NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2020

The asteroid is about four times the size of the CN Tower and is travelling at more than 30,000 kilometres per hour.

The first victim of a Canadian military helicopter crash off the coast of Greece has been identified.

Early returns on fee changes aimed at preventing rural doctors in Alberta from withdrawing some services show some physicians ready to continue their work while others are turning thumbs-down.

Company eyes foreign tankers for delivery of domestic oil, including shipments from B.C. through the Panama Canal.

Russia flatly denies a Czech report alleging a Russian agent came to Prague to poison local mayors.

The school board also deemed 'Catch 22,' 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' Invisible Man' and 'The Things They Carried' to be potentially harmful.

An Australian dog named Shadow gave birth to an astounding 21 puppies last week, a record litter for the country.

Several headstones at a Metro Vancouver cemetery have been vandalized, a local historical society says.

The Epoch Times, a controversial newspaper founded by Falun Gong members, is coming under fire from Canadians who have received unsolicited copies in their mailboxes, and from a postal carrier who doesn't want to deliver it.

13,000 people forced from homes in Fort McMurray, Fort Vermilion

Canada's House of Commons will reconvene today for virtual session on Zoom, a videoconferencing platform described by security researchers as a "privacy disaster."

Changes are coming to the Arctic so fast, scientists haven't even had a chance to understand what's there, the report suggests.

Canada's minister for women and gender equality says that the COVID-19 crisis has empowered perpetrators of domestic violence as consultations reveal that abuse rates are rising in parts of the country.

The notice was announced Sunday by the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which said that the Athabasca River water levels 'are extremely high.'

Planet of the Humans drops a bombshell on the green movement, the renewable energy industry, and talk of a Green New Deal

The European Union is planning a major pledging conference early next month to help fill the World Health Organization's funding gaps, and it expects Canada to play a key role.

The strategy devised by scientists was to keep large parts of society open but not everyone is convinced.

The health of insect populations globally is far more varied than previous research suggested.

The Canada-U.S. border has opened ever-so-slightly to asylum seekers under the new framework unveiled this week extending the historic shutdown of all but essential cross-border traffic.

People from across the country are sending heartfelt condolences and support to Nova Scotia as the community mourns the victims of the tragic shooting.

American officials were alarmed by fake text messages and social media posts that said President Trump was locking down the country. Experts see a convergence with Russian tactics.

Amazon subsidiary Ring, which has partnerships with almost 1,200 law enforcement agencies nationwide, does not currently include facial recognition or license plate scanning tools in its home surveillance line of consumer products. The company appears to

Facebook wants a judge to toss out the federal privacy watchdog's finding that the social media giant's lax practices allowed personal data to be used for political purposes.

Britain is marking Queen Elizabeth's 94th birthday with silence Tuesday, as the country in lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic forgoes the usual gun salutes and ringing of bells.

Oil futures collapsed to below zero for the first time ever as the deepening economic turmoil caused by the coronavirus crisis left traders desperate to avoid taking delivery of physical crude.

An enormous, ancient cave in B.C.'s rugged alpine went undetected for hundreds of years largely because it was filled with ice and blanketed by snow until sometime within the last decade, researchers have found.

A family in the northern Nunavik community of Quaqtaq, Que., woke up to a polar bear trying to break into their home this week.

As the coronavirus pandemic exploded across the world earlier this year, another even more conspicuous plague was tearing through East Africa: locusts. The voracious little beasts are particularly fond of carbohydrates like grains, a staple of subsistence

There aren't any ripped bodices, but sometimes a bonnet is pushed askew.

OTTAWA — Barring a last-minute deal, the stage appeared set for members of Parliament to return to the House of Commons on Monday after the Conservatives rejected a Liberal government proposal to hold one in-person session and up to two virtual

On Jan. 22, 2016, a teen began a shooting spree in the small northern Saskatchewan town of La Loche that left four people dead and seven wounded. The Supreme Court has decided it won't hear the shooter's appeal of his adult sentence, so CBC News can ident

Vancouver shoe designer John Fluevog releases a limited edition "The Dr. Henry" shoe, inspired by B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.

