau in the last general election and someone who remains very critical of his record in government.

A massive fire that lasted more than 12 hours in a hotel-casino in Cambodia at the border with Thailand killed at least 19 people and injured over 60, officials said, while other victims were apparently not yet accounted for Thursday.

This time of year, doorbell cameras are traditionally capturing video of postal workers and possibly a family member slipping on ice, but on a small island off Nanaimo, B.C., the lens is focusing in on a very large feline.

When inflation was two per cent, the nickel was shrinking. But now it's shrinking faster. The Royal Canadian Mint still makes money stamping them out, but how long until Canadians decide that, like the penny, they're just annoying clutter in our purses an

Families of the victims of Flight PS752 are hopeful an international legal effort to hold Iran accountable will bring truth and justice, but experts warn the process will likely take years.

The co-leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Hundreds of Sunwing's Canadian travellers continue to be stuck out of country. Sunwing says it has completed two recovery flights so far this week, with another eight scheduled to depart by Dec. 30.

Charges are expected to be announced today regarding a police investigation into a shooting that left an Ontario Provincial Police officer dead in southeast Ontario.

Pope Francis asked for prayers for retired pope emeritus Benedict XVI on Wednesday, saying he is "very sick."

Of the aircraft, 43 also crossed the Taiwan Strait's median line, an unofficial buffer between the two sides that lies within the defense zone.

The international community urges calm as Serbia puts its security troops at ‘full combat readiness’ because of tensions with its Balkan neighbour Kosovo.

The death toll from a pre-Christmas blizzard in much of the United States has risen to 50, with the number in western New York alone at 27, authorities said Monday.

Forecasters have "high confidence" there will be flooding in coastal areas of Metro Vancouver on Tuesday morning, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Hundreds of Canadians are stranded in Cancún, Mexico and don’t know how they’ll get home after their Sunwing flights were cancelled last week.

The new policy in Canada requires automakers to increase the percentage of electric vehicles available for sale in the country.

South Korea's military fired warning shots, scrambled fighter jets and flew surveillance assets across the heavily fortified border with North Korea on Monday, after North Korean drones violated its airspace for the first time in five years, officials sai

A group of researchers at the University of British Columbia got to work locating, measuring and then evaluating a number of these overpasses to see how different dimensions impact how effective an overpass is at encouraging wildlife to cross.

Although the federal government has promised it's not going after hunting rifles or shotguns, some are warning that any further restrictions on semi-automatic weapons will cause hunters from abroad who typically bring their own firearms into the country t

Dozens of people spent the night in a Walmart store in Chatham-Kent, in southwestern Ontario, and a family of three is spending Christmas Eve in a Fort Erie, Ont., store due to a winter storm.

32-year-old suspect allegedly encouraged dog, who was killed by police, to attack people in restaurant

The Department of National Defence (DND) quietly announced Thursday that it will spend $1.24 billion to extend the life of the air force's search and rescue helicopter fleet — part of a long-standing, problem-plagued procurement effort.

Businesses that depend on the flow of office workers are struggling as vacancy rates in office towers across Canada continue to rise. Vancouver's office tower vacancy rate has tripled since 2019, while Montreal's has doubled.

All US states and southern parts of Canada are set to have their coldest Christmas in 40 years.

Afghan women and advocacy groups are urging the federal government to do more to support female students in Afghanistan after the Taliban imposed an open-ended ban on women attending universities.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is dismissing what he calls the “simplistic” idea of slapping a windfall tax on the grocery and energy sectors, adding such a move likely would do more harm than good.

The first images of banknotes featuring King Charles III were unveiled on Tuesday by the Bank of England.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says simply giving in to the provinces' demands on health-care funding won't guarantee improvements to Canada's strained health system.

Colleagues describe Tulloch, who was appointed by Trudeau on Monday, as a fair and brilliant jurist with an ‘uncanny ability’ to connect with people.

Fourteen days after a U.S.-sanctioned Russian cargo ship docked under mysterious circumstance at a naval yard in South Africa and unloaded its cargo, there have been no answers from the government.

Eight teenage girls have been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a 59-year-old man in Toronto, police say.

