NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2013

Some of the country's most severely disabled soldiers will take a major financial hit once they hit old age and risk living out their final years in near-poverty, Canada's veterans ombudsman has concluded in a report obtained by The Canadian Press and sch

A wild bear broke into the Magnetic Hill Zoo in Moncton on Monday morning and killed a deer, officials have announced.

The Aurora Borealis, those beams of light that dance across the northern sky, may look pretty but a Canadian satellite is about to study a nasty side lurking behind that beauty.

Large indoor marijuana farms certified by the RCMP and health inspectors will eventually provide an expected 450,000 Canadians with quality weed

Many students are feared dead after suspected Islamist gunmen attack a college in a part of north-east Nigeria under military control.

CBC News has learned the Harper government intends to announce reforms to Canada's troubled military procurement system and, as early as next month's throne speech, could create a new agency under a single minister or a secretariat that takes politicians

Problems at the Canada Revenue Agency run much deeper than a $381,000 rebate cheque mistakenly issued to a jailed mob boss, according to two former auditors who say they witnessed an attempt to stall a corruption probe and colleagues getting cozy with org

The CSA's Cascade Smallsat and Ionospheric Polar Explorer (CASSIOPE for short) will keep an eye on the effects of solar particles when they hit the Earth's atmosphere. If all goes well, the CASSIOPE space weather mission should bring a wealth of scientifi

Philip Lapp, whose string of contributions to Canada's space program over a half-century included helping to build the first Canadarm, has passed away at the age of 85.

Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an international scientific group said Friday.

A flesh-eating drug called Krokodil, because it makes user's skin scaly and green before it rots away, has arrived on American soil. The Banner Poison Control center in Arizona has reported the first two users of the drug -- which has been available in Ru

For the past couple of years, the prime minister has made the point of visiting New York at the same time as the opening session of the UN and spending his time elsewhere, like meeting with Bill and Melinda Gates. The timing says all you need to know abou

Interpol has issued a worldwide arrest notice for "white widow" Samantha Lewthwaite at the request of Kenyan authorities.

A member of the Toronto 18 terror group that planned attacks on Canadian targets nearly a decade ago has died while fighting in Syria, CTV News has confirmed.

The family of Prince George, B.C., veteran Greg Matters, who was shot and killed by RCMP, will be presented today with a Memorial Cross from the Canadian military.

It happens to everyone: You see a baby, and feel the fleeting desire to gobble up its little footsie-wootsies or nibble on its teensy earsy-wearseys. And now science has an explanation for why

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A major earthquake hit a remote part of western Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people and prompting a new island to rise from the sea just off the country's southern

Manitoba Conservative Member of Parliament Steven Fletcher spoke out Tuesday in support of assisted suicide, a position not backed by the federal government.

Boeing reveals that an F-16 fighter jet was converted into a drone and flown over the Gulf of Mexico as part of a test by the US Air Force.

The Tourism and Antiquities Police have recovered 131 artifacts stolen from Minya's Malawi Museum in mid-August, following violence that erupted after sit-ins supporting deposed President Mohamed Morsy were dispersed by security forces in Cairo.

The Lancaster bomber played a key role in turning the tide of the Second World War, and only two are still flying. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of its restoration, Hamilton's aging plane is a handful for the volunteers who work to keep it airworthy.

A Stanley Cup rioter a judge characterized as having a 'frantic commitment to the mayhem' has been sentenced to eight months in jail.

Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry has signed a provisional agreement to be bought by a consortium led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, which already owns approximately 10 per cent of common shares in the Waterloo, Ont.-based company.

A snake on a plane has delayed hundreds of Qantas passengers, who were forced to spend the night in a hotel when the reptile was discovered on-board the aircraft at Sydney International Airport on Sunday night. The tiny snake, which measured just 20 c

CN Rail, at the urging of Chinese-owned Nexen Inc., is considering shipping Alberta bitumen to Prince Rupert, B.C., by rail in quantities matching the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, documents show. Internal memos obtained by Greenpeace under

The Insurance Bureau of Canada says the June flood in southern Alberta is the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history.

Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr will make what is expected be his first appearance in public when the Toronto-born man enters an Edmonton courtroom this morning.

Zach Collaros threw four touchdown passes on 330 yards passing, as the Argonauts won their fifth game away from home, 33-27 over the Calgary Stampeders.

The amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to the sixth lowest level, but that is much higher than last year's record low.

That's a wrap - another World Cup season has concluded with a spectacular finale.

The government has taken drastic action to boost stocks that are chronically low due to huge inflation increases.

Gunmen attacked an upscale shopping mall in the Kenyan capital on Saturday, leading to a fierce gunbattle with police and leaving at least 39 people dead.

Forcing would-be Canadians to take an oath to the Queen as a condition of citizenship is constitutional, even if it does violate free-speech rights, an Ontario court ruled Friday.

A California judge ruled earlier this week that the 71-year-old had violated a term of his probation on a previous perjury conviction

Residents of a north-end Hamilton neighbourhood are struggling to understand how a woman and her six children lived with the body of her dead husband and father in their home for months.

