NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2020

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New figures from Environment Canada show that aging and old-fashioned municipal sewer systems dumped nearly 900 billion litres of raw sewage into Canada's waterways from 2013 to 2018. That's the equivalent of filling an Olympic-sized swimming pool more th

Turkish President Erdogan has vowed to keep borders open for Syrian refugees headed for Europe as the first 18,000 cross the Greek border and migrants clash for the second day with guards.

A Russian Instagram influencer's 29th birthday party turned ugly when two people died and six were left in intensive care after a partygoer mixed dry ice with pool water, causing acute poisoning.

The son of slain RCMP officer Const. Dennis Strongquill says he is outraged and hurt by the vandalism to a Winnipeg statue honouring fallen officers. The spray-painted words "f--k RCMP" were scrawled on Wednesday across a monument outside the RCMP "D"

You know it was wrong when even one of the key Mohawks behind the original blockade is disgusted by attempts to derail a CN freight train.Still, strangely, some believe lighting wooden skids on fire to jam under a moving train is a retaliatory and justifi

Turkey hits Syrian government targets in response and the EU warns of a major conflict developing.

Admirers of the Leaning Tower of Dallas can relax because the viral landmark isn't going anywhere quickly. Since Feb. 16, the core of the 11-storey building has been leaning to one side after explosives were detonated inside and it survived. Now i

An Alberta energy company is facing a wave of criticism on social media for an image that includes their company logo, and a woman or girl resembling climate activist Greta Thunberg. The image, which appears to be a sticker or decal, shows the silhouet

Thousands of people congregated outside the Alberta legislature on Thursday to protest spending cuts included in the provincial budget being tabled inside the building. The protesters, waving signs and shouting slogans, tied up traffic on Jasper Avenue

Voters in Florida, Michigan, and Colorado are threatening to sue their states after an independent organization discovered that each has counties with unusually high voter registration rates - in some cases, they found more registered voters than actual p

YouTube is a private forum and therefore not subject to free-speech requirements under the First Amendment, a US appeals court ruled today. "Despite YouTube's ubiquity and its role as a public-facing platform, it remains a private forum, not a public foru

'If you do not respond accordingly to our demands, Alberta will be forced to consider additional legal recourse to ensure that this unlawful tax on Albertans is removed'

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday the continuing protests near CN Rail tracks close to the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory are a worry and the protesters could cause serious harm if they don't stop.

Multiple people were killed Wednesday in a shooting on the Molson Coors Brewing Co. campus, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said. The dead include the shooter, said Barrett, who did not give an exact number of deceased.

An Apple employee who died after his Tesla car hit a concrete barrier was playing a video game at the time of the crash, investigators believe.

Emily Eaton is an associate professor in the department of geography and environmental studies at the U of R. As part of her research into the effects of the fossil fuel industry on Saskatchewan education, she submitted a freedom of information request to

Oil and gas companies give more in campaign contributions to members of Congress with voting records against the environment, according to a new study. The study found the oil and gas industry is more likely to invest in the campaigns of legislators who

Patients would no longer have to prove their natural death is "reasonably foreseeable".

A California official says beach homeless camps are health violations and an abuse of public lands.

Alberta's oilpatch was dealt another devastating blow this week with Teck Resources'decision to pull the plug on its Frontier project, a move that has some analysts wondering whether the sector has a future in the long term.

Quaecumque vera. It's the motto of the University of Alberta, my alma mater. It means whatsoever things are true, and for more than a century, Alberta students and researchers and professors have engaged in a collective project in its pursuit. Quaecum

For about 50 per cent of Calgarians, opening the most recent electricity bill was an unpleasant surprise. Rates have shot up about 19 per cent. And we just came through a brutal cold snap. Some consumers saw their bills double from the previous month.

A forgotten passageway used by prime ministers and political luminaries - and closed up by Victorian labourers - has been uncovered in Parliament. Historians working on the renovation of the House of Commons found the lost 360-year-old passageway, hidd

The Liberal government has been forced to apologize after coming clean about concealing nearly $200,000 in contracts awarded to an environmental group.

The Australian bushfires were more catastrophic than any simulation of our changing climate predicted. This is the conclusion of researchers who described the devastation as a "fiery wake-up call for climate science".

14 Indigenous communities lost out on potential jobs and benefits agreements with Teck for the project

In a 4-1 majority decision, the Alberta Court of Appeal has deemed the federal Liberals' carbon tax to be unconstitutional.

Dozens of electoral district associations affiliated with the People's Party of Canada have been deregistered by Elections Canada for failing to meet their reporting requirements, just months after the party contested its first general election.

