NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2022

Residents were trapped on rooftops as floodwaters rose much quicker than expected.

Former treasury spokeswoman tells CPAC ex-first lady is popular and ‘immune to criticism’ – though Obama has ruled out politics

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce has ordered a review of how the Waterloo Catholic District School Board handled a situation in November that led to police being called to assist with a four-year-old student at a Kitchener school.

The U.S. Department of the Interior is moving to replace the use of an Indigenous slur in more than 660 place names, but the word remains in use for 20 locations in Canada.

A Justice of the Peace denied Freedom Convoy leader Pat King bail, calling his alleged offences 'an attack on the rule of law.'

Supporters of Pierre Poilievre's bid for the Conservative Party leadership are calling on the party's caucus and its Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) to hold the race quickly.

The one-time Canadian poster child for an American wellness and weight loss multi-level marketing business is now suing the company, claiming its unsafe products caused her to overdose on vitamins and minerals.

Almost one year after the New Brunswick government raised alarm about “a distinct atypical neurological syndrome” causing symptoms ranging from muscle spasms to visual hallucinations, the province now says there is no mystery neurological illness.

Greg Abbott's letter to state agencies came after his attorney general released a legal opinion that labeled certain gender-confirming treatments as "child abuse."

More than 48,000 Hydro-Québec customers were without power as of Wednesday morning due to a coat of freezing rain across the province, and as the day went on, more than 100 Montrealers were injured.

Just weeks after a pair of students performed a Nazi salute in front of classmates at a Toronto school, parents at yet another school are being told of a similar incident — this time in front of a Jewish teacher, according to a Jewish advocacy organizat

Beehive thefts have become so prevalent during the almond-growing season in the U.S. that beekeepers are now turning to GPS tracking devices, surveillance cameras and other anti-theft technology to protect their precious pollinators.

When the Ambassador Bridge — a key trade corridor between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, Mich., — was gridlocked by protests earlier this month, it exposed a weak link in Canada's supply chain. Experts of all stripes agree it's risky for Canada to rely s

High winds on Friday knocked over the stack at Brooklyn Power in Brooklyn, N.S., causing extensive damage to it and a warehouse. The site generates energy using a 30-megawatt steam turbine powered by biomass.

As public hearings for the mass shooting inquiry get underway in Nova Scotia, provincial and federal politicians are blasting the commission for not being transparent with the families of victims who died.

Police in Vancouver are investigating dozens of assaults reported in a single weekend in the city.

One of Canada's biggest food manufacturers has halted shipments to the country's largest grocer. At issue is a dispute over pricing between Frito-Lay Canada and Loblaw Companies Ltd. as the maker of brands like Cheetos and Doritos tries to recoup higher c

New figures out last week show that rather than a few individual products, inflation has become general, leaving Canadian wage-earners at a disadvantage. Some fear the rise in "core" is a step back for inclusive economic growth.

Northern Europe was battered by the third major storm in five days, with heavy rains and high winds on Sunday and Monday killing at least two more people, disrupting travel and prompting hundreds of flood alerts across a region still recovering from last

A fighter jet crashed into a stadium in a city in northwest Iran, the country's state-run news agency reported Monday. The crash killed two pilots and a civilian.

A fighter jet crashed into a stadium in a city in northwest Iran, the country's state-run news agency reported Monday. The crash killed two pilots and a civilian.

Randy Hillier tweeted this weekend that people should flood Ottawa police phone lines and express their discontent with how the force was clearing protesters from the downtown. That led many to call for his arrest, but the Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston MPP sa

A modelling agent who was close to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found dead Saturday in his French jail cell, where he was being held in an investigation into the rape and sex trafficking of minors, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.

Interest is forbidden in Islam, locking some religious Canadians out of mortgages and banks. A new Albertan financing group is helping Muslims buy homes while adhering to their faith.

The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright was sentenced Friday to 24 months in prison for manslaughter.

It is three years since Canadian Kimberly Polman was arrested by Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria and sent to a detention camp for her alleged association with ISIS. She went there -- stupidly, she admits -- and is now paying for it with a loss of h

A ship carrying around 4,000 vehicles, including Porsches, Audis and Bentleys, that caught fire near the coast of the Azores will be towed to another European country or the Bahamas, the captain of the nearest port told Reuters on Friday.