Justin Trudeau has welcomed retired general Andrew Leslie as a member of his newly formed advisory council on international affairs, but Leslie says he hasn't decided whether he will seek a Liberal nomination to run in the next election.

President Vladimir Putin denied Thursday that gays face discrimination in Russia, saying that a new law that has drawn protests worldwide does not infringe on their rights.

Two Canadian activists are among a group of 25 people being held at gunpoint aboard a Greenpeace ship.

His rights, as a convicted drug trafficker ordered deported to Somalia, were deemed more important than the guaranteed safety of Canadian citizens.

An inquiry has found shocking evidence that South African police have lied and falsified documents to cover up the truth about their killing of 34 protestors at the Marikana platinum mine last year.

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has announced a voluntary "co-operative capital markets regulatory system," with Ontario and British Columbia agreeing to join. Quebec vows to challenge Flaherty's plan in court.

The B.C. Search and Rescue Association has asked the provincial government to consider user fees for recreational activities like skiing, hiking and fishing to help fund rescue operations.

Residents in High River, Alta., will be compensated for damage incurred to their doors during RCMP searches in June amid a flooding evacuation.

A COURT heard Shahid suffered a fractured jaw and cheekbone, shattered teeth and cuts, bruises and swelling to his head after being attacked with a 15kg weight.

Oklahoma authorities are working to identify six human skeletons, found in cars pulled from a lake in the western part of the state, to determine if they are linked to decades-old missing persons cases.

A Massachusetts man who chatted online with other men about their desire to kidnap, rape, kill and eat children was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 27 years in prison after prosecutors showed photos of a basement dungeon he built, a child-sized coffin, butche

Former heavyweight champion Ken Norton, who beat Muhammad Ali and then lost a controversial decision to him in Yankee Stadium, died Wednesday at a local care facility, his son said. He was 70.

A study of Canadian television advertising has found that whites are over-represented in commercials and racial stereotypes tend to be perpetuated where visible minorities appear.

B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix has announced his resignation as party leader today in Vancouver, following the party's surprising defeat by the Liberals in the May provincial election.

One of the first teams of armed police to respond to Monday's shooting in Washington DC was ordered to stand down, police sources tell the BBC.

Bullies force 5 year old off bus.

Announces plans for new company called Calico, headed by Genentech Chairman Art Levinson

There's probably nobody alive who could officiate a marriage ceremony with more gravitas than Ian 'Gadalf' McKellen... and he did just that for best friend Patrick Stewart.

Gravity, one of the constants of life, not to mention physics, is less than constant when it comes to being measured. Various experiments over the years have come up with perplexingly different values for the strength of the force of gravity, and the late

Physicists have discovered a jewel-shaped geometric object that challenges the notion that space, time and particles are fundamental constituents of nature.

Random killings have become such a unique American phenomenon that they deserve greater analysis and soul-searching than just blaming guns and grudges with the occasional foray into video games and publicity seeking. The murder of 21 primary school childr

The RCMP has charged former SNC Lavalin senior executive Kevin Wallace with bribery of a foreign public official. The charge relates to an investigation into a contract for construction of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge in Bangladesh.

Facebook has banned a company from advertising on its website after an image of Rehtaeh Parsons was used to advertise a dating website.

A VIA Rail train and a city bus have collided in Ottawa's west end. The front end of the bus is severely damaged

Participants gathered in 17 cities for rallies on Monday. In Toronto some donned lab coats while in Vancouver protesters were seen wearing gags adorned with the Conservative Party logo

Rookie Hunter Shinkaruk has generated plenty of buzz, but it was his first NHL goal that brought two fans to tears.

One person has died and three others have fallen ill after consuming cheese produced at a farm in Salmon Arm, B.C., that the BC Centre for Disease Control said is connected to an E. coli outbreak.

The Comet ISON has generated plenty of buzz, as its size and brightness haves some predicting it could be the comet of the century. But experts warn that a lot could change as the comet darts towards the sun.

Parks Canada staff are trying to take back two remote northern islands in the Haida Gwaii archipelago from a festering sea of rats, dropping poison pellets from a helicopter for the first time in Canada.

Testimony by North Koreans exiles, including former political prison camp inmates, points to patterns that may amount to widespread and systematic violations by the state, United Nations human rights investigators said in their first report on Tuesday.

For the first time, Environment Canada will issue an emergency order to protect an endangered species, a rare Prairie bird called the greater sage grouse.

Three men who died when a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter plunged into the Arctic Ocean last week were not killed by the crash but died of hypothermia, according to a preliminary post-mortem.

About 7,500 songbirds, possibly including some endangered species, were killed while flying over a gas plant in Saint John late last week, officials have confirmed.

No less than three child welfare bodies failed on some level to protect an aboriginal girl who nearly starved after she was moved from the care of the B.C. government to her grandparents in Saskatchewan, according to B.C.'s child watchdog.

Engineers in Italy succeed in setting the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia upright, 20 months after it ran aground off the island of Giglio.

Weary Colorado evacuees have begun returning home after days of rain and flooding, but Monday's clearing skies and receding waters revealed only more heartbreak: toppled houses, upended vehicles and a stinking layer of muck covering everything.

