Monthly Archives: July 2025

For sale: a 25-kilogram rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million US. Why so expensive? It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

An $8 billion US trial by Meta Platforms shareholders against Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former company leaders kicks off on Wednesday over claims that they illegally harvested the data of Facebook users in violation of a 2012 agreement … Continue reading →

While Alberta’s oilpatch continues to make billions of dollars in profits, much of that money is finding its way into shareholder’s pockets rather than toward major expansions of their operations.

The gap between the country’s highest- and lowest-income households reached a record high in the first quarter of 2025, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.

You know when Environment Canada tells you a storm is coming and to stay away from it? There’s a group of people based in Alberta who find their happy place in the eye of a storm, not a safe distance … Continue reading →

Taylor Borth tells The National about the moment she snapped a photo of an unusually ‘fat’ marmot while walking through a park in Kamloops, B.C.

A spearhead believed to be from the last ice-age period has been uncovered on a family farm in Paris, Ont., an artifact that may have been buried there for thousands of years. “It was just a freak chance that we found … Continue reading →

A Manitoba woman, who blew the whistle on a case in which Loblaw sold underweighted meat across 80 stores in Western Canada, has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the grocery chain over allegations it consistently overcharges for meat and … Continue reading →

As Alberta’s measles outbreaks grow, researchers are watching the province’s wastewater for the highly contagious virus and hoping to determine if the technology could eventually serve as an early detection tool.

British Columbia’s Conservation Officer Service (COS) says a grizzly bear on an island off the Sunshine Coast has been shot and killed.