NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2014

Father Claude Thibault was molested by a priest when he was a teen. He joined the church cover-up, but then changed his mind and agreed to testify

The average total debt owed on things like new cars, vacations, shopping or just paying the bills now stands at $20,891 per person in Canada.

Around 20 young Cree people have arrived in Quebec City after walking nearly 600km to protest against uranium exploration.

A racy marketing campaign from Coca Cola for the company's new milk product has been getting some negative attention in Newfoundland and Labrador, with one group calling it sexist.

Calgary police say they are interested in talking to the driver captured on a YouTube video called "Calgary's Worst Driver."

The body of a young killer whale was discovered near Vancouver Island on Thursday, the fourth death this year in the endangered southern resident population.

Within six days, Evan Mutrie went from being a football player for the Kamloops Broncos to being on life support, paralyzed from the neck down after contracting a rare virus. Mutrie, 20, has an obscure, paralytic form of Enterovirus D68 but scientific

NASA's new Orion spacecraft made a "bullseye" splashdown in the Pacific on Friday following a dramatic test flight that took it to a zenith height of 5,800 kilometres and ushered in a new era of human exploration aiming for Mars

In a series of letters seen by Le Figaro newspaper, some of the 376 French currently fighting in Syria have begged for advice on how to return

More than 2,000 cats and dogs have been reported dead after exposure to flea and tick medication since 2008, and some researchers are worried about human exposure to the pesticides.

The judge in a meat wastage trial taking place in Behchoko, N.W.T., told the court today that it was 'completely inappropriate' for one of the accused to use a urinal next to him during a break in proceedings.

Government-ordered budget cuts and a big rise in workload has plunged the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada into "crisis," says its head, Suzanne Legault. She told a House of Commons committee that shrinking resources are cutting into Canad

Ban Ki-moon, in an exclusive interview with CBC News, says Canada needs to stop stalling on setting climate change goals, and instead become "ambitious and visionary."

Fifty years after bringing the voice of Hermey the elf to life in the TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Toronto actor Paul Soles sees several reasons for the show's lasting appeal.

A dog that had been shot in the face and was discovered at an abandoned house in rural Saskatchewan is recovering at the Regina Humane Society.

Nebraska's Supreme Court could help settle the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline when it decides whether state lawmakers were right to clear the way for the controversial project.

Multiple charges have been laid against a 14-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl after a mother said two young people tried to snatch her baby last night in suburban Toronto, police said.

The Vancouver Canucks continued their success on the road with a 3-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Canadian lobsters are faster, stronger and more aggressive than their Old World counterparts, meaning the foreigners could cause widespread ecological damage

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May put forward a bizarre petition in the House of Commons Wednesday asking the government to support a popular 9/11 conspiracy theory.

An adopted dog is being hailed as a hero after helping save a man from a heart attack in Windsor, Ont.

Concern is growing around Bill C-22, which would change the rules around oil spill cleanups. The technology for cleaning up oil spills, such as using chemical dispersants, is not widely understood, and its impacts on Arctic waters has yet to be fully deba

Producers of the 24th James Bond film unveiled its title, SPECTRE, and introduced new cast members at a press conference Thursday.

Much of the influenza virus circulating in the United States has mutated and this year's vaccine doesn't provide good protection against it, federal health officials are warning.

Ukraine's energy minister says a technical fault at a nuclear power plant in the south of the country has cut power production but insists it poses no danger.

A federal appeals court halted Wednesday's scheduled execution of a Texas killer whose attempt to subpoena Jesus Christ as a trial witness and other behavior led his attorneys to argue he is too mentally ill for capital punishment.

Less than half of working-age Canadians with physical and mental disabilities have jobs, a significantly lower percentage than the general population, according to Statistics Canada research.

Disabled Canadian veterans are in court trying to force the federal government to restore benefits for those injured in the line of service. The feds want the suit thrown out.

Kamloops, B.C., RCMP have arrested a 36-year-old man in the shooting of RCMP Cpl. Jean Rene Michaud early Wednesday morning.

'Mee Moowe' the cat has used up at least one of its nine lives after surviving a month-long trip in a moving box with no food or water.

Major Mark Campbell was lying in a hospital bed, just starting to comprehend losing both his legs above the knees in a Taliban ambush, when he found out the federal government had stripped his lifetime military pension.

Angelika Langen and her husband, Peter, rescued the young moose just outside of Smithers B.C. on Tuesday.

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Fort McMurray is more sensitive than any other place in Canada to changes in crude prices

A Vancouver Lamborghini dealership will be without one of its pricey sports cars for a week after the $275,000 automobile was impounded by police after its driver was busted going over 100 km/h in a 50 km zone.

A New York grand jury decides not to charge a police officer over the death of Eric Garner, a black man put in a chokehold by the white officer.

The Los Angeles Police Department is searching for a man who has been sending anti-Semitic death threats to hotel heiress Paris Hilton, whom he believes is Jewish

A Shoppers Drug Mart employee is accusing her co-worker of hiding an unclaimed $50- million winning Lotto Max ticket she says he bought with workplace pool money.

