Union officials say a violent assault on a health-care worker at an Edmonton psychiatric hospital highlights the need for improved supports and safeguards for front-line workers exposed to violence on the job.
xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday that lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has suspended the Safe Food for Canadians licence of Goodfood a Montreal-based meal kit and grocery delivery service.
As power restoration continues in Pimicikamak Cree Nation, community leaders in the northern Manitoba First Nation say residents are now battling burst pipes, flooding and damage after a days-long power outage in extreme cold temperatures.
Tesla lost its crown as the world's bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday, as a customer revolt over Elon Musk's right-wing politics and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
The new year will bring some big changes to the rules on in-office work for many employees across the country, including tens of thousands of provincial government staff in Ontario and Alberta, who will soon be required back in the office full time.
Blayre Turnbull, the captain of the Toronto Sceptres is looking to compete in her third Olympics in February. She owns an Olympic gold medal from 2022 and three world championships. Yet for all her success, the 32-year-old always feels like she has something to prove.
Nak'azdli Development Corp. in Fort St. James, B.C., has worked with UNBC researchers to develop a prefabricated mass timber panel housing system that works within the local lumber supply chain to build prefabricated houses in northern B.C. communities.
As of Dec 28, communities including Grande Prairie, Banff and Fort McMurray had seen one of their wettest Decembers on record.
The teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made her first known visit to a sacred family mausoleum, a step that experts say bolstered her status as her father's potential heir.
The teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made her first known visit to a sacred family mausoleum, a step that experts say bolstered her status as her father's potential heir.
U.S. President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged duelling threats on Friday as widening economic protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries.
The Hudson's Bay Company faded away in June when the last of its stores ceased operations, but its presence in Winnipeg might never be fully erased.
When Zahra Khozema first started going to the gym in university, it made her feel powerful and beautiful. The guilt and stress came later.
Roughly 100 people from around the world, including some Quebecers, travelled to Lake Whales, Fla., in November to break the world record for largest parachute formation.
Several people were killed during unrest in Iran, Iranian media and rights groups said on Thursday, as the biggest protests to hit the Islamic Republic for three years over worsening economic conditions sparked violence in several provinces.
Power is being restored to Pimicikamak Cree Nation nearly four days after a widespread power outage left community members without heat in freezing winter temperatures and promoted a state of emergency.
City officials give a technical briefing about a major water main break that caused flooding and prompted a boil-water advisory for parts of Calgary.
Canadian ski jumper Abi Strate started the new year with a bang by soaring to her first career World Cup victory on Thursday.
It’s a new year, and for some in Europe, that means it’s time for a chilly plunge to get 2026 started.
City of Calgary officials are set to give a technical briefing about a major water main break that caused flooding and prompted a boil water advisory for parts of Calgary. Watch it LIVE here at 2 p.m.
A day after officials first asked Calgarians to reduce their water use in the wake of Tuesday’s catastrophic water main break, the city says it is not seeing any real reduction in usage.
Longtime NHL defenceman Petr Svoboda recently auctioned off his Stanley Cup ring from the Montreal Canadiens’ 1986 championship to raise funds for a cause that hits close to home.
Most people who take prescription opioids as an alternative to illicit drugs must now take them under the supervision of a pharmacist. Some worry the move will push people back to toxic street drugs, while others say the changes were long overdue.
Zohran Mamdani was sworn in a mayor of New York City just after midnight Thursday, taking the oath of office at a historic, decommissioned subway station in Manhattan.
Zohran Mamdani was sworn in a mayor of New York City just after midnight Thursday, taking the oath of office at a historic, decommissioned subway station in Manhattan.
Swiss police said on Thursday that several people had died and others were injured due to a fire of unknown causes at a bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana in southwestern Switzerland.
Cole DeLargie-Campbell is a 38-year-old living in Hamilton. They were diagnosed with a rare, grade three meningioma and given six to 12 months to live.
The voluntary grocery code of conduct for grocers, suppliers, wholesalers and primary producers in Canada is set to fully roll out on Thursday.
How to balance tradition with modernization? The team at Les Rabat-Joies in Saguenay, Que., got the opportunity to spruce up the wardrobe for Canada’s nine justices of the Supreme Court.
