As a multi-year drought persists on the Prairies, some ranchers are making the tough choice to reduce their herds to ensure there is enough water and feed for the animals that remain. Prairies in the midst of multi-year drought. Bart Guyon has a close relationship with his livestock, which makes …

Meta Platforms-owned Facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.  Disruptions started at about 10 a.m. ET. Meta Platforms said it resolved issues with Facebook and Instagram on Tuesday afternoon following a global outage that hit …

A student who alleges she was sexually assaulted on campus is continuing to call for change at Université Sainte-Anne in Church Point, N.S., saying the school needs to do more to support its students. Spokesperson says university ‘condemns inappropriate conduct of any kind.’ She still remembers how her hands shook …

Cold storage containers outside of the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s house about 28 unclaimed cadavers, and there’s no immediate plan to cremate or bury them. Cadavers accumulating in storage units as cost of living — and dying — rises. A smattering of nondescript storage containers sit nestled on …

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 …