From Global News. B.C. housing minister Ravi Kahlon says he’s well aware of problem homes operating as short-term rentals around the province despite new restrictions that went into effect this past spring. “I have heard way too many cases of this happening in communities,” Kahlon told Global News. One of the homes getting attention as…

From Global News. A single dose of the mpox vaccine offers moderate protection against the virus, a new Canadian study has found. The study published Wednesday in the BMJ found that a single dose of the Modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) was 58 per cent effective in protecting against the mpox infection. While “moderate” protection…

From Global News. Francine weakened into a tropical depression Thursday morning over south-central Mississippi, soaking that state and its neighbours in heavy rain after it slammed into the Louisiana coast Wednesday evening as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane. The storm knocked out electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses and threatened widespread flooding…

From Global News. The London Health Sciences Centre has acquired four major hip and knee replacement surgical robots, making it the first in Canada to collect the whole set. #health #tech #healthtech #technology #GlobalNews

From Global News. Business leaders are scheduled to hold a press conference on Thursday in hopes of preventing an Air Canada pilots strike. As Air Canada pilots prepare for the potential job action, the federal labour minister said there is “no reason” for the national carrier and union not to reach a collective agreement, and…

From Global News. The crew of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission made history on Thursday, as they embarked on the world’s first-ever private spacewalk. Billionaire Jared Isaacman, 41, exited the Crew Dragon capsule first. He was followed by SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis. “Back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from…

From Global News. Police in Nashville have praised rockstar Jon Bon Jovi for helping to talk a distressed woman off the ledge of a bridge on Tuesday evening. The moment on the city’s John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge over the Cumberland River was recorded in surveillance footage and uploaded online by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department…

From Global News. Manitobans have gathered to pay their respects to Cathy Merrick, grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC), who died suddenly at age 63 after collapsing outside the Winnipeg courthouse. Merrick was the first woman to lead the AMC and is now the first woman to lie in state the Manitoba…

From Global News. Two years after it was stolen from Ottawa’s Fairmont Château Laurier in 2022, a 1941 portrait of former British prime minister Winston Churchill by famed Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh has been recovered in Italy. A 43-year-old man from Powassan, Ont., has been charged with multiple offences, but a publication ban is limiting…

From Global News. As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushes for permission to use long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy visited Kyiv together. In addition, the U.K. and the U.S. are both accusing Iran of sending ballistic missiles to Russia. Redmond Shannon looks…

From Global News. With the race to the White House being too close to call, both Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris have faced off in their first debate of the 2024 U.S. election campaign. Jackson Proskow looks at the jabs and lies, whether this debate had any effect on undecided…

From Global News. The hunt is on for two carjacking suspects in Markham, Ont., after an attempted theft was caught on camera. Released surveillance video shows a white car tailing a woman’s SUV inside of a hotel parking garage on Aug. 31, before two men clad in black attacked her. In this case, the bandits…

From Global News. A young cougar that came onto a rural Alberta property on Tuesday afternoon and killed a family’s cat returned to the house again later that evening. Jessica Low was at her home on the southwestern outskirts of Calgary at about 12:30 p.m. when the initial encounter happened. She had just prepared lunch…

From Global News. Air Canada’s pilots are edging closer to setting up picket lines, as the company and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) continue to hold discussions at the bargaining table despite warnings of flight cancellations as early as Friday. Even with Canada’s Minister of Labour Steve MacKinnon saying he’s optimistic there will be…

From Global News. Russia and China "will react — and not only politically," if the U.S. deploys missiles in Japan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. The statement came as Japan Times reported on Sept. 7 that the U.S. had expressed an interest in deploying a Typhon mid-range missile system to Japan…

From Global News. Canadian Liberal MPs wrapped up their three-day summer caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C., on Wednesday. On the agenda was a closed door session that allowed MPs to grill Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about how they are going to change the party’s political fortunes. While the MPs acknowledge Trudeau’s deep unpopularity right now…

From Global News. U.S. President Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attended a September 11th memorial event in New York on Wednesday. A day after squaring off in their first presidential debate, Harris and Trump were seen shaking hands while paying respect to the victims and their families.…

From Global News. Police in Laval, Que., say officers were following protocol after videos surfaced of police violently arresting a tourist from Toronto over Labour Day weekend. Gulaid Omar was getting out of a rental car just north of Montreal, to celebrate a work anniversary with family and friends on Sept. 1 when he says…

From Global News. The leader of the opposition Pierre Poilievre stated during a press conference on Wednesday that the Conservatives — if they win the next election — would cap population growth so it doesn’t exceed the number of homes being built in Canada. “You can’t grow the population faster than that unless you’re going…

From Global News. A rural resident northeast of Edmonton, Alta. is getting the runaround in his attempt to get a car removed from an area lake that’s been submerged for nearly one year. “I saw this yellow thing in the water and I was going, ‘What is that?’” The car is submerged in a shallower…