The voluntary grocery code of conduct for grocers, suppliers, wholesalers and primary producers in Canada is set to fully roll out on Thursday.
The coming year will see some changes to existing tax measures, the abandonment of others and some help for personal support workers. But overall changes to the taxes individuals pay will be minor in 2026.
The Trump administration’s recent recall of 30 career diplomats from around the world as part of its "America First" priority push is unprecedented, according to experts who say it may serve to politicize the American Foreign Service while populating it with those who lack the skills to deal with challenging diplomatic issues.
This year brought us our third-known interstellar visitor, beautiful displays of the northern lights and the opening of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory that will change our views on the universe in ways we have yet to understand. But now, we look ahead to just some of the cool things skywatchers might want to keep an eye on in 2026.
Sunset bathed the north of Gaza City in golden light Tuesday evening as Izzat Al-Qawasmeh and his 11-year-old son Mohamed climbed through rubble to the top of a building that once housed hundreds of people. The duo had decided to visit the tent city with gifts, dressed in Santa Claus costumes.
Cole Beaudoin and Brady Martin each scored twice as Canada topped Finland 7-4 at the world junior hockey championship on Wednesday.
Avalanche Canada says three snowmobilers were riding about 35 kilometres southwest of Tumbler Ridge when the avalanche was remotely triggered from the base of the slope.
The U.S. military said Wednesday it struck five alleged drug-smuggling boats over two days, killing a total of eight people while others jumped overboard and may have survived.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he's dropping for now his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., a move that comes after legal roadblocks hung up the effort.
TikTok is inundated with tips on New Year’s traditions that aim to help people have a prosperous 2026, whether in love, luck, life or all of the above. Many of these longtime rituals, like eating grapes under a table or tossing lentils, have been given new life on social media.
Nearly 90 employees of Craig’s Cookies have voted to unionize across five shops in Toronto as the Canadian cookie chain expands nationally.
Retired Tennessee teacher Glenda Akin has lived and worked through a whole lot of history. And now she’s made history herself as the Guinness-certified longest serving teacher at the same school .
Smallwood died Tuesday of complications due to kidney failure, according to his representative. Singer and songwriter Chaka Khan said Smallwood's music "didn't just inspire me, it transformed me."
A year-end poll from Nanos suggests Canadians will want to see action from the Liberal government on major economic files in the new year.
The chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation is criticizing Manitoba Hydro after a days-long power outage forced some residents to leave the community, with temperatures dropping below –30 C Tuesday night.
Zach Sutton drives the bak2bak, his name for what he created. The front half is an old 1993 Dodge Caravan, the back a 1991 Plymouth Voyager.
Paris city hall is offering a rare chance to be buried among some of history's most celebrated artists. Dec. 31 was the deadline to register for a draw to purchase a burial spot in one of the city's iconic cemeteries.
Canadians are among the injured after two trains collided head-on in Peru on Tuesday, Global Affairs Canada confirmed.
Seven Canadians are among those injured after two trains collided head-on in Peru on Tuesday, Global Affairs Canada confirmed to CBC.
Tickets for the finale which runs in select theatres on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day were released early in December and sold out quickly. That’s left fans scouring Facebook Marketplace for resale tickets and disappointed that resale has come to the cinema.
As AI infiltrates more and more aspects of daily life, it is increasingly making its way into the courts and legal system, lawyers say.
Here's a look at how countries around the world are ringing in the new year.
Thieves stole tens of millions of euros’ worth of property from safety deposit boxes inside a German bank vault that they drilled into on Monday during the holiday lull, police said.
Turkish authorities on Wednesday pressed ahead with countrywide operations against suspected ISIS members, detaining 125 people in simultaneous raids across 25 provinces.
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon praised the 'extraordinary solidarity' she saw in Canada in 2025 in her New Year’s address, pointing to the displays of support in communities hit hard by wildfire, the 'unprecedented economic co-operation' and the revitalization of Indigenous cultures and languages.
Click on the video above today at 12 p.m. ET as Hockey Canada will reveal the roster of the men’s Olympic hockey team. This is the first time since 2014 that NHL players will be returning to the Olympics since the Sochi Games.