For the past five and a half years, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has been using communications equipment and technology from the controversial Chinese firm Hytera Communications — a company the United States government has blacklisted as a n

Abu Hena Mostofa Kamal came to Thunder Bay, Ont., to attend Lakehead University in 2018, and has been working and volunteering for several community groups. The 23-year-old now faces an exclusion order — but the community is advocating for him to be all

A Vancouver city councillor and former police officer was seen wearing a thin blue line patch at a community event, igniting criticism for donning the controversial symbol.

Harvey Weinstein was found guilty Monday of rape at a Los Angeles trial in another .MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement.

A gun control group calls on the House Public Safety Committee studying the sweeping Liberal firearms bill to address ‘misinformation’ about which guns would be banned by recent proposed amendments. Heidi Rathjen says she's worried the confusion will

Thai navy ships and helicopters were searching on Monday for more than two dozen sailors still missing more than 12 hours after a warship sank in rough seas overnight in the Gulf of Thailand.

In advance of finalizing the paperwork, Anita Anand said Canada must ensure it has 'the pilots trained' and 'the infrastructure in place' to house 88 future fighter jets.

Plastic prohibition is nearly upon us. On Saturday, the government of Canada announced the next steps being taken to outlaw single-use plastics: a nationwide ban on disposable cutlery, stir sticks, straws, checkout bags, and other hard-to-recycle foods

Negotiators in Montreal have finalized an agreement to halt and reverse the destruction of nature by 2030, as the COP15 talks enter their final official day.

Opposition House Leader Andrew Scheer says Conservative MPs will continue to focus on tackling the cost-of-living crisis and quashing the Liberals' carbon tax in the new year.

Only 8.8 per cent of Tunisian voters cast ballots in Saturday's parliamentary elections, authorities announced, after most political parties boycotted the vote as a charade aimed at shoring up presidential power.

Thousands of people remained without power Saturday morning after a major winter storm passed through eastern Ontario and western Quebec.

Argentina defeated France 4-2 on penalties following a 3-3 tie after extra time at the men's World Cup final on Sunday in Doha, Qatar to clinch its first title on soccer's biggest stage in 36 years.

Shoplifting has surged to an alarming level across Canada, industry insiders say, with inflation and labour shortages cited as major factors behind the increase.

The London Police Service (LPS) Major Crime Section is investigating after a man fell to his death from a downtown London, Ont. apartment building on Saturday morning. Hours later, CTV News London learned the deceased was London Knights forward Abakar Kaz

As a sea of sports betting commercials are broadcast across the country, critics say they believe Canada is on the verge of a new 'public health disaster.'

A huge aquarium in Berlin burst, spilling debris, water and more than a thousand tropical fish out of the AquaDom tourist attraction in the heart of the German capital early Friday.

The Canada Border Services Agency has made a historic drug bust in Vancouver.

The sorry state of our armed forces isn’t a failure of our policy. This is our policy.

A volatile storm ripping across the U.S. spawned tornadoes blamed for killing at least three people in Louisiana, and the line of punishing weather threatened neighbouring Southern states into the nighttime hours Wednesday.

U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday said they have charged eight individuals in a securities fraud scheme, alleging they reaped about $114 million from by using Twitter and Discord to manipulate stocks.

The House of Commons has adjourned for the year, after MPs unanimously agreed to wrap up the fall sitting a few days early. While MPs were scheduled to stick around until Friday, after a jam-packed political fall, all sides agreed to finish off their work

Soldiers from India and China clashed last week along their disputed border, India's defence minister said Tuesday, in the latest violence along the contested frontier since June 2020, when troops from both countries engaged in a deadly brawl.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is trying to find the dividing line between guns suitable for hunting and ones that have no place in society because they pose significant dangers in the wrong hands.

The Panasyk family was displaced from Ukraine and separated while working to come to Canada. Now they're back together.

Winnipeg MP and former Liberal cabinet minister Jim Carr has died at the age of 71. The news was announced in the House of Commons on Monday.

The federal government is ordering a review of Canada's military colleges that could result in sweeping changes at the two schools, a new report says.

