NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2013

Thousands of borrowers are set to make official complaints about a sudden increase in their mortgage rates, which takes effect on Wednesday 1 May.

More Conservative MPs join chorus shying away from taxpayer-funded mail-out as backbenchers seek more freedoms in the Commons

Guards at Alberta correctional facilities are ending their illegal job action and will return to work Wednesday. The Alberta Union of Public Employees said late Tuesday that an agreement had been reached with the provincial government.

The Canadian government can't account for $3.1 billion allocated for anti-terrorism funding, Auditor General Michael Ferguson says in his spring report released today, and he also identified problems in a number of other areas including search and rescue

Six men from the West Midlands admit planning an attack on an English Defence League rally that was thwarted after they arrived late.

Justin Bieber is facing a public backlash for writing a self-promoting message in the guestbook of the Anne Frank House – declaring the hope that the Holocaust victim “would have been a belieber”.

A stretch of Pacific Highway has been closed in both directions in Surrey, B.C., following a serious crash involving two cars that rolled over.

The B.C. Conservative Party has fired another candidate prior to next month's provincial election, the fourth such firing since last week.

Frederik Gauthier's second-period goal stood as the winner as Canada won the world under-18 men's hockey championship on Sunday with a 3-2 victory over the United States.

The 16 teams that will take part in this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs have been settled. The question of who plays who is still up in the air.

An aircraft part apparently from the September 11 attack has been found in Lower Manhattan, New York police say.

Veterans Affairs Canada is set to expand a program designed to give injured veterans priority hiring in the public service after jobs dried up due to federal cuts.

A plane crashed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing four international service members on the same day the Taliban said they were gearing up to launch their spring offensive with attacks on military and diplomatic targets.

Two tourists from the U.S. swim between 12 and 14 hours to reach dry land after the boat they chartered sank off the coast of St. Lucia. The captain and first mate were also rescued.

North Korea has announced that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.

Health and safety issues at a newly-built mega-jail in Alberta have prompted staff at nine correction facilities throughout the province to walk off the job.

George Jones, the hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic He Stopped Loving Her Today, has died.

A century-old US five-cent coin - illegally cast, found in a car crash, deemed a fake and abandoned for decades - is sold for $3.1m at auction.

Prince Philip was named a Companion of the Order of Canada and a Commander of the Order of Military Merit, a surprise honour as his brief visit to Toronto got underway Friday afternoon.

The Bank of Canada will unveil new $5 and $10 polymer bills next week during an official ceremony in Ottawa.

The committee that decided to cut danger pay for Canadian troops serving on four international missions followed current regulations, Canada's chief of defence staff says.

Prince Philip has arrived in Toronto to take part in the city's festivities commemorating the War of 1812.

Long considered a team with an elegant style, the Vancouver Canucks have adopted a more grinding approach in clinching their fifth consecutive Northwest Division title.

A rusted 1.5 metre-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered wedged between a mosque site and a luxury high-rise apartment building near the World Trade Center.

Canada defeated Finland 3-1 on Friday to lock up a berth in the gold-medal game at the world under-18 hockey championship.

A group of aging Korean war veterans are taking a last chance to say goodbye to buddies they lost in battle over six decades ago.

Visitors will have the chance to tour two Canadian Navy vessels anchoring in Vancouver this weekend.

If you knew it would take two hours of intensive walking to burn off that dessert tempting you at your favourite rstaurant, would you still choose it?

For the second time this week, the B.C. Conservative Party has dismissed a candidate over inappropriate remarks.

The neutron star, which is just 12 miles across but weights twice as much as our own sun, has gravity that is 300 billion times stronger than that felt on the surface of Earth. At the centre of this star, a billion tonnes of matter would be squeezed in

A Brazilian man reportedly survived a harpoon through the brain, following a freak accident in which he accidentally shot himself through the left eye while cleaning his harpoon gun.

They are to notify a liaison office that co-ordinates RCMP strategy with the office of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

The foiling of what is alleged to be an attempted terrorist attack targeting a passenger train traveling from Toronto to New York is raising questions about the authority of United States officials to operate abroad.