Nineteen-year-old Macklin Celebrini will join Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon on the Canadian men’s Olympic hockey team, as NHLers return to the Winter Games for the first time in more than a decade.
A woman is dead after being struck by two vehicles in midtown Toronto Wednesday morning.
A woman is dead after being struck by two vehicles in midtown Toronto Wednesday morning.
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has announced 80 appointments to the Order of Canada a list that includes Olympians, journalists, Indigenous leaders and doctors.
Duelling citizen-led petitions related to separation, multiple uses of the notwithstanding clause, a slew of recall petitions, progress on a pipeline deal and municipal elections across the province 2025 was rife with political news. And already, the year ahead is looking to be just as consequential.
The U.S. Justice Department revealed it has 5.2 million pages of Epstein files left to review and needs 400 lawyers from four different department offices to help with the process through late January, according to a government document reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.
The family of a man killed on Big Island Lake Cree Nation say they're struggling with shock as they try to understand why someone would have shot him.
Animals in Steinbach needed another place to stay for a month after the area's animal rescue was flooded for a second consecutive year in 2025. At least 200 city residents are also waiting to find out if they'll get help from a provincial disaster relief fund.
The father and uncle of Neil Wahpistikwan, who was murdered on Tuesday morning on Big Island Lake Cree Nation, recounted details of the shooting's aftermath.
The death of a skier this past Saturday afternoon at a Banff ski resort has brought attention to a dangerous side of snow sports. Though her cause of death has not been confirmed, one possibility is that she suffocated.
An orange-crowned warbler was spotted during Hamilton’s annual Christmas bird survey, a “rarity” for birdwatchers, organizers say.
Former mayors remain split on the 2001 merger that turned a dozen municipalities into one megacity.
The city's fire department said it rescued 13 people from seven cars after a large volume of water caused significant flooding under a bridge near 69th Street N.W. in Bowness.
Firefighters rescued 13 people from seven cars stuck in gushing water after a water main broke along 16th Avenue N.W. on Tuesday night, just west of where a similar break occurred in June 2024.
David Travis was sentenced to two years less a day and will spend 593 days in custody, accounting for time already served, after pleading guilty to three counts of arson. On July 24, 2024, Travis lit the first of four fires he started that day in Nelson, B.C., and was later arrested with two lighters still in his possession.
Dec. 30, 2025 | One man has been fatally shot as police search for two armed suspects on Big Island Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. B.C. communities are cut off after a main highway is destroyed by torrential rains. And the Canada Revenue Agency is upping pressure on Canadians to pay back COVID benefits for which they were ruled ineligible.
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Israel is banning more than two dozen humanitarian organizations from Gaza for failing to comply with new registration rules.
Jean-François Malo, from Joliette, Que., was convicted of ordering a 2020 armed assault on a lawyer. Radio-Canada confirmed the news of Tuesday’s arrest following an initial report by Le Journal de Montréal.
A darling of the artificial intelligence startup scene was just acquired by Meta capping off a year of intense competition between U.S. tech giants vying for dominance of the world's most coveted technology.
Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late U.S. president John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 35. The environmental journalist revealed in November that she had acute myeloid leukemia
The federal Leaders' Debates Commission says it has settled with the Green Party after the party vowed to challenge its removal from the spring election debates.
New England Patriots star wide receiver Stefon Diggs is facing strangulation and other criminal charges in
connection with an incident that happened earlier this month, police said.
The Northwestern Health Unit has confirmed a case of measles in the Kenora area of northwestern Ontario, in a year that saw an alarming rise in cases in Canada and the country lost its measles elimination status.
A new search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is underway, more than 10 years after the aircraft's mysterious and baffling disappearance. Here's what to know.
A new search for the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 aircraft is underway, more than 10 years after the Boeing 777's mysterious and baffling disappearance.
The Chinese-born and Toronto-bred actor says Hollywood has backtracked on the diversity improvements it had made in recent years, and is once again treating Asian-led projects as a gamble despite numerous box office hits with Asian leads proving otherwise. That's why he says the new TV show he's starring in feels rare.
The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday that it was pulling out its remaining forces in Yemen after Saudi Arabia backed a call for the U.A.E. forces to leave the country within 24 hours, in a major crisis between the two Gulf powers and oil producers.
