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Aug 17, 2026
FIFA confirmed on Monday that Chief Operating Officer Kevin Lamour has left the governing body, weeks after he publicly criticized President Gianni Infantino's plan to sell a stake in ?its tournament business, including the World Cup.
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Aug 17, 2026
Rachel Reid says when she heard five libraries in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley were set to permanently close their doors, she wanted to help as much as she could.
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Aug 17, 2026
An Alberta chief is calling for more respect from the provincial government after its Indigenous relations minister missed a marquee event marking the 150th anniversary of the signing of Treaty 6.
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Aug 17, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump has again threatened Oman as Iran says it is working with the Gulf Arab country on a plan to manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Fully reopening the waterway has been a key U.S. demand.
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Aug 17, 2026
The NBA is disputing claims made in an ESPN article about the league's investigation of Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer.
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Aug 17, 2026
Nick Reiner, who stands accused of killing his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, has been denied access to the $1.5-million US trust fund he was seeking to use to fund his legal defence. The 32-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder.
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Aug 17, 2026
Nick Reiner, who stands accused of killing his parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, has been denied access to the $1.5-million US trust fund he was seeking to use to fund his legal defence. The 32-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder.
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Aug 17, 2026
Nick Reiner, who stands accused of killing his parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, has been denied access to the $1.5-million US trust fund he was seeking to use to fund his legal defence. The 32-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder.
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Aug 17, 2026
From 2021 to 2025, the N.W.T. Department of Environment and Climate Change (ECC) recorded 60 collisions with bison. So far in 2026 however, there has been only one.
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Aug 17, 2026
Search and rescue officials say they found a plane in the Kawartha Lakes region where a pilot believed to have flown in the area last week remains missing.
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Aug 17, 2026
Arden, 64, who is best known for ballads like Insensitive, Good Mother and Could I Be Your Girl, announced her engagement to Elva on Dec. 31, 2025. The couple initially met at a writer's retreat in Iceland.
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Aug 17, 2026
Meta has lost two trials concerning child safety on its platforms so far this year and settled a third case. The company now faces what could be its most consequential trial yet, in federal court beginning Tuesday.
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Aug 17, 2026
A former street gang leader accused of masterminding the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas faces opening statements on Monday in a murder trial tied to a long-unsolved crime that became a seminal moment in rap history.
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Aug 17, 2026
A former street gang leader accused of masterminding the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas faces opening statements on Monday in a murder trial tied to a long-unsolved crime that became a seminal moment in rap history.
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Aug 17, 2026
A former street gang leader accused of masterminding the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas faces opening statements on Monday in a murder trial tied to a long-unsolved crime that became a seminal moment in rap history.
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Aug 17, 2026
One of Belgium's biggest-ever wildfires blazed out of control Monday even as cooler weather and rain eased conditions for firefighters, while in Greece a fire briefly flared up near the main airport on the outskirts of Athens.
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Aug 17, 2026
The increase comes after a slight dip in overall inflation in June.
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Aug 17, 2026
Cristiano Ronaldo says this Saudi Pro League season is likely to be the last of his professional career.
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Aug 17, 2026
Thousands of people were still waiting for aid on the Indonesian island of Flores on Monday, days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 68 people, injured more than 200 others and damaged hundreds of homes and other buildings.
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Aug 17, 2026
The mayor of Summerland, B.C., says that damage assessments have been completed as more of his community's residents return after being forced to flee due to the out-of-control Bald Range wildfire.
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Aug 17, 2026
Hayden Panettiere had a prolific career dating to 1996, and her credits included the voice of Dot in A Bug's Life, Remember the Titans and Scream VI. Her role as a cheerleader with superpowers in Heroes propelled her to fame, with the series revolving around the mantra "Save the cheerleader, save the world."
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Aug 17, 2026
Hayden Panettiere had a prolific career that started when she was a child, and her credits include the voice of Dot in A Bug's Life, Remember the Titans and Scream VI. Her role as a cheerleader with superpowers in the TV series Heroes propelled her to fame.
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Aug 17, 2026
Australian beef is on supermarket shelves across Saskatchewan now, and the prices are much lower than for Canadian beef.
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Aug 17, 2026
Demolition crews began work tearing down Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Monday, about six months after a mass shooting. The province announced plans to replace the school 'as quickly as possible' in May, although a new location has yet to be announced.
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Aug 17, 2026
School District 59 says work to remove the exterior of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School begins Monday. Crews have spent the last several weeks moving out the school's contents using covered trucks ahead of its physical destruction.