For the third time since it was allowed into Canada, U.S. Steel will lock out a portion of its Canadian workforce Sunday at 9 a.m. to back demands for contract concessions

Although it's not actually pink in colour, April's full moon has historically been a sign of the arrival of spring. And tonight when it rises, it will coincide with a partial lunar eclipse.

Connor McDavid's hat trick paced Team Canada to a 6-0 win over the Czech Republic Thursday at the World Under-18 Hockey Championship in Sochi. Sam Reinhart, Nick Baptiste and Laurent Dauphin also scored for Canada while Player of the Game Philippe Desrosi

The brawling Blainville-Boisbriand Armada and Baie-Comeau Drakkar will be short-handed for their next meeting in the QMJHL playoffs after 12 suspensions were handed out, including to all 4 goalies.

Susan Griffiths won her battle Thursday for the right to die on her own terms, with the help of a doctor, before her body could be completely taken over by multiple system atrophy. atrophy. Griffiths, 72, died peacefully with some family members by her si

The federal government will allocate $250 million between 2013 and 2018 to support the global goal of eradicating polio.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is hinting he'd like to see this year's Commonwealth summit moved out of Sri Lanka in protest over the country's human rights record.

Many Blackberry loyalists are holding out for the keyboard-based Q10 -- and consumer technology reporter Michael Oliveira says they won't be disappointed. The devices are set to arrive in Canadian stores May 1.

Post-season ticket prices for the Canadian teams that have so far clinched NHL playoff berths are set to spike by between 50 and 75 per cent.

Firefighters from Mobile, Ala., and U.S. Coast Guard crews responded Wednesday night to four explosions and a fire on fuel barges in the Mobile River.

The campaign urges Tory MPs to use their mailing privileges to blanket their ridings with flyers bashing the new Liberal leader

The federal government is hoping to convince the United Nations to keep its civil-aviation headquarters in Montreal before a vote by member states this fall.

Want to spend the rest of your life on Mars? Mars One, which plans to send humans to establish a permanent settlement on Mars in 2023, began accepting online applications this week.

Visions of a sci-fi future where armed robots patrol the Earth and humans live in fear for their lives are realistic enough that Human Rights Watch is calling for a ban on the development of "autonomous weapons" -- while humans still have the upper hand.

A ruling Thursday from a European court is expected to reignite an international debate over Canada's annual East Coast seal hunt, which started with little notice earlier this month off the north coast of Newfoundland.

50-year-old Glenfiddich Single Malt taken from a locked display case in the vintage section of a Toronto outlet

Six people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after a Royal Canadian Navy frigate was struck by a U.S. fishing trawler near CFB Esquimalt on Vancouver Island.

Soulful singer-songwriter was best known for his intense musical style and his extended performance at Woodstock Festival in 1969

A car bomb explodes outside the French embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, wounding two guards and causing extensive damage, officials say.

Parents who are raising children with a practice known as elimination communication say it can keep diapers out of landfills and help them bond with their offspring.

Canadian police and intelligence agencies will announce later today they have thwarted a plot to carry out a major terrorist attack, arresting two suspects in Montreal and Toronto, CBC News has learned.

Netanyahu's national security adviser travels to Ankara offering advanced defense technology in exchange for an airstrike launching platform, the Sunday Times reports

The North Shore's two resident grizzly bears decided their five-month hibernation was over and emerged from their man-made den this week.

Residents in China's southwestern Sicuan province huddled outdoors Saturday night in a town near the epicenter of a powerful earthquake that struck earlier in the day, leaving at least 180 people dead and more than 11,000 injured, nearly five years after

Maxim Lapierre scored in the shootout and Cory Schneider made 33 saves as the Vancouver Canucks clinched a playoff berth with a 2-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night. The Canucks (25-13-7) posted their seventh consecutive victory at hom

A Victoria police constable has received sanctions in a case that received wide attention after a video of an arrest surfaced on YouTube.

