Former NATO commander Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin will be leading Canada's vaccine distribution efforts in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced. As first reported by CTV News ahead of Trudeau's Rideau Cottage address on Friday, Fortin will be in charge of overseeing what is set to be a massive logistics-heavy operation.
Ontario health officials are reporting more than 1,800 new COVID-19 cases after the province processed a record-breaking number of tests over the past 24 hours.
Despite growing interest from the federal government and nuclear proponents, the Canadian Environmental Law Association warns that the safety implications of small modular reactors (SMRs) may outweigh the environmental pay off.
U.S. President Donald Trump still won't bring himself to concede the election he decisively lost to President-elect Joe Biden. But he's now acknowledging he will leave the White House if Biden's win is affirmed by the Electoral College, which is firmly on track to do just that in a few weeks.
Black Friday, the one-day shopping bonanza known for its big bargains and large crowds, has arrived. While rising COVID-19 cases and weeks of staggered deals have muted the usual fanfare of the shopping event, retailers are banking on today's sales to bolster their bottom line.
Despite increased calls for Canadians to buy from local businesses this holiday season, experts fear large international retailers will still dominate during Black Friday and Boxing Day events, leading to a surge in small business bankruptcies in the new year.
Former Conservative MP Lisa Raitt is speaking out about the violence she and her children face as her husband struggles with early onset Alzheimer's during a pandemic that has blocked a normal course of treatment.
Ontario’s former lieutenant-governor, who contracted polio as a child, shares his story with W5 about the unorthodox treatments used to help the disease’s victims.
The province's police watchdog is investigating an interaction between a 33-year-old man and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) near Lindsay, Ont. on Thursday that left the man and a police officer seriously wounded and the man's one-year-old son, who he allegedly abducted, dead.
Democrats once dominated Koochiching County in the blue-collar Iron Range of northern Minnesota. But in this month's presidential election, U.S. President Donald Trump won it with 60 per cent of the vote. And that's raising alarm bells for Democrats concerned the party has steadily moved too far to the left for many rural voters.
Lawmakers in Taiwan got into a fist fight and threw pig guts at each other Friday over a soon-to-be enacted policy that would allow imports of U.S. pork and beef.
Iconic singer and actress Cher is in Pakistan to celebrate the departure of Kaavan, dubbed the 'world's loneliest elephant,' who will soon leave a Pakistani zoo for better conditions after years of lobbying by animal rights groups and activists.
Criticism towards Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and praise for Ontario Premier Doug Ford on their handling of the pandemic all comes down to optics, Don Martin writes in his latest column for CTVNews.ca.
The fourth season of 'The Crown' has been greeted with a flurry of renewed interest in the troubled relationship between Prince Charles and Lady Diana. But did the hit Netflix get the facts right? Viewers need to beware, CTV's royal commentator Richard Berthelsen writes in his exclusive column for CTVNews.ca, as the series plays fast and loose with what really happened.
Worried about funding your retirement? You may want to consider delaying CPP/QPP benefits past age 60. CTV News' Chief Financial Commentator Pattie Lovett-Reid explains why in her weekly column for CTVNews.ca.
What started as routine wildlife assistance took an extraterrestrial turn for Utah's Department of Public Safety after officers stumbled upon a mysterious monolith in the middle of rural Utah.
A Toronto doctor who lost three patients to the coronavirus in 36 hours says he’s dismayed by holiday shoppers lining up at malls for discounts while hospitals surpass capacity thresholds amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some Canadians are warning that they face an increased risk of self-harm due to a severe global shortage of a drug used to treat depression, anxiety and panic attacks.
New lockdown measures being implemented in several regions in Ontario and Manitoba are seeing small businesses shut their doors to in-person browsing again, causing concern for many in the industry.
The Bank of Canada has issued a reminder that all $1, $2, $25, $500, and $1,000 bank notes will have their legal tender status removed as of Jan. 1, 2021 and Canadians will no longer be able to use them in daily transactions.
