Starting Thursday, businesses in Canada will soon be able to pass credit card fees on to their customers, thanks to a multimillion-dollar class-action settlement involving Visa and Mastercard. | Continue reading
Scientists at the Florida Aquarium have made a breakthrough in the race to save Caribbean coral: For the first time, marine biologists have successfully reproduced elkhorn coral, a critical species, using aquarium technology. | Continue reading
More Canadians are ending their lives with a medically-assisted death, says the third federal annual report on medical assistance in dying (MAID). Data shows that 10,064 people died in 2021 with medical aid, an increase of 32 per cent over 2020. | Continue reading
In what's being described as the largest study attempting to tackle a damaging narrative surrounding transgender health, researchers looked at data on more than 90,000 trans or gender diverse teenagers across the U.S. and found no evidence that 'social contagion' is driving trans … | Continue reading
Rogers Communications Inc. said on Sunday it will invest $10 billion over the next three years in Artificial Intelligence, and more testing and oversight, just weeks after the company reported network issues that caused widespread disruptions across the country. | Continue reading
The city of Shanghai has discovered a COVID-19 case involving a new subvariant Omicron BA.5.2.1, an official told a briefing on Sunday, signaling the complications China faces to keep up with new mutations as it pursues its "zero-COVID" policy. | Continue reading
Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri said 'pretty close to 100 per cent' of the company's network is back online following widespread outages on Friday, which he attributed to a network failure after a maintenance update. | Continue reading
Recent data shows more than half of all flights in and out of some of Canada's major airports are being cancelled or delayed, as frustrations for travellers mount due in part to increased summer travel and not enough airport staff. | Continue reading
Two people were killed and several severely wounded in a shooting at a nightclub in Norway's capital Oslo, Norwegian police said early on Saturday. | Continue reading
Locals say an anthill on Vancouver Island has been growing larger and larger for roughly three decades. | Continue reading
Parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens and permanent residents can now stay in the country for up so seven years with a 'super visa.' | Continue reading
Companies with 25 or more employees in Ontario must now have written policies on disconnecting from work thanks to a law that came into effect on June 2. Ontario Labour Minister Monte McNaughton told CTV News the law 'was created in response to the increasingly blurred lines betw … | Continue reading
Researchers at the University of California San Diego say they've developed a smartphone app that could screen users for neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer's or ADHD, by scanning their eye. | Continue reading
Police and new fencing restricted who could leave a locked-down area in Beijing on Tuesday as authorities in the Chinese capital stepped up efforts to prevent a major COVID-19 outbreak like the one that has all but shut down the city of Shanghai. | Continue reading
A U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, scientists reported, underscoring the importance of protecting vulnerable people from the coronavirus. | Continue reading
Two of the world's richest people are pitching in ideas to tackle the issue of homelessness, suggesting that Twitter Inc. convert its headquarters to a shelter home. | Continue reading
Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, who were among the journalists to get the Iraq war right, told CTV's Your Morning that they hope the film "Shock and Awe," which tells their story, is a timely inspiration for young or inspiring journalists and a tribute to investigative report … | Continue reading
Kosovo has asked the United States to establish a permanent military base in the country and speed up its integration into NATO after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Kosovo's Defence Minister Armend Mehaj said on Sunday. | Continue reading
Financial institutions have begun unfreezing the accounts of individuals who supported the Freedom Convoy's efforts, according to Isabelle Jacques, an assistant deputy minister at the Department of Finance. | Continue reading
The Ontario government says it has successfully petitioned a court to freeze access to millions of dollars in donations to the truckers convoy that were raised through online platform GiveSendGo. | Continue reading
The World Health Organization has given emergency approval to a coronavirus vaccine made by U.S.-based Novavax and the Serum Institute of India, paving the way for its inclusion in the UN-backed program to get such vaccines to poorer countries around the world. | Continue reading
Early data from the U.K. has found that symptoms like runny nose and fatigue are more common among those infected with the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. | Continue reading
Cineplex Inc. says the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled in its favour in a breach of contract lawsuit against its former suitor and U.K. theatre operator Cineworld Group PLC. | Continue reading
A new poll shows the sharp differences in beliefs between generations in Canada, with more than half of Canadians under 40 surveyed perceiving the Baby Boomer legacy as negative. | Continue reading
