NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2021

Police in Nova Scotia are investigating a fire that damaged the Roman Catholic church in a First Nations community north of Halifax.

A Catholic church destroyed in a suspicious fire early Wednesday was the "heart and soul" of the town north of Edmonton, where it had stood for more than a century.

Canada's farmers are dealing with more frustration after China blocked an effort to raise the two countries' dispute over canola to a formal complaint requiring dispute settlement.

The federal government says it will close several commercial Pacific salmon fisheries in British Columbia and Yukon beginning this season to conserve fish stocks that are on the "verge of collapse."

The head of the Greens' governing body says an ultimatum to Leader Annamie Paul still stands, leaving her job in limbo as infighting continues to strain the top rungs of the party.

Police in Metro Vancouver say there were dozens of reports of sudden deaths in just a few days in three major cities, with heat expected to be a factor in many.

A website reported to be based in Russia is once again live streaming unsecured home and business security cameras after the federal privacy commissioner and other international authorities demanded it stop. But websites that stream unsecured cameras aren

Forced to pay more for wood, home builders want the Biden administration to settle a long-running dispute over Canadian imports. It won’t be easy.

Meng Wanzhou's defence team will battle lawyers for Canada's attorney general this week over a mysterious set of documents the Huawei executive hopes to rely on in her bid to avoid extradition to the United States.

There is no way to be a billionaire in America without taking advantage of a system predicated on cruelty, a system whose tax code and labor laws and regulatory apparatus prioritize your needs above most peoples.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Virginia school board's appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban.

French authorities have launched an investigation after a fan caused dozens of cyclists to crash during the Tour de France on Saturday.

Amazon says it plans to open a new warehouse in Alberta that will use robotics to help pick, pack and ship small items such as books, electronics and toys.

HMCS Harry DeWolf was commissioned at a naval base in Halifax on Saturday, the first Royal Canadian Navy vessel built for Arctic military operations in decades.

Rajan Sawhney, Alberta's minister of community and social services, says her 25-year old daughter was attacked in downtown Calgary earlier today.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin's knee led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations.

Iain Stewart's career in a sense mirrors Canada’s balancing act with a nation that is a growing hotbed of science — and alleged plunderer of others’ research

The Cumberland North MLA is no longer a member of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative caucus, and Leader Tim Houston says she is also barred from running for the party in future elections.

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair has added to the federal government's list of terrorist entities the Three Percenters movement — an anti-government group with a known presence in Canada that was linked to a recent bomb plot in the U.S.

Democrats have likened the new voting restrictions to racist policies of the US 20th century.

Canadian hyperloop company TransPod has completed a feasibility study of the implementation of an ultra-high-speed transportation line between Calgary and Edmonton. The company says it expects to have private funding secured for the first portion of the l

Police are looking for a suspect after a man attacked two women wearing hijabs, knocking one unconscious and assaulting the second at knifepoint in St. Albert, Alta., on Wednesday.

An army reservist who was ordered suspended from the Vancouver Police Department for having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate has been working as a military assistant to Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.

Nizar Banat was a vocal critic of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas who had called on Europe to suspend funding for the government.

According to the report, nations including China and Russia are conducting cyber and human espionage that targets individuals, institutions and corporations in Canada.

Canada's eight-month forensic examination of the destruction of Flight PS752 shows that Canada does not have evidence of its own proving the catastrophe was "premeditated," CBC News has learned.

Part of a beachfront condo tower collapsed in the Miami-area town of Surfside early Thursday morning, killing at least one, trapping residents in rubble and twisted metal and sending a cloud of debris through the neighbourhood.

The update comes after Pelton recalled the treadmill following the death of a child.

Our latest North American Tracker explores the perspectives of Canadians and Americans on lifestyle changes during the pandemic.

The federal Public Servants Inventions Act says a government employee cannot file a patent outside the country without the minister’s permission

After quietly and seriously investigating reports of unidentified flying objects for years, the United States military has until Friday to present an unclassified report to Congress on what it has uncovered about these mysterious sightings.

A Saskatchewan photographer captured a one-year-old beaver stealing a Canadian flag on the Meewasin Trail in Saskatoon. The flag was returned, but the flagpole was not.

