Four provinces reported single-day highs for new COVID-19 infections as public health officials and the prime minister urge Canadians to stay home to get spiralling numbers under control.
The province has announced nine more deaths in connection with the pandemic in Alberta, including a woman in her 20s who resided in the South zone.
Shoppers in Toronto flooded stores and malls on Saturday as many tried to cram in last-minute holiday shopping before non-essential businesses close for nearly a month during the city’s looming lockdown.
Despite recent optimism over reported results from COVID-19 vaccine trials, virologists say there is still a long way from lab bench to bedside.
A federal judge issued a scathing order Saturday dismissing the Trump campaign's futile effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania, shooting down claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots.
Canada and Britain struck a new trade deal on Saturday, allowing the long-standing partners to trumpet a commercial triumph in the face of the economic devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.
On a day when the COVID-19 numbers were grim, a single photograph captured the challenging historical moment Alberta is living through.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to end an England-wide lockdown as scheduled on Dec. 2 and to announce a return to regional restrictions as statistics show coronavirus infections have stabilized.
Prosthetics can be difficult to come by in many places, and a handful of Canadians, along with a U.K. charity, are trying to help out by donating used artificial limbs.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's effort to try and bring rivals onside to help communicate the dramatic implications of rising COVID-19 infections appears to have faltered.
The Group of 20 summit opened on Saturday with appeals by the world's most powerful leaders to collectively chart a way forward as the coronavirus pandemic overshadows this year's gathering, transforming it from in-person meetings to a virtual gathering of speeches and declarations.
Election officials in Wisconsin's largest county accused observers for U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count.
Ontario health officials recorded more than 1,500 new infections in the province on Saturday, marking a new record in the daily-reported number of infections in the province.
The family of 90-year-old Nancy Russell says she chose a medically-assisted death this fall after she declined so sharply during the first wave of lockdowns that she didn’t want to go through more isolation this winter.
Cheating spouses didn't suddenly cut off their affairs during the pandemic, according to private investigators tasked with digging up evidence of extramarital relationships, and some say they've seen a spike in business since the early days of COVID-19.
Government responses to COVID-19 have become a disjointed game of catch-up and confusion, Don Martin writes in his latest column for CTVNews.ca.
In an interview with CTV’s Pop Life, Robert Lacey, a historical consultant on the Netflix series The Crown, said the fractured relationship between Prince Harry and Prince William is another example of how duty and love have strained sibling relationships in the Royal Family.
A Canadian biotech company played a key role in developing one of the world’s most promising vaccine candidates that could be days away from seeking U.S. approval.
The interim results from a Canadian border study has found that 70 per cent of international travellers arriving by airplane who have COVID-19 can be identified within 48 hours through rapid PCR testing done the moment they arrive.
As U.S. President Donald Trump's time in the White House nears its end, experts explain how he can use his presidential powers to pardon himself for crimes he hasn't even been charged with yet.
Now that Joe Biden is poised to become the next president of the United States, what does that mean for Donald Trump’s final months in office and will there be any limits to his power now that he’s on the way out?
The problem of abandoned seafarers has become more severe during the COVID-19 pandemic as global maritime commerce has ground to a halt. Investigative journalist Ian Urbina explores the problem in his piece published on CTVNews.ca.
A group of U.K. artists created a stunning mural in West Yorkshire to raise awareness about the indirect risk children face from COVID-19.
A woman sustained only minor injuries after being pushed off a New York City subway platform just as a train was entering the station.
A N.C. museum is adding to its collection with fossil skeletons of intertwined dinosaurs in what looks like their final death match.
Cambridgeshire Police have released footage showing four masked men stealing more than $173,000 worth of rings and watches from a store.
Warming weather in the Pyrenees is forcing bees to higher and cooler ground – CTV News' Dan Riskin explains why this is a problem.
A photographer was able to capture stunning footage of a massive flock of flamingos on a Kazakhstan lake.
A former chief of the Neskantaga First Nation reflects on the damaging impact of living under Canada's longest-running boil-water advisory.
U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team said Saturday that his campaign has requested a recount of votes in the Georgia presidential race after results showed Democrat Joe Biden winning the state.
A federal judge issued a scathing order Saturday dismissing the Trump campaign's futile effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania, shooting down claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots.
