
With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on the horizon, the CBC has circulated a memo to reporters and editors across all its news platforms reminding them not to refer to the attacks that claimed 3,000 lives and changed the modern world as “terrorist attacks.” The missive from the broadcaster’s journalistic standards and practices office, a copy of which was obtained by National Post, includes a section of the “longstanding language guidance” on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks carried out by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,” it...
August 26, 2026 - 20:16 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
For the first time on the Canadian Prairies, researchers with Assiniboine Park Zoo and the Canadian Wildlife Service in Winnipeg are attaching tiny radio transmitters on endangered monarch butterflies to track their perilous migration from Manitoba to Mexico.
August 26, 2026 - 20:05 | | CBC News - Canada
Investigators say they believe there may be additional victims and have released a photograph of the accused on the Durham Regional Police website.
August 26, 2026 - 20:05 | Alessia Simona Maratta | Global News - Ottawa
One of the most picturesque sights in British Columbia is changing — as Mount Robson's Berg Glacier has retreated so far back that it no longer touches the water of Berg Lake.
August 26, 2026 - 20:00 | | CBC News - Canada
To qualify for higher income assistance in Nova Scotia, a home now needs running water and a sewer connection. The province filed the legislative amendment on Aug. 25 and it took effect the same day. It rewrites the provision the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal interpreted on Aug. 7, when it ruled that Bradley Lowe’s tent was his accommodation. Lowe died Dec. 15, 2023, of an overdose in a tent in front of Halifax City Hall, after camping at Victoria Park. Two months earlier he applied to move from $380 a month to the enhanced rate of $974, saying he had a disability and owned his tent. He...
August 26, 2026 - 19:46 | Mason Kossak | National Post
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith rejected the idea of using the province’s oil exports as leverage in the U.S. trade war, saying that such a move would “devastate the Canadian economy” and inflate energy prices for consumers across Canada. The premier was responding to growing calls — including from Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi and former Alberta premier Jason Kenney — to consider using Canada’s energy exports to retaliate against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs. But such a move, Smith said, would prompt the U.S. to slap fresh levies on everything from crude oil...
August 26, 2026 - 19:30 | Jesse Snyder | National Post