Candice Servatius, an evangelical Protestant, claimed ceremony infringes on her children’s religious freedoms

'It wouldn’t be the right thing to do to just throw more money at the problem and sit back and watch the problem not get fixed,' Trudeau said

The election saw the Liberals fight hard to hold onto the riding in the face of tepid national support for their minority government.

Three suspects have been shot dead after the killings of two police officers and a man, authorities say.

Canada’s health care system needs physicians to fill important gaps, but it has also set up barriers for international graduates to practise here instead of the U.S., Britain and Australia

Bait packages are being strategically placed on doorsteps across New Westminster, B.C., in an effort to catch and deter so-called porch pirates.

Twenty years after officers raided a gay bathhouse, the Calgary Police Service and members of its gender and sexual diversity advisory committee are offering help to expunge the records of several bathhouse patrons in a bid to foster reconciliation.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge sentenced five protesters Monday who pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of court for ignoring a court order forbidding them from blocking access to a controversial northern B.C. pipeline.

Four people have been arrested over accusations Qatar bribed officials to try to win influence.

Avian flu is causing a turkey shortage in British Columbia, the B.C. Poultry Association said, warning it could pose a challenge for customers ahead of the high-demand Christmas season.

Rescuers searching the scene of an explosion at an apartment building on the English Channel island of Jersey said Sunday they expected to recover more bodies after three people were confirmed dead. Around a dozen people are still missing.

Shots and explosions rang out overnight in northern Kosovo, and ethnic Serbs have blocked roads with heavy vehicles and trucks.

The remnants of one of the worst maritime disasters in the Pacific Northwest, including an estimated $10 million worth of gold, could soon be recovered and put in a museum.

On CTVNews.ca, W5 exposes the suspicious company chartering a Pivot Airlines flight ​that ended up with 210 kilograms of cocaine onboard.

A loud blast and gunfire were heard in the Afghan capital Monday near a guest house popular with Chinese business visitors, a witness said.

A string of attacks on power facilities in Oregon and Washington has caused alarm and highlighted the vulnerabilities of the US electric grid. The attacks in the Pacific north-west come just days after a similar assault on North Carolina power stations

The NDP and the Conservatives have different approaches to tackling rising food prices, but they are on the same page about improving competition laws for big grocery retailers. Agriculture expert Sylvain Charlebois said he's 'never seen a committee so un

As delegates from around the world negotiate a plan to save the world's biodiversity from the brink, Indigenous representatives say their expertise on nature is well established and they shouldn't have to ask for permission to join the table with other co

The House of Commons justice committee is calling on the government to change the Criminal Code to allow victims of sexual assault to opt out of publication bans.

Former Libyan intelligence official charged in connection with the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, killing all 259 people aboard and another 11 on the ground

Quebec's legislature has passed a law putting an end to the requirement that members swear an oath to the King.

A girl named Madeline, with a vivid imagination and remarkable awareness of how bureaucracy can dash dreams, got her wish when she asked Los Angeles animal control authorities for a licence to own a unicorn — if she's able to find one.

Drop-in clinics are running Friday, Saturday and Sunday across the province.

When the winter storm came through, I was keen to see whether my all-weather tires would prove themselves.

Kansas manager’s missive – which claimed workers were calling in sick ‘at a staggering rate’ – caused an uproar online

The 115-year-old home was destroyed by fire. It had been abandoned and boarded up for several years, and there was no power going to the house.

The lawsuit dates back to Lindsay Shepherd's use of a Jordan Peterson TVO interview in her classroom. The controversy dates back to 2017, when Peterson, a best-selling self-help author and clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto, began rocketin

Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the United States releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.

Sunny Balwani, the onetime COO and president of Theranos, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court on fraud charges, after Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced weeks ago.

A woman's refusal to create wedding websites for same-sex couples has reached the Supreme Court.

The federal government awarded a contract to provide and maintain RCMP communications equipment to a firm with financial ties to the Chinese government, Radio-Canada has learned.

Thousands of police carried out a series of raids across much of Germany on Wednesday against suspected far-right extremists who allegedly sought to overthrow the state in an armed coup.