MoD contradicts Moscow’s assertion that shots were fired at destroyer and bombs dropped nearby

Senior executives at a French spyware firm have been indicted for the company’s sale of surveillance software to authoritarian regimes in Libya and Egypt that resulted in the torture and disappearance of dissidents. While high-tech surveillance is a mul

At the UN in Geneva on Tuesday, China and its allies called for a UN investigation into crimes against Indigenous people in Canada — just moments before Canada and its allies called on China to allow UN investigators free access to Xinjiang to probe Uyg

The country’s military ombudsman has fired broadside at the Liberal government, accusing the defence minister’s office of trying to “exert control” over investigations and ignoring recommendations for change.

An Ontario biologist estimates as many as 960,000 plastic helium balloons may end up in Lake Erie every year, based on a nearly two-week cleanup effort across seven kilometres of beach. She hopes sharing her work will help people understand the environmen

The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was publicly admonished in the House of Commons on Monday for failing to turn over unreacted documents demanded by MPs related to the firing of two scientists at Canada's highest security lab.

The US Navy conducted a 'Full Ship Shock Trial' against its aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford.

The lead safety investigator for a deadly derailment in the mountains of B.C. was pulled off the case after Canadian Pacific Railway threatened to sue him and his bosses for suggesting the RCMP should look into potential criminal negligence by the railway

A five-year-old girl remains in life-threatening condition following a shooting at an outdoor children's birthday party in northwest Toronto on Saturday evening, police say.

Federal officials warn of a long, potentially dangerous summer of fire. Since January, more than a million acres have burned from more than 28,000 wildfires.

Some said they didn't know their thermostats were being accessed from afar until it was almost 80 degrees inside their homes.

Dozens of people gathered to watch crews take down a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in a downtown Kingston, Ont. park.

Parts of the US south-west report dangerously high temperatures, with excessive heat warnings in place.

Canadian company General Fusion is set to build a $400m fusion demonstrator near Oxford.

St. Louis, Mo., couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators walking past their home last year, pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges and agreed to give up the weapons they used during

Alberta is now a hot spot of a potentially deadly tapeworm passed from wild canines to humans — and many cases of the parasitic infection could be going undetected, warns an infectious disease specialist.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has nominated the Honourable Mahmud Jamal as the next member of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Officials insist inflation won't last, and on Wednesday the U.S. Federal Reserve Board's Jerome Powell hinted he'll join the Bank of Canada's Tiff Macklem in cutting back on stimulus. But unless wages catch up, rising prices continue to make most of us po

The House passed legislation Wednesday that would establish June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, sending the bill to President Joe Biden's desk for his signature.

Cyberwarfare has become such a threat that NATO's Article 5 now covers it. As Joe Biden confronts Vladimir Putin, experts warn the worst could be yet to come, with cyber threats pushing toward a more dangerous threshold.

Canada is being excoriated as a racist failure as MPs who don't intend to seek re-election say their official farewells.

The federal government will step in to conduct an environmental review of any new coal project that could possibly release the contaminant selenium.

Canada is being excoriated as a racist failure as MPs who don't intend to seek re-election say their official farewells.

People who wear cosmetics such as lipstick or mascara may be absorbing or licking up potentially harmful ingredients that last 'forever' in the environment, a new study suggests. Here's what you should know about PFAS.

Eight Pacific countries created a revolutionary system that brings in $500m a year and prevents the overfishing that blights other regions

The Green Party federal council will vote tonight on whether to kickstart a process that could remove Annamie Paul from the party leadership.

The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer – now in its 20th year – has found many people no longer believe working hard will give them a better life.

The former Conservative cabinet minister is apologizing for not pushing against his party's culturally divisive polices of the Stephen Harper era

In 2019, residents of Kiselyovsk, Russia, a city surrounded by coal mines, made a video asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to allow them to come to Canada as environmental refugees. Two years later, CBC News visits the community to see the conditions an

The Ontario government quietly disbanded all 10 community advisory boards overseeing jails, which removes what advocates call a vital tool to help the province's inmates.

An association representing Nigerian-Canadian doctors is calling for Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro to reject a report that concluded a noose taped to a Grande Prairie hospital operating room door by a white surgeon — aimed in part at a Black col

EDF, the French state-backed utility, said it was seeking to hold an extraordinary board meeting of its joint venture nuclear power plant in southern China after a report of a possible radiation leak.

