NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2023

The idea of using firing squads is making a comeback in the U.S. Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add the state to the list of those authorizing firing squads, currently Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina.

Pride nights, held annually for several years by National Hockey League teams to show support for the LGBTQ2S+ community, are in the spotlight following several high-profile incidents this season.

Radio-Canada has learned that the Trudeau government has reached a deal with the United States on irregular migration which will allow Ottawa to close the Roxham Road irregular crossing at the Canada-U.S. border.

Twenty three people were treated to hospital and another 12 at the scene of the incident in Leith.

The United Nations opened its first conference on water security in almost half a century on Wednesday, with a plea to governments to better manage one of humanity's shared resources.

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court found opposition leader Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation Thursday over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surname and sentenced him to two years in prison. The case against Gandhi dates back to an electi

Via Rail says it apologizes unreservedly to the man and to the entire Muslim community

An American conservative strategist is apologizing for making what he called a “dumb joke” about having an opportunity to kill the prime minister.

Canadians will know by the summer whether former governor general David Johnston wants a public inquiry to probe Beijing's election interference and what the Liberal government knew about it.

A coalition of U.S. trade associations wrote to Biden urging him to personally raise the contentious bills, C-11 and C-18, in talks with Trudeau

London police have lost the confidence of the public because of deep-seated racism, misogyny and homophobia, according to an independent review commissioned after a young woman was raped and killed by a serving officer.

A CBC Toronto investigation previously revealed that lengthy 911 wait times were more than one-offs in Toronto in 2021. Now, internal reports show wait times for 911 calls only got worse in Canada's largest city last year.

As former governor general David Johnston considers whether to recommend a public inquiry into Chinese government election meddling, groups representing Sikh Canadians say India's foreign interference also needs scrutiny.

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday hoping for support against Western pressure over his war in Ukraine, while Xi will present China as a global peacemaker intent on brokering an end to the conflict.

Two men who nearly died in 2016 during their treacherous walk across the Canada-U.S. border in the frigid cold say it's a privilege to finally call themselves Canadians.

The federal government is asking the Supreme Court to overrule a Court of Appeal of Alberta opinion that declared the 2019 IAA to be unconstitutional.

Proposed legislation will include penalties of $100,000 to $200,000 for each passport withheld from a worker.

Canadian-based companies now control 35 per cent of sawmill capacity for softwood in the U.S. South, based on data compiled by Forest Economic Advisors

The city’s data shows that drug toxicity is the leading cause of death for people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, resulting in nearly half of reported deaths

A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least 15 people, trapping others under rubble and sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris and fallen power lines.

Think you’re ready to take on a zombie horde? The city you live in might have an effect on your survivability.

A pigeon wearing a tiny empty backpack has been captured inside a federal prison in British Columbia, in what a union official says was likely another plan by inmates to smuggle drugs.

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim denounced what he said were "insinuations" made in a news article alleging Canada's spy agency found evidence of China's Vancouver consulate interfering in last year's municipal election. 

A man from Brampton, Ont. was told he had to pay $82,000 after his rental truck was stolen from his home in November.

Health Canada is warning anyone in possession of a specific Sunbeam brand heated blanket to 'Immediately stop using and unplug' it, according to a new recall notice.

France's government on Thursday invoked a special constitutional power to enact a contentious pension bill without a vote in parliament, in a risky move by President Emmanuel Macron.

The officers were responding to a domestic call in the city's northwest. A third person is dead, CBC has confirmed.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named former governor general David Johnston as the new independent special rapporteur who will be looking into foreign interference. He has been tasked with helping 'protect the integrity of Canada's democracy.'

Police in Quebec say a 38-year-old driver turned himself in after a pickup truck plowed into pedestrians.

Eleanor Williams lied to police and posted on Facebook she had been trafficked by an Asian gang.

Tropical storm Freddy, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the Southern Hemisphere, has killed 190 people in Malawi after ripping through southern Africa for the second time in a month, Malawi's disaster management agency says.

RCMP says they are investigating the deaths of several wild horses in the Kamloops area. 

