Regular maintenance inside the Queen Elizabeth II library at Memorial University in early July caused a server crash that caused the loss of much of the library's data. | Continue reading
A policy update that Shopify quietly posted this week shows merchants can no longer use the platform to sell automatic firearms that have not been rendered inoperable and semi-automatic firearms that have the capacity to accept a detachable magazine. | Continue reading
Justin Leduc set out to create a viral hit, but he didn't think he'd nail it on his first try. | Continue reading
Russian spies lurking in the Canadian shadows may toil in secret, but they're still employees of Moscow — and therefore their children are not Canadian citizens, the federal government is telling the Supreme Court. | Continue reading
A Saudi Arabian youth organization is apologizing after posting an image on Twitter appearing to show an Air Canada plane heading toward the CN Tower in a way that is reminiscent of the 9/11 terror attacks. | Continue reading
A Canadian real estate company already under investigation for using facial recognition technology in malls may also be tracking the movement of shoppers using mobile phones. | Continue reading
From lowering speeds and redesigning roads, to stronger enforcement and more bike lanes, New York is seeing a marked reduction deaths and injuries on its roadways — all by following a strategy that other North American cities have struggled to implement. | Continue reading
Social media giant Facebook is reviewing its nudity policy after the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts complained the site kept blocking its ads for a Picasso exhibit. | Continue reading
Cadillac Fairview says it is suspending the use of cameras embedded in its mall directories after using facial recognition software in some malls since June to track shoppers' ages and genders, without telling them. | Continue reading
Illegal, underground and said to be brimming with health benefits — the practice of taking small amounts of psychedelic drugs is growing increasingly popular, yet it remains relatively unstudied and its reported benefits unproven. | Continue reading
Rick Genest, known as Zombie Boy, has died. He rose to fame for his head-to-toe tattoos. | Continue reading
Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod announced Tuesday that the provincial government will end the Ontario basic income pilot project. | Continue reading
The driver of a van who was filmed splashing pedestrians on King Edward Avenue has been fired, according to Ottawa police and the company the driver worked for. | Continue reading
At least two Calgary malls are using facial recognition technology to track shoppers' ages and genders without first notifying them or obtaining their explicit consent. | Continue reading
The Vatican has long been aware about sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found. | Continue reading
Twitter's stock plunged Friday after it reported a decline in its monthly users and warned that the number could fall further in the coming months. | Continue reading
At least two Calgary malls are using facial recognition technology to track shoppers' ages and genders without first notifying them or obtaining their explicit consent. | Continue reading
He wanted a brand new car — a Chevrolet Cruze with all the trimmings. As a man in his early 20s, he knew his insurance costs would be high. So he became a woman, though only on paper. | Continue reading
They’ve come a long way from the sciences and humanities. A florist, an instrument maker, a carpenter and a bike shop owner on why they, like so many others, said goodbye to academia, and how they built their "post-ac" lives. | Continue reading
Enough doses for two million treatments have been delivered to the U.S. government's national emergency stockpile — and the Canadian government isn't ruling out the possibility of buying some. | Continue reading
A Brazilian government agency has released footage of an Indigenous man who is believed to have lived in isolation, uncontacted, in the rainforest for 22 years. | Continue reading
An Ottawa man acting as an executor of a will says TD Canada Trust gave him "faulty advice" to mail $500,000 in bank drafts to family members in the U.S. — a move that caught the attention of U.S. border officials, who seized the money. Executor David Saikaley worries the family … | Continue reading
An independent movie theatre in northeast B.C. says Disney's strict rules around Star Wars: The Last Jedi are unfair to small-town cinemas and could become even more harmful as the company expands its dominance of the entertainment industry. | Continue reading
The Iroquois Nationals are scheduled to compete in the Federation of International Lacrosse's 2018 Men's World Championship this week in Israel but have been having difficulty leaving Canada on their Haudenosaunee passports. | Continue reading
The regulatory body for engineers in Manitoba has charged a retiree with professional misconduct for offering media outlets his opinion about the length of amber lights in Winnipeg. | Continue reading
An unmanned spacecraft flew to the International Space Station Monday in less time than it takes to fly from Toronto to Edmonton on a passenger plane. | Continue reading
A team of researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., has developed a thin, plastic patch that changes colour under ultraviolet light when it come into contact with meat contaminated with E. coli, a food-borne bacteria that can cause extreme illness or death. | Continue reading
Indie developer Ben Esposito spent years crafting his video game Donut County, but before it was even published an eerily similar game appeared at the top of app store charts. | Continue reading
A McGill professor alleges there was an organized campaign to discredit him and get him fired following what he says was a consensual relationship with a student. He is now suing another student and a colleague in his department for defamation. | Continue reading
A newly released federal report estimates the problem-plagued Phoenix payroll system has already cost Canadian government coffers more than $1 billion and could require an additional $500 million a year until it is fixed. | Continue reading
A landmark civil trial will test the limits of the B.C. government in trying to tackle a pressing public concern, the foreign buyers tax. | Continue reading
Cedella Roman says she was jogging along the beach in White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it. Then, she was detained. | Continue reading
The Senate has passed the contentious bill to legalize cannabis, but Canadians cannot legally light up for several weeks to give provinces time to set up a retail regime, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould warned today. | Continue reading
Should Canada threaten to start the world's first trade war in intellectual property? Some legal experts argue that targeting pharmaceutical patents could give Canada an edge in the current trade dispute with the U.S. | Continue reading
Senators have voted to pass the federal government's bill legalizing recreational marijuana by a vote of 52 to 29, with two abstentions, paving the way for a fully legal cannabis market within eight to 12 weeks. | Continue reading
As C02 in the atmosphere increases, the nutritional value of major foods like rice and fish decreases | Continue reading
60 million students and teachers around the world are using Google for Education products. Parents are raising concerns about what data Google might be collecting from their kids, and some are critical of a lack of options should they choose not to use them. | Continue reading
Carbon Engineering in Squamish says it is developing a carbon removal system that is more than three time more economical than existing technology | Continue reading
Brock University finance professor Ernest Biktimirov has come up with a Stanley Cup stock market predictor. He says it has an 80 per cent accuracy rate, but you still shouldn't bet on it. | Continue reading
The auditor general blamed Phoenix's failure in part on an "obedient" public service culture, but some say the problems amid Ottawa's bureaucrats predate the troubled payroll system. | Continue reading
The question was announced by Attorney General David Eby after months of speculation. | Continue reading
Two Canadian banks warned customers Monday that they have been the targets of hackers, and the personal information of tens of thousands of customers may have been stolen. | Continue reading
A divisive vote on abortion has emerged as a test case for democracies grappling with the dark side of political advertising on social media, writes Nahlah Ayed. | Continue reading
Three California companies have launched versions of dockless scooters in major cities across the U.S. Riders love them, but cities are wary. | Continue reading
Bitcoin miners will guzzle more electricity this year than some countries do, according to new numbers from a leading researcher. And while some critics take issue with these figures, few disagree that the digital currency's energy use is a growing problem. | Continue reading
Two engineering students made such a good impression on Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk that he personally offered them a job right on the spot. | Continue reading
When the siren-like sounds from an Amber Alert rang out on cellular phones across Ontario on Monday, it sparked a bit of a backlash against Canada's new mobile emergency alert system. | Continue reading
Halifax Regional Police say they won't be charging a 19-year-old man arrested last month for downloading files from Nova Scotia's freedom-of-information portal. | Continue reading