NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2021

Governors and legislatures in Republican-controlled states across the U.S. are moving to define what race-related ideas can be taught in public schools and colleges, a reaction to the country's racial reckoning after last year's police killing of George F

A beloved llama that went missing from a gun range on Vancouver Island two weeks ago has been found dead.

The federal government slapped tariffs on certain types of furniture made in Vietnam and China earlier this month, and the impact on consumers and retailers has been dramatic, with some items now costing almost four times what they did before.

On Sunday, right-wing nationalist party leader Naftali Bennett announced a deal with centrist Yair Lapid to form a new 'unity government' to end the political upheaval in Israel. If successful, it would mark the end of Benjamin Netanyahu's current 12-year

In early May, authorities discovered 180 Central American migrants in three separate stash houses in Laredo, a border city in southwest Texas

Hong Kong media tycoon and outspoken pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was sentenced to more jail time Friday over his role in an anti-government protest in 2019, as authorities crack down on dissent in the city.

Over 85 political candidates have been murdered as Mexico gears up to one of its biggest elections ever. Conditions are particularly dangerous for those running for mayor.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate have blocked the creation of a bipartisan panel to study the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

It will take months or years for Great Whale River to recover from a massive landslide on April 22.

Amid the struggles of American ranchers, some people are trying to bring back controversial rules on country-of-origin labelling on beef. Canadian producers and trade experts who closely follow the issue are taking notice.

The remains of 215 children have been found buried on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.

Kremlin-backed group uses hacked account to impersonate US aid agency.

Switzerland's decision to halt efforts on reaching an over-arching treaty could harm ties with the EU.

Three of Canada's biggest banks saw their profits either more than double or more than quadruple last quarter, a sign that the worst of the economic toll of the pandemic may be in the rear-view mirror as the country's biggest lenders are back to raking in

The new mandate comes at a time when the sector is facing increasing pressure to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and transition to lower-emitting sources of energy.

Science Minister François-Philippe Champagne says Canada plans to land a rover on the moon in the next five years.

A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered Royal Dutch Shell to cut its carbon emissions by net 45 per cent by 2030 compared to 2019 levels in a landmark case brought by climate activism groups, which hailed the decision as a victory for the planet.

The United States is ramping up its dispute with Canada over the sale of American dairy products north of the border — the first significant new trade squabble between the two countries of the post-NAFTA era.

Officer cadet Ladislas Kenderesi urged soldiers not to distribute vaccine at anti-lockdown rally in December

Bezos’s Blue Origin lost its bid for a major NASA contract to Elon Musk, but the Senate is ordering the agency to give a second one now.

The CEO of the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority says legislation temporarily allowing international cruise ships to bypass B.C. ports feels like a dangerous precedent.

Climbing COVID-19 hospitalization rates has forced an overwhelmed Manitoba health-care system to look for federal help, as ICU admissions jump from 50 in April to 170 already in May, according to the province.

Canada's deputy minister of National Defence says the military's operation to end sexual misconduct in its ranks "lost its way" because the government failed to properly implement recommendations from a landmark report into the issue six years ago.

Human rights judgment follows legal challenge begun in 2013 after Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing revelations

India's eastern coast is on alert ahead of a severe cyclone brewing in the Bay of Bengal, days after a powerful storm battered the country's western coast and killed at least 140 people.

Two Canadian lawsuits are pitting young plaintiffs against the federal and Ontario governments over climate targets. A similar case recently succeeded in Germany and that country had to raise its emissions goals as a result. Could the same thing happen he

The federal government is preparing to issue a formal apology to Italian-Canadians for their mistreatment during the Second World War. But some historians say Ottawa should be careful not to rewrite history with this gesture.

Western leaders are decrying the diversion of a plane to Belarus that ended with the arrest of an opposition journalist as an act of piracy and terrorism, as the European Union and others on Monday demanded an investigation into the dramatic forced landin

Russell Ball was taking one of his usual walks along Vancouver Island's Puntledge River on a cool, grey day in January when he noticed something out of the ordinary.

Torrents of lava poured into villages after dark in eastern Congo with little warning, leaving at least 15 people dead amid the chaos and destroying more than 500 homes, officials and survivors said Sunday.

A cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of some of northern Italy's most picturesque lakes plummeted to the ground Sunday and then tumbled down the slope, killing 14 people. The lone survivor, a young child, was hospitalized in serious condition

A freelance camera operator who works for CBC News in New York City says he's happy to be alive and fortunate he was able to help someone after intervening in a stabbing that took place on a subway platform on Wednesday night.

Officials seized 68 tigers, lions, hybrids and a jaguar, citing violations of animal welfare laws.

