NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2019

Ontario is weighing a ban on single-use plastics as part of a broader strategy to send less waste to landfills.

Eighteen Canadians are among the victims of an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that killed all 157 people thought to be on board Sunday, the airline's CEO and Kenya's transport minister said.

Police say the pair's engagement at a shopping centre in Arak contravened Islamic principles.

When a former Oxford University postgraduate student set up a satirical Twitter account in April 2018 under the name of Titania McGrath, he had no idea of the social media storm that was to follow.

The Olympic gold medalist has come under fire from trans activists including cyclist Rachel McKinnon for supporting claims that women are at a clear disadvantage from trans competitors.

Darnell Byrd McPherson, a Mayor from South Carolina, thought she was the victim of a hate crime after a 'yellow, sticky' substance was found on her car. A police report determined it was pollen.

Tetanus hadn't been seen in Oregon in about 30 years. Then an unvaccinated kid cut his forehead.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren released an aggressive plan on Friday to break up tech giants like Amazon, Google and Facebook, targeting the power of Silicon Valley with her populist message as sprawling Internet giants face mounting political backlash ahead of th

Alberta's crude curtailment plan is working so well to support western Canadian oil prices that it won't likely be needed for too much longer, say executives at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that revoked an Obama-era policy requiring U.S. intelligence officials to report civilian deaths in drone strikes outside active war zones.

Traditionally, special-forces soldiers need to spend several years in the military. But times are changing.

The Speaker of the Alberta legislature has admonished those behind the surreptitious videotaping of an Independent MLA and a senior NDP staff member inside the Edmonton Federal Building.

The only place in the entire world where this snail is found is in the Sulphur Mountain hot springs. The park wardens are reportedly searching for the swimmer

The Alberta Energy Regulator has ordered a company to suspend fracking operations at a well site linked to an earthquake that was felt in the communities of Red Deer and Sylvan Lake.

The respective trade deficits of U.S. and Canada surged to their highest levels on record to close out 2018, according to figures released Wednesday.

An edited video shared by a Twitter account associated with UCP Leader Jason Kenney is being slammed for appearing to secretly record a government adviser and an independent politician.

Health Canada says it is looking into whether two cannabis companies' sponsorship of a children's charity event last October violated promotion restrictions in the Cannabis Act.

It's an economic blueprint to save the planet from climate catastrophe. It's an enviro-socialist nightmare that will take away Americans' burgers. Exaggerations abound about the Green New Deal. Here's what you need to know about what the ambitious plan ac

Open water has replaced sea ice in much of the Bering Sea off Alaska's west coast, leaving villages vulnerable to powerful winter storms and adding challenges for hunters in Alaska seeking marine mammals, an expert said Monday.

The federal government will invest billions of dollars less in new military equipment than promised this year, raising concerns about the readiness of the Canadian Forces and the prospect that Canada will fall short on another NATO spending target.

Jane Philpott, one of Justin Trudeau's most trusted ministers, has resigned from cabinet as the Liberal government's crisis over the SNC-Lavalin affair deepens. Trudeau is speaking at an event at 7:15 p.m. ET and CBCNews.ca is carrying it live.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP explores filing for bankruptcy to address potentially significant liabilities from roughly 2,000 lawsuits alleging the drug manufacturer contributed to the deadly opioid crisis sweeping the United States, people familiar w

A cone has become one with the sidewalk on Papineau Avenue.

Rapacious consumer of personal data Facebook is once again receiving bad press, for being a rapacious consumer of personal data.

A huge, disk-shaped sea creature that washed ashore in Southern California has been identified as a hoodwinker sunfish, a recently identified rare species thought to live in the Southern Hemisphere.

There are five diagnosed cases at the school, but a health officer suspects there are others that have not been diagnosed.

Facebook promised to open a data centre in Canada to create jobs, in exchange for the federal government offering assurances that it would not impose its jurisdiction over the company's non-Canadian data.

Authorities plan to resume an intense ground search Monday amid devastation from a deadly tornado that killed at least 23 people in southeast Alabama.

SpaceX's new crew capsule has arrived at the International Space Station. The Dragon capsule, containing equipment and a dummy nicknamed Ripley, was developed under contract to NASA, which hopes to start flying U.S. astronauts this summer, ending the agen

Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to save the planet with her Green New Deal, but she keeps tripping over her own giant carbon footprint.

A sheriff confirmed at least 14 people were killed by a possible tornado in Alabama on Sunday as severe storms destroyed mobile homes, snapped trees and left a trial of destruction in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina.

The tech giant says that Absher will remain available on Google Play despite the fact that it stops women fleeing from Saudi Arabia by sending alerts to men when a passport is used.

Declaring it's "very clear" U.S. President Donald Trump obstructed justice, the chairman of the House committee in charge of impeachment says the panel is requesting documents from more than 60 people from Trump's administration, family and business as pa

Unless the Trump administration lifts the punishing tariffs it has imposed on Mexican steel and aluminum imports -- duties it also imposed on Canada -- Mexico is prepared to keep the status quo with the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.

People living in a Maple Ridge tent city have been ordered to leave after a string of fires broke out in the span of two days.

The Hope, B.C. resident celebrated his centennial surrounded by his family and friends at the local legion on Saturday.

Jody Wilson-Raybould says she has heard from "thousands" of Canadians since her bombshell testimony in Ottawa. And she's ready to run for re-election in the fall.

Physicians who go on aid missions abroad want the federal government to review its funding of a program that sends homeopaths to Honduras because of the potential harm to local people.

A former engineering student who wanted to join ISIS could be paroled in as few as three months to start a “deradicalization” plan, a judge ruled Thursday.

The rainbow flag, symbol of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, will fly in front of all public elementary schools for at least one week during Pride Month in June.

The owner of a Slave Lake sawmill says he paid nearly $500,000 in carbon taxes in 2018, one day after government staff questioned whether the number was legitimate.

It's been eight long years since astronauts launched from U.S. soil. Now, Elon Musk's SpaceX is readying for the test of a lifetime with the test launch of its new crew capsule.

You can make fun of Vancouverites' apparent weakness for cold weather all you want, but the past month did set a record for freezing temperatures. The average daily temperature for the month was 0.3 C compared to the past 30 year average of 4.9 C, a diffe

A serendipitous meeting between a professor and a colleague led to a treasure trove of historical maps that indicated kelp bed locations off British Columbia's coast, helping experts understand the changes in what are known as the "rainforests of the ocea

As Australia welcomes the first day of autumn with a sigh of relief, the summer statistics have arrived from the Bureau of Meteorology confirming suspicions that the country just sweated through it's hottest-ever summer. The national mean temperature f

NASA is embarking on the creation of its new Lunar Gateway, a space station it plans to send into orbit around the moon starting in 2022.

When Michael Coteau's daughter dropped his Samsung Galaxy S8 this past fall, cracking it all over, the Ontario Liberal MPP kept using it for a while. "But then it started irritating my ear, because the glass was kind of breaking apart," he said..

'I finally proved my innocence in a court of law,' said Glen Assoun, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1995 death of Brenda LeAnne Way.

North York currency exchange owner named Farzam Mehdizadeh was arrested in 2016 with more than $1 million in cash during a traffic stop. Now he has reportedly left the country.

Canada's economy shrank by 0.1 per cent in December and got smaller in three of the previous four months.

For the third time this week, Alberta's election commissioner has issued a fine related to contributions to Jeff Callaway's UCP leadership campaign.