Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he welcomed the news also with "sorrow" and "caution given that we have had false dawns before, and the deal has not yet been confirmed.”
The federal government says it's providing $117 million in funding to address what it describes as a "heightening water crisis" on B.C.'s drought-stricken Sunshine Coast.The project, led by the shíshálh Nation in partnership with the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD), aims to upgrade the region's existing water treatment plant. It will also construct two large-scale reservoirs to store water from the Chapman Creek watershed, which supplies municipal water to roughly 76 percent of Sunshine
A lawsuit against the Yukon government over its alleged mismanagement of the Takhini elk herd — and the damage the animals have caused local farmers — has been settled. Takhini Valley-area ranchers Wayne and Alison Grove took the territorial government to court in 2020, alleging that it failed to properly control the herd's size and range. As a result, they argued, the animals have become a nuisance on agricultural land by damaging fences, trampling crops and threatening the health and food supp
The union representing Edmonton Public Schools support workers are questioning the use of substitute teachers to fill gaps in the classroom while more than 3,000 of its members are on strike.School support workers include education assistants, cafeteria workers and administration staff. Workers walked off the job this earlier week, calling for better wages.CUPE Local 3550 president Mandy Lamoureux says they're hearing about supply teachers being brought in to cover some of the work her members w
Different plans have come before council over the many years since its sale, only to be scrapped or abandoned. So far, its use has been for parking. Vancouver municipal affairs journalist Frances Bula joins CBC’s Michelle Ghoussoub to reflect on why owner Concord Pacific has still done nothing with this prime bit of real estate.
The prominent banker also serves as the United Nations special envoy for climate action and finance
Outgoing Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "has to find a way to accommodate the legitimate concerns" of Palestinians for the long term sustainability of Israel. "And the idea that Israel is going to be able to sustain itself for the long term without accommodating the Palestinian question ... It's not going to happen," Biden, who hands over to Republican President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, said in an interview on MSNBC. "And I kept reminding my friend, and he is a friend, although we don't agree a whole lot lately, Bibi Netanyahu, that he has to find a way to accommodate the legitimate concerns of a large group of people called Palestinians, who have no place to live independently."
The far-right politician called the ceasefire agreement an "abandoned deal" and threatened to leave the government if Israel approves it.
No charges have been laid following an altercation in Ottawa involving the grand chief of an organization that represents First Nations in southern Manitoba, a police spokesperson says.Southern Chiefs' Organization Grand Chief Jerry Daniels was hospitalized following the incident, which happened in the early morning hours of Dec. 3 in Ottawa, where the Assembly of First Nations was holding a gathering.Ottawa previously said they were called to the city's ByWard Market area around 2:30 a.m. that
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Windsor-Essex on Monday. He started the day at an area school speaking with students, before meeting with union leaders and speaking to media at a Windsor tool and die manufacturer. The CBC's Jennifer La Grassa brings us more.
Youth unemployment is on the rise in B.C., with new data from Statistics Canada painting a bleak picture for young job hunters. CBC's Michelle Morton has more.
A group of people visiting the Turks and Caicos islands captured video of debris from the failed SpaceX rocket flying overhead, as the wreckage left behind a colorful stream of smoke.
WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone who has.Natalie Brown sat down one day to search the Food Network for a recipe. But another website starting with "F" popped up immediately — Fetlife, a Canadian social networking site for people interested in fetishism — and on it, she found a video she didn't know existed of herself engaged in a sexual act. "I was so humiliated. I felt stupid, I felt embarrassed, I fel
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A sheriff has ruled the deaths of Katie Allan, 21, and William Brown, 16, could have been avoided.
President-elect Donald Trump is hoping to make Hollywood “stronger than ever before” by naming Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as “special ambassadors,” whose goal will be to bring back business lost to “foreign countries.” “It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a …
A 45-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly swerved a taxi into a tractor-trailer on a highway while he was sitting in the front passenger seat, Ontario Provincial Police said. The incident happened on Wednesday around 5 p.m. on Highway 412 near Taunton Road. Dashcam footage posted on social media shows the taxi approaching the truck, which is driving in the same direction in the lane beside it. The accused reaches over and grabs the steering wheel. The car crashes into the tractor-tra
President-elect Donald Trump has cried foul over the FBI shuttering its diversity, equity and inclusion wing just before his return to the White House. Trump and his MAGA allies have long railed against DEI, which they see as a fast track for under-qualified people to attain jobs that would have otherwise gone to better-suited candidates without regard to ethnicity or gender. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), even accused the FBI of having “prioritized” DEI over “protecting the American people.” The
During Trump's 2017 luncheon, he called for a standing ovation for Hillary Clinton and forecast four years of “peace and prosperity” under his administration.
"The Tonight Show" host forecasted what might go down on what's expected to be an abnormally cold day.
The CNN commentator reminded the "Shark Tank" investor about his ties to the president-elect in a tense on-air exchange.