Ontario’s former lieutenant-governor, who contracted polio as a child, shares his story with W5 about the unorthodox treatments used to help the disease’s victims.
People with Lyme disease can suffer debilitating pain, robbing them of the life they had before they were bitten by a tick. W5 investigates a new treatment that is bringing new hope to these patients.
W5 investigates the growing pandemic that is intimate partner violence in Canada and tells the story of Cara Cochrane, who feared for her life before her death.
A Toronto police dog has helped investigators with over a hundred cases. Watch W5’s Cop Dog on Saturday at 7 p.m. as reporter Molly Thomas follows Major’s investigations into the missing and murdered.
W5 investigates the racism and challenges many Asian-Canadians have had to face since the start of the pandemic and what advocates say needs to change.
There have been dozens of arsons, shootings and at least four murders connected to the tow truck industry in the Toronto area. W5 investigates the underbelly of the industry and shares the story of a lawyer who took it on.
An emergency room doctor in Edmonton says Alberta's public health restrictions don't go far enough to deal with rising COVID-19 cases that are straining the health-care system.
Police have laid nine charges after a Toronto barbecue restaurant openly flouted public health restrictions prohibiting on-site dining for a second straight day.
A letter written by a member of the Canadian Armed Forces during the Second World War was discovered hidden behind a wall of a Guelph, Ont. home this week.
Human rights complaints are now being filed by an Indigenous man and his granddaughter after both were handcuffed outside a Bank of Montreal branch in Vancouver last December.
An Etobicoke restaurant that flouted provincial orders by offering indoor dining to customers amid a lockdown in Toronto has been ordered to close indefinitely by the city’s medical officer of health.
For five months this year, Montreal paramedics were told to suspend resuscitation efforts on patients whose hearts had stopped, since it was seen as too risky at a time when COVID-19 wasn't well understood.
Campers looking to secure a spot in a national park during the height of the 2021 season will need to wait a little longer as Parks Canada has pushed back the opening of reservations.
Despite growing interest from the federal government and nuclear proponents, the Canadian Environmental Law Association warns that the safety implications of small modular reactors (SMRs) may outweigh the environmental pay off.
Over four decades, Mary Nichols has been the regulator behind some of the nation's most ambitious climate policies and, in recent years, she's been their staunchest defender against U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to dismantle them.
Preparing a Thanksgiving dinner may be a challenge for the more than 3,100 Southern California families who have just lost power due to the wildfire threat sweeping across the region.
A new report from the Canada Energy Regulator projects that if Canada strengthens its climate policies to cut more greenhouse-gas emissions, it could eliminate the need for both the Trans Mountain expansion and the new Keystone XL pipeline.
Dialling down the Sun's heat a notch by injecting billions of shiny sulphur dioxide particles into the stratosphere could curtail devastating drought across parts of Africa, new peer-reviewed research has reported.
Criticism towards Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and praise for Ontario Premier Doug Ford on their handling of the pandemic all comes down to optics, Don Martin writes in his latest column for CTVNews.ca.
P.R.E.S.I.D.E.N.T. B.I.D.E.N: That’s how you spell relief to most Canadians as adult supervision seems set to return to the White House, Don Martin writes.
Of all the COVID-19 symptoms, the most unexpected is election fever. A third clinical trial ended Monday night, an election suggesting the best treatment for party leaders in these uncertain times is a snap inoculation by their voters, Don Martin writes in his latest column for CTVNews.ca.
A source in Transport Canada says speculation about incoming federal relief for airlines is mostly accurate. But the optics are tricky, with higher priorities on the government’s radar than bailing out companies which stacked and packed passengers profitably for many years, Don Martin writes in his latest column for CTVNews.ca.
Chantel Moore’s family is in mourning after her brother died by suicide just months after Chantel’s death during a wellness check by police in New Brunswick.
It's an understatement to say people in Greater Sudbury were shocked in May 2019 when Sudbury nephrologist Dr. Ian MacDonald was charged with using a computer at Health Sciences North to access child pornography. But bigger shocks were to come.