A Canadian army gunner is facing more than a dozen charges after she allegedly served cannabis-laced cupcakes to her unsuspecting artillery unit during a live-fire exercise.

Cat owners are seeking ways to indulge their pets’ primal instincts with exposure to the outdoors, while ensuring they don't pose a danger to themselves or other wildlife.

WestJet front desk agents and baggage staff at the two largest airports in Western Canada are now unionized following approval from the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

An Austrian hospital amputated the wrong leg of a patient, it said on Thursday, blaming human error for what it called a 'tragic mistake.'

The president of the BC Lumber Trade Council says a move by the United States to double tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber is "particularly egregious" given current record high lumber prices.

Vivian Bercovici, Canada’s former ambassador to Israel, worked for the Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube after her diplomatic tenure ended, Radio-Canada has learned.

Prince Harry said he abused alcohol to numb the pain of his mother's death in 1997, and accused the Royal Family of neglecting him and his wife, Meghan, as she contemplated suicide.

The Tragically Hip are giving their fans something to sing about with a new album of long-lost recordings.

Russia vows to protect its interests from a remote outpost as global warming opens up the Arctic.

Viola Fletcher was 7 years old when she witnessed one of worst acts of racial violence the US has ever seen.

For years, ultra-wealthy Canadians have been setting up offshore shell companies in the Isle of Man so they can dodge taxes back home. Now, MPs on the House of Commons finance committee appear ready to try to dismantle the shield of secrecy surrounding th

A federal jury has awarded $75 million to two brothers in North Carolina, decades after they were convicted of rape and murder they did not commit.

Hundreds were forced to evacuate from the SEG Plaza tower after it started to mysteriously shake, video shows.

Shortly before she died at a Quebec hospital last September, Joyce Echaquan recorded staff members mocking and insulting her. One of the employees in the video testified Wednesday at a coroner's inquest into the Atikamekw woman's death that she meant no h

A B.C.-based company has been fined $60,000 for illegally importing thousands of dried fins from a threatened species of shark from Hong Kong into Canada.

France's top court has rejected Hassan Diab's appeal and ordered the Ottawa academic to stand trial for a bombing outside of a Jewish synagogue 40 years ago.

RCMP are investigating after recent vandalism against nesting swallows in Salmon Arm, B.C., turned deadly.

A top medical organization has thrown its weight behind calls to cancel the Tokyo Olympics saying hospitals are already overwhelmed as the country battles a spike in coronavirus infections less than three months from the start of the Games.

An Ontario woman who choked on a screw found in a Tim Hortons' iced coffee says the company's response to the incident has been a 'huge slap in the face.'

In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows com

Harold Fisher is wondering if he’ll have a home to go back to. Fisher had to evacuate his farm late Monday evening because of a large fire raging north of Prince Albert, Sask., about 135 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon. "When I left last night, the

TD Canada Trust customers are accusing the bank of losing tens of thousands of dollars in retirement savings plan contributions they entrusted to the financial institution.

Greenpeace says it found plastic waste from UK supermarkets dumped and burned at numerous sites.

The winner of a US$26 million California Lottery prize may have literally washed the chance of a fortune down the drain.

The controversial statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Charlottetown will remain, but with some modifications.

Permanent residents and advocates want Ottawa to move faster on pending applications as the COVID-19 pandemic boosts the number of people waiting to take a citizenship test, documents show. Ottawa says more digital tests are coming "very soon."

Cyclone Tauktae is likely to be the strongest storm to hit the western state of Gujarat since 1998.

Australia, one of the world-leaders in household rooftop solar panel uptake, has once again broken its own record for the number of solar panels installed in a year. In 2020, installations were up nearly 30 percent from the year before,

Back-to-back tornadoes killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured, authorities said Saturday.

The new beer taps at The Small Axe Roadhouse bar in Enderby, B.C., includes two mannequin torsos, with a draught beer tap installed on each breast.

Mounties in Surrey say they have dismantled a drug lab that was capable of producing enough fentanyl on a weekly basis to kill everyone in British Columbia twice, with enough fatal doses leftover to kill half the population a third time.

Greyhound Canada is permanently cutting all bus routes across the country, shutting down the intercity bus carrier's operations in Canada after nearly a century of service.

A lawsuit launched by the CBC against the Conservative Party of Canada in the final days of the 2019 federal election that had accused the party of copyright infringement for using the broadcaster's footage in an online ad and tweets has been dismissed by

Former finance minister Bill Morneau breached the Conflict of Interest Act by failing to recuse himself from cabinet deliberations on the WE Charity summer student grants contract, but the prime minister did not breach the act, according to an investigati

Chinese corporations are defaulting on local bonds at the fastest pace on record, as authorities ramp up efforts to introduce more financial discipline and transparency in the world’s second-largest debt market.