Millions of people in the U.K. were urged to cancel travel plans and stay indoors Friday as the second major storm this week prompted warnings of high winds and flying debris across northern Europe.

In the hinterland of Argentina, Mario Pizarro’s office looks like a shrine to China. There’s the framed photo of a Chinese peasant with Pizarro’s face superimposed beneath the conical farmer hat. There’s the blue-robed smiling Buddha statue. And t

The Irvings are getting out of the newspaper business in New Brunswick, with the announcement of a deal to sell their daily and weekly papers to Postmedia.

The San Francisco district attorney's stunning claim that California crime labs are using DNA from sexual assault survivors to investigate unrelated crimes shocked prosecutors across the U.S., and advocates said the practice could affect victims' willingn

Members of London's Black community are reacting to seeing the Confederate flag fly from a rural property in south London, saying the symbol is not an innocuous expression of independence or rural pride.

Brodie, a German shepherd-border collie mix whose unique face has earned him social media fame, will soon have a new playmate at his home in Red Deer, Alta. — a rescue dog from Houston, Texas, with similar facial deformities.

In Alberta, surging oil prices is generating billions of dollars in revenue for government coffers. In advance of next week’s provincial budget, there are calls to save some of the oil money — something four First Nations in Alberta already do, genera

A new report has found an increasing number of seniors in B.C.'s long-term care homes are being given antipsychotic medications.

The last known freshwater Irrawaddy dolphin on a stretch of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia has died, apparently after getting tangled in a fishing net, wildlife officials said Wednesday.

First Nations leaders and politicians called Tuesday a "sombre" day, following the announcement that what are believed to be 54 unmarked graves were found at two former residential school sites in Saskatchewan. But the discovery is essential to revealing

Dozens of people were killed after torrential rainfall caused flash flooding in the hillside city.

A disabled immigrant who has lived and worked in Edmonton since 2018 is facing removal from Canada after officials discovered a college admission letter that helped her get a study permit turned out to be fake.

A Catholic priest has resigned after a church investigation found he performed invalid baptisms throughout most of his more than 20-year career, according to Bishop Thomas Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lost her libel lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday when a jury rejected her claim that the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting.

The mayor who suggested that allowing ice fishing shanties on a lake could lead to prostitution resigned Monday after days of being mocked and drawing national attention to the city.

Helene Thiesen was part of a project aimed at stripping children of their cultural identities to mould them into “little Danes." The failed social experiment is a dark bit of Danish history that echoes in Canada as this country continues the grim task o

Marineland made its first appearance in court Monday to face an animal cruelty charge laid by Niagara Regional Police.

The Duke of York settles the claim brought against him by Virginia Giuffre, court documents show.

The original DeLorean has gone away, but the world's largest DeLorean repair shop and parts supplier owns the rights to the original, and it's launching an EV.

A U.S. judge on Monday threw out Sarah Palin's lawsuit accusing the New York Times of defaming the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican U.S.-vice-presidential candidate by incorrectly linking her in an editorial to a mass murder.

Police have released images of a suspect vehicle believed to be involved in the theft of a truck hauling more than 2,000 firearms in Peterborough, Ont. over the weekend.

Crypto-currency researchers say more than $400m of cyber-crime funds go to Russian gangs.

In Richmond, Virginia, a museum simply known as The Valentine tells the story of the city’s 400-year past. Set in a beautiful neoclassical building that dates to 1812, it was founded on the fortune one man made from his meat juice—which is exactly wha

Customers hit by power cuts in Storm Arwen erroneously received cheques for trillions of pounds.

Many of the rejected ballots fail a new requirement to provide an identification number inside the return envelope

Greek farmers, taking a page from the Canadian truckers' protest handbook, say they are determined to shut down the country's major highways to protest energy costs. Fuel taxes in the country are among the highest in the EU.

The federal government has bowed to provincial and industry lobbying in weakening proposed standards for coal mining effluent, critics say.

Mystic Aquarium said in a statement shared on social media Friday that the female beluga had been in its intensive care unit and staff and veterinarians had been providing "round-the-clock medical treatment" before she died.

