NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2020

Ontario's finance minister has returned to Canada from a controversial Caribbean vacation during strict provincewide lockdown measures that urged Ontarians to avoid non-essential travel.

A public health researcher, a disability sports advocate and several trailblazing women who achieved firsts in their fields are among the 61 people being honoured with New Year’s appointments to the Order of Canada.

Ten people were injured, one of them critically, and 15 people remained unaccounted for after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.

Also felt in Rome, Budapest and Vienna, it was more powerful than the 1963 quake near the former Yugoslav town of Skopje

Data collected for one purpose can always be used for another. Search history data, for example, is collected to refine recommendation algorithms or build online profiles, not to catch criminals. Usually. Smart devices like speakers, TVs, and wearables ke

Rising water levels have forced more than 200 people living north of Quebec City to leave their homes, and several other rivers in the region are being monitored following heavy rainfall.

As Donald Trump peddled baseless claims of vote fraud after 3 November, democracy found out who its friends were

A recreational vehicle parked in the deserted streets of downtown Nashville exploded early Christmas morning, injuring three people and causing widespread communications outages that took down police emergency systems and grounded flights at the city's ai

This barely-there treaty that will make trade harder and destroy jobs. Labour should oppose it, says Tom Kibasi, a writer on politics and economics

Just when you thought you've heard enough about your car's warranty from incessant scam calls, BMW wants in on the action. New smart billboards in the United Kingdom will read BMW owners' license plates and broadcast to the world if your BMW's warranty ha

Climate change is having a widespread effect on lakes across the Northern Hemisphere, a new study has found, and it has widespread impacts, including affecting water quality.

The acting head of the Department of Homeland Security said the agency was assessing the cyber risk of smart TVs sold by the Chinese electronics giant TCL.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Padilla to fill the vice president-elect's Senate seat. He'll be the state's first Latino senator.

TMAC Resources Inc. (TSX: TMR) (“TMAC” or the “Company”) has been informed that the Governor in Council has issued an order under the Investment Canada Act (Canada) directing Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd. and its affiliate (“Shandong”) not to

One of the Royal Canadian Navy’s four beleaguered submarines will remain docked for repairs an extra year after a leak was discovered in a ballast tank that was not properly drained.

2020 was a year of unremitting extreme climate events, from heat waves to wildfires to hurricanes, many of which scientists have directly linked to human-caused climate change (SN: 8/27/20). Each event has taken a huge toll in lives lost and damages incur

Today’s Swedish climate is well within the range of variability. But she’s young, and hopefully someday she’ll wake up to the hoax and realize she’s bei

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look back at 20 years of climate policy in Canada and talk to the country's climate minister, Jonathan Wilkinson.

Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Ottawa and the incoming Biden administration both agreed zero emissions vehicles needed to be deployed faster

Dozens of states filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Google on Thursday, alleging that the search giant has an illegal monopoly over the online search market that hurts consumers and advertisers.

A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday endorsed emergency use of Moderna Inc's coronavirus vaccine, virtually assuring a pandemic ravaged nation of a second option for protecting against COVID-19.

The surface temperatures for the Greenland ice sheet have been known to warm 8 to 16°C “within decades or less” – yes, fewer than 10 years – due to “unforced oscillations.” In other words, no external forcing mechanism is required for these

A large swath of the U.S. Northeast was blanketed in snow by the first major storm of the season, which smashed a decades-old snowfall record in Pennsylvania.

Fiji closed schools and urged people to stock up on emergency supplies on Wednesday to prepare for Cyclone Yasa, a Category 5 storm expected to bring high-speed winds and torrential rain to Fiji's two largest islands when it makes landfall on Friday.

The federal government says it has signed an agreement with the United States to send a Canadian astronaut around the moon.

The search for the crew of missing Nova Scotia scallop boat the Chief William Saulis ended Wednesday after teams spent 36 hours looking in the Bay of Fundy for the six men. One body was recovered, and the RCMP will now handle what has become a missing per

Cancer specialists are worried about the significant drop in cancer screening, referrals and diagnoses in Canada since the pandemic began in March. It doesn't mean cancer rates are dropping — it means people with cancer don't know it yet.

French President Emmanuel Macron is the latest world leader to test positive for COVID-19, joining a growing list of others just as inoculation drives against the illness are beginning in a number of countries.

Indigenous and conservation groups asked a federal U.S. judge Tuesday to block the Trump administration from issuing oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says there is "no basis" to proceed with criminal charges in the death of 26-year-old D'Andre Campbell, who was shot and killed by a Peel Regional Police officer in April while inside his family's home in Brampt

The Electoral College decisively confirmed Joe Biden on Monday as the nation's next president, ratifying his November victory in an authoritative state-by-state repudiation of President Donald Trump's refusal to concede he had lost.

A wealth of new research in glacier and sea ice extent show modern Iceland is 2-4°C colder than all of the last 8000 years except for a slightly colder late 19th century. Even the 1700s were warmer with less ice than today in and around Iceland

Beijing is conducting waves of threatening forays from the air while ratcheting up existing pressure tactics to erode Taiwan's will to resist, say current and…

The Canadian government's bombshell secret 34-page file was obtained by Rebel News and The Globe and Mail and the two outlets published excerpts from the files Wednesday.

Five years ago, the first government plane filled with Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war touched down in Canada. Today, 29 of them from 11 families will celebrate that anniversary in a very special way — by getting sworn in as Canadian citizens.

Only three of seven F-18 fighter jets purchased from Australia by the Canadian government have been integrated into the air force so far, and the Department of National Defence says key upgrades to as much as one-third of Canada's fighter force will take

A 41-year-old Edmonton man has been charged with a hate-motivated attack on two women Tuesday evening outside a shopping mall.

If we look further at the statistics for global tropical storm activity from expert Dr. Ryan Maue here, we here as well see no significant trend in major hurricanes since 1992.

Pages 21 to 45 of a new Springer book entitled Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region and authored by 12 Indian meteorologists (Sanjay et al., 2020) assesses the temperature changes for India as a whole throughout the last few centuries. A

Willis Island, a tiny mound of coral rubble some 450 Km E. of Cairns in the Coral Sea, is a rare and valuable exception It is about 500 metres long, 150 metres wide, up to 9 metres in height and 8 hectares in area. A meteorological station was establishe

The gunman responsible for one of Canada’s worst mass killings had firearms equipped with laser sights and allegedly had grenades.

CBC News has pieced together how the federal government spent hundreds of billions during the first eight months of the pandemic. Here's a look at how money has flowed through more than 100 different measures and programs.

The Alberta government has ordered the closure of all casinos and gyms, banned dine-in service at restaurants and bars, and imposed a mandatory provincewide mask requirement under new restrictions aimed at curbing the province's soaring COVID-19 infection

The federal government has given the green light to Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, a key step toward launching the biggest inoculation program in Canada's history.