NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2015

It's been a month for the history books with extreme temperatures across Ontario, which has led to record ice coverage on the Great Lakes and its tributaries.

Karl Ove Knausgaard's comments that he "had never seen people that fat before" were published in an article he wrote for The New York Times.

Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia will lead a trial to enhance the tracking of aircraft over remote oceans, allowing planes to be more easily found should they vanish like Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australia's transport minister said Sunday.

An Egyptian court designates the Palestinian group Hamas as a terrorist organisation, accusing it of supporting an insurgency in northern Sinai.

After years of jury-rigging warehouses and dodging rodents, Calgary film and television producers are finally getting a sound stage. With a bunch of public money. But will it be enough to jumpstart the industry?

Police in Delta say scammers have defrauded several businesses out of thousands of dollars by posing as B.C. Hydro employees collecting on supposedly overdue charges.

A man convicted in a violent street mugging in which two victims had knives held to their throats has received a short jail term.

Two Calgary high school students who showed up at a party wearing what appeared to be Ku Klux Klan robes sparked outrage on social media and were disciplined by school administrators after the negative reaction spilled into school halls

Conservatives convinced of a cover-up are demanding to see the full regulations now.

Customs officials open a Christmas parcel to find stolen Picasso worth 1.6 million pounds inside

Kendra Sunderland has been formally accused of "exposing her genitals" while inside an Oregon State University building.

Domino's Canada says it has terminated its contract with a North Vancouver franchisee after CBC reported allegations of death threats, exploitation, bullying and assault.

Southern Ontario is on track to shattering several weather records after spending nearly a month in the grip of bitter cold and Arctic wind.

Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down Saturday near the Kremlin, just a day before a planned protest against the government.

For the first time since Canada's four Victoria-class submarines were purchased almost two decades ago, the navy says the fleet is now 'operational.'

Domino's Canada says it has terminated its contract with a North Vancouver franchisee after CBC reported allegations of death threats, exploitation, bullying and assault.

A wounded soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan and has had to prove to Veterans Affairs every year that he still needs a wheelchair, will now only have to go through the experience every three years.

Death sentence for apostasy marks a new test case for Saudi Arabia's human rights record as its most powerful rising prince visits Downing Street

The astonishing snow art of Simon Beck has finally made it's way to Alberta's mountains. Beck, a British snowshoe artist, has been carving out masterpieces in snowy vistas around the world for years. He's become famous for his large scale designs...

The Duke of Cambridge lays a wreath to commemorate the Commonwealth war dead at Yokohama War Cemetery in Japan.

The anti-wheat claims made by leading health crusader Dr. William Davis are based on shaky science, an investigation by the fifth estate has found.

A newborn was kidnapped from a Cape Town hospital in 1997 but her parents never gave up hope and now, 17 years later, they have found her.

Canadian automotive supplier Magna International will debut a new two-seat, plug-in hybrid concept sports car, the MILA Plus, at the Geneva Motor Show in early March to show its automaker clients what sort of engineering it's capable of.

A Princeton, B.C., family was scared when an aggressive deer charged at their daughter and stomped on its dogs.

About 10 million heart attacks and strokes worldwide could be averted in a decade by treating high blood pressure in half of those who need it, two leading public health agencies say.

Maria Morrison says her 12-year-old daughter gasped when she opened an activity package given to her on a recent Air Transat flight to Winnipeg. Inside the package was a cartoon image of a red creature wearing a feathered headdress.

Mexico has captured the country's most wanted outstanding drug Lord, Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, leader of the Knights Templar cartel, police said on Friday.

Bombardier says it will proceed with the first test flight for its new CSeries jet today, at an airport just outside Montreal.

The second fastest growing type of debt in Canada is a high-interest, subprime, unsecured, short-term loan called an instalment loan. Marketed to people with bad debts and poor credit, instalment loans carry interest rates as high as 59 per cent. But the

People from Stewart, B.C., and Hyder, Alaska, have lived side-by-side for more than 100 years, but the two towns that operate as one community will soon be cut off each night.

Harrison Ford is set to reprise his role as Rick Deckard in a sequel to the dystopian, neo-noir Blade Runner, more than 31 years after the film first premiered.

U.K. spy agencies are facing questions about how a young Londoner who was on their radar as part of terrorist investigations was able to travel to Syria and become the masked militant known as "Jihadi John."

Machete-wielding assailants hack to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.

Nine people were found dead in rural southwest Missouri in at least four different locations, according to local media reports.

U.S. scientists following endangered killer whales from a research vessel have spotted a newborn orca off the coast of Washington state.

A Quebec judge tells a woman appearing in her Montreal courtroom she would not hear her case until she removed her hijab.