Thousands of pot fans were drawn to the public squares around the Vancouver Art Gallery Saturday for the annual marijuana celebration and rally known as 4/20

James Reimer made 49 saves as Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Ottawa Senators 4-1 on Saturday to qualify for the NHL playoffs for the first time since 2004.

Ontario Provincial Police say they expect more roads to be closed and more homes evacuated as the flooding continues in central Ontario.

The two brothers accused of blowing up homemade bombs at the Boston Marathon came from a Chechen family that for decades had been tossed from one country to another by war and persecution.

Conservationists have long warned of the existential danger that poachers pose to Africa's elephants. And it's in Tanzania, home of the Serengeti game reserve and one of the world's two largest elephant populations, that the scale of the killings and the

The Russian FSB intelligence security service told the FBI in early 2011 about information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings, was a follower of radical Islam, two law enforcement officials said Saturday.

Denver police say shots have been fired at a marijuana celebration held to mark the counterculture holiday 4/20. They say one person has been hit in the leg and another is down with unknown injuries.

A senior Vancouver-area gang member, who pleaded guilty to a murder plot and killing amid a bloody gang war that tragically underscored how easily innocent victims could be caught in the violence, was sentenced Friday to 12 years.

A U.S. Justice Department official says the Boston Marathon bombing suspect will not be read his Miranda rights because the government is invoking a public safety exception.

Can a Muslim woman be ordered to testify without a face veil? The Toronto case that sparked a legal challenge enters a final phase as the trial judge is promising to decide shortly on the new Supreme Court rules put in place for wearers of the niqab.

France showcased its latest warship to federal defence minister Peter MacKay Saturday in Halifax, as the Royal Canadian Navy considers options for designs of its next generation of combat vessels.

An armed home invasion in White Rock led to the discovery of thousands of marijuana cookies on Thursday.

A grandmother from the West Kootenays is suing the RCMP for allegedly barging into her home and arresting her for growing marijuana.

The first group of residents in the Texas town battered by a massive fertilizer plant explosion have started the process of returning to their homes but have been warned there is limited access to water, electricity and natural gas.

A five-year-old girl is in serious condition after being raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days, officials say.

A special task force of federal investigators is waiting to question its prime suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who remains in hospital in serious condition with bullet wounds to his neck and leg.

A fungus shows up as yellow spots on the leaves of coffee plants, then it curls them up and causes the round coffee fruits to drop to the ground before they can mature.

Ottawa fans are planning a harsh reception for Penguins forward Matt Cooke, who pays a visit Monday night for the first time since his skate blade cut Senators star defenceman Erik Karlsson's Achilles tendon during a Feb. 13 game in Pittsburgh.

Tim Fittler of Fittler Sales & Marketing is the man behind NightGlow Toilet Seats, a line of glow-in-the-dark toilet seats developed and manufactured in Windsor, Ont.

A seal boards a Royal Navy amphibious-assault ship as it prepares to carry out military exercises near Carnoustie.

You meet someone, there's chemistry, and then come the introductory questions: What's your name? Come here often? Are you my cousin?

Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated 'living fossil' fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor.

On a grassy Texas prairie two decades ago, massive flames engulfed a religious sect's compound where nearly 80 people -- including two dozen children -- had been holed up since a botched federal raid seven weeks earlier.

A powerful earthquake jolted China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least two people in the same area where a devastating quake struck five years ago.

The aunt of the two suspects in the Boston bombings says she doesn't believe they were involved in the crime and says the FBI has no evidence other than pictures of the two young men walking on the street near the finish line.

The 19-year-old suspect wanted in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings is in custody after an extensive manhunt involving thousands of law enforcement officials, police say.

The bodies of 14 people have been recovered from the remnants of a tiny Texas farm town that was rocked by a roaring explosion at a fertilizer plant, authorities said, confirming for the first time the number of people who perished in the accident.

Massive winds from a tornado destroyed a large riding barn and caused other damage just outside of Shelburne, Ont., Thursday.

Police sealed off densely populated portions the Boston metro area early Friday after a violent night of chasing the Boston Marathon terror suspects left one of the men and a police officer dead.