From Global News. Taylor Swift announced on Instagram that she’ll be voting for U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election. With the pop superstar’s endorsement, do you think it will encourage younger voters to hit the polls in the #uselection2024? #taylorswift

From Global News. U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump traded zingers and clashed over the economy, immigration and reproductive rights in Tuesday night’s presidential debate, but who came out on top? Global’s Jackson Proskow says Harris managed to "flip the script," and put Trump on the defensive, forcing him to defend his…

From Global News. U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump clashed over war, immigration and reproductive rights in Tuesday night’s presidential debate, as both candidates sought to make their case for winning the White House in November. On immigration, Trump peddled a far-right conspiracy that migrants in Ohio are eating "dogs," "cats" and…

From Global News. As millions of students across Canada settle into the new school year, many are getting used to new cellphone bans in the classroom. The restrictions are designed to keep kids more focused on their studies. But in Finland, a country renowned for tech, the town of Riihimäki is taking it one step…

From Global News. Pressure is growing on the federal Liberals to redefine themselves and reverse their fortunes after the NDP prematurely ended both parties’ supply and confidence deal. Meanwhile, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney met with Liberal MPs in Nanaimo, B.C., amid the party’s summer caucus retreat. Global’s David Akin explains how Carney…

From Global News. Mission RCMP is looking for two suspects in an apparent road rage incident involving a baseball bat. It reportedly started Sunday morning in a drive-thru on Lougheed Highway and Cedar Valley Connector. Police said the victims honked at the car in front of them at Tim Hortons to move forward in the…

From Global News. Pakistani national Muhammad Shahzeb Khan is facing terror charges in both Canada and the U.S. for allegedly plotting to carry out a mass shooting at a Jewish centre in the name of the so-called Islamic State in the New York borough of Brooklyn. Mackenzie Gray reports on how Khan entered Canada. Pressure…

From Global News. Members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, arrived in an Islamabad court on Tuesday after multiple lawmakers were detained following midnight raids demanding Khan’s release from prison. Among the suspects was PTI chairman Gohar Khan, who claimed more than a dozen party members were arrested,…

From Global News. After going viral at the 2024 Olympics, Australian breakdancer B-Girl Raygun was named the number one female breakdancer in the world. Raygun, a 37-year-old academic whose real name is Rachel Gunn, was placed in the top spot of the women’s rankings by the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) – the governing body of…

From Global News. Schools remain closed in Laurel County, Ky., on Tuesday as authorities continue searching for the man accused of shooting at cars along Interstate 75 and injuring five people. The Laurel County Sheriff’s office identified 32-year-old Joseph Couch as the suspect, after finding an AR-15 in a car linked to him. An affidavit…

From Global News. Ukraine launched its deadliest drone strike on Moscow on Monday night, according to officials. It’s the kind of attack that analysts have insisted Kyiv needs to launch to demonstrate to Russia that it will also suffer if the war continues. And the U.S. has since accused Iran of helping the Kremlin’s war…

From Global News. The Chinese government announced the end of its international adoption program last Thursday, leaving many who may have already been in the process of foreign adoption in the lurch. Wang Wenbin Mao Ning Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, said the inter-country program will come to an immediate end,…

From Global News. Doritos might be known for spicing up snack time, but researchers have discovered that a dye in the chips can also turn mice translucent. The study, published in the journal Science, explains how researchers at Stanford University in California used a common food dye called ‘Yellow No. 5’ — also found in…

From Global News. Residents in an Upper Mission neighbourhood of Kelowna, B.C., are pleading with the city to help shut down what they call a problem short-term rental home. "I’ll be frank with you, I’m fed up,” said Dave Montpetit, who lives on Viewcrest Court. “Parties going on, we had a tour bus show up…

From Global News. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland criticized the use of public funds for a controversial documentary about Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine screening at TIFF. “We have to be really clear that this is a war where there is no moral equivalency,” she said. The film, Russians at…

From Global News. A Pakistani man arrested in Quebec as he was allegedly on his way to New York to conduct a mass shooting at a Jewish centre entered Canada last year on a student visa, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, charged last week in an ISIS terrorism plot, received a…

From Global News. The former partner of Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who is accused of killing her by dousing her in petrol and setting her on fire, has died from burns sustained during the attack, the Kenyan hospital where he was being treated said on Tuesday. Cheptegei, 33, who competed in the marathon at the…

From Global News. A Pakistani man arrested in Quebec as he was allegedly on his way to New York to conduct a mass shooting at a Jewish centre entered Canada last year on a student visa, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, charged last week in an ISIS terrorism plot, received a…

From Global News. Ukraine struck the Moscow Region on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack on the Russian capital so far, killing at least one woman and wrecking dozens of homes. Russia said it had destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region. A 46-year-old woman was killed and…