Amid tightening controls on information in China, two citizen journalists reporting on the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan disappeared in February, according to a report, and months later, activists say the whistleblowers are still missing. Armed with smart

In the Twitter world stalked relentlessly by journalists, there was a significant flap over the weekend when the esteemed CBC foreign correspondent, Neil Macdonald, now retired, posted that CBC jobs were wholly dependent upon keeping the Liberals happy.Th

After flip-flopping on basic information about COVID-19 and expecting to be cut some slack for it, the federal government is now proposing legislation that might punish any Canadian for doing just what they first did.

A southern Alberta meat packing plant where dozens of employees have tested positive for COVID-19 has now temporarily laid off 1,000 staff, according to the union representing them.

He never asked to go up in the fighter jet, but his colleagues pulled some strings to get him on the aircraft as a gift.

A Czech Easter fertility ritual - involving lightly whipping women - is scrapped due to coronavirus.

"Journalists make a big deal about looking at stories from all sides, but they don't," Logan said. "There's been how many conversations about the bias at Fox? But we don't talk about the liberal

On Sunday, an Indian police officer's hand was chopped off with a sword while he was trying to enforce lockdown measures implemented due to the novel coronavirus.

A ban at a Guangzhou branch of the fast-food chain came amid rumours Africans were spreading coronavirus.

The investigation into Chinese political elites would "wipe out everything we've tried to build there," Matthew Winkler, Bloomberg's editor-in-chief at the time, said on audiotape obtained by NPR.

The firm, which has close links to to the country's Communist state machinery, urged Boris Johnson to avoid doing Britain 'a disservice' by cutting it out of the next generation roll-out.

The game was pulled by Chinese websites after Hong Kong players posted anti-government content.

Severe weather has swept across the U.S. South, killing at least 20 people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains. Many people spent part of the night early Monday sheltering in basements, closets and bathroom tubs as

The Quebec coroner and the Montreal police major crimes unit are investigating the deaths, at least five of which are linked to COVID-19.

It was last on a list of eight threat scenarios, but the danger of a global pandemic made the cut when the Liberal government issued a national security policy in 2004.

The battle rages on over the right to gather in houses of worship as most Americans remain confined.

The US president signed an order this week stating Americans had rights to use resources in space.

How did Ruja Ignatova make $4bn selling her fake cryptocurrency to the world - and where did she go?

Lawyer Stella Morris says the pair fell in love in 2015 while he was in the Ecuadorean embassy.

The reasons for the disparity are complex, mainly related to health and inequality, and disinformation too.

They have been bracing for the worst, a deluge of desperately sick COVID-19 patients who overwhelm resources and make necessary chilling decisions over who gets life-saving care.

Edmonton Oilers forward Colby Cave has died after suffering a brain bleed earlier this week. The 25-year-old native of Battleford, Sask., had been in a medically induced coma in a Toronto hospital.

British Columbia is continuing with its current methods to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but it is also preparing for when certain activities can be allowed again.

It's complicated

The Trump administration is using an emergency public health order to turn back irregular migrants.

The RCMP said coronavirus quarantine enforcement will focus on 'education and encouragement' but warned of arrests and $1-million fines.

Government documents on the novel coronavirus obtained by CTVNews.ca reveal how the rapidly-spreading disease prompted a cascade of ever-evolving policies as it reached Canadian soil, from the advice given based on the virus' ability to spread, to measure

The Alberta Medical Association has filed a constitutional challenge the United Conservative government over unfair negotiations. In a statement released Thursday, AMA President Christine Molnar says the Minister of Health walked away from negotiations

Defective medical masks supplied to the city of Toronto were worn by staff in two long-term care homes hit by COVID-19, including one in Scarborough with a disastrously deadly outbreak.

The country's unemployment rate rose to 7.8% as non-essential business closed due to the coronavirus.

Far-right groups across North America are seeking to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic by "weaponizing the virus" and spreading disinformation, according to researchers who monitor the groups closely.