Vancouver-based Teck Resources has withdrawn its application to build a massive oilsands project in northern Alberta.

Production spent $22 million on local labour, creating 1,450 jobs for local cast and crew when it spent 53 days filming in B.C. two years ago.

A Castlegar tomcat that took on a Castlegar bobcat is being saluted for his outsize bravery, as well as treated for his extensive injuries.

Privacy protection officials in Canada have announced an investigation into the facial recognition software at the centre of controversy among police services, including Toronto.

Next Friday, dozens of men and women will again pour down the ramps of Paddington Green police station and take to the streets. But this time, they will be a mob of masked anarchists.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government is asking Parliament to spend an additional $2.1 billion on Indigenous programs and initiatives, above and beyond what MPs already have approved.

So far this season,105 children have died from the flu, according to data released Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is the highest number of child flu deaths at this point in the season since the CDC started keeping record

The launch of a new unified family court, an initiative to streamline the duplication and complexity of family law cases, has been put on hold indefinitely by the Alberta government. Family lawyers were told about the suspension at Court of Queen's Be

A judge in Ontario's Superior Court has ruled that three parts of Canada's prostitution laws violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Justice Thomas McKay ruled that the laws, which prohibit procuring, advertising and materially benefiting from som

US customs officers made an unusual discovery when they carried out a spot check on a Canadian mail truck - a human brain inside a jar.

Doctors from around Alberta say ballooning wait times for publicly funded MRI and CT scans are putting patients at risk. They're calling on the province and Alberta Health Services to address the backlog.

Alberta's largest labour organization says public-service pensions are being used to prop up the province's struggling fossil fuels industry at a time when many large investment funds are moving away from the sector.

A Boeing-backed competition to design 'the personal flying machine of the future is set to kick off at a NASA research base in Mountain View, California at the end of the month.

The brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi state agents sparked international outrage, tarnishing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's global charm offensive and deterring, for a short time at least, foreign investors. While Ri

Via Rail says despite plans to resume partial services along certain parts of its rail line, it has 'no choice' but to issue temporary layoffs for 'close to' 1,000 employees amid the ongoing pipeline blockades.

Canada came within a whisker of losing its place in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the fall of 2018 because of the military's inability to consistently deploy enough women to meet the world body's guidelines.

Much of India's bird population has sharply declined in the past few decades, according to a major study. The State of India's Birds report relied on the observations of more than 15,000 birdwatchers who helped assess the status of 867 birds. It fou

Boeing's crisis-hit 737 Max jetliner faces a new potential safety issue as debris has been found in the fuel tanks of several new planes which were in storage, awaiting delivery to airlines

Tensions flared in the House of Commons Tuesday as MPs reconvened and immediately started debating the ongoing protests and rail blockades across Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced heavy criticism from opposition party leaders over the Liberal go

Historic flooding in Mississippi should begin to recede this week, but not before a flash flood warning could bring more rain for thousands of residents. The Pearl River in Jackson crested on Monday at 36.67 feet -- the third highest crest on record -- l

Parts of Wales that have been hit by the worst floods in a generation are preparing for further rain in the next 48 hours, as more than 450 flood warnings and alerts remain in place across the UK.

Hamas militants hacked dozens of smartphones by posing as female admirers, Israel's military says.

Scientists at the Open University are studying minerals collected during the 1969 Moon landings.

Ten others were injured as people queued for food and money in the southern town of Diffa, reports say.

MOOSE JAW, Sask -: The general consensus among players at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts is that prize-money equity for women at national curling events is a great thing, but it was long overdue.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how the stickers on fruits and veggies can complicate composting efforts, as well as the biggest players in battery storage.

The Imam Al-Mahdi Scouts, which has 45,000 members - boys and girls - is officially recognised by the World Scouting Movement but the group is actually grooming its young recruits.

A Christian pastor and his 14-year-old daughter have been abducted and mother fears her husband has been killed and her teenage daughter forced to convert to Islam and marry.

A family celebration has turned sour after an Ottawa woman was told she won't be able to board a cruise ship because she's Chinese.

Betelgeuse just keeps on getting weirder. After an unprecedented dimming, followed by the detection of a gravitational wave, the star seems to have changed shape.

RCMP have announced the arrest of two Canadians in connection with the infamous CRA telephone scam that originates overseas and has taken aim at tens of thousands of Canadians.

A freedom of information request has revealed that almost 120,000 non-criminal 'hate incidents' have been recorded by UK police forces since guifrlines were issued in 2014.