China's largest bank will be helping to finance the proposed Kitimat refinery that would process oil shipped by pipeline or rail from the Alberta oilsands.

Two newly discovered planets in a five-planet system are the right distance from their star to support liquid water and are potentially habitable to life as we know it.

Canadians checking the local weather on the federal government's website may have to squint to see the Environment Canada logo, but they'll get an eyeful of the Conservative economic action plan.

The U.S. Senate blocked bipartisan legislation Wednesday aimed at tightening restrictions on the sale of firearms, a huge defeat for President Barack Obama and a rejection of personal pleas by families of the victims of last winter's mass elementary schoo

John Miller says al Qaeda appears hopeful a "lone wolf" following the terror group's playbook was behind the deadly attack

The woman known around the world as Cape Breton's first lady of song died at age 68 following complications from surgery. The singer and former CBC-TV star from Big Pond, Nova Scotia inspired dozens of young songwriters and performers after her big break

Higher PST, no school taxes for seniors and yet a higher minimum wage yet no firm numbers on how much it will all cost.

WARNING: This story contains graphic details and images. Two weeks ago, a Canadian National train struck and killed a group of elk in Burwash, south of Sudbury. Four of them were pregnant.

A Murray Harbour teenager accused of bludgeoning seals on an eastern P.E.I. shore pleaded guilty to animal cruelty in Charlottetown provincial court Tuesday.

The FBI says it is co-ordinating a worldwide investigation into the twin bomb blasts that killed three people and wounded more than 170 others near the Boston Marathon finish line, while the U.S. president vows police will 'get to the bottom of what happe

Homeowners risk coughing up big bucks if they're also smokers, according a survey of Ontario real estate agents and brokers.

Ms. Jones had the support of 63 per cent of the decided poll respondents, compared to 20 per cent who said they would vote for Mr. Penashue and 17 per cent who said they favoured Mr. Borlase.

NASA has a plan to wrangle an asteroid and park it in lunar orbit, or as we've come to know it -- the plan to to give the Moon a moon. One step in that plan is to send astronauts into space to visit the Moon's moon, and to do that, they'll need the Orion

The Edmonton Oilers announced on Monday that they have dismissed general manager Steve Tambelllini and replaced him with former Oilers player and coach Craig MacTavish.

One of Britain's leading academic institutions, the London School of Economics, is accusing the BBC of putting students at risk by using them as cover for a covert reporting trip to North Korea.

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay have clashed with guards who fired rubber pellets to counter inmates reportedly armed with makeshift weapons that included broomsticks.

Ocean temperatures have been higher than normal in the Gulf of Maine, creating worries among lobstermen that there could be a repeat of last spring's early harvest that resulted in a market glut, a crash in the prices fishermen get and a blockade of Maine

Aviation officials say an American pilot and a Canadian technician have died when a small plane crashed as they were doing work for a hydroelectric project in Guyana.

Russian officials are becoming increasingly concerned about polar bear poachers in their country using Canadian documents to disguise illegally hunted pelts.

Some Quebec farmers are worried they won't be able to find workers to plant their spring crops after hundreds of farm workers form Guatemala were blocked from entering the country.

Ontario provincial police have issued an Amber Alert for a 13-year-old girl from Douro-Dummer Township, near Peterborough.

Canadian cowgirl Kaila Mussell is the first professional female bronc rider on the continent and is hoping to buck her way into the Calgary Stampede.

Newly elected Liberal Party of Canada Leader Justin Trudeau took to the stage before a crowd of over 1,000 supporters with a message of unity and hope with an eye to the next election in 2015.

The Colorado defenseman scored his first goal of the season - not that he even got to see it - with 7.6 seconds remaining to help the Avalanche rally for a 4-3 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.

Premier Christy Clark is buying some TV time Sunday to make a scripted, 30-minute pre-election pitch to voters less than 48 hours before the official start of the British Columbia election campaign.

Puerto Rico's governor on Saturday signed a law to protect a swath of land along the island's northeast coast that is a top U.S. nesting site for the world's largest turtle species.