Canadian World News
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 04:00:00 ESTHow Mexico plans to team up with Canada to combat U.S. auto irritant
Mexico plans to team up with Canada to combat a controversial U.S. autos plan. In an interview with CBC News, a top Mexican cabinet member laid out the strategy.
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:22:56 ESTDefence team rests at ex-police officer's trial over Daunte Wright shooting death
The defence has wrapped up its case in the manslaughter trial of former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter, who is charged in the fatal shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright in April.
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Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:20:10 ESTRussia demands NATO deny membership to Ukraine, other ex-Soviet nations
Russia on Friday published draft security demands that NATO deny membership to Ukraine and other former Soviet countries and roll back the alliance's military deployments in Central and Eastern Europe...
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 09:06:22 ESTThis is the 1st millipede ever discovered that actually has more than 1,000 legs
Despite their name, all millipedes known until now had less than 1,000 legs. Now, scientists have discovered a record-breaking species that has 1,306.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 23:06:31 ESTAfghan girl, 10, was preparing for a new life in Canada before she was killed by the Taliban
A 10-year-old Afghan girl who was preparing to come to Canada with her family was instead shot dead by the Taliban last week, a death critics say is partly to blame on Ottawa's sluggish efforts to rel...
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 07:49:56 ESTCoronavirus: What happened in Canada and around the world on Dec. 17
Manitoba, Ontario, B.C., P.E.I. and Newfoundland and Labrador announced new restrictions on Friday as the Omicron variant continued to spread around the country. In Nova Scotia, the province's top do...
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 23:01:46 EST24 dead in suspected building arson in Japan
A fire that spread from a fourth-floor mental health clinic in an eight-storey building in downtown Osaka in western Japan on Friday left 24 people dead in what police were investigating as a possible...
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 03:29:08 ESTTyphoon batters Philippines, leaves at least 12 dead
A powerful typhoon that battered the central Philippines left at least 12 people dead in massive floods that trapped residents on roofs and damaged buildings, including a hotel and an airport, officia...
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 04:00:00 ESTTrade threats from Canada? U.S. Democrats are busy fighting their own internal battles
Here's how U.S. Democrats are responding to trade threats from Canada, which has threatened tariffs and threatened to suspend bits of the new NAFTA. "I don't care," says one. The bottom line: An irrit...
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:53:21 ESTTravis Scott concert deaths were caused by compression asphyxia, officials say
The 10 people who lost their lives in a massive crowd surge at the Nov. 5 Astroworld music festival in Houston founded by rapper Travis Scott died from compression asphyxia, officials announced Thursd...
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:38:18 ESTMissionaries kidnapped by Haitian gang have been released, police say
The remaining Canadian and U.S. members of a missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago in Haiti have been freed, Haitian police and the group said Thursday.
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:01:00 ESTThe latest on the coronavirus pandemic for Dec. 17
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:25:35 ESTPalestinian militants kill man in shooting near West Bank settlement, Israel says
Palestinian militants on Thursday opened fire near a Jewish settlement in the northern West Bank, killing at least one Israeli, according to Israeli leaders.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:09:41 ESTFor the 1st time, a spacecraft has 'touched' the sun, NASA confirms
A NASA spacecraft has officially "touched" the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona.
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:24:20 ESTReddit files paperwork to go public in 2022
Reddit Inc., whose message boards became the go-to destination for day traders during this year's meme stock frenzy, said on Wednesday it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering with U...
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 04:31:48 EST5 dead after unusually strong storm system strikes U.S. Midwest
At least five people died as a powerful and extremely unusual storm system swept across the U.S. Great Plains and Midwest on Wednesday amid unseasonably warm temperatures, spawning hurricane-force win...
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 03:08:17 EST5 children die in Australia as wind lifts bouncy castle into air at school
Five children died and four others were in critical condition on Thursday after falling from a bouncy castle that was lifted 10 metres into the air by a gust of wind at a school on Australia's island...
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:23:13 ESTPowerful typhoon slams southern Philippines
A powerful typhoon slammed into the southeastern Philippines on Thursday, toppling trees, ripping tin roofs and knocking down power lines as it blew across island provinces where nearly 100,000 people...
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:06:55 ESTSpringsteen reported to be selling song catalogue to Sony in $500M US deal
Multiple Grammy winner Bruce Springsteen has sold his masters and music publishing rights to Sony Music in a deal worth about $500 million US, entertainment publication Billboard said on Wednesday, ci...
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:57:31 ESTU.S. central bank expects to raise its benchmark interest rate 3 times next year
The Federal Reserve will quicken the pace at which it's pulling back its support for the economy as inflation surges, and it expects to raise interest rates three times next year.