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Aug 17, 2026
Not much is known about the song CIA — only that it was recorded onto a cassette tape from a Toronto radio broadcast in the mid-1980s. Online detectives using Reddit are searching for the band, and think there could be a connection to Ontario's Waterloo region.
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Aug 17, 2026
Nearly 200,000 Canadians have signed a petition calling on the federal government to expel Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada.
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Aug 17, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney, N.L. Premier Tony Wakeham and Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette stood along the St. John's harbour and announced a new energy deal — not yet finalized — on Churchill Falls and other projects, hailing it as the largest clean energy investment in North American history.
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Aug 17, 2026
A major energy announcement involving Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec is scheduled for Monday afternoon in St. John's.
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Aug 17, 2026
While the Russian military attacks Ukraine's power infrastructure, Europe and the U.S. still depend on Russian nuclear fuel to power their electricity grids. Canadian-owned Westinghouse Electric is among the companies that receive low enriched uranium from Russia to fuel commercial nuclear reactors in the U.S., shipping data analyzed by the fifth estate shows.
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Aug 17, 2026
Caitlin Clark has been outsized since she entered the WNBA in 2024 — her fame, her talent, her ability to draw television viewers, her being targeted by opposing players, her reactions to foul calls, and her consistently being used as an avatar for others to express their politics.
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Aug 17, 2026
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) is taking the owner of a seniors' apartment building to court "as a last resort", saying he failed to address dozens of health code violations, including complaints of bed bugs and overflowing garbage.
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Aug 17, 2026
Court documents filed by Crown prosecutors say the alleged hit on a jail official that triggered the police corruption and organized crime case known as Project South was organized by suspects contracting out the job using aliases on an encrypted messaging platform.
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Aug 16, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea, saying it declined to help denuclearize Iran and citing his good relationship with North Korea's Kim Jong-un.
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Aug 16, 2026
One-year-old grizzly bear Fitz escaped his enclosure at the Calgary Zoo Sunday morning. The zoo says the bear was safely returned to his enclosure.
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Aug 16, 2026
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 2,325 people, government data showed on Sunday, surpassing the toll from the 2018-2020 outbreak to become the deadliest in the country's history. The D.R.C.'s public health institute said in its latest report that confirmed cases had risen to ?4,945.
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Aug 16, 2026
For the first time in 17 years, the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band has won the global title at the World Pipe Band Championships held in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Aug 16, 2026
"When we saw it, it looked really hurt, it almost looked dead," says Finn Holland. "But then we saw subtle movements."
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Aug 16, 2026
There have been some scary bear attacks this summer in Canada. Some have turned deadly. What's your wildlife encounter story?
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Aug 16, 2026
Teva Canada is recalling some of its Teva-Pregabalin 150 mg capsules after it said routine testing identified possible contamination with the drug sertraline.
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Aug 16, 2026
A passenger bus carrying Polish tourists on a highway in Hungary went off the road and into a ditch where it overturned, killing a dozen people and injuring at least 10 early Sunday, police said. The bus was travelling on eastbound lanes near Mezokeresztes around 140 kilometres east of Budapest.
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Aug 16, 2026
Hundreds of migrants who recently entered Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta staged a protest on a popular urban beach on Sunday, urging Spanish authorities to grant them asylum instead of sending them back to Morocco.
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Aug 16, 2026
Firefighters battled a massive wildfire that scorched a nature reserve in eastern Belgium and another on a Greek island near Athens, where two people were killed on Sunday as hot and dry conditions fuelled fires across parts of Europe.
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Aug 16, 2026
Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named after him, has died. He was 83.
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Aug 16, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed reports of grim conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier currently in the Middle East that has now been deployed at sea for more than 260 days.
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Aug 16, 2026
Corgis from the U.S. and eight countries across Europe donned colourful costumes, including a dress and dinosaur suit, as part of an international competition in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Aug 16, 2026
Poilievre is speaking to reporters in Vancouver as U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff deadline looms.
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Aug 16, 2026
Three panels from ?Polittico di San Gregorio altarpiece and a separate painting depicting the Virgin with Child were taken from the Museo Regionale di Messina in the 15th-century painter's hometown.
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Aug 16, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham and Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette are meeting in St. John's on Monday for "an announcement regarding energy security and economic development."
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Aug 16, 2026
Thousands of people have been evacuated after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake hit eastern Indonesia, killing at least 53 people, blocking roads and causing landslides.
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Aug 16, 2026
Hurricane Lala is gradually weakening after the eye of the storm passed the southern tip of Hawaii's Big Island without making landfall, but heavy rainfall could produce flooding and mudslides as more than 130,000 homes are without power.
