'It’s awkward': Why Alberta's separation debate tends to live mostly online

In Drumheller, residents say local Facebook groups are full of angry banter, especially from a couple of hot-heads. But most of the time, people aren’t talking about separatism face-to-face — not unless they’re fairly certain the other person agrees with them.

Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed on Friday in the second nationwide outage this week and the fourth this year as a U.S.-imposed oil blockade has crippled the island's already obsolete generation system.

Crews are again draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as President Donald Trump’s problem-plagued effort to revamp the waterway pushes well past his initial goal of having it ready by July 4 to mark the nation’s 250th birthday.

July 10, 2026 | Canada and Michigan agree to open the Gordie Howe International Bridge on July 27. Deadly wildfires in Spain trap people trying to flee. And, more Canadians grow frustrated with CRA response times.

It's been more than a year since Justin Trudeau stepped down as Canada's prime minister, but he keeps bouncing back. This week, he hopped into millions of social media feeds in a promo video for his popstar girlfriend Katy Perry's new single Watch It Burn, setting off online debates about whether he's cool, cringy, disgraceful or all of the above.

Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing trade secrets as it seeks to build its own hardware for ChatGPT, a major rupture in a partnership between the iPhone maker and the artificial intelligence company.

Meta killed one feature of its new Muse Image system that would let users tag Instagram accounts and generate images based on an account's profile and posts. Its initial announcement also revealed, to the dismay of some, that Meta AI permissions are automatically turned on for users with public accounts in other countries — including Canada — and must be switched off manually in app settings.

Muse Image is only available in the U.S. at this time, but the announcement revealed, to the dismay of some, that Meta AI permissions are automatically turned on for users with public accounts in other countries — including Canada — and must be switched off manually in your app settings.

Judge Steven Schiefner ended his decision with a quote from another court case: "No consent means no touching; joking or not!"

First Nations chiefs countrywide are expressing concern about the lack of engagement after two pipelines were announced in Alberta, B.C. and Ontario. Two leaders say they only learned of the plans through last-minute emails and rumours.

Top Vancouver Fishing Charter company took to social media on June 28 to brag about how its two vessels had gone out together and would head back to port with a haul of fish, but the company's other boat, the nine-metre Top Ocean, had sunk about two hours earlier.

Online platforms in Australia are stumbling at the very first step in implementing age checks for users, rendering the first-of-its-kind social media ban ineffective, according to a team that advised the government's rollout of the new law.

A $500 cheque will be in the mail to people who have applied for disaster financial assistance, Premier Wab Kinew says.

An immigration tribunal issued a deportation order Friday against a Bishnoi gang associate accused of hiding a gun used in one of a series of shootings against a Surrey, B.C., café owned by famed Indian comedian and TV host Kapil Sharma.

It will be four years before a new natural gas-fired power plant north of Edmonton is operating and able to serve the massive data centre Meta Platforms Inc. is planning nearby. The tech giant expects the $13-billion-plus data centre will be online in the next two to three years, though no exact timeline has been set.

The Uashat mak Mani-utenam band council is officially taking control of its youth protection services, implementing its own community-led legal framework.

An unannounced fireworks show over downtown Ottawa surprised and confused many people late Thursday night. A councillor for the area said the decision was made by the city and federal government.

An airport spokesperson said "bot authors" are putting out "upward of 100 articles a day with false figures, no attempted verification and misleading context that implies system-wide cascades."

The Brunswick wildfires complex near Boston Bar, B.C., continues to rage out of control Friday.

The Supreme Court of Canada has reinstated the mandatory minimum sentence for offenders who obtain or solicit sexual services from a minor in exchange for money.

Questions are being raised about the Nova Scotia RCMP's decision to call off an emergency alert warning the public of an armed and dangerous man — who was later shot and killed by police — while he was still at large.

Europe’s biggest bat is capable of an impressively athletic feat: snatching birds out of the air and eating them, midflight — something a Flemish painter seems to have noticed hundreds of years before scientists.

Police have laid several charges after a man was caught on camera yelling profanity and racial slurs at a family shopping at a Halifax Costco.

Police have laid a slew of charges in relation to an incident last weekend in which a man was caught on camera yelling racially offensive language at a family shopping at a Halifax Costco.

The two paramedics who died earlier this week in New Brunswick are being brought home to P.E.I. in a procession that is now underway. Mike MacKenzie and Jenna Croucher were among three people who died Tuesday in a collision in Melrose, N.B., about 12 km southwest of the Confederation Bridge near Port Elgin.

The two paramedics who died earlier this week in New Brunswick are being brought home to P.E.I. in a procession that is now underway. Mike MacKenzie and Jenna Croucher were among three people who died Tuesday in a collision in Melrose, N.B., about 12 km southwest of the Confederation Bridge near Port Elgin.

The bodies of two paramedics who died earlier this week will be brought home to P.E.I. on Friday. Mike MacKenzie and Jenna Croucher were among three people who died Tuesday in a collision in the community of Melrose, N.B., about 12 km southwest of the Confederation Bridge near Port Elgin.

The two paramedics who died earlier this week in New Brunswick are now home on P.E.I. in a procession that began in Saint John. Mike MacKenzie and Jenna Croucher were among three people who died Tuesday in a collision in Melrose, N.B., about 12 km southwest of the Confederation Bridge near Port Elgin.

The two paramedics who died earlier this week in New Brunswick are now home on P.E.I. in a procession that began in Saint John. Mike MacKenzie and Jenna Croucher were among three people who died Tuesday in a collision in Melrose, N.B., about 12 km southwest of the Confederation Bridge near Port Elgin.

The two paramedics who died earlier this week in New Brunswick are now home on P.E.I. in a procession that began in Saint John. Mike MacKenzie and Jenna Croucher were among three people who died Tuesday in a collision in Melrose, N.B., about 12 km southwest of the Confederation Bridge near Port Elgin.