NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2020

A firearms expert testified the Simonov SKS rifle found in Matthew Raymond's Fredericton apartment was an unrestricted firearm, and so was the shotgun found on his couch. Jacques Rioux testified Wednesday in the third week of the quadruple murder trial

Royal Dutch Shell will slash as many as 9,000 jobs as the oil giant accelerates a shift away from fossil fuels.

The circumstances surrounding the death of a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman in a Joliette hospital, one year after the government was handed recommendations to address systemic racism within government services, have ignited calls for action from the public.

At a recent town hall meeting, UCP MLA Shane Getson suggested some people are abusing the Canada Emergency Response Benefit.

Plans to poison or kidnap Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy were discussed between sources in US intelligence and a private security firm that spied extensively on the WikiLeaks co-founder, a court has been told.

Canadian special forces personnel have trained Malian soldiers during Flintlock and other military personnel from various African nations.

Easing winds gave California firefighters a break on Tuesday as they battled a destructive wildfire that was driven by strong winds through wine country north of San Francisco and another rural fire that killed three people.

Sue McIntosh thought her horse, Finnegan, looked a bit off, so she rushed him to a veterinary clinic a couple of weeks ago.The 13-year-old was diagnosed with Potomac horse fever, a disease that kills in up to 30 per cent of cases.

Canadian Anti-Hate Network chair Bernie Farber blasted what he described as "police inaction" when it comes to harassment against Canadian politicians

Godbout argued that there is no evidence to show that such written works of fiction cause any harm to children

A procurement saga more than 16 years in the making came to an end today with the arrival in Comox, British Columbia of the Royal Canadian Air Force's new search and rescue plane.

A reporter embedded with the year-long Arctic MOSAiC mission said women were told wearing tight or revealing clothing would pose a "safety issue" while spending months at sea with men.

In a normal year, Point Roberts, Wash., is a bustling place during the summer season, packed with B.C. tourists ready to spend their money on local businesses, B.C. bargain hunters filling up on gas and picking up packages at the local parcel shops.

A new homeowner discovers a stranger can disarm the alarm, unlock windows and doors and track when she comes and goes from her new house. Security and privacy experts say the situation is the result of weak laws and cancellation policies written to benefi

U.S. President Donald Trump says he will grant approval to a $22-billion freight rail project connecting Alaska and Alberta.

Residents of Lake Jackson, Texas, have been warned about using tap water after a deadly brain-eating microbe was found in the city's public water supply.

The pledge comes after six months of crushing losses for the province's oil sector.

Parts of Switzerland, Austria and Germany were surprised by unseasonably early snowfall overnight, after a sharp drop in temperatures and heavy precipitation.

A Massachusetts construction worker's love of black licorice wound up costing him his life. Eating a bag and a half every day for a few weeks threw his nutrients out of whack and caused the 54-year-old man's heart to stop, doctors reported Wednesday.

A 25-year-old Burlington, Ont., man who publicly discussed his role in ISIS and execution-style killings is now facing charges for allegedly lying about all of it.

Vancouver tech company Hootsuite says it will not proceed with a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after staff raised concerns.

It is designed to activate only when residents are out, works indoors, and is limited to one floor of a building. The firm also unveiled an online games-streaming service and a voice-activated screen that swivels about. But one campaign group described

A Chinese citizen journalist who disappeared in February after reporting on the outbreak of the coronavirus has been found, a friend has said.

Speaking to Congress today, the former Facebook manager first tasked with making the company make money did not mince words about his role. He told lawmakers that the company "took a page from Big Tobacco's playbook, working to make our offering addictive

Millions of people have either lost their jobs or the hours they work. Heading into winter, COVID-19 cases are sharply rising and yet the stock market is posting some records. What gives?

Top-secret records uncovered in a 16-month-long investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, BuzzFeed News and partners show two shadowy companies, one registered in New Brunswick and one in Alberta, received millions in sus

The anti-mask movement has drawn a wide range of figures into its orbit, including right-right extremists, evangelical pastors, libertarian radio hosts and conspiracy theorists.

Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and extradition to the United States. Assange faces 175 years in a US s

JPMorgan is set to pay nearly $1 billion to settle with US authorities investigating whether the bank manipulated the metals and Treasury markets, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The sum would set a record for spoofing-related settlements and could be

Gucci is taking distressed denim to a new level. The Italian luxury brand is selling denim overalls that appear grass-stained for $1,750.

Wondering about the science behind those beautiful fall colours? CTVNews.ca explains why leaves turn red, yellow and orange as autumn arrives.

The majority of a 470-strong pod of pilot whales found stranded off southern Australia has died, officials said on Wednesday, as rescuers struggled in freezing waters and fading light to free those still alive.