With their top two scorers missing, Chris Stewart and the Buffalo Sabres scored their most goals in three months.

Canadian guard Xavier Rathan-Mayes scored 30 points in the final 4:38 of Florida State's loss to Miami in a college basketball game on Wednesday night.

Nestle Canada is revamping the packaging of Smarties products to make it easier for consumers to parcel out the candies into healthier portion sizes.

Would-be Canadians will have to keep taking an oath to the Queen after the Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday refused to hear a challenge to the citizenship requirement.

A growing number of human resources executives are starting to dig deep into computerized statistical data on employees, to make decisions regarding salaries, promotions, and even benefit programs, a trend that excites some and worries others.

Jeff Gustafson, from Kenora, Ontario, hopes to qualify for the Forrest Wood Cup this August. It's considered the most prestigious tournament in all of bass fishing.

In choosing to limit debate and expert witnesses on the proposed new anti-terror bill, the Harper government is showing it hasn't learned from the past, Chris Hall writes. Being tough on terror may be popular, but public approval is no substitute for publ

The future of a fair and open internet is at stake in Washington today, with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission expected to vote to regulate internet service like a public good, the way it has been treated in Canada for years.

A persistent, quasi-stationary high pressure system off the West Coast has caused the jet stream to flow from the northwest down into the southeast, bringing frigid temperatures that have shattered cold weather records in Ontario and Quebec.

At least six young Quebecers from Laval and Montreal left the country in January to join militants in Syria, sources tell CBC/Radio-Canada.

The father of one of the men who pleaded guilty in the Rehtaeh Parsons case was arrested for allegedly using a computer at a Nova Scotia Canadian Forces base to make inappropriate web comments, and edit the Wikipedia entry about the girl's death, accordin

The Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", who has been pictured in videos of the beheadings of Western hostages, is named as Mohammed Emwazi from London.

A paratrooper who showed "complete disregard" for his own safety during a Taliban attack in Afghanistan is awarded the Victoria Cross.

Madonna ended up putting on a performance that was memorable for all the wrong reasons, when she was pulled off the stage backwards as she closed out Wednesday night's BRIT Awards 2015.

LONDON -- Three Austrians have replaced injured hands with bionic ones that they can control using nerves and muscles transplanted into their arms from their legs.

Scientists say they have discovered a black hole so big that it challenges the theory about how they grow. Scientists said this black hole was formed about 900 million years after the Big Bang.

A resident of Black Tickle estimates there were about nine polar bears in the area on Monday, marking one of the earliest times ever that the large carnivores have been spotted in the coastal Labrador community.

A west Indian city has banned large public gatherings in an attempt to halt the spread of swine flu, which has claimed at least 926 lives nationwide in 11 weeks.

Measles vaccinations need to be immediately stepped up in all age groups, the World Health Organization's European office urged Wednesday after the region recorded 22,000 cases since the start of 2014.

Three men were charged on Wednesday with conspiring to support ISIS, U.S. authorities announced. One was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport where investigators say he was attempting to travel to Turkey and then to Syria.

Chris Brown was denied permission to cross the border into Canada ahead of two sold-out shows in Toronto and Montreal, the R&B singer tweeted his 14 million followers on Tuesday.

A person in Atikokan is believed to be the first in the region charged for feeding deer.

Provincial police say a Dryden man is to appear in court on March 16 to face an animal cruelty charge.

High mutual fund fees could cause Canadians to delay their retirement by as much as 11 years or else leave them with 40 per cent less money for their retirement, says a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

The news of Everest College's closure in Ontario came as no surprise to some, who say what is shocking is that the private career college they claim was corrupt wasn't shut down a lot sooner.

Parliament in Austria passes a controversial new bill that reforms a century-old law on Islam, despite claims it will treat Muslims unequally.

After worries the province would fall into deficit, the finance minister said the 2014-15 fiscal year will end with a $465-million surplus

The verdict means Malley, 57, will serve an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years for the murder of Victoria Shachtay on Nov. 25, 2011

The Canadian government has been spying on and collecting our emails en masse. Yawn, right?

The Russian government laid plans to annex Crimea and destabilize southeastern Ukraine weeks before the government fell in Kiev, a Russian newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing a strategy document. Russia has long contended that it acted without prem

U.S. President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill that would have approved construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Around 130 birds have been injured while entering an area of concentrated solar energy created by the 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project near Tonopah, Nevada.

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A North Vancouver mother is raising concerns that a private school in her neighbourhood won't let other children play on its playground during the day.

Boosting the maximum Tax-Free Savings Account contribution to $11,000 a year could cost the federal treasury billions in lost revenue, according to the Parliamentary Budget Office.

