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It was "seven minutes of terror" that had a big payoff: NASA's Mars Perseverance safely landed on the surface of the red planet last Thursday. And, for the first time, the edge-of-your-seat descent was captured by high-definition video cameras that NASA released on Monday.

A farmer in northern B.C. captured a wild cat he found in his chicken coop Sunday, picking it up by the scruff of the neck and gently scolding it before relocating it to the bush.

The House of Commons defence committee agreed Monday to summon Canada's former military ombudsman to further its investigation into what the Liberal government knew — and did not know — about allegations of inappropriate behaviour by the country's former chief of the defence staff before they became public.

The City of Toronto sent Adam Skelly a demand letter in December. Skelly posted some of the invoice to Instagram with a yes/no poll asking people whether he should pay it.

The City of Toronto sent Adam Skelly a demand letter in December. Skelly posted some of the invoice to Instagram with a yes/no poll asking people whether he should pay it.

The federal government has introduced a new bill to repeal mandatory minimum penalties for certain drug offences, and while the change is a significant shift away from incarceration, some B.C. leaders say it could have gone further.

When Charlottetown resident Lillian Reynolds looked out her kitchen window Sunday morning and saw a seal wiggling down the sidewalk, she did a double take. 'I just couldn't believe what I was seeing,' said Reynolds, who called 911 and turned in the seal.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden will release a roadmap for renewing the Canada-U.S. relationship tomorrow that will serve as a blueprint for joint priorities such as tackling climate change, confronting the COVID-19 pandemic and restarting the North American economy, said senior officials from both governments.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden will release a roadmap for renewing the Canada-U.S. relationship tomorrow that will serve as a blueprint for joint priorities such as tackling climate change, confronting the COVID-19 pandemic and restarting the North American economy, said senior officials from both governments.

Microsoft is teaming up with European publishers to push for a system to make big tech platforms pay for news, raising the stakes in the brewing battle led by Australia to get Google and Facebook to pay for journalism.

Dr. Supriya Sharma, chief medical adviser at Health Canada, says the department is poised to make a decision on whether to authorize a promising COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca in the coming days.

Canada's biggest banks will report their quarterly financial results this week, and analysts say they will be listening for hints as to how bank executives view the economic recovery from COVID-19.

With much of the world struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still some good-news stories to report. Here's a brief roundup.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet will abstain from voting on a Conservative motion that would label Chinese human rights abuses targeting Muslims in the western Xinjiang region as genocide.

Conservative MPs say they want all members of Parliament to join them in voting for a motion that would label Chinese human rights abuses targeting Muslims in the western Xinjiang region as genocide.

A fireball buzzed over the Prairies on Monday, temporarily piercing the dark of the early morning sky with a flash of blinding blue light. 

A Norwegian museum says a small, barely visible sentence written on Edvard Munch's 1893 masterpiece The Scream was penned by the Norwegian painter himself.

Both the Pfizer-BioNtech and Oxford-AstraZeneca shots associated with markedly reducing the risk of hospitalization for COVID-19, preliminary findings from Scotland suggest.

The Conservative motion that will come to a vote in the House of Commons on Monday evening is not simply about whether or not China is committing genocide against Uighur Muslims. It's also about whether the government of Canada — or perhaps any country outside the U.S. — can or should say so.

Volunteers at the Salvation Army are renewing their efforts to provide hot meals to truck drivers finding it hard to access some services on Newfoundland and Labrador's roads.

The federal government has quietly revealed that it plans to pay nearly $1 billion to build a new ocean research vessel for the Canadian Coast Guard whose original cost was supposed to be one-tenth that amount.

The Canadian military is defending a decision to send hundreds of troops to the U.S. in its largest cross-border training exercise of the pandemic. One soldier called it a trivial exercise that needlessly puts troops at risk of COVID-19.

Boeing has recommended that airlines ground all of its 777s with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Denver on the weekend.

U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to mark 500,000 U.S. lives lost from COVID-19 with a moment of silence and candle-lighting ceremony at the White House. The nation passed the grim milestone on Monday, just over a year after the first confirmed U.S. fatality of the pandemic.

U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to mark 500,000 U.S. lives lost from COVID-19 with a moment of silence and candle-lighting ceremony at the White House. The nation passed the grim milestone on Monday, just over a year after the first confirmed U.S. fatality of the pandemic.

President Joe Biden is expected to mark 500,000 U.S. lives lost from COVID-19 with a moment of silence and candle-lighting ceremony at the White House. The nation is expected to pass the grim milestone on Monday, just over a year after the first confirmed U.S. fatality of the pandemic.

From group texts to watching while exercising, some viewers have turned the briefings into a pandemic ritual.

When the Olymel slaughterhouse closed temporarily last week amid a growing outbreak of COVID-19 cases, many workers expressed relief.

Rogan Power came to the Island with his mother for a visit when he was three. They made it their home, and he believes the acceptance and strong community on P.E.I. made him proud of who he is — and proud to be Black.

Between 41 and 57 per cent of fin whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are getting entangled in fishing gear, a problem previously identified mainly in right whales and humpbacks, according to new research that relied on drones. Scientists say the rates are higher than past estimates and likely comparable for blue whales as well.

Between 41 and 57 per cent of fin whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are getting entangled in fishing gear, a problem previously identified mainly in right whales and humpbacks, according to new research that relied on drones. Scientists say the rates are higher than past estimates and likely comparable for blue whales as well.

A woman who lost her family’s life savings to scammers posing as Hong Kong authorities says she was “scared to death” and that four banks should have done more to protect her. A wire fraud expert says banks are obligated to make sure customers aren’t exploited and should do more to protect victims.

Canadian privacy experts are concerned the federal government's plan to develop an online passport application process could put personal information at risk and open a new angle of attack for fraudsters.

Asylum seekers can normally begin working within weeks of arriving in Canada. But the pandemic has slowed the process to a trickle — forcing potential employees to be stuck at home.

A student at the University of British Columbia was certain she wanted to pursue charges after she caught a man filming her in the bathroom on campus. But then, she said, the investigating RCMP officer turned his focus to the suspect's background — and what a conviction might do to his future.

The federal government's new hotel quarantine requirement is now in effect for air travellers. Here’s the latest on what we know, including the hotel cost and who is exempt.

A year after the COVID-19 pandemic hit Italy, the county's new prime minister says he will use billions of euros provided by the European Union to invest in education and close the employment gender gap, which could help those hit hard by the pandemic's economic effects — young people and women.

After his car struck two people in a crosswalk, the driver of a Volkswagen Jetta told a Calgary police officer he'd been speeding, he had downed 12 ounces of alcohol and was worried he'd go to jail for drunk driving, yet police didn't get a breath or blood sample and charges were never laid.

After his car struck two pedestrians, the driver told a Calgary police officer he'd been speeding, and before that he'd been drinking, yet police didn't get a breath or blood sample and charges were never laid. Nine years after the deadly crash, officers involved in the case face Police Act charges.

The thousands of Ontario workers who commute across the U.S. border have been some of the only ones on the international bridges for the past year and they worry that new restrictions are about to make the quiet drive more complicated.

Provincial police say a 13-year-old boy has died after he was hit by a train while walking his dog in the Township of Springwater, Ont., near Barrie.

Protesters gathered in Myanmar's biggest city Monday despite the ruling junta's thinly veiled threat to use lethal force if people answered a call for a general strike opposing the military takeover three weeks ago.

Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative collective Bellingcat, tells us how the group used online information to break some of its biggest stories — from the poisoning of Alexei Navalny to the downing of Flight MH17 in Ukraine — and why he wants others to follow in Bellingcat's footsteps.

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