An enraged mob stoned to death a middle-aged man for allegedly desecrating the Quran in a remote village in eastern Pakistan, police said Sunday.

A recent study into waste management in Quebec has highlighted that the practice of open-air burning of waste in the north should be a cause for concern for the people and the land.

A former U.S. Air Force staff sergeant and alleged member of the "boogaloo" extremist movement pleaded guilty Friday in the fatal shooting of a federal security officer in the San Francisco Bay Area amid large 2020 protests against police brutality.

In the 5 years and 10 months since B.C. declared a public health emergency because of drug-related deaths, the problem has only gotten worse. Advocates argue part of the problem is that many people with the power to make a difference are relying on outdat

For more than a month, 18-year-old Ayesha Hajira Almas and a group of seven other Muslim girls in India have not been allowed to attend class unless they take off the hijab

The teenage boy who had racist slurs hurled at him during a hockey tournament in Charlottetown last fall said Friday he was satisfied with the ruling from a Hockey P.E.I. disciplinary committee, but says overall, “there’s no winning in this.”

Three men have been charged with more than 30 criminal offences after police seized what they estimated to be $30 million in illegal drugs, as well as guns and cash, in Victoria and Metro Vancouver a little more than a year ago.

The Patels seemed to have a stable life in India. Why did they die in a field on the US-Canada border?

Bear Henry ran out of baked beans and peanut butter around Christmas and survived drinking from a stream and melted snow.

Alberta's policing watchdog is investigating after a 39-year-old man was shot by an RCMP officer Thursday morning outside a central Alberta courthouse.

French President Emmanuel Macron refused a Kremlin request that he take a Russian COVID-19 test when he arrived to see President Vladimir Putin this week, and was therefore kept at a distance from the Russian leader, two sources in Macron's entourage told

Darcy Dobson, the daughter of Heather O'Brien, has been waiting nearly two years to share her mother’s story at the public inquiry for which she lobbied. But she doesn't know if the commission overseeing it will let her testify.

Two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee say the CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans

Tens of thousands of tonnes of unwanted clothing from Europe and the US are being dumped in the Atacama Desert every year.

A man facing terror-related murder charges in the deaths of four members of a Muslim family in London, Ont., will head straight to trial.

Despite the pandemic, Canada remains the fastest-growing country in the G7, thanks in large part to immigration, according to 2021 census data released Wednesday.

Bob Saget, who was found dead in his Orlando, Florida hotel room last month, died from the result of a head trauma, according to a statement from his family.

Iraq has completed payment of $52.4 billion to compensate individuals, companies and governments who proved damages due to its 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait, the United Nations reparations body said on Wednesday.

The United States has approved the possible sale to Taiwan of military equipment and services, including engineering services to support the Patriot missile defense system, for an estimated cost of $100 million, according to a statement released Monday by

Two people with leukemia achieved remission over a decade after being infused with CAR-T cells, immune cells that had been modified in a lab, according to a new study. The findings suggest that this approach could be a long-term therapy for leukemia -- an

Researchers in the Netherlands have discovered a 'highly virulent variant' of HIV that causes a more rapid decline in immune system strength and can result in more damaging health outcomes if not treated early.

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday opposed a bid by families of people killed in two Boeing Co 737 MAX crashes asking a judge to declare that the government violated their legal rights when it reached a $2.5 billion settlement with the plane maker las

Edmonton police are looking for help to arrest a man they say yelled a racial slur before punching and kicking a Black man until he was unconscious.

Amid catastrophic conditions, fires have destroyed homes and scorched 60,000 hectares of land.

Intelligence sources reveal US CIA secretly financed Chilean labor union strikes for more than 18 mos before ‘73 overthrow of Chilean Pres Salvador Allende Gossens; CIA Dir William E Colby has no comment; US Sec of State Kissinger, testifying at Sen For

The United States has agreed to resume imports of P.E.I. table stock potatoes to Puerto Rico as of Wednesday.

As conservative parents compile lists of "radical and racist" texts, critics warn of censorship.

The barge broke loose from its mooring amid intense winds on Nov. 15, part of the same storm that devastated B.C. highways, and has been lodged at Sunset Beach ever since.

As the United Kingdom marked the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's reign on Sunday, Canada's prime minister acknowledged the historic milestone by praising her as a "steadfast leader" and champion of "cherished values."

Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.

EU urged to change rules that led to Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines running ghost flights

A change to iOS has made it harder to sell ads on Facebook and Instagram | The Economist explains

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is probing the behavior and actions of prominent short sellers and seeing if the behavior was predatory or if insider trading was involved. The investigation was likely catalyzed by the public battle between retail inv

Bloomberg family was not at ranch when Joseph Beecher allegedly rammed pickup through gates and held female employee at gunpoint

More than 25,000 Nova Scotia Power customers remain without power Sunday after an ice storm on Friday led to widespread power outages.

A Headingley, Man., man is in police custody after four people were injured in a hit-and-run outside the Legislature in Winnipeg.

Dutch-owned trawler FV Margiris, the world's second-biggest fishing vessel, shed more than 100,000 dead fish into the Atlantic Ocean off France, forming a floating carpet of carcasses that was spotted by environmental campaigners.

The potatoes must be destroyed this winter.

More than 53,000 utility customers were still in the dark Saturday morning amid an icy storm that brought prolonged periods of freezing rain, ice pellets, rain and snowfall to Nova Scotia.

Canada's economy lost 200,000 jobs last month, according to Statistics Canada, as COVID-19 shutdowns related to the Omicron variant saw many businesses close up shop.

Four top aides to Boris Johnson resigned Thursday, marking the latest setback for the British prime minister whose government has been embroiled in scandal in recent days.

The wreck of the vessel Captain James Cook used to sail to Australia has been located in Newport Harbor, Australian archaeologists say. But their US research partners are neither convinced, nor amused.

Meta Platforms Inc.’s one-day crash may rank as the worst in stock-market history. The Facebook parent plunged 24% in U.S. trading Thursday on the back of poor earnings results, putting it on track to erase more than $200 billion.

Rotterdam says the world's richest man will foot the bill to remove part of the historic bridge.

U.S. special forces have killed the leader of the jihadist group ISIS in a raid in northwest Syria, President Joe Biden said on Thursday.

Ashley Wadsworth was pronounced dead at the scene after officers were called to a house in Essex.

The Conservative Party of Canada has named Candice Bergen as interim leader following a private vote late Wednesday evening.

CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker, the influential news executive who reshaped the iconic network, announced Wednesday morning that he has resigned from his position effective immediately.

The Conservative caucus has voted to remove Erin O'Toole as the party’s leader. The majority of caucus voted Wednesday to replace O'Toole as the leader of the party, in a secret ballot.

The Defence Department says equipment on the tail sections of the aircraft was too heavy to be supported in flight, thereby causing the cracking.

The Baltic states may be on high alert for a possible Russian attack on Ukraine, but Lithuania has another battle on its hands. The tiny country picked a political fight with China over the naming of its new, de facto Taiwanese embassy. The move has becom

Clever corvids become newest weapon in Södertälje’s war against street litter

New Brunswick softwood lumber producers may be getting some relief later this year with lower duties from the United States government.

Scott Potmesil, a fourth-generation farmer who raises cattle in Sandhills, Nebraska, recently bought a John Deere tractor that is over 25 years old. He said he purposely went looking for the older device in 2020 because he believed it would be easier to r

ABC News suspended "The View" host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks on Tuesday night, one day after she drew significant criticism for falsely declaring that the Holocaust was "not about race."

Israeli spyware firm denies doing business with Mobileum and co-founder ‘has no recollection of using the phrase’

A huge landslide triggered by the rain has killed at least 16 people in the capital, officials say.

For the fourth straight year, the top-selling electric vehicle in the world was the Tesla Model 3, with over 500,000 units sold.

Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is set to re-table the federal government's legislation amending Canada's broadcasting laws to impose regulations on social media companies and streaming giants, similar to those that traditional television and radio broa

Canada's economy grew by 0.6 per cent in November 2021, making it the sixth consecutive month of economic expansion prior to the spread of Omicron, according to GDP numbers released by Statistics Canada Tuesday.

Greg Mitchell of Ottawa was in London, Ont., visiting his grandparents when his grandmother, who has dementia, ended up in hospital last week on Jan. 23. He says that when he picked her up, she was wearing only her blue hospital gown in freezing weather.