Iran confirms damaged nuclear site was new centrifuge facility

Iranian officials had previously sought to downplay the fire, which erupted early on Thursday, calling it only an "incident" that affected an "industrial shed." | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 3 years ago

RCMP adding incels to terrorism awareness guide

It is the latest sign the Canadian government now views incels as a public safety threat. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 3 years ago

Winnipeg grocery store owner says customers have been victims of Bitcoin scams

Husni Zeid has put a large sign on the Bitcoin machine in his Food Fare store on Lilac Street, warning customers of phone scams involving the cryptocurrency. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 3 years ago

Elon Musk threatens to move Tesla out of California over coronavirus rules

Musk has been ranting about the stay-home order since the company's April 29 first-quarter earnings were released, calling the restrictions fascist and urging governments to stop taking people's freedom. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Facebook asks judge to toss Canadian privacy chief’s findings

The company's application comes two months after Therrien asked the same court to declare Facebook broke the law governing how the private sector can use personal information. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

University of Alberta works with AHS to make 3D-printed face shields

Faculty and staff at the University of Alberta are making 3D-printed face shields to help keep up stocks of protective equipment amid the COVID-19 crisis. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Spring Financial gave him a loan but no cash upfront

"I only increased my monthly expenses without increasing my access to usable capital," says Aaron Bryan. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Comparing coronavirus responses: What did Canada and the U.S. do differently?

New York has more than nine times as many diagnoses as Canada, which has 7,405 confirmed cases, including 74 deaths. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

“The virus, we believe, is politically motivated," said Pastor Tony Spell. "We are going to assemble no matter what someone says." | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Switzerland ended up with 2nd highest coronavirus infection rate in the world

Italy now tops the coronavirus table with 886 people infected for every million citizens. Unbeknownst to most of the world, Switzerland is second with 736 cases of the virus per million people. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Cigarette butts are polluting the ocean more than plastic straws

Cigarette butts, which easily find their way into the ocean, contain plastic in the filters that are not biodegradable. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

What Wuhan, China looks like under quarantine for coronavirus

Wuhan and a number of surrounding municipalities are under lockdown, with travel networks and services shut down or restricted. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Mastercard announces $500M cybersecurity centre in Vancouver

The company says the new centre will "accelerate innovation in digital and cyber security, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things." | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Turkey unveils prototype of first domestically-made electric car

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan showcased the SUV and sedan models of the car, known for now as TOGG after a consortium of Turkish companies that will produce them, at a ceremony in Gebze, in Turkey’s northwestern industrial heartland. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Girl finds cry for help in holiday card, allegedly from China foreign prisoner

"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will," the card's message read in part. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

LifeLabs reveals data breach, possibly affecting up to 15M Canadians

LifeLabs is Canada's largest provider of lab tests for diagnostic purposes.  | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Study shows DNA may not be good predictor of disease, health

The study, which involved scientists examining two decades of data, concluded that DNA contribution to disease development is only about five to 10 per cent. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Go AI cannot be defeated

"There is an entity that cannot be defeated," said Lee Se-dol, who is considered to be one of the greatest Go players of the modern era.  | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Is Canada’s tap water safe? Thousands of test show high lead across country

Hundreds of thousands of Canadians could be consuming tap water laced with high levels of lead leaching from aging infrastructure and plumbing. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

SkipTheDishes denies wrongdoing as more billing fraud cases come forward

A SkipTheDishes spokesperson told Global News the fraud reports were isolated and denied its systems were hacked.  | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Ontario dentist loses his license after treating his wife

A dental hygienist in Ontario who lost his licence for treating his wife's teeth is appealing to the public. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Conservative Facebook ads target Chinese, say Trudeau will legalize hard drugs

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer did not have an answer for why the Facebook advertisements were only published in Chinese languages. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

TransUnion says 37,000 Canadians may have had personal info compromised

The credit monitoring agency said it has notified those whose information may have been accessed as well as the privacy commissioners. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

‘South Park’ Episode Banned in China Screened on Hong Kong Street

On Tuesday night, passersby in Hong Kong stopped to watch a recent 'South Park' episode that was banned in China as it was screened on a projector in the street. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Bee population recovering due to regenerative farming, producers say

