4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (590+ words) Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus. August's…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (780+ words) The European Union's ambassador to Canada says the bloc is crafting a new partnership with Ottawa unlike anything that currently exists. "What we have in mind is something different from what we have with other countries," Geneviève Tuts said in…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1400+ words) A quarter of a century ago, the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, forced Canadians to quickly wake up to a world that had changed overnight — and to confront a new war which would change everything for Canada's military. The Afghanistan war,…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1037+ words) On Feb. 19, a tanker transporting more than 41,000 tonnes of petroleum products left Jamnagar, India’s largest oil refinery. It arrived two months later in Point Tupper, a small industrial port on Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island, on April 14. Worth more than…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (831+ words) Canadian aerospace giant Bombardier defended itself Monday and laid out its extensive footprint across the United States after President Donald Trump made the company the latest target of his anti-Canada campaign. Trump's rhetoric escalated in the days leading up to…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (885+ words) The trade war between Canada and the United States enters a new chapter Tuesday as the Canadian government introduces retaliatory tariff measures. Canada is striking back at the US trade war with tariffs the federal government says are targeted at…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (595+ words) Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday he will have one simple message for Vladimir Putin if the Russian president attends the G20 leaders' summit this December in Florida: "get out of Ukraine." "He only understands strength and directness," Carney said when…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (973+ words) El Niño is a naturally occurring phenomenon, taking place every two to seven years, when the waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean heat up, causing a cascade of impacts around the world. Image courtesy: European Union / Copernicus Marine Service…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1213+ words) On a recent summer Friday, nearly a dozen students logged on for their online literature class. It was a group of mostly young women joining from different parts of Afghanistan, eagerly waiting for their turn to discuss a story they…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (486+ words) Neeral Patel sent well-wishes to her cousin on his birthday last Wednesday, but she never heard back. Her cousin Ishan Patel was in Nepal at the time, not far from the border with China, where a devastating flash flood ripped…...