NATO leaders convened in Brussels to discuss reshaping the military alliance for the future at a time of increased saber-rattling with Russia. In an exclusive interview with CBC News, The head of Britain's military told CBC News in an exclusive interview

Arnold Ambler said three minutes after the storm hit, hail smashed through a skylight — sending him and his family scrambling to cover their possessions with blankets as massive pieces of ice, glass and rain came pouring in.

Two people are facing manslaughter charges in the death of RCMP Const. Shelby Patton.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau consulted with Queen Elizabeth today about the process for selecting the next governor general of Canada, months after Julie Payette's resignation.

People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier was arrested after appearing at a sparsely attended rally against COVID-19 restrictions in in St-Pierre-Jolys, Man.on Friday afternoon.

The new policy erects another roadblock for Coalspur Mines and its Vista mine expansion near Hinton, Alta., the only such mine in Canada currently before regulators.

Patrik Mathews — a former Manitoba army reservist and an alleged recruiter for a neo-Nazi group — has changed his plea to guilty in a number of different charges in the U.S. states of Maryland and Delaware.

The head of Egerton Ryerson, one of the architects of Canada's residential school system, was last seen decapitated from a statue on the Ryerson University campus in Toronto. It's now on a spike at 1492 Land Back Lane in Caledonia, Ont. 

In a new report, Amnesty International says China is committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.

Theodore, the beloved TV tugboat, left Halifax Thursday morning, bound for a new Ontario home.

China says it won't politicize scientific research in the case of two scientists fired from Canada's only Level 4 lab, amid an RCMP investigation, demands for details in Parliament, and concerns it could be a case of Chinese espionage.

The final cost to Albertans for the Keystone XL pipeline will be about $1.3 billion as the provincial government and TC Energy announced the official termination of the project Wednesday.

The federal and Alberta governments are signing an agreement that could lead to a plant to produce hydrogen built near Edmonton. The governments say they're working with Air Products Canada to build the $1.3-billon plant, which would produce the clean-

Court likely to effectively liquidate opposition politician’s movement by classifying it as ‘extremist’

A playground in downtown Dawson City, Yukon, will be closed for two weeks so crews can replace a rubber mulch surface that was ridden with pieces of wire.

One person has been fined $600 after a gender reveal party involving explosives sparked a wildfire last week near Fort McMurray.

Interior Health’s chief medical officer, Dr. Albert de Villiers, has been arrested and charged with sexual assault and sexual interference against a child, according to RCMP.

A stream of bubbles is catching trash in Amsterdam's Westerdok canal, preventing it from ultimately flowing into the North Sea.

Criminal gangs divulged plans for moving drug shipments and carrying out killings on a secure messaging system secretly run by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said Tuesday, as they unveiled a global sting operation they said dealt an 'unprecedented blow

The operation was built around the ANOM messaging platform, which was being secretly run by the FBI. Some 16 countries, along with Europol, were involved in the global operation.

An Ontario Superior Court judge has found that the two Hamilton paramedics who treated dying teenager Yosif Al-Hasnawi in 2017 are guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life.

European and Australian police join forces with FBI to seize weapons, drugs and $148m in cash

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify, Stripe, and news outlets CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, BBC and Financial Times are currently facing an out

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney apologized on Monday for a controversial dinner that critics, including from his own caucus, say appeared to violate COVID-19 public health rules.

A man convicted of manslaughter in the 2017 death of an Indigenous woman after she was struck by a trailer hitch from a moving vehicle was given an eight-year prison term Monday in Thunder Bay, Ont., with the judge telling Brayden Bushby: "You targeted a

Bradley Barton's mistrial application has been dismissed by the trial judge. Barton was found guilty of killing Cindy Gladue in June 2011. The jury reached its verdict months ago, but the mistrial application was launched after Barton's lawyer received an

The Kluane Lake Research Station's off-grid hydroponic farming unit is now up and running. The unit can hold upward to 2,800 mature plants and produce leafy greens and herbs all year round.

Senior executives at Air Canada have chosen to return their 2020 bonuses in response to "public disappointment." In April, the airline and government agreed to a $5.9 billion loan package that capped future bonuses.

A Toronto-area police officer came to the rescue after a skunk was spotted with its head stuck in a cup.

