Ottawa on Friday spelled out how a new law requiring digital giants to pay publishers for news content will work in practice, including how much it could cost Meta and Google.The bill aims to support a struggling Canadian news sector that has seen a...

Joanna Schlosser found refuge from advancing wildfires at a winery where she works, but is now dealing with a tourism downturn and other wide-ranging fallout on the business -- and Canada's economy.An inferno jumped Okanagan Lake and was barreling do...

Meta is being accused of endangering lives by blocking news links in Canada at a crucial moment, when thousands have fled their homes and are desperate for wildfire updates that once would have been shared widely on Facebook.The situation "is dangero...

A new global biodiversity fund aimed at ramping up critical nature restoration and renewal -- objectives set out at a UN summit last year -- was ratified Thursday by the international community.At a gathering in Vancouver, Canada and Britain announce...

A firefighter has died battling one of the massive blazes devastating Canada's forests this year, British Columbia's premier announced on Saturday.It marked the third death of a firefighter during this devastating wildfire season."I amdevastated to l...

Facebook and Instagram users in Canada will be blocked from viewing Canadian news, parent-company Meta said Thursday, after Ottawa passed a bill requiring digital giants to pay for such content.Google, another critic of the Online News Act, has previ...

Canada's Supreme Court on Friday upheld an immigration agreement that allows authorities to bar asylum seekers from entering the country from the United States.The Safe Third Country Agreement, which came into effect in 2004, says that asylum seekers...

As Canada hurtles towards its worst wildfire season in history, a conspiracy theory has taken off online claiming environmentalists intentionally set some of the blazes."I bet a good portion of the wildfires raging across the country were started by...

Five TikTok users are calling on a federal court to overturn Montana's overall ban on the video sharing app, arguing that it violates their free speech rights.The lawsuit was filed just hours after Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed the unprecede...

Faced with a stream of vicious insults on social media, Canada's first Indigenous governor general Mary Simon has decided to turn her pain into a learning moment for her country and launch a fight against racism and misogyny online."For me, it's impo...

The Canadian government announced on Thursday a relaxation of immigration rules for Iranians in Canada, amid "gross and systematic human rights violations" in Iran."These measures will make it easier for Iranians who wish to extend their temporary st...

Three unidentified flying objects that were recently shot down over North America are being investigated by the United States and Canada. Military radars have been modified in an effort to detect more invasions.Every day, balloons are released into t...