Canada’s financial intelligence agency says it has been hit by a cyberattack.  Agency takes corporate systems offline to protect data. Canada’s financial intelligence agency says it has been hit by a cyberattack. The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (Fintrac) says it has taken its corporate systems offline …

Dr. Louis Bourget is seen in Gander Supreme Court on Feb. 2, 2024. Bourget is asking for an absolute discharge after pleading guilty to assault for allowing a prison guard to perform a tooth extraction on a sedated inmate. (Troy Turner/CBC) If he’s not given a discharge on an assault …

Consumers in Ontario and B.C. increasingly missed payments on mortgages and credit cards in the fourth quarter of 2023, Equifax Canada said. Financially stressed homeowners in those provinces are also increasingly missing credit payments, the agency said, a trend primarily driven by homeowners who are 36 and younger.  Rates rising …

Ontario Provincial Police in Oxford County have charged a 34-year-old bus driver with careless driving causing bodily harm after a school bus carrying 40 students rolled onto its side south of Woodstock, Ont., on Tuesday morning. Several kids were taken to hospital, including one by air ambulance, after the bus …

Louis Pagé, in Brome Lake Que., started volunteering in the 1990s. Weeks after he turned 100 in February, he’s still at it.  ‘I forget about my age until somebody reminds me,’ says Louis Pagé. Sitting on his couch in his family home where he has lived alone for upward of …

UBC scientist lauds sprawling international study an ‘amazing example of citizen science.’ A sprawling international study of humpback whales in the northern Pacific has found their population has shrunk significantly since 2012 — despite the once-endangered species’ remarkable comeback from the brink of extinction. The new research, published in Royal …

Boris Nadezhdin, a Russian opposition politician, spoke to CBC News about being banned from running for president and his opposition to the war in Ukraine.  Boris Nadezhdin admits Russian elections aren’t free or fair, but says they are only option for change. Despite being disqualified from running for president, Russian …

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday restored Donald Trump to this year’s presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for his actions leading to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.  Colorado was one of 3 states that made moves to remove Trump from ballot, …

The UN envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict says in a new report that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Hamas and other armed groups committed rape, “sexualized torture,” and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during its attack in Israel on Oct. 7. UN envoy says team …

When Brian Mulroney was given the title of Canada’s “greenest prime minister” in 2006 — awarded by an expert panel convened by Corporate Knights magazine — it might have seemed like faint praise.  He showed that big environmental threats can be fought — but the threats are bigger now. When …