Thanks in large part to the introduction of machinery like tractors and combines, farms today are far more efficient and productive than they were a handful of generations ago. Though these time- and labor-saving technologies can run tens or even hundreds

Canada's finance minister says a deal reached by G7 countries on establishing a minimum corporate tax and taxing the profits of major multinationals will help end "jurisdiction shopping." Canada is still planning to implement its own digital services tax,

A senior member of the Canadian armed forces was quietly removed from his role in Canada's vaccine rollout last month in response to a complaint that he had used racist language in a workplace setting, CBC News has learned.

The obituary last week may have caught some people's attention: Bob Wilson, 71, and his wife Margi, 73, died last week on the same day at Charlottetown's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. They planned it that way.

Police arrested an organizer of Hong Kong's annual candlelight vigil commemorating the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown and warned people not to attend the banned event Friday as the city mutes its pro-democracy voices.

Uyghur Martyrs’ Road and Dalai Lama Road also adorn Hungary’s capital near project condemned as ‘Chinese influence-buying’

A new Alberta study that shows a drop in hospitalizations for respiratory illnesses during the early part of the pandemic is sparking questions about the future role that public health measures such as masking could play in keeping viruses at bay.

Security guards at Nunavut’s isolation hubs conducted illegal and unconstitutional searches of Nunavummiut’s bags up to five months after the hubs began operations, according to internal government emails obtained by CBC.

A herd of 15 elephants bangs on doors and hoovers up food as experts ponder its destination.

A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content. This includes things like “faceprints and voicep

In spite of green rhetoric, money has piled into aviation and car industries since start of pandemic, report finds

A private members bill sponsored by Cathay Wagantall, Conservative MP for Yorkton-Melville in Saskatchewan, surrounding abortion was voted on Wednesday in the House of Commons. The bill aimed to ban doctors from performing an abortion based on the sex of

An insurance provider for the Trans Mountain pipeline said it will not renew its policy with the company when it expires in August.

About 150 km of pipe was installed in Alberta and — for now — TC Energy plans to leave it underground.

Gwich'in leaders are calling the suspension of oil leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) good news — but say they're still fighting for permanent protection of the area.

The dispute over the cross-border Line 5 pipeline is entirely for Michigan to deal with, the state's attorney general argues in a legal brief released Wednesday that flatly rejects Canada's depiction of a foreign-policy matter that Ottawa and the White Ho

Salvage experts failed to tow a fire-stricken container ship carrying chemicals out to sea and it started to sink Wednesday off Sri Lanka's main port, raising fears of a marine environmental disaster, officials said.

The JBS Canada beef processing facility in Alberta has resumed production after a cyberattack that impacted the company's operations in North America and Australia.

An upcoming vote on an abortion bill from a Conservative MP has reignited Liberal government attacks against the party's leader for seeming out of touch by failing to put a lid on the debate.

The Chinese president says he wants the country to have a "trustworthy, lovable and respectable" image.

A company from British Columbia says it is going to build a $350-million facility in Regina to process wheat straw.

The largest warship in the Iranian navy has caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances

A 41-year-old man in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10N3, Beijing's National Health Commission said on Tuesday.

After scrapping the one-child policy five years ago, China's birth rate has not increased as the government had expected. The country is revising its policy to adjust to the aging of the population.

A new report details ViacomCBS’s use of a labyrinthine tax shelter to sell rights to its shows and films overseas.

A cyberattack on JBS SA, the largest meat producer globally, has forced the shutdown of some of world’s largest slaughterhouses, and there are signs that the closures are spreading.JBS’s five biggest beef plants in the U.S. -- which altogether handle

The BBC's Justin Rowlatt explains why we are accelerating towards an electric car future.

The six-step recipe appears to have been accidentally copied and pasted into a government database.

Libyan forces were "hunted down and remotely engaged" by an autonomous drone, a UN report reads.

One hundred years and a day after one of the country's bloodiest massacres of the 20th Century, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday will begin exhuming bodies possibly linked to the crimes.

Who backed Dawn Arnold, the successful candidate for mayor in the province's largest city? Developers large and small, the Irvings and her family are among contributors on a list released last week.

Eloise Morrison is preparing for a rush of emotions as she raises the Pride flag at her former Catholic school on Tuesday.