Fifty years after a bomb ripped through a Sunday school, killing four girls and rocking a racially divided nation, the city of Birmingham, Alabama, is commemorating the tragedy that led to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The number of bears in New Brunswick is increasing while the number of bear hunters is declining.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the Conservatives will table a bill to create a searchable database of high-risk child predators.

Three Toronto firefighters have lost their jobs - two because of sexist remarks they made on Twitter. The union is outraged.

The B.C. Lions are preparing for the possibility that quarterback Travis Lulay won't play in a key game against Saskatchewan because of a shoulder injury, but a decision on who would take the snaps in Lulay's place is still up in the air.

The Canadian military felt snubbed by the RCMP and CSIS after the civilian security agencies began investigating navy spy Jeffrey Paul Delisle without telling them, according to secret documents obtained by CBC News.

Engineers have declared the crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship completely upright after a 19-hour operation to pull it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany.

A B.C. dog owner whose sick pet suffered terribly after a veterinarian left it unattended is calling for better rules about overnight stays at vet clinics. The epileptic dog, Nip, had a seizure while caged and alone that left him paralyzed.

Iran's hunt for its next animal astronaut may turn to the distinctive and locally named Persian cat, an official said Monday.

Numerous pockets of individuals in Colorado remained cut off by the flooding as Sunday's rain hampered the helicopter searches, and rescuers trekked by ground up dangerous canyon roads to reach some of those homes isolated since Wednesday.

Tropical Storm Manuel drenched Mexico's southwestern Pacific shoulder Sunday and Hurricane Ingrid closed in on the country's Gulf coast, as heavy rains and landslides caused at least 33 deaths and led authorities to evacuate thousands.

A powerful typhoon that lashed Japan with torrential rains, leaving two dead, was downgraded to a tropical storm Monday, although it was still dumping rain on parts of the country.

Nearly 6,200 people were evacuated from their villages following the eruption of Mount Sinabung in western Indonesia, an official said Monday.

Canadian scientists and their supporters are holding demonstrations across the country Monday, calling on the federal government to stop cutting scientific research and muzzling its scientists.

Travis Lulay threw for a touchdown and ran for another as the B.C. Lions beat the Montreal Alouettes 36-14 at home in CFL action Sunday. B.C. improved to 7-4 while avenging a last-second loss in Montreal on Aug. 22.

Police say the youth charged with attempted murder in the brutal stabbing of a 13-year-old girl in Warman, Sask., is a 13-year-old boy.

In an exclusive interview, the Mexican ambassador in Ottawa says his country is "really mad" at Canada for continuing to impose a visa on its travellers here.

The search for people stranded from the Rocky Mountain foothills to the plains of northeastern Colorado grows more difficult, with a new wave of rain threatening to hamper airlifts from the flooded areas still out of reach.

A Waterloo, Ont., robotics firm is lending its specialized skills to help crews salvage the beleaguered cruise ship Costa Concordia.

Japan faces its longest period without nuclear power for four decades, as it shuts down its last reactor amid public concerns after Fukushima.

The European Space Agency is preparing for the fiery fall to Earth of its "beautiful" Goce gravity-mapping satellite - the first uncontrolled re-entry of an Esa spacecraft in more than 25 years.

An estimated 26 million pink salmon have crowded British Columbia's waterways, about three times more fish than expected, officials report.

A leaked copy of the world's most authoritative climate study reveals scientific forecasts of imminent doom were drastically wrong. the Mail on Sunday has revealed.

David Lee sacked Darian Durant to prevent a game-tying two-point convert with 14 seconds on the clock and John Chiles caught for a game-high 104 yards as the Toronto Argonauts beat the reeling Saskatchewan Roughriders 31-29 Saturday in a battle of CFL div

Fred Stamps reeled in a pair of touchdown passes as the Edmonton Eskimos snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 25-7 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday.

A diplomatic breakthrough Saturday on securing and destroying Syria's chemical weapons stockpile averted the threat of U.S. military action for the moment and could swing momentum toward ending a horrific civil war.

More than 70 years after their plane crashed into Lake Muskoka, the bodies of two airmen have finally been recovered. Theodore (Ted) Bates of the Royal Canadian Air Force and Peter Campbell, a member of the British air force, will be buried in Guelph, Ont

Rescuers rushed by land and air Saturday to evacuate Coloradoans stranded by epic mountain flooding, as debris-filled rivers became muddy seas that extended into towns and farms far from the Rocky Mountains.

Colby Rasmus homered for the second day in a row as the Toronto Blue Jays got to Baltimore ace Chris Tillman and defeated the Orioles 4-3 Saturday afternoon.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper landed in Kelowna, B.C., Friday for a meeting with his B.C. caucus, with the expectation much of the talk would be about oil and pipelines.

The remnants of tropical storm Gabrielle continue to soak Atlantic Canada as the system moves over Newfoundland.

A dog is being treated for injuries after it was attacked with a mallet by a theif who police say borke into an automotive store and took off in a stolen vehicle.

A fiery crash on Nova Scotia's Highway 104 Saturday morning has killed two loose horses and sent two people in an SUV to hospital.