Category: Canadá

The Canadian government should have seen this coming, says international security expert Christian Leuprecht. The Royal Military College professor says Canada could have planned for what to do when its own citizens — ISIS members, their wives and children — were captured or surrendered on the battlefield…

Clearwater Seafoods’ offshore lobster fishery in Eastern Canada has lost its “recommended” rating from Ocean Wise, a seafood sustainability recommendation program of the Vancouver Aquarium. It’s more fallout from a 2018 conviction for what the Crown called a “gross violation” of…

The average price of a Canadian home has fallen by 5.5 per cent to $455,000 over the past 12 months, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Friday. The group that represents 125,000 realtors across the country says sales were higher in…

If it feels the like coldest February you can remember, you’re likely not wrong. This month, Saskatchewan has been plagued with daily extreme cold warnings. Temperatures have dipped into the minus 40s, with wind chills so frigid that forgetting your…

Finance Minister Bill Morneau has quietly reversed a controversial decision to slap a surtax on two types of Mexican steel imports. Effective Feb. 2, up to a new limit, Mexican energy tubular products (such as those used to build pipelines) and…

The Supreme Court of Canada says a London, Ont., teacher who secretly filmed female students’ chests with a camera pen is guilty of voyeurism. A conviction has been entered against Ryan Jarvis. ​At issue was whether the students had a…

A Mi’kmaw man is calling on a Cape Breton golf club to change its century-old logo, saying it’s disrespectful to Indigenous people. The logo for the Lingan Golf Club in Sydney depicts an Indigenous person wearing a headdress superimposed over a map of Cape…

The Shanahan family came to Vancouver last month on a promise of work, but a long train ride and $10,000 later, they’re living in a tent in the midst of an extended blast of winter weather. The jobs the Shanahans…

A Brandon, Man., mom whose two children were taken to hospital after eating part of a cannabis-infused chocolate bar says she would have handled the situation differently if she’d known how badly her two-year-old daughter would react. And while one…

When Scott Moe became premier of Saskatchewan, he vowed to do all he could to fight the federal government’s carbon pricing plan, stealing a famous political threat from a former prime minister: “Just watch me.” Now, a year later, that battle…

A Nunavut preschool is the winner of this year’s $1 million Arctic Inspiration Prize. The winners of five awards worth a collective $2.6 million were announced at a ceremony Tuesday night at the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse. Pirurvik: A…

The government has selected a new director to add her touch to the canvas of Canada’s National Gallery. Alexandra Suda has been announced today as the director of the National Gallery. Suda comes to the position from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO),…

Brace yourselves. What’s likely the biggest snowstorm in years has reached our area. It’s a Colorado Low, which normally gives us 10 to 15 centimetres of snow here in Ottawa, so why 30 to 40 centimetres in the forecast? Simply put, this…

Twitter trolls linked to suspected foreign influence campaigns stoked controversy over pipelines and immigration in Canada, according to a CBC/Radio-Canada analysis of 9.6 million tweets from accounts since deleted. Roughly 21,600 tweets from those troll accounts directly targeted Canadians — many of…

Sean Burke still can’t bring himself to watch the game. Once was enough. The general manager of Canada’s men’s hockey team at the Pyeongchang Olympics has no interest in reliving the country’s stunning 4-3 loss to Germany in the semifinals…

You might have heard that Canada’s forests are an immense carbon sink, sucking up all sorts of CO2 — more than we produce — so we don’t have to worry about our greenhouse gas emissions. This claim has been circulated…

At least 222 coaches who were involved in amateur sports in Canada have been convicted of sexual offences in the past 20 years involving more than 600 victims under the age of 18, a joint investigation by CBC News and…

A pair of Air Canada insiders are shedding light on the airline’s policy of overselling flights, revealing what they say is a widespread practice of duping passengers into believing they have a seat on a plane and stringing them along…

“Music is what we cry to, it’s what we march to, it’s what we rock to, it’s what we make love to,” said host Alicia Keys during her opening remarks at the 61st annual Grammy Awards that took place on…

Canada’s $227-million fleet of mid-shore coast guard vessels are rolling “like crazy” at sea, making crews seasick and keeping some ships in port during weather conditions where they should be able to operate, CBC News has learned. Canadian Coast Guard records…

Greenland and Antarctica are a long distance away, but new research suggests the accelerating disappearance of their ice caps will have a major — and underestimated — effect on extreme weather in Canada. “We’re underestimating the impact of the ice sheets…

With a few days left in a weeklong transit challenge, some Ottawa city councillors are expressing their frustration with a system in which getting from point A to point B isn’t always easy. Free Transit Ottawa issued the challenge to rely solely on…

A state of emergency is being declared in Chatham-Kent. The Thames River dike has failed in multiple locations around Poppe Road and Buchanan Line in Tilbury, according to a release from the Municipality of Chatham-Kent. Municipal staff are on scene…

The first proposal to open a legal cannabis shop in eastern Ontario would see a store on Wellington Street W. near Island Park Drive. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) has posted an application by the unnamed people…

Planning is underway for an official memorial service at the Elgar Petersen Arena in Humboldt on April 6 — one year after the fatal Broncos bus crash. The event will pay tribute to the 16 people who died and honour those who survived…

Parents contemplating a move from Montreal to Toronto should prepare to add a zero to the end of their monthly child-care bills, a new study has found. Released Thursday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), the report says the cost…

MP Charlie Angus says he is “shaken up” after visiting a remote First Nation in northern Ontario, where seemingly every home has mould and more than half of them need to be replaced. “What we’re seeing is a full-on health…

As proof that life as an astronaut isn’t always glamorous, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques’ duties aboard the International Space Station recently included fixing a leaking space toilet, according to NASA. The space agency said the crew had to spring into…

The Royal Canadian Mint is paying tribute to a civil rights pioneer from Nova Scotia with its first Black History Month coin. The silver collector coin pays tribute to Viola Desmond, who in 1946 was arrested and put on trial…

Global Affairs Canada has updated its official travel advisory for Venezuela to warn Canadians to avoid all travel to the South American country because of the ongoing humanitarian and political crisis there. “Avoid all travel to Venezuela due to the significant…