Dairy farmers say that regenerative farming has brought back the bees and increased profits. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Asking an employee to get a sick note is a ‘public health risk’

Eight in 10 Canadians said they would go to work sick if their employer required a sick note, and that puts the public in danger. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

500k March in Montreal – Climate Hero Greta “Strikes” Again

According to organizers, an estimated 500, 000 people marched in the streets of Montreal, marking it the largest strike in the city's history, said Mayor Valerie Plante. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Case against optical drive makers over price fixing can go on

Canada's top court has given the green light to a pair of British Columbia class-action suits alleging a global price-fixing conspiracy by electronics firms. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

U.S. navy confirms UFO videos from Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge are real

Three videos showing what the U.S. navy calls "unidentified aerial phenomena" were previously released by Tom DeLonge's research group. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Investigation of senior RCMP official stemmed from disruption of Phantom Secure

Cameron Ortis was director general of the RCMP National Intelligence Coordination Centre, commissioner says. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

The world is running out of sand – there’s even a violent black market for it

Sand, that seemingly abundant resource, is becoming a rare commodity. It's extracted more than oil and gold as we use it to make concrete, asphalt and glass. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Dallas airport passengers silently salute the return of a fallen hero

Col. Roy Knight Jr., who was shot down in combat during the Vietnam war in 1967. On Thursday, Col. Knight's own son Bryan — now an airline pilot — finally brought his father home. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Lunar crash may have seeded indestructible ‘water bears’ on the moon

The failed lunar lander was carrying biological samples, including thousands of preserved tardigrades, which can survive in almost any environment. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

An Ontario fentanyl trafficking ring involving a doctor and a pharmacist

The trafficking ring involved thousands of fentanyl patches and spanned from Toronto to Sudbury. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Significant cellular outages nationwide across Canada

The website does not include an estimated time of repair, but says the company is "working diligently to restore services as soon as possible."  | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Airbnb could pull up to 1% off rental vacancies in Canada's 3 biggest cities

A report estimates that Airbnb could have turned potential long-term rentals into short-term listings on their platform. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Quebec’s harsh new laws may echo sentiments felt elsewhere in Canada

Immigration and how we treat newcomers will likely be issues in the October federal election, Tasha Kheiriddin says. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Apple criticized for launching $1K monitor stand – monitor sold separately

Apple is being criticized for the lofty price of its newly-launched Pro Stand, which will sell for US$999, released at the company's annual developer conference on Monday. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 4 years ago

Roadside drug testing device picks up false positives from poppy seeds and tea

Kyla Lee says the tests found the Drager DrugTest 5000 picks up false positives from products like poppy seed cake and coca tea. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 5 years ago

Drone makes history by delivering organ for successful transplant

Physicians and researchers teamed up with aviation and engineering experts to fly the organ to the patient. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 5 years ago

Vancouver Airport blocking ads with information on travellers’ privacy rights

"This is information that's in the public interest and very related to people's safety travelling across borders," said the digital rights group Open Media. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 5 years ago

Boeing has made nearly 100 flights to test a 737 MAX software update, CEO says

Boeing is trying to convince regulators to let the 737 MAX take to the sky again. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 5 years ago

Woman dies after 11-hour wait to see a doctor in New Brunswick emergency room

Marianne Porter spent some of the final hours of her life hunched over and moaning in pain | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 5 years ago

Top jobs in Canada. Accurate insight at devs salaries

From sales associate to live chat agent, here's what employers are looking for. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 5 years ago

A lunar eclipse and a ‘super blood wolf moon’: how to watch this cosmic event

Skygazers are set to be treated to a total lunar eclipse this weekend, on top of a "super blood wolf moon." | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 5 years ago

Mars has an 82-kilometre-long crater of ice, and it’s frozen all year round

Mars' Korolev crater holds as much ice as does Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 5 years ago

Vermont man erects giant middle-finger sculpture, flipping off local government

Ted Pelkey had the sculpture erected next to a highway in the town of Westford earlier this month. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 5 years ago

Trump says he’d step in on Huawei CFO's case if it helped with a trade deal

Donald Trump on intervening in Huawei arrest: "If I think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made..." | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 5 years ago