Hours after a Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville, Ky., police for the killing of Breonna Taylor and protesters took to the streets, authorities said two officers had been shot Wednesday night during the demonstrations.

Belarus authorities deployed water cannons on Wednesday to disperse protesters who had gathered in central Minsk to denounce the secret inauguration of President Alexander Lukashenko. Several dozens of protesters were also arrested, AFP reported.

A Dutch startup has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus instead of wood that it says can convert a decomposing human body into key nutrients for plants.

The federal ethics watchdog has dismissed Conservative allegations of conflict of interest involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff and her husband.

Royal Dutch Shell is looking to slash up to 40 per cent off the cost of producing oil and gas in a major drive to save cash so it can overhaul its business and focus more on renewable energy and power markets, sources told Reuters.

A wildfire scorching its way through brush and timber from the mountains to the desert northeast of Los Angeles threatened more than 1,000 homes on Tuesday as crews across the West battled dozens of other major blazes in California.

Tropical storm Beta stalled out Tuesday along the Texas coast, flooding streets in Houston and Galveston hours after making landfall amid an unusually busy hurricane season.

An Edmonton psychiatrist says his patients are upset by comments made last week by Premier Jason Kenney suggesting only people with "severe" disabilities should qualify for benefits under the Assured Income for Severely Handicapped (AISH) program.

The Nunavut government has imposed a total allowable harvest on the Dolphin and Union caribou herd after a survey showed the population had plummeted from 18,000 to 4,000.

Hundreds of pilot whales are stranded on a sandbar in Tasmania, an island off the southern coast of Australia.

Warming in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar ocean this year to its second-lowest extent in four decades, scientists announced Monday, yet another sign of how climate change is rapidly transforming the region.

Simple checks with past employers, including federally regulated agencies, could have turned up troubling evidence of Julie Payette's treatment of subordinates before she was appointed governor general, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or his officials n

It was a historic night at the 72nd Annual Emmy Awards in more ways than one. Canadian comedy Schitt's Creek swept the comedy awards, while HBO's Watchmen and Succession won big over streaming juggernaut Netflix.

Growth in Alberta's renewable energy sector should continue to trend upwards, experts say, with one forecast expecting that a surge of projects could have the province poised to lead the nation in utility-scale wind and solar capacity as early as 2025.

Canada's most critical oil pipelines to the U.S. all start in Hardisty, Alberta. Now, the town has no school.

With precision and boundless energy, a team of carpenters used medieval techniques to raise up -- by hand -- a three-ton oak truss Saturday in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, a replica of the wooden structures that were consumed in the landmark's devastati

A database of 2.4 million people, including more than 35,000 Australians, has been leaked from the Shenzhen company Zhenhua Data, which is believed to be used by China's intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security.

Prescription eyeglasses can range anywhere from the mid-$200s to more than $1000 a pair in Canada. They're an expensive, but necessary, product for many. But why are they so expensive?

An exceptionally busy Atlantic hurricane season was churning along Saturday as the Texas coast prepared for a tropical storm that's forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before breaching its shores in the week ahead.

The cherished Scandinavian concept of friluftsliv may help Canadians shake the winter blues and embrace the colder months amid the pandemic.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he's given his 'blessing' to a proposed deal between Oracle and Walmart for the U.S. operations of TikTok, the Chinese-owned app he's targeted for national security and data privacy concerns.

U.S. President Donald Trump says that Canada wants to see the Canada-U.S. border reopened, but the federal government says it'll make the decision based on public health advice.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, the court announced. She was 87.

The world's largest tropical wetland is not supposed to burn. And yet, Brazil's Pantanal is on fire. Some 25,000 square kilometres have already been destroyed, and experts say it's going to get worse.

CBC News is one of the most trusted news brands in Canada, but we do not take the public's trust for granted or assume most people understand how our stories get made. The editor's blog is an attempt to share some of what goes on behind the scenes. In thi

A team of paleontologists have discovered what they believe is the world's oldest animal sperm, frozen in tree resin 100 million years ago inside a tiny crustacean in Myanmar.

Several thousand people in northwest China have tested positive for a bacterial disease called brucellosis, authorities said on Tuesday, in an outbreak caused by a leak at a biopharmaceutical company last year.

Forecasters are closely watching the potential for the remnants of Sally to bring heavy rain to Atlantic Canada. There is also the potential for this part of Canada to see impacts from Hurricane Teddy next week.

Greek civil protection authorities have been put on maximum alert after a Mediterranean cyclone made landfall, battering the west of the country and many of its popular Ionian islands.

Victoria Morris has had her fair share of orca encounters, but nothing quite like this.

Many people wish for lower tax bills and more money in their bank accounts. But a group of young, rich Canadians want the federal government to tax them more.

A northern Manitoba First Nation is calling on the federal government for a safe place for their students to learn in, after part of their school's roof collapsed in March.