A Calgary photographer has snapped some amazing shots of a fireball streaking through the sky.

Photos of emaciated women proudly displaying their protruding hips and ribs, as well as thinspirational quotes "fat-shaming" those who dare to eat, are shifting onto even more social media platforms.

The mayor of the southeastern Czech Republic town of Uhersky Brod says a local man has opened fire in a restaurant in a clash that has left at least eight people dead.

In the South African bush, elephants are being trained in the art of "bio-detection" to see if they can use their exceptional sense of smell to sniff out explosives, landmines and poachers.

A Boston-area researcher has decided to name a new species of wasp discovered in Kenya after Bruins netminder Tuukka Rask.

CBS News on Monday released video from four stories it aired about the Falklands War in 1982, all part of a dispute involving Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly and his subsequent statements about covering the war.

CBC News has learned that the director of the Florida health spa that treated Makayla Sault and another girl suffering from leukemia has been fined and ordered to stop practising medicine without a licence.

Toronto police are expected to release more information Tuesday about the bizarre discovery last month of an underground tunnel located in a wooded area south of York University.

Jonathan Giraldo, from Miraflores, Peru, gave himself the alias 'Tony Garcia' and nicknamed himself 'Anthrax' thinking it would help conceal his identity.

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Birdman, the bombastic comedy starring Michael Keaton, took home four golden statuettes at the 87th annual Academy Awards, including best picture and best director for Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Inarritu.

Two women with spouses devastated by the effects of dementia are outraged at large financial institutions for not showing compassion after their loved ones made large, irrational transactions that cost their families dearly.

It seems the days of cheap, unlimited internet are over. With Telus's announcement Friday that it is implementing usage-based charges in B.C. and Alberta, all major Canadian internet service providers are now deploying data caps when billing customers.

Honda Motor Co., the Japanese automaker at the center of an air-bag defect scandal, says its president Takanobu Ito will step aside and be replaced by another Honda executive.

A huge line brawl between two Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League teams was caught on camera and has accumulated tens of thousands of views on YouTube.

A 45-tonne humpback whale tangled in heavy fishing line in Hawaiian waters for more than a week has been freed.

The al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab appears to call on followers to attack shopping malls in Canada, United States, U.K. and France and has released a video naming the West Edmonton Mall as a possible target.

A future prime minister John Turner and Britain's Princess Margaret may have "nearly married," according to a recently unearthed cache of letters written by the princess from 1950 to 1966.

A Canadian automobile executive imprisoned in Cuba on corruption charges for more than three years was released Saturday after Cuba's government ended a case that it called a demonstration of the fight against bribery and critics said was a warning agains

A research team at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina is reconstructing the skeleton and skull of a crocodile. It was discovered near Coronach, Sask., in 2001. The team is using 3-D printers to help create a complete skeleton.

Ukraine's deputy foreign minister says he's is preparing for "full-scale war" against Russia and wants Canada to help by supplying lethal weapons and training to use them. Vadym Prystaiko says the world must not be afraid of joining Ukraine in the fight a

Do people care more about animals than humans? A B.C. columnist learned the hard way the dangers of expressing sympathy for a woman convicted of animal cruelty.

Watch the reunion of two Ontario women who were sent to Britain during the Second World War to support the top secret code-breaking team portrayed in the Oscar-nominated The Imitation Game.

Toronto police say they are charging the mother of a four-year-old boy after the child was found wandering outside in the bitter cold today in the city's west end.

For the second consecutive winter, bitter weather threatens to turn the surface of the Great Lakes into a vast, frozen plain.

The errors affecting 800,000 people were found in new forms called 1095-As, which are like W-2 for health care. They were sent to millions of consumers nationwide.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people awoke to painfully cold weather in the eastern United States on Friday, with temperatures frigid enough in New York City and Washington to break decades-old record

Indian police are investigating claims that the one of world's top climate change officials, Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel , sexually harassed a 29-year-old woman, police and lawyers said on Friday.

Eighteen months ago, a Virginia man was shot by police while standing at his suburban front door with his hands raised. The facts are clear and barely in dispute, but no one seems to want to do anything about it, Neil Macdonald reports.

Scientists have discovered a natural material stronger than titanium, Kevlar and even spider silk - in the teeth of a vegetarian sea snail.

Claudia Flores Jimenez is fit to stand trial for allegedly killing her seven-year-old daughter in their Vaudreuil, Que., family home, a judge has decided.

Edmonton may think of itself as a hockey town, but the feeling apparently isn't mutual with NHL players.

A Saskatchewan reserve where two children were killed in a blaze that didn't get a response from firefighters has a working fire truck but no proper equipment or a crew trained to use it.