Fin du widget . WATCH | Give magpies a chance, Calgary naturalist Brian Keating says:Début du widget . Fin du widget . They are a feathered primate, essentially, in their ability to think, Keating said. Magpies thrive in urban environmentSara Jordan-McLachlan, who studies Calgary's urban wildlife, says magpies have become a core component of the city's ecosystem.

Bears aren’t stupid, so that’s that’s a problem. What is the general consensus in Bella Coola after the bear attack? It is not a bear problem. Our house has been there for a long time, and we didn’t have any bear attractants, so I don’t think that’s a human problem. A bear attack on children is just pretty horrific.

The voluntary grocery code of conduct for grocers, suppliers, wholesalers and primary producers in Canada is set to fully roll out on Thursday. The grocery code is intended to promote fair dealings between grocers and their suppliers, including in the application of penalties and fees. The office of the Canada Grocery Code will also start collecting annual membership dues and releasing annual reports highlighting industry trends, systemic challenges and proposed improvements, according to the Canada Grocery Code website. Loblaw agrees to sign grocery code of conduct — if its competitors do, tooLoblaw Companies Ltd. says it's agreed to sign onto a long-planned code of conduct for grocery retailers, as long as other industry players do, too. In other countries that have brought in grocery codes of conduct, prices have come down, he said at the time.

Dozens dead in Swiss New Year's Eve party fireNewsDuration 2:34Officials say about 40 people are dead and 115 others injured, most of them seriously, after a fire tore through a crowded bar during a New Year's Eve party in the upscale ski resort of Crans-Montana in southwestern Switzerland.

Zyn refers to a Swedish brand of nicotine pouch not available in Canada, but can also be colloquially used as a catch-all term for pouches. In part, this is due to American conservative firebrand personality Tucker Carlson launching his own nicotine pouch product Alp in late 2024. The government first approved the nicotine pouch product Zonnic for sale as a smoking-cessation product in 2023. Zonnic is owned by Imperial Tobacco Canada, and until recently, was the only nicotine pouch product authorized for sale in Canada. Dave Morrow, 44, a nicotine pouch user based in Montreal who says he “leans libertarian,” views Canada’s approach to regulating nicotine as senseless and oppressive.

A home described as the first of its kind now stands in the Nak’azdli Whuten community near Fort St. James, B.C. The home is a prototype for an Indigenous-led housing system that uses low-grade locally-sourced wood to produce prefabricated housing kits for northern communities. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement“This house means security not only in housing, but in economics and community longevity,” said Nak’azdli Whuten member Elky Taylor. They partnered with researchers at the University of Northern British Columbia’s Wood Innovation Research Lab to develop the prefabricated mass timber panel system. The mass timber panels are exposed on three sides of the home.

Our cookbook of the week is Ferment: Everyday ferments and pickles, and how to eat them by Kenji Morimoto. Jump to the recipes: miso pesto pasta salad with chili crisp balsamic roasted tomatoes, chili, orange and coriander sauerkraut, and sauercaccia. CHILI, ORANGE AND CORIANDER SAUERKRAUTKenji Morimoto is a fan of using citrus in ferments, such as his vibrant chili, orange and coriander sauerkraut. Use your fingers to press the sauerkraut into the dough while continuing to spread the dough out over the baking tray. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementRecipes and images excerpted from Ferment: Everyday ferments and pickles, and how to eat them by Kenji Morimoto, copyright ©2025.

U.S. President Donald Trump and senior Iranian officials have exchanged threats over protests in Iran, where at least seven people have been killed. They're the largest protests in Iran since 2022, fuelled in part by the sharp collapse of Iran's rial currency. "We are locked and loaded and ready to go," Trump wrote, without elaborating. WATCH | Canadians worry about Iran protests: B.C. residents worry for family amid Iran protests | Duration 2:08 In Iran, protests over the soaring cost of living have spread to several universities.

From vietnamplus.vnAn enshrinement ceremony for a newly installed statue of Konagamana Buddha was held on 29 December at Ba Den Mountain, in Vietnam’s Tay Ninh Province. Cast in red copper and gilded with 24-carat gold, the Konagamana Buddha statue stands 7.2 meters tall at the highest point of the Ba Den Mountain summit. Historical accounts also link Konagamana Buddha to South Asia. The statue joins other major Buddhist icons on Ba Den Mountain, including the Tay Bo Da Son Lady Buddha, representing compassion, and the Maitreya Bodhisattva, symbolizing joy and equanimity. Together, organizers say, these figures represent the buddhas of the past, present, and future, reinforcing Ba Den Mountain’s role as a significant pilgrimage destination in southern Vietnam.

"Everything suggests that the fire started from the burning candles, or 'Bengal lights,' that had been attached to champagne bottles. Swiss officials say the fire claimed the lives of 40 people and more than 100 others were injured, many seriously. So severe were the burns suffered by the mostly young crowd of revellers that Swiss officials said it could take days to name all who died. The bodies of those who died have now all been removed from the bar, a Swiss official told Reuters. Swiss officials have said around 40 people were killed, while Italy has put the death toll at 47, based on information from Swiss authorities.

The Weimar Republic was weak, unstable, and vulnerable to the ideologues and extremists in post-First World War Germany. Canada, in comparison, has enjoyed a democratic lineage, mature government institutions and a population on the whole committed to liberalism. Antisemitism has reared its ugly head across the country, and our democratic institutions — long afflicted by weaknesses documented by Canadian public administration scholar and author Donald Savoie — are losing the confidence of growing numbers of Canadians. This ferocious fight begins with a restatement of liberalism’s essential features: democratic institutions and politics, established freedoms, equality of opportunity, and market economies. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementNational PostPeter MacKinnon is a senior fellow of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the Aristotle Foundation.

Take a look back at the best moments of 2025NewsDuration 25:46CBC Newfoundland and Labrador is celebrating the best of 2025. Here and Now producer William Ping takes us through the heartwarming moments, the silly stuff and the pieces that make us proud to call the province home.

City provides first look at broken feeder mainNewsDuration 1:50At a media update on Thursday, City of Calgary officials provided the latest details on the broken feeder main and shared the first photo of the damaged pipe.

When a fire broke out at the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market in the early hours of Christmas Day, John Bell was among the first on scene. "Everyone knows the farmers’ market. A week after a fire at the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market forced it to close indefinitely, hundreds of people turned out Wednesday for a pop-up market at the P.E.I. She’s been shopping at the Charlottetown market for more than three decades. The Charlottetown Farmers’ Market building at 100 Belvedere Ave. is now closed for the 'foreseeable future' following the fire, the Charlottetown Farmers' Market Co-operative says.

City of Calgary officials say they have identified the location of what they are calling a second 'catastrophic' water main break in less than two years. A day after officials first asked Calgarians to reduce their water use in the wake of Tuesday’s catastrophic water main break, the city says it is not seeing any real reduction in usage. City officials are also calling on businesses to reduce their water usage where possible, suggesting restaurants refill patron’s water glasses only by request, or using bottled water. “Reducing water use right now is critical.”Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas says demand on the water system is still in the unsustainable "red zone" after Tuesday's water main break. Farkas said ultimately, the Bearspaw south feeder main has reached the end of its reliable lifecycle.