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Aug 16, 2026
Hurricane Lala is expected to gradually weaken after the eye of the storm passed the southern tip of Hawaii's Big Island without making landfall, but heavy rainfall could produce flooding and mudslides as tens of thousands of homes are without power.
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Aug 16, 2026
Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday after its eyewall skirted Hawaii without making landfall. But it continued to punish the state with hurricane-force gusts and pounding rain, reaching a total of nearly one metre in places and sending raging torrents down mountain slopes.
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Aug 16, 2026
Canada's women's flag football team beat the United States for the world title, while men's squad booked its place at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics on Sunday at the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) world championships in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Aug 16, 2026
Experts say confusion, fear and politicians using gender diverse people as scapegoats could be behind the shifting attitudes.
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Aug 16, 2026
John and Phyllis Holmes have picked up more than 9,000 bags of litter from the streets of Hampton, northeast of Saint John, since 2005. Researchers say what they are doing matters more than they know.
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Aug 16, 2026
For people downsizing, choosing what to keep and what to get rid of can be the hardest part of the transition. Some older adults hire agencies to help them sell their possessions to people who will appreciate them. Some say they find it difficult to part ways with items that are attached to so many emotions and memories.
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Aug 16, 2026
Much like the Calgary Stampede in Canada, the Iowa State Fair is a crucial stop for politicians to meet voters, making it a hotbed for political debates — especially when U.S. midterms are coming up. And this year, one of the topics on Iowans' minds is U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war.
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Aug 16, 2026
A regrown forest can look tall, lush and green. Restored wetlands can buzz with insects and flutter with birds. But scientists looking more closely are finding that some of their smallest inhabitants — mosses, lichens and algae — are still missing.
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Aug 16, 2026
As the search for remains continues in Gaza, officials on the ground say there's a serious lack of heavy machinery like excavators to speed up the process of digging through the rubble. One family that owns two of the machines says the high cost of fuel and oil, and the lack of spare parts for maintenance, means they can't keep up with the demand for their services.
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Aug 15, 2026
Canadian swimming star Summer McIntosh was out-touched for gold by 0.02 seconds in the women's 200-metre individual medley at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships on Saturday.
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Aug 15, 2026
A Quebec Superior Court judge has approved a historic $31.5-million settlement against the archdiocese of Quebec. The deal ends years of legal action for claimants who said they were sexually assaulted by members of the archdiocese since 1940.
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Aug 15, 2026
Moroccan police arrested at least 111 people on Saturday as they tried to enter Spain's North ?African enclave of Ceuta, amid tightened security on both sides of the border after social media posts called for another mass migrant crossing.
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Aug 15, 2026
Hurricane Lala took aim at Hawaii's Big Island on Saturday on a forecast track for possible landfall, which would be the island's first direct hit from a hurricane in 155 years.
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Aug 15, 2026
Tropical storm Lala was already whipping and soaking Hawaii's Big Island early Saturday, with forecasts saying it could strengthen into a hurricane or, at the least, bring hurricane-force winds as it approaches land.
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Aug 15, 2026
Canada's women have clinched a berth in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games after a 20-6 semifinal win over Mexico at the flag football world championships in Germany on Saturday.
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Aug 15, 2026
Canada's women have clinched a berth in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games after a 20-6 semifinal win over Mexico at the flag football world championships in Germany on Saturday.
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Aug 15, 2026
As e-scooters become increasingly common across Canada, pediatricians warn parents and children that e-scooter injuries are often severe and can be deadly.
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Aug 15, 2026
Police in Virginia say they have arrested a 19-year-old in connection with a shooting on Saturday that left five people injured. No one died in the shooting, but one victim sustained critical injuries.
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Aug 15, 2026
A shooting involving multiple suspects and multiple people shot at Virginia State University prompted a campus lockdown early Saturday. One person is in critical condition, county police said.
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Aug 15, 2026
Harvest is in full swing at a family-run honey farm in central Alberta but there's a cloud hanging over this year's sweet crop as producers watch the clock tick down on a trade agreement with the United States.
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Aug 15, 2026
Hundreds of structures have been lost to wildfires so far this year. Experts say even those who are fully insured will face a long, complex process as they begin to rebuild.
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Aug 15, 2026
Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least 11 people Saturday, in some of the deadliest attacks since a precarious truce between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect in June.
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Aug 15, 2026
Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least nine people Saturday, in some of the deadliest attacks since a precarious truce between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect in June.
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Aug 15, 2026
On Saturday, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia, killing at least 47 people.