As the Canadian Wheat Board fast-tracks a search for new capital, it's rejected a bid from Farmers of North America, a group of Canadian farmer-investors. What the board really wants is a large, international partner to help it compete in an open grains m

The University of Texas at Austin has lost about 100 brains stored in jars of formaldehyde, possibly including that of the man who killed and wounded dozens in a campus shooting spree nearly 50 years ago, school officials and media said on Tuesday.

An organization representing Canada's infectious diseases specialists plans to raise objections to a private member's bill on Lyme disease at Senate committee hearing today.

Scott Weese, a senior ice forecaster, says this season's ice forecast is based on the temperatures expected in the Great Lakes regions.

An American school teacher has been stabbed to death in a public restroom at a mall in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

RCMP in Kamloops, B.C., are searching for a suspect after a police officer was shot early this morning.

Sometimes, a person will do just about anything for his dog and Sault Ste. Marie's Matt Connors proved that recently.

More than four months after she was thought lost in a massive condo fire, a housecat named Harmony has proven to be incredibly resilient, suggesting cats may in fact have more than one life.

The captain of shipwrecked Costa Concordia , facing charges of manslaughter, is set to testify at trial for the 1st time.

The southern beluga and five other species are now considered endangered in Canada, as the country's at-risk species list grows in the latest assessment of Canadian wildlife.

A new Lamborghini owner driving a $275,000 car had to shell out for a $368 dollar speeding ticket after police caught him driving over twice the speed limit

Some glaciers in Antarctica are melting three times faster than they were a decade ago, a new study suggests.

The federal government is reviewing which veterans it invites to attend its citizenship ceremonies after a fake war veteran participated in Hamilton-area ceremonies.

Daniel Sedin scored two of Vancouver's three power-play goals and assisted on the other, and the Canucks defeated the Washington Capitals 4-3 Tuesday night.

Russians are divided on whether to blame price rises, deteriorating quality of life and a worsening of Russia's economic health on the annexation of Crimea or on Western sanctions, a poll found, in a sign that economic woes could undermine support for Pre

British research confirms skeleton found that of King Richard III. Now questions are being raised about lineage of Tudor royal family.

Hockey legend Gordie Howe has suffered another stroke, three of his children confirmed Tuesday.

Environment Canada is expecting the next three months to be seasonal or warmer than normal in almost the entire country, thanks in part to El Nino, a senior climatologist says.

HIV is evolving to become less deadly and less infectious as it spends more time infecting people, according to a major scientific study.

It's a robot unlike any other, inspired by the world's fastest land animal and controlled by video game technology.

RCMP in B.C. have laid first-degree murder charges against Garry Taylor Handlen in the cases of Kathryn-Mary Herbert, 11, and Monica Jack, 12, both killed in the 1970s.

A woman who left her husband's body left rotting in a bedroom of their home because the family thought he would rise from the dead has pleaded guilty in a Hamilton court to a charge under the Coroner's Act.

RCMP pilots flew planes loaded with too many passengers and too much baggage, and fudged the records, the public-sector watchdog says in a report released today. Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Mario Dion had to fight the government in court to relea

�He jumped twice, he photobombed big time, then he went on his way,� amateur photographer says

Conservative MPs used their majority on the House public safety committee to quash opposition efforts to tighten rules on when and how the Canadian Security Intelligence Service can use new powers it would get under the government's bid to expand its mand

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James Watson, the globally renowned biologist who was shunned by the scientific community after linking intelligence to race, said he is selling his Nobel Prize because he is short of money after being made "a pariah."

A group of First Nations from Williams Lake, B.C., has created a detailed mining policy that will apply to existing, proposed and future projects in its territory. So now in BC Natives can tax white people for living on their land, ie Nisga'a, and now th

The FBI issued it's highest warning yet on Sunday, saying the Islamic State may be trying to organize attacks on the American military in the homeland carried out by U.S.-based sympathizers.

Kendra Wilkinson was drunk or stoned when she had sex with Hugh Hefner. 'It's not like I enjoyed having sex with him' said Kendra.

A University of Chicago student has admitted to posting a racially charged Facebook status which they had previously claimed was a hack by the UChicago Electronic Army (UEA).

Farmers and Canadian taxpayers will soon be completely free of the CWB assets, but not with a conventional sale. A private-sector investor will assume control without reimbursing the federal treasury for assets Canadians helped finance.

An Anishnawbe man from northwestern Ontario says traditional healing practices "got rid" of his leukemia, and he's concerned recent controversy over the treatment of two First Nations girls in southern Ontario will rob others of a cure.

A B.C. senior has decided to Go Public after discovering years of suspicious debits on her bank statements for a mysterious "service" she never received.

Online shopping is definitely growing, but consumers' concerns about cyber security may make them more cautious this year because of all the recent data breaches at large retailers.