There's a disruption in internet, long-distance calling and television services in the Yukon and the Northern British Columbia area, according to a Northwestel spokesperson. All three territories are facing long-distance landline call disruptions.

The CBC has learned Manitoba's premier got a tax break from the Costa Rican government on money he owed — a tax settlement Brian Pallister denies knowing anything about.

A Quebec man who served with the Canadian Armed Forces reserves and cadets for three decades has been expelled from one of the military's highest honours after it was discovered he was wearing medals he was never awarded.

Some Canadian Armed Forces veterans and first responders who are sexual assault survivors said they were outraged to learn their peer mentor at a women’s trauma retreat was himself a registered sex offender.

Porcupine Plain RCMP say one or more beavers are to blame for a rural lumber theft.

A newly opened distillery business in Sooke has been destroyed in an early morning fire.

Myanmar poet Khet Thi, whose works declare resistance to the ruling junta, died in detention and his body was returned with the organs removed, his family said on Sunday.

A gunman attacked a school Tuesday morning in the Russian city of Kazan, sending students running out of the building as smoke poured from its windows. At least eight people were killed in the attack — seven eighth-grade students and a teacher — and 2

A brazen, brief abduction on Mother's Day of an infant boy and his subsequent rescue by neighbours began after the child's mother was offered a free gift basket from someone she met on Facebook.

Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit, who provided trainer Bob Baffert with a record seventh win in the race, has failed a drugs test.

A 28-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday at Vancouver International Airport in what police believe was a gang-related killing.

The State Department announced it has reached a $13 million settlement with U.S. defense contractor Honeywell International over allegations it exported technical data concerning fighter jets and other military vehicles to foreign countries, including Chi

One of B.C’s most notorious child-killers, Shane Ertmoed, has been granted escorted leaves from his minimum security prison.

Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline has shut its entire network, which supplies fuel from U.S refiners on the Gulf Coast to the eastern and southern United States, after a cyberattack that industry sources said was caused by ransomware.

The first shipment of a spirit drink made from apples grown near the Chernobyl nuclear plant have been seized by Ukrainian security services for unknown reasons, according to the company that produces it.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff repeatedly told the National Defence committee today that while she knew of a complaint against Canada’s former top soldier in 2018, she had no idea the complaint was sexual in nature.

Multiple blasts targeted a school in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens more, mostly students, a senior Interior Ministry official said.

The BC Coroners Service says a 12-year-old girl died last month of a suspected fentanyl overdose.

China says the upper stage of its Long March 5B rocket that launched the core module of its space station will mostly burn up on re-entry, posing little threat to people and property on the ground.

A sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her Idaho middle school, shot and wounded two students and a custodian and then was disarmed by a teacher Thursday, authorities said.

An affidavit filed in a defamation case accuses People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier of expressing a racist slur regarding Jagmeet Singh's chances of winning a seat in 2018. Bernier says he's not a racist and the affidavit is part of a 'dirty tr

Haidilao, which has four Canadian outlets, strongly refuted the article by a Canadian journalist alleging video from the cameras was being sent back to China

A wildfire alert has been issued for Parkland County as crews battle a blaze just west of a hamlet west of Edmonton.t

The federal Liberal government is putting Canada's oil and gas industry ahead of the Great Lakes by opposing Michigan's efforts to shut down the Line 5 pipeline, says a prominent group of Ontario First Nations.

ISP-funded astroturfing used millions of real names and faked consent records.

A tax expert who was prevented from speaking to a Commons committee about tax avoidance five years ago says it's time for MPs to demand the identities of Canadians behind offshore shell companies.

The Tiananmen vigil commemorated the deaths of up to thousands of pro-democracy protesters in China.

Tree poaching is up in an area on Vancouver Island and some are calling for higher fines and more enforcement.

A Canadian warship has seized an estimated $23 million in heroin and methamphetamine off the coast of Oman, a record-setting haul for the multinational Combined Maritime Forces coalition that was founded in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

The death toll from the collapse of an overpass on the Mexico City metro rose to 24 Tuesday as crews untangled train carriages from the steel and concrete wreckage that fell onto a roadway.

The Toronto Zoo says one of its endangered tigers has given birth to three cubs.

Disappointed with a lack of choice, a Toronto entrepreneur created a new company selling adhesive bandages which better match the skin tone of Black and brown-skinned Canadians.

A packed boat being used in a suspected human smuggling operation capsized Sunday and broke apart in powerful surf along the rocky San Diego coast, killing three people and injuring more than two dozen others, authorities said.