The province's police watchdog is investigating an interaction between a 33-year-old man and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) near Lindsay, Ont. on Thursday that left the man and a police officer seriously wounded and the man's one-year-old son, who he allegedly abducted, dead.
Ontario health officials are reporting more than 1,800 new COVID-19 cases after the province processed a record-breaking number of tests over the past 24 hours.
Difficulties securing fresh bamboo amidst the pandemic prompted the zoo to begin arranging the return of Er Shun and Da Mao in the spring, but red tape delayed their departure for months.
An Iranian scientist that Israel alleged led the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program until its disbanding in the early 2000s was killed in a targeted attack that saw gunmen use explosives and machine-gun fire Friday, state television said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered at least two people executed, banned fishing at sea and locked down the capital, Pyongyang, as part of frantic efforts to guard against the coronavirus and its economic damage, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers Friday.
The French lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a law banning discrimination based on a person's accent, calling the practice 'a form of racism.'
U.S. President Donald Trump still won't bring himself to concede the election he decisively lost to President-elect Joe Biden. But he's now acknowledging he will leave the White House if Biden's win is affirmed by the Electoral College, which is firmly on track to do just that in a few weeks.
Pope Francis is encouraging Argentine women who are protesting a proposed new law to legalize abortion, saying the protection of life is above all a matter of human ethics.
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny urged the European Union to reject the results of Russia's parliamentary election next year if any candidates are blocked from taking part and he called Friday on the EU to impose sanctions on oligarchs close to President Vladimir Putin.
Iconic singer and actress Cher is in Pakistan to celebrate the departure of Kaavan, dubbed the 'world's loneliest elephant,' who will soon leave a Pakistani zoo for better conditions after years of lobbying by animal rights groups and activists.
Alex Trebek, the late host of the long-running game show "Jeopardy!," had a Thanksgiving message for viewers, urging them to "be thankful" and "keep the faith."
Ontario’s former lieutenant-governor, who contracted polio as a child, shares his story with W5 about the unorthodox treatments used to help the disease’s victims.
While we're all cooped up during the pandemic, the World Health Organization wants you to exercise. The organization released new physical activity guidelines recommending that adults get at least 150 minutes — that's 2.5 hours — of moderate to vigorous physical activity weekly.
Former NATO commander Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin will be leading Canada's vaccine distribution efforts in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced. As first reported by CTV News ahead of Trudeau's Rideau Cottage address on Friday, Fortin will be in charge of overseeing what is set to be a massive logistics-heavy operation.
Some of the thousands of mink culled to minimize the risk of them re-transmitting the new coronavirus to humans have risen from their shallow graves in western Denmark after gases built up inside the bodies, Danish authorities said Thursday.
A Japanese spacecraft is nearing Earth after a yearlong journey home from a distant asteroid with soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system, a space agency official said Friday.
What started as routine wildlife assistance took an extraterrestrial turn for Utah's Department of Public Safety after officers stumbled upon a mysterious monolith in the middle of rural Utah.
Air Canada pilots have ratified changes to their contract that will help the carrier grow its cargo business, as airlines scramble to minimize the pandemic's toll on their bottom lines.
China on Friday added wine to the growing list of Australian goods barred from its markets in a trade war against Australia over disputes including its support for a probe into the origin of the coronavirus.
Hyundai and Kia must pay US$137 million in fines and safety improvements because they moved too slowly to recall over 1 million vehicles with engines that can fail.
Carolling groups and church choirs across the country are having to adapt their traditional holiday performances as COVID-19 has shifted the ways they celebrate the holidays.
Self-described "nerd" John Horgan flashed a Vulcan salute while being sworn in as B.C.'s 36th premier on Thursday, but said the gesture was purely accidental.
Tokyo Olympics organizers on Friday announced a series of 18 test events set to begin in March and run into May, ahead of the Summer Games currently set to open on July 23, 2021.