After ravaging Vanuatu and Fiji early this week, tropical cyclone Harold lashed Tonga on Thursday local time. Damaging winds, hazardous storm surge and flooding rains were expected in the tropical island chain, which is home to a little more than 100,000

According to police a 14-year-old boy called Ontario Provincial Police Sunday morning because, he says, his mom stole his marijuana. When police arrived at the Simcoe family home, the boy and his mom had to be separated. Police say no one was injure

Canada's economy lost more than one million jobs in March, Statistics Canada said Thursday, pushing the jobless rate up to 7.8 per cent. Economists had been expecting the figure to come it at around 500,000 jobs lost, which already would have been the

A truck driver fatally stabbed three people and wounded another at a Knoxville truck stop Tuesday morning. He was later shot dead by deputies.

The bridge would normally have been busy but lockdown measures meant there was little traffic.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday in a conference call with staff, his campaign said in a statement.

President Trump suggested Tuesday that he might consider cutting funding for the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus crisis and alleged role in helping China downplay the severity of the outbreak.

On the day of grave-tending, the nation is in mourning for thousands who died during the coronavirus epidemic that emerged in the central city of Wuhan.

On Tuesday, Taiwan banned government use of the Zoom videoconferencing app, following revelations that the company had routed some calls through Chinese networks.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are demanding that the management of the Kennedy Center explain themselves after announcing the furlough of employees -- after a controversial $25 million provision in the CARES Act coronavirus stimulus was mea

Emergency teams in Ukraine on Monday continued battling a forest fire in the contaminated area around the Chornobyl nuclear power plant that has raised radiation fears.

The Alberta government's deep devotion to the oil and gas sector, including billions of dollars of support for the Keystone XL pipeline, is why some technology companies in the province are now looking to relocate elsewhere.

While the coronavirus pandemic has prompted a shutdown of non-essential travel at the Canada-U.S. border, many provinces have also set up checkpoints at their borders to restrict traffic, raising questions about the constitutionality of such measures.

Vanuatu is already in a state of emergency because of the virus - and is awaiting election results.

The newly-appointed chief executive officer of the Alberta Energy Regulator was a central figure in a Saskatchewan government land-deal scandal that cost taxpayers millions of dollars, was the subject of a scathing audit, and prompted an RCMP investigatio

Some Ontario dairy farmers have been told to dump their excess milk as COVID-19 closures have caused the demand for dairy products to drop drastically.

Over the weekend, the United Conservative Party decided to slash $128-million in funding for educational assistants, substitute teachers, busing and other services to redirect money temporarily to fighting COVID-19.

Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean's husband said they left their home in Washington, DC, for the lakehouse hoping to give their three kids more space to run around during the pandemic.

'This is our hedge that we get at least one major project built. That will ensure the flexibility for the future': Alberta Premier Jason Kenney

I stayed alone with my axe and my thoughts. But I never felt alone. All around me, the forest slowly stirred to life

The US death toll from coronavirus skyrocketed by 1,497 in one day, taking the death toll to 8,503 and counting as the NY Gov Cuomo warns that the pandemic is 'like a fire spreading'.

Growers have gone bust, and the black market is still thriving

The Mexican government notified Canada and the U.S. late Friday that it is ready to implement the revised North American trade agreement, leaving it up to the Americans now to decide when the deal should take effect.

Many people worldwide spend time indoors in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and animals are making appearances in places where people usually spend time.

A restaurant owner's offer of a free steak dinner made a good impression this week on an Alberta truck driver.

A B.C. pulp mill that makes a special recipe of pulp for surgical masks, gowns and other medical supplies has doubled up on its production.

An inmate at the maximum security Edmonton Institution has lost phone privileges for 45 days after speaking to CBC news about pandemic-related conditions inside the prison.

Ministers fear that the coronavirus pandemic might have been caused by a leak from a Chinese laboratory, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

The German vessel was heading to a Venezuelan island for repairs when it was shot at and rammed by the Navy patrol boat. The cruise firm says its ship suffered minor damage but the smaller boat sank.