A smooth, Canadian whisky made in Calgary has been named best in the world by writer Jim Murray's prestigious Whisky Bible.

Victoria Morris has had her fair share of orca encounters, but nothing quite like this.

More than one in ten of those asked had never even heard the word 'Holocaust'

Belarusian protest organiser Maria Kolesnikova has been charged with incitement to undermine national security, officials say. Three women have been leading a mass opposition movement, but she is the only one not to go into exile.

A year after Alberta launched an inquiry to investigate whether alleged "foreign-funded special interests" are spreading misinformation about the province's energy industry, the commissioner leading it says his team doesn't have the time or resources to p

The Alberta Wilderness Association says that southern mountain woodland caribou populations in Jasper National Park are dangerously low, and are calling on Parks Canada to intervene.

Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Ala., as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

The federal government is celebrating the United States' decision to lift its 10 per cent tariff on Canadian aluminum, with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland calling the tariffs a mistake from the beginning, and 'good news' for aluminum workers on b

As the federal government puts the finishing touches on a national hydrogen strategy designed to kickstart the budding sector, some experts say one of the vital ingredients for the industry to flourish is to build more pipelines.

At 16, Ralph Jackson signed up to fight during World War II. Now, at 94, he's fighting for his dignity, after he said he was inexplicably expelled from the Vancouver branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, where he was once president, for alleged "theft or m

Ethnic violence set off by the assassination of a popular singer has been supercharged by hate speech and incitements shared widely on the platform.

A massive fire that broke out Sunday night has destroyed much of a park along New Westminster's waterfront.

A big chunk of Greenland's ice cap, estimated to be some 110 square kilometres has broken off in the far north east Arctic which scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change.

The cable of the Sea-to-Sky Gondola has been deliberately cut for the second year in a row, and less than six months after the attraction fully reopened.

Flurry of lawsuits stemming from fatal boat crash in August 2019 on an Ontario lake includes claim by entrepreneur and TV personality Kevin O'Leary against owner and operator of other boat involved.

Tropical Storm Sally strengthened off the west coast of Florida on Sunday and was poised to become a category 2 hurricane, bringing the threat of dangerous storm surges and high winds to the U.S. Gulf Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Groundhogs are digging up old graves and occasionally leaving bones scattered on the surface of a cemetery in Montreal.

Aline Chretien, the wife and trusted adviser of former prime minister Jean Chretien, has died at 84.

Sunday's Google Doodle pays tribute to famed Canadian athlete and cancer activist Terry Fox on the anniversary of the first run event organized across 760 sites around Canada in his honour.

An unpleasant outbreak is underway in the Lower Mainland, with an unusually large number of tiny white moths flocking to light sources and making their way inside homes and businesses.

Deadly wildfires in heavily populated northwest Oregon were growing, with hundreds of thousands of people told to flee encroaching flames while residents to the south tearfully assessed their losses.

RCMP allege that he used his political position to solicit those loans

A flawless 102-carat oval diamond will head to auction on October 5 in Hong Kong at Sotheby's.

A former National Security Agency (NSA) chief who was in the post when the Edward Snowden scandal broke has joined Amazon's board as a director.

NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of Tropical Storm Paulette as it tracked through the Central North Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 8. Paulette, like some other tropical storms this year, has broken a season record.

Activists working to defend Hong Kong's democracy say police in Canada appear to be helpless against what they call a campaign of harassment and threats against them by supporters of the Chinese state.

A major overnight fire swept through Greece's largest refugee camp, which had been placed under COVID-19 lockdown, burning through container housing and leaving thousands of migrants in emergency need of shelter on the island of Lesbos on Wednesday.

The admission, after the government had sought to play down the significance of its planned changes, sparked astonishment

A Canadian Ranger group under investigation over ties between one of its members and two far-right militia groups has advertised on its website for years that part of its mission is to guard Canada against illegal immigration.

Air quality advisories are in effect for much of British Columbia due to drifting wildfire smoke, and many in Metro Vancouver are noticing it in the area.

Leslie Creed grew a massive artichoke in Yellowknife this summer. The plant generally thrives in southern Mediterranean climates.

An all-time temperature record of 121 degrees was set Sunday during a historic Labor Day weekend heat wave. The all-time county record was set at Pierce College in Woodland Hills. The Sunday reading was the highest temperature ever observed at an offic

Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton was jailed in 2015 for killing Jennifer Laude near a former U.S. navy base

A powerful typhoon damaged buildings, flooded roads and knocked out power to thousands of homes in South Korea on Monday after battering islands in southern Japan, killing one person and injuring dozens of others before weakening as it passed North Korea.

Two Australian foreign correspondents were flown out of China for their safety after being questioned by China's state security ministry, the Australian government said on Tuesday.