U.S. president-elect Joe Biden's margin of victory over President Donald Trump surpassed 6 million votes on Friday, as ballots continue to be counted across the nation.
Election officials in Wisconsin's largest county accused observers for U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count.
U.S. President Donald Trump went golfing after making a brief online appearance at the G20 summit Saturday, an event hosted by Saudi Arabia but staged virtually because of COVID-19.
Michigan's election agency on Friday recommended that the Nov. 3 results be certified next week by state canvassers, a decision that would bless Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump but likely not cool partisan strife over the vote.
U.S. President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden's victory as criticism mounted that his futile efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election could do long-lasting damage to democratic traditions.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is pushing Congress to approve billions of dollars in emergency COVID-19 assistance before he takes office, saying in a meeting Friday with the top Democrats in the House and Senate that such a package should be approved during the lame-duck session.
A school in Canmore, Alberta is combining online learning with learning in the outdoors.
Wilkinson, whose party lost to Premier John Horgan's NDP in B.C.'s snap election last month, had previously indicated he planned to stay in his role until a new leader could be selected.
A teenaged girl who set out with her grandmother and mother last spring on a 1,800-kilometre RV trip to seek her new lungs has received the life-changing operation in an era of COVID-related delays.
York Region is reporting that six cases of COVID-19 have been linked to finesses classes held in the Aurora, Ont.
Hollywood actor Joaquin Phoenix attended a vigil Friday morning for an animal rights activist who was struck and killed by a truck while protesting outside a Burlington, Ont., slaughterhouse last summer.
Bird watchers are flocking to a hotspot on lower Vancouver Island to get a glimpse of a rare duck.
The Toronto Raptors will not be starting their new season at home due to COVID-19 protocols.
Federal researchers say they're not certain why the cod stock off the southern coast of Newfoundland and Labrador is at critically low levels but they say dramatic changes to the ecosystem may be playing a part.
Barry Bigelow says he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now unable to pay to repair his truck that was damaged in a crash with a stolen vehicle.
Steven Singh said he and his fiancée Gisselle Gomez were just trying to get into the holiday spirit when they decided to put up their Christmas decorations on the front lawn of their south Etobicoke home last weekend.
A U.S.-European satellite designed to extend a decades-long measurement of global sea surface heights was launched into Earth orbit from California on Saturday.
Traces of microplastics have been found close to the top of Mount Everest, a study showed Friday, likely originating from equipment used by the hundreds of climbers who summit the world's highest peak every year.
Newly proposed federal legislation would legally bind the government to set multiple targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 30 years but the only penalty for failing to meet them would be to admit so publicly.
The federal government announced on Thursday a climate bill aimed at cutting down greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero levels by 2050.
A "climate guardian" satellite set for launching this weekend will greatly help scientists keep track of the rise in sea levels, one of the most daunting effects of global warming, a senior official at the European Space Agency said Friday.
Government responses to COVID-19 have become a disjointed game of catch-up and confusion, 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.
The prime minister made an attempt to force an election that shows he's a master of parliamentary manipulation, Don Martin writes in his latest column for CTVNews.ca.
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 profiles former Canadian football player Balarama Holness and his quest to fight systemic racism.
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.
W5 investigates a small Alberta town that once prospered thanks to the oil industry that is now edging ever closer to collapsing because of it.
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.
From a young age, hockey players have been taught to play through pain and push themselves to the limit. A TSN investigation examines the use of painkillers by professional hockey players and speak with some of them about their fears over the drugs' potential long-term side effects.
The Ontario government will shutter most non-essential businesses, including gyms and personal care services, and will prohibit sit-down service in restaurants in two of the province’s COVID-19 hot spots as they grapple with a rise in infections.
Wilkinson, whose party lost to Premier John Horgan's NDP in B.C.'s snap election last month, had previously indicated he planned to stay in his role until a new leader could be selected.
Ontario health officials recorded more than 1,500 new infections in the province on Saturday, marking a new record in the daily-reported number of infections in the province.
The Government of Saskatchewan reported 439 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, setting a new single-day increase record.
Shoppers in Toronto flooded stores and malls on Saturday as many tried to cram in last-minute holiday shopping before non-essential businesses close for nearly a month during the city’s looming lockdown.
Nunavut has added 25 new COVID-19 cases, the second highest increase the territory has seen.