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Aug 15, 2026
To fight the growing risk posed by screwworm, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency approval to a liquid ivermectin for horses product made by Calgary-based company Solvet. The product can now be sold and used for the short-term prevention of screwworm in the United States.
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Aug 15, 2026
Monarch butterflies are booming on parts of the Canadian prairie, thanks in part to a wet and hot summer that's produced a healthy population of flowering plants and milkweed that the endangered species depends on.
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Aug 15, 2026
An invasive plant is spreading farther into northern Ontario, prompting communites to work on ways to identify and control it before it becomes firmly established. A Sudbury-based environmental group hosted a workshop this week to teach people how to identify invasive phragmites and help stop its spread.
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Aug 15, 2026
Half a million bees are buzzing at a southwestern Ontario farm to offer visitors a way to help them relax and reduce stress. Those providing bee bed therapy, which is offered at a handful of Canadian locations, say it provides mental health benefits. But there's still a dearth of scientific evidence around it.
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Aug 15, 2026
Charity thrift stores are being inundated with clothing donations, and the international market for used textiles is in flux, resulting in more and more garments heading to the dumpster.
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Aug 15, 2026
Some New Brunswick astronomers are joining a chorus of opposition against an American company's touted goals of using mirrors in space to provide artificial 'sunlight on demand' to its subscribers.
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Aug 15, 2026
Decades after the Berlin Wall fell, observers see deep-seated regional grievances and feelings of second-class citizenship driving a surge for the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
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Aug 15, 2026
As Canada, the United States and Europe grapple with another brutal wildfire season, pressure is building on the manufacturer of the Canadair "Super Scooper" water bombers to increase production, and on the federal government to bulk order the planes.
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Aug 15, 2026
When Charlie Rousseau visited her hometown of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., for a festival in June, she noticed there were old-style parking meters that required users to slip change into a slot to pay. The problem is, Rousseau can't easily hold coins, let alone reach the slot to pay.
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Aug 15, 2026
It may seem like something ripped directly from an episode of Black Mirror, but generative AI and large language models are now being used to conjure up the dead, using the massive digital footprints many of us leave behind when we die.
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Aug 15, 2026
The Taliban victory not only displaced hundreds of thousands of Afghans, the reimposition of their strict, authoritarian fundamentalist regime has featured the systematic erasure of women from public life, the suppression of free media and dissent and the enforcement of rigid moral codes through a dedicated ministry.
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Aug 15, 2026
A Saskatchewan company is drilling for hydrogen to prove it can be extracted from the ground at a commercial scale. Max Power says that could lead to greener, cheaper hydrogen for decarbonizing industry and transportation. Here's what you need to know about the development of natural hydrogen.
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Aug 15, 2026
Jackson Bonn reflects on his many seasons of work in the Canadian bush and why he can't step away from this back-breaking work.
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Aug 14, 2026
The Pan Pacific championships saw Canadian swimmers Taylor Ruck and Summer McIntosh experience two very different outcomes on Friday night in Irvine, Calif. Ruck won her fourth and fifth medals, respectively, of the competition. Meanwhile, McIntosh — in a shocking turn of events — failed to qualify for the women's 400m freestyle final.
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Aug 14, 2026
Six-time All-Star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was evaluated for a possible concussion after leaving the Toronto Blue Jays' game against the New York Yankees on Friday night following a collision with New York rookie shortstop George Lombard Jr. on a chaotic play at third base.
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Aug 14, 2026
A member of the prominent pro-separation group the Alberta Prosperity Project has "resigned" after he used a racial slur at an event on Thursday where the group presented a draft constitution for an independent Alberta.
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Aug 14, 2026
The B.C. Conservation Officer Service is apologizing for causing confusion, saying that investigations have revealed RCMP killed the bear that attacked a three-year-old girl in Maple Ridge earlier this month.
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Aug 14, 2026
A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, damaging buildings and homes, and triggering a tsunami warning. Authorities urged people on affected coastlines to move to higher ground.
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Aug 14, 2026
A powerful magnitude 7.7 quake has struck off the coast of Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey said. No immediate casualties or damage were reported.
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Aug 14, 2026
A British sociologist who resigned last week from the University of Cambridge following weeks of public accusations of plagiarism and media scrutiny was found dead Friday.
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Aug 14, 2026
A British sociologist who resigned last week from the University of Cambridge following weeks of public accusations of plagiarism and media scrutiny was found dead Friday.
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Aug 14, 2026
Karoline Leavitt is officially stepping down from her role as White House press secretary. Avneet Dhillon explains how the youngest press secretary in U.S. history helped carry out major changes to media access at the White House and why her combative approach earned her top praise from President Donald Trump.
(Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images)
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