Peter Nygard has been accused of luring underaged women to his Bahamas mansion under the pretence of job opportunities, only to drug and rape them

Cops in a California city believe a serial-killing gang could be on the loose.In the last six months, five people have been killed in four separate shootings on San Bernardino’s west side, leading police to believe they are connected and gang-re

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is hemorrhaging billions of dollars after losing the rights to Hockey Night In Canada, according to an internal federal memo.

Avenatti represented porn star Stormy Daniels in her case against President Donald Trump

Last Friday, the Sun published an article exploring connections between Toronto's vibrant urban music scene and the gang violence bedeviling our neighbourhoods.This, after three young men were shot to death in a downtown condo January 31.

The publisher of the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star and dozens of other newspapers across the United States is filing for bankruptcy protection. McClatchy Co.'s 30 newsrooms, including the Charlotte Observer, the News and Observer in Raleigh and th

"Aggressive" migration policies imposed by the United States and Mexico are trapping Central American migrants and refugees in a "vicious cycle" of violence, sexual assault, kidnappings and ill treatment from border authorities, a new report from Doctors

DoNotPay, the family of consumer advocacy services meant to protect people from corporate exploitation, is launching a new app aimed at helping end our long national nightmare surrounding robocalls by giving you a burner credit card to get their contact d

In about 24 hours last week a natural phenomenon near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, developed from a minor inconvenience into a potentially life-threatening hazard. It's not unusual for underwater currents in the Queen Maud Gulf, south of Cambridge Bay, to c

More than a dozen bison from Elk Island National Park will soon be on the move to northern Alberta. Parks Canada is translocating 14 wood bison from the park near Edmonton to Woodland Cree First Nation in the Peace River region within the next week.

The book charts the former PM's upbringing during the late 1800s, his military exploits, his rise to No 10, and how he guided Britain to victory against the Nazi's in World War II.

Three environmental groups painted as hostile to the oil and gas industry by the Alberta government say they weren't interviewed for an interim report submitted as part of the public inquiry into alleged foreign funding of "anti-Alberta energy campaigns."

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr provided a small window of insight about his life since his return to Canada in 2013 during a rare public speaking appearance in Halifax.

PRINCE GEORGE-It didn't crack under pressure. The Downtown Renewable Energy System operated at it's highest le...

RCMP have begun their enforcement of a B.C. Supreme Court injunction in the traditional territory of the Wet'suwet'en Nation at the fourth site along a forest service road that Coastal Gaslink and its contractors have been prevented from accessing for wee

U.S. prosecutors say a Canadian man lied in a major Iran government money laundering and sanctions evasion case.

The awards ceremony bucked a decline in viewers last year but ratings reached a record low on Sunday.

Warner Bros. has blamed China's coronavirus for the box office failure of Margot Robbie's latest film, Birds of Prey.

Google is tripling its workforce in Canada, adding new offices in Toronto, Montreal and Waterloo, Ont. The tech giant is investing in a skills development program to make sure there's enough talent to fill those jobs and funding an accelerator to help sta

Privacy advocates are calling on all levels of government to create specific regulations around police use of facial recognition technology.

Members of the US government held a conference in Washington this week on the topic of Chinese theft of intellectual property from US technology firms and the US academic sector.

I wrote the much-loved sitcoms Father Ted and The IT Crowd - and yet today I am one of the most hated men on the internet because I speak up against extreme trans rights activists.

Ehsanullah Ehsan, who boarded Malala's school bus and shot her in the head in 2012, bragged on social media that he had fled captivity almost a month ago.

Police are not planning on charging the distraught neighbour and call him a good Samaritan.

Researchers discovered the cave 15 years ago but did not have funding for further research on a virus 96 per cent similar to the novel coronavirus

The four killed by suspected electrocution include a pregnant female, a conservation group says.

The company behind a gene therapy for muscle-wasting disease SMA will give out 100 doses via lottery.

Several former skating champions have accused three trainers of sexually abusing them as teenagers.

A shopping centre is sealed off in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima, with the suspect still at large.

A number of prisoners are likely to challenge the government's new terror laws in court, a lawyer says.

The controversial author and professor is recovering from addiction to tranquilizers and near-death in Russia, his family says

Turns out it wasn't law enforcement brutality at all; not even close.It was actually an officer who was brutalized with a boot to the temple - one of the many facts left out of the public flogging of Go Transit special constables who were merely affecting

We've just weathered a record-breaking cold snap in British Columbia and the provincial government was there to tax us for the sin of staying warm.

The village of Masanchi is now under the control of the police and armed guard, says the president.

Lt Col Vindman, who testified against Mr Trump, lost his job for "telling the truth", says a lawyer.