U.S. President Donald Trump went golfing after making a brief online appearance at the G20 summit Saturday, an event hosted by Saudi Arabia but staged virtually because of COVID-19.
U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team said Saturday that his campaign has requested a recount of votes in the Georgia presidential race after results showed Democrat Joe Biden winning the state.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to end an England-wide lockdown as scheduled on Dec. 2 and to announce a return to regional restrictions as statistics show coronavirus infections have stabilized.
U.S. president-elect Joe Biden's margin of victory over President Donald Trump surpassed 6 million votes on Friday, as ballots continue to be counted across the nation.
Police said Saturday that they're still searching for a man suspected in a shooting at a Wisconsin mall that injured eight people.
U.S. Housing Secretary Ben Carson is crediting unapproved, experimental treatments with saving his life after he became 'desperately ill' following his infection with the coronavirus.
Pop singer Sia is responding to the backlash to her upcoming film that has been criticized for casting a nondisabled actor to portray a character who has autism.
Jamila Ross and Akino West won a $10,000 grant for their Copper Door Bed & Breakfast last week from the Beygood Foundation, a collaboration between the entertainer Beyonce and the NAACP to support Black-owned businesses affected by the coronavirus.
Michael J. Fox is reportedly retiring again because of health concerns.
Manitoba health-care providers are being advised to stop using a certain influenza vaccine after three people from New Brunswick reported neurologic symptoms including numbness or weakness of the face or limbs.
After British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island mandated the use of face masks in public areas this week, Alberta was left as the sole province not to require them.
The World Health Organization warned Friday that growing antimicrobial resistance was every bit as dangerous as the coronavirus pandemic -- and threatened to reverse a century of medical progress.
Canada is far from flattening the COVID-19 curve, and the severity of the pandemic has now far surpassed the peak of infections during the first wave of the national health crisis, prompting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to implore Canadians to "really tighten up" their precautions and stay home as much as they can.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the federal government is willing to dish out new funding to the provinces and territories to combat the surging second wave of COVID-19 infections, but that the request would be more "compelling" if premiers can demonstrate they’ve burned through the $19 billion already provided and divided up between them.
The COVID-19 travel restrictions in place at the Canada-U.S. land border will remain in effect for at least another month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday.
Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave attempting to escape death from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago have been discovered in Pompeii, officials at the archeological park in Italy said Saturday.
Northern Ontario tour operators have signed on to a new pilot project designed to save the province’s $600 million Indigenous tourism industry from being decimated by the pandemic.
Gamers are now able to play previously-unavailable titles on Apple devices after developers launched software that bypasses the App Store and allows users to access PC games on the Safari browser, paving the way for Fortnite to return to iPhones.
Two of the Canadian literary industry's biggest brands are calling on the Ontario government to designate bookstores as essential services -- even as COVID-19 cases continue to surge.
New York's attorney general has sent a subpoena to the Trump Organization for records related to consulting fees paid to Ivanka Trump as part of a broad civil investigation into the president's business dealings, a law enforcement official said Thursday.
A province-wide mask mandate, adoption of the federal COVID-19 notification app and a 'circuit-breaker' lockdown are just some of the demands being made by 18 of Alberta's unions representing nearly 200,000 workers.
General Motors says a pending breakthrough in battery chemistry will cut the price of its electric vehicles so they equal those powered by gasoline within five years. The technology also will increase the range per charge to as much as 450 miles.
Britain will ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2030, a decade earlier than its previous commitment, the prime minister said Tuesday.
Many Maritimers might enjoy a nice fall road trip, but 40 years ago, a pair of Nova Scotians completed a drive for the history books.
In this little bar on the outskirts of Rome, the manager hopes to give her clients a brief respite from the global pandemic while they drink their coffee.
A 51-year-old U.S. woman who served as a surrogate for her daughter and son-in-law has given birth to her granddaughter after what she described as a 'textbook pregnancy.'
Have you ever dreamed about being an Olympian? Now there’s a program that can make your dreams a reality.
A 'non-core member' of Hockey Canada's National Junior Team staff has tested positive for COVID-19.
Fred VanVleet, one of the most coveted players in free agency this year, is remaining a Toronto Raptor.
"Medicine Game" centres on Tommy Henry as he struggles with violent outbursts and addiction on the fictional Sparrow Lake Nation. Powless said that he wrote the novel as a way to open up about his own mental health struggles and pay tribute to friends he's lost.
