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A shaggy, cool-green lichen hangs from the trunk of a tree in a forest on northeastern Vancouver Island, growing on the bark like coral on a rocky sea floor. Lichenologist Trevor Goward has named it o...
The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025
MONTREAL - Outgoing Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante says Thursday's inauguration of a sixth UN office in the city is a reflection of the environmental, housing-focused agenda she's championed in her near...
The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025
Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging "common front" to elements of the new Liberal government's agend...
The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025
OTTAWA - The federal broadcast regulator begins a hearing today to look at which Canadian content obligations should apply to music streamers like Spotify. Streaming services argue their current effor...
The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025
RICHMOND - An RCMP member stationed at the Coquitlam, B.C., detachment says he regrets making "stupid" and "ugly" comments in group chats with other officers that included stereotypes about Asian driv...
The Canadian Press Sep 17, 2025
TORONTO - Toronto Public Health says it has the results for about a quarter of the patients potentially exposed to blood-borne viruses at a downtown gynecologist's office, and that none of them contra...
The Canadian Press Sep 17, 2025
Authorities in British Columbia are acknowledging the fear and disappointment among the province's South Asian community amid a spate of extortions and violence that has seen homes and businesses spra...
The Canadian Press Sep 17, 2025
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament honoured former Montreal Canadiens goaltender Ken Dryden in the House of Commons on Wednesday with tributes and a moment of silence. Dryden also served as a member of Pa...
The Canadian Press Sep 17, 2025
HALIFAX - A 75-year-old former swim instructor is facing dozens of charges related to alleged sex crimes against 30 youths at a Nova Scotia corrections facility between 1989 and 2015, RCMP say. Staff ...
The Canadian Press Sep 17, 2025
MONTREAL - A long-standing cold case was cracked using genetic genealogy to identify the man who killed a Montreal woman in her apartment in 2008, police said Wednesday. Catherine Daviau, 26, was kill...
The Canadian Press Sep 17, 2025