Canadians are likely to see inflated food prices at their local grocery stores for several more months, some experts say. | Continue reading
Biotechnology company Novavax Inc. says it has submitted its COVID-19 vaccine for approval in Canada, opening the prospect of another product on the country's vaccine market that could win over a few more vaccine-hesitant residents. | Continue reading
When, not if, the next pandemic strikes, Canada and the United States need to work more closely together on a mutual, integrated strategy for managing risk at the shared border, rather than trying to shut it down entirely, a new report says. | Continue reading
A new poll suggests tensions over COVID-19 vaccines in Canada are high as frictions grow between those who are vaccinated against the virus and those who are not. | Continue reading
Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in the European Union over the next five years to help build the so-called metaverse, a nascent online world where people exist and communicate in shared virtual spaces. | Continue reading
YouTube says it has shut two German channels of Russian state broadcaster RT in a move centering on alleged coronavirus misinformation, a decision that drew threats of retaliation from Russia on Wednesday. | Continue reading
Seafarers, truck drivers and airline workers have endured quarantines, travel restrictions and complex COVID-19 vaccination and testing requirements to keep stretched supply chains moving during the pandemic. | Continue reading
A hamster named Mr. Goxx has been running an independent portfolio that trades cryptocurrency and is beating investors at their own game. | Continue reading
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says China has released detained Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and U.S. Justice Department officials reached a deal to resolve the criminal charges against her and a B.C. judge discharged the extradit … | Continue reading
A B.C. judge has discharged the extradition matter against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou after U.S. Justice Department officials reached a deal to resolve the criminal charges against her, allowing Meng, who has been at the centre of a years-long major geopolitical case, to enter … | Continue reading
Massachusetts-based drug maker Moderna will build an mRNA vaccine manufacturing plant in Canada within the next two years, CEO Stephane Bancel said Tuesday. | Continue reading
Electric-car maker Tesla will most likely restart accepting bitcoin as payments once it conducts due diligence on the amount of renewable energy used to mine the currency, CEO Elon Musk said. | Continue reading
Cybersecurity teams worked feverishly Sunday to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record, with some details emerging about how the Russia-linked gang responsible breached the company whose software was the conduit. | Continue reading
Police in rural India have made some citizens who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus wear signs with a skull and crossbones, the universal symbol for danger, stoking anger in a country where shots are in short supply. | Continue reading
Dr. Joss Reimer, medical lead for Manitoba’s Vaccine Implementation Task Force, says that new vaccine recommendations from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization on mixing mRNA vaccines will be a form of trial and error. | Continue reading
TD Bank Group's U.S. subsidiary has filed a lawsuit against Plaid Inc., accusing the San Francisco-based data aggregator of unlawfully using its logo to trick users into handing over personal data that can later be monetized. | Continue reading
Canada Post has informed 44 of its large business customers that information relating to more than 950,000 customers was compromised after one of its suppliers fell victim to a malware attack. | Continue reading
In several parts of the world, strange objects in the sky that appear to look like bright strings of light have been spotted in the night skies, baffling sky watchers. Experts say these bright lights are from the Starlink satellites, launched into the sky by Elon Musk's SpaceX. | Continue reading
The Brazilian health regulator Anvisa on Monday rejected importing the Russian-made Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine requested by state governors battling a deadly second wave of the virus that is battering Latin America's largest nation. | Continue reading
Boulders blocked a portion of Boulder Canyon road near Boulder, Colorado, according to the Boulder County Sheriff's office who boasted about the event on social media. | Continue reading
Google broke Australian law by misleading users about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices, a judge found Friday. | Continue reading
When Southern California’s theme parks reopen as early as April, it could be with one very significant and silent difference: no screaming on rides. | Continue reading
Security experts are called on the Canada Revenue Agency to increase cybersecurity efforts after some 800,000 Canadians awoke to an email informing them they had been locked out of their accounts in the midst of tax season. | Continue reading
From flat battery to full charge in just five minutes -- an Israeli start-up has developed technology it says could eliminate the 'range anxiety' associated with electric cars. | Continue reading