From Global News. Miami-Dade police department released bodycam footage showing its officers forcefully removing Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill from his car and shoving him to the ground during a heated traffic stop ahead of his team’s home opener on Sunday. "That’s really embarrassing of y’all, that dude slammed me on my knee like that,"…

From Global News. A B.C. couple is expressing anger over what they say is a banking error at one of Canada’s largest banks. Jason and Susan Lyne say money was being withdrawn monthly from a joint RBC account they share with their daughter without their authorization. The Lynes say their frustration with RBC started when…

From Global News. Apple on Monday unveiled its artificial intelligence-boosted iPhone 16, showing off the long-awaited phone hours after Chinese rival Huawei’s tri-fold phone began racking up orders. “The next generation of iPhone has been designed for Apple Intelligence from the ground up. It marks the beginning of an exciting new era,” Chief Executive Tim…

From Global News. James Earl Jones, the renowned actor best known for providing the voices of Darth Vader in ‘Star Wars’ and Mufasa in ‘The Lion King,’ has died at age 93. Jones died at his home in Dutchess county, N.Y., according to an announcement from his representatives, who did not provide a cause of…

From Global News. More than 10,000 students and at least 400 teachers in Gaza have been killed in 11 months of war between Israel and Hamas, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Education. At least 85 per cent of schools in the Gaza Strip have been either damaged or destroyed since Oct. 7, 2023, according…

From Global News. After an already turbulent travel season, Air Canada is warning it could start grounding planes ahead of a potential pilots’ strike. Air Canada says talks with the pilots’ union are nearing an impasse and any strike or lockout notice will trigger a three-day wind down plan. Mackenzie Gray explains when the stoppage…

From Global News. Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is taking on a new role as chair of a Liberal Party task force, advising Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on economic growth. David Akin looks at Carney’s resume, how the Conservatives are criticizing his appointment, and whether the move may be an early sign of…

From Global News. Every three days, a child who has been involved with Ontario’s care system dies, according to provincial data obtained by Global News. The information captures children who died while living in care or with social work files that are either open or closed within 12 months of their death. The stark figures…

From Global News. There have been more attacks and reprisals in the Middle East, with Syrian officials saying an Israeli airstrike killed around 20 people and injured nearly 40. In the West Bank, a funeral was held for a Turkish-American who was protesting and killed by Israeli snipers, according to witnesses. Meanwhile, three medics in…

From Global News. Two men have been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for their roles in the blockade of the Canada-U.S. border crossing at Coutts, Alta. Anthony Olienick showed no emotion while Chris Carbert appeared glum and folded his arms, as the sentence was read out in Court of King’s Bench on Monday.…

From Global News. Meredith Gaudreau, the widow of late NHL star Johnny Gaudreau, revealed she’s pregnant with the couple’s third baby during her emotional eulogy at his memorial service Monday. The funeral for Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew Gaudreau took place 11 days after the pair were struck by an SUV while riding their…

From Global News. A Maple Ridge, B.C. store has been targeted again by vandals, making it the third time in about 18 months. A man dressed in black smashed the windows at Once Upon A Tea Leaf around 4 a.m. on Saturday. “The scary part is that he had something else in his hand,” co-owner…

From Global News. Speaking at a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul detailed a newly released follow-up report on the military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan between 2020 and 2021. McCaul lambasted President Joe Biden and the Democratic party for its approach in fighting the Taliban, and suggested the…

From Global News. Police in Australia are working to track down a man suspected of pouring hot coffee on a nine-month-old baby on Aug. 27 in Brisbane and then fleeing the country. Security camera footage shows a man in a plaid shirt and shorts sprinting through the park and down residential streets immediately after the…

From Global News. Calgary security guard Kim Belair-Prevost says she was doing her normal morning rounds in the Beltline community on Aug. 19, 2024 when she was assaulted. A man was sleeping near some loading dock doors, but when Belair-Prevost asked him to move on he got aggressive. “I was running for the door, but…

From Global News. A manhunt for the suspect in the Interstate- 75 (I-75) shooting that left eight people injured in Laurel County, Kentucky, resumed on Monday morning, with the Kentucky State Police taking over the search. Several agencies are now involved in the massive manhunt for Joseph Couch. Couch is alleged to have opened fire…

From Global News. Ontario Premier Doug Ford accused NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh of being a "greedy politician" who wouldn’t risk an early federal election because it could thwart his plans to collect a lucrative government pension. Ford said he would “be floored” if there was an early federal election, stressing on Monday that Singh is…

From Global News. The Princess of Wales says she has completed her course of preventative treatment, nine months after Kensington Palace disclosed Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis and announced she will be withdrawing from public duties. In a video released by the palace on Monday, Princess Kate says she plans to resume public engagements in the…