The Coalition Avenir Québec government tabled a bill on Tuesday that would make it possible for MNAs to sit in the National Assembly even if they don't swear an oath to the King.

Residents of northern Vancouver Island may have been jolted awake Tuesday morning after two earthquakes were detected in the early morning hours.

The Royal Canadian Mint is issuing a new $2 coin with a black ring in honour of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Here's how one single Senate win may have just turbocharged U.S. President Joe Biden's bid to reshape the courts. Democrats gained a valuable seat in Georgia on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Donald Trump may have gained a new headache.

Vancouver city council is set to vote on a motion to outfit Vancouver police officers with body cameras by 2025, a move that councillors with ABC Vancouver say will fulfil a campaign promise to improve public safety in the city while addressing conce

The Georgia run-off determines the final U.S. Senate contest in the country, with incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock battling Republican Herschel Walker, the former NFL star. There are multiple reasons the Democrats would like to emerge with a 51-4

A Toronto music lover who thrived in the company of others died alone at home following three visits to a local hospital due to severe abdominal pain, according to one of his closest friends.

Human-rights group points to evidence of hacking from July 2021, but says donor and membership data was not breached

Tens of thousands are without power and schools have been closed following the incident.

Tesla’s long-awaited Semi truck is now being rolled out to its first customers, with the first production models landing in the hands of food and beverage giant PepsiCo, the automaker revealed at a launch event on Friday.

A passenger on an Antarctic cruise died and four others were injured after their Viking ship was struck by a "rogue wave," the cruise line said.

The latest amendments proposed to the government's gun control bill, C-21, would prohibit large numbers of common hunting rifles, shotguns, as well as antique arms, cannons owned by historical re-enactors, and pricey collector pieces.

Smith told a radio talk show Saturday that her sovereignty bill was never supposed to give cabinet such sweeping authority, and says her government wants to make it clear in law that this is not the case.

The federal government is opening the door for 15,000 more foreign exchange workers to enter Canada next year, and that's welcome news for the general manager of the Mount Norquay Ski Resort in Banff National Park. 

A black-and-white jacket is among the few clues Winnipeg police have released in their plea for information to help identify the lone unknown victim of an alleged serial killer.

Some people suffering pain from cancer and other chronic diseases turn to marijuana to ease their suffering, but much of that relief may come from simply believing weed will help, a new study found.

A veteran and former Paralympian told a parliamentary committee that a caseworker from the Veterans Affairs Canada offered her medical assistance in dying, a week after the veterans affairs minister confirmed that at least four other veterans were offered

Thanks in part to highly educated immigrants, Canada has the highest percentage in the G7 of working-age people with college or university credentials, according to Statistics Canada. Yet the agency suggests we're 'leaving talent on the table' by failing

York Regional Police said officers conducted a RIDE spot check on a school bus driver in Aurora at around 8:45 a.m. Wednesday.

Three schools had to close and the opening time was delayed for others as thousands of homes and businesses on P.E.I. began Thursday without power because of an overnight windstorm.

The pole was hand-carved in the 1800s and stolen by a researcher in 1929, the Nisga'a say.

The PQ had previously refused to swear allegiance to King Charles III, Canada's monarch — despite it being a requirement to sit in the National Assembly. The PQ chose to swear an oath to the Quebec people and the province's constitution instead.

The man charged in the gruesome 1983 killings of Susan Tice and Erin Gilmour in Toronto was arrested after police eliminated his four brothers from their investigation of the cold cases, The Fifth Estate has learned.

The label on a cup of Velveeta's microwaveable mac and cheese says the meal only takes three and a half minutes to prepare. But a Florida woman says this is false -- and she's suing the manufacturer for US$5 million.

A fiery train derailment closed a highway in southeast Saskatchewan on Thursday morning.

In recent years, the Calgary real estate market has seen a significant amount of investment from out-of-province buyers, particularly those in Ontario.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault, concerned about the decline of French in the province, says all immigrants should speak French.

The benefit is available for children under 12 in families that earn less than $90,000 a year and ranges from $260 to $650 per child depending on net income.