Police in Quebec say a 38-year-old driver turned himself in after a pickup truck plowed into pedestrians.

Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc said on Saturday that it would end availability of news content for Canadians on its platforms if the country's Online News Act passes in its current form.

Research finds waste flushed down toilets and sent to sewage plants probably responsible for significant source of water pollution

The Jesuits of Canada, a religious order of the Catholic Church, has released a list of more than a dozen priests and brothers it says were "credibly accused" of sexually abusing minors over the past six decades.

Two London, Ont., police officers were shot and seriously injured during a 15-hour standoff at an apartment building on Saturday which followed the death of one man and ended after the barricaded suspect was arrested.

The report says the strategy sends some scholarship students to Canada from the People’s Republic of China with the aim of gaining access to critical high tech

Cyclone Freddy displaced hundreds of people as it battered central Mozambique on Sunday after making landfall for a second time in a month, breaking records for the duration and strength of tropical storms in the southern hemisphere.

A Northern California agricultural community famous for its strawberry crop was forced to evacuate early Saturday after the Pajaro River's levee was breached by flooding from a new atmospheric river that pummelled the state.

Some Ontario residents who were misled by a glitch in Tim Horton’s Roll Up To Win Contest, and mistakenly told they had won $10,000, are now exploring their legal options against the Canadian coffee chain.

Japan on Saturday marked the 12th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster with a minute of silence, as concerns grew ahead of the planned release of the treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant and the

Most Canadians will wind their clocks forward an hour tonight, but legislation in the United States that could put an end to the seasonal time change is also moving ahead.

An Ontario MPP has resigned from the Progressive Conservative caucus and will sit as an Independent, effective immediately, amid allegations he is linked to election interference by China.

The cat was rescued after escaping its owner. It will now live at Cincinnati Zoo.

The United Nations announced Thursday it signed an agreement to purchase a very large vessel that can transfer more than 1 million barrels of crude now stranded in a rusting tanker off the coast of war-torn Yemen.

The fallout from the Mount Cashel scandal continues to spread, as a judge has allowed a class-action lawsuit in British Columbia to proceed involving the very same men from Mount Cashel.

The Toronto District School Board has asked a provincial human rights body to help in creating a framework to address the issue.

A rise in the number of companies offering Canadians faster access to health care at a price is prompting the federal government to launch a crackdown on the practice, CBC News has learned.

Liberal and NDP MPs are calling out Conservative MP Michael Cooper over what they described as a 'shameful' and 'completely unacceptable' comment he made to Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly during a hearing on foreign interference.

A resident of St. Carols saw a polar bear by her house on the morning of March 7th, and she was able to snap some photos of the animal.

Jean-Roch Boivin suffered a heart attack just weeks after moving out of his former home in Montreal's storied Square Saint-Louis. He'd finally settled with his building's new owner, following an anguished fight to stay.

NANGAN, Taiwan (AP) — In the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin had to tell his guests he couldn't provide them with the internet. Others living on Matsu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands closer to neighboring China, had to struggle with

Police arrested Neall Epstein in May 2021 after he flipped two middle fingers at a neighbour who had threatened him while holding a power tool

He paid a visit to the concentration camp and admitted that the experience was 'heavier' than any exercise he had ever undertaken

Cyclone Freddy first struck south-east Africa last month, killing 21 people and displacing thousands.

Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was handed a 15-year jail term on Monday after being convicted in absentia for treason and "conspiracy to seize power," a verdict she said was punishment for her efforts to promote democracy.

As members of Parliament gear up to grill the CEOs of Canada's largest grocery store chains, experts say elected officials should push for more transparency on why grocers are making so much money.

An East Vancouver man captured an unlikely animal encounter when an everyday house cat and a majestic bald eagle had a tense faceoff in a park.

A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery veered violently off course when four Americans were caught in a drug cartel shootout, leaving two dead and two held captive for days in a remote region of the Gulf coast before they were rescued from a wood shac

U.S. President Joe Biden's climate bill is only six months old, but its impact on the energy industry around the world continues to grow as pressure mounts on countries to offer similar subsidies toward green energy or risk losing out on valuable investme