NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2015

Nick Bonino and Radim Vrbata scored in the shootout, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Predators 5-4 Tuesday night to avoid being swept by Nashville.

Researchers say a fourth baby has been born to an endangered population of killer whales found off the British Columbia's coast.

Former chief of defence staff Rick Hillier took to Facebook Tuesday to blast MPs who were not present at Monday evening's vote to extend Canada's military mission against ISIS in northern Iraq and now Syria.

A senior government source tells CBC News that Canada could begin airstrikes on Syrian targets within a day or two after the House of Commons approved the Conservative government's plan to expand and extend its existing military mission in Iraq.

Swedish prosecutors have issued a warrant for the arrest of former NHL player Andre Deveaux after he attacked an opponent on-ice before a promotion playoff, the TT news agency reported on Tuesday.

A new report by Canada's parliamentary budget officer shows more than half of the money Ottawa intends to put toward child care this year will go to families with little or no child-care expenses.

Lufthansa knew six years ago that the co-pilot of the passenger plane that crashed in the French Alps last week had suffered from a "serious depressive episode," the German airline said Tuesday.

Worldwide investment in renewable energy rose 17 per cent in 2014 to $270 billion, throwing off the effects of lower oil prices.

Detroit Red Wings legend Gordie Howe celebrates 87th birthday. Excursions along the Jersey Shore, in northern Michigan and charter adventures throughout the Western Hemisphere have resulted in numerous trophy catches. But that was before Gordie Howe suffe

An Istanbul prosecutor died from his wounds after security forces stormed the office where members of a far-left Turkish group took him hostage on Thursday, killing his two captors.

Facebook tracks the Web-browsing activities of all visitors to the facebook.com domain even if they are not a Facebook user, according to new research from Europe. The report updates work from earlier this year, which found that Facebook's updated privacy

The parliamentary budget officer says changes to child care brought in by the Conservatives will benefit families with young children but also those with no child care expenses.

Cuts to Canada's food inspection programs have created a "double standard," where meat sold to Canadians is not as well inspected than that destined for export, according to the union that represents inspectors.

An RCMP service pistol and ammunition were stolen in downtown Halifax Friday night from the vehicle of an off-duty New Brunswick Mountie.

A few of the best moments from the Comedy Central roast of controversial pop star Justin Bieber.

Teenage Jewish diarist Anne Frank likely died of typhus in a Nazi concentration camp about a month earlier than previously thought, the Amsterdam museum that honours her memory says.

Dress codes at Canadian restaurants, bars or nightclubs that are not comparable for both men and women could set the stage for a successful human rights complaint.

Most hockey helmets on the market weren't adequate to reduce the risk of head injuries when an experimental new measurement was used.

Richard Atwell was dismissed as a paranoid, conspiracy-obsessed kook when the newly elected mayor complained he was being spied on by his own city hall.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has dismissed sexual assault allegations against John Furlong after the complainant failed to appear in court Monday.

One man sat down next to a second man in a St. Louis light rail car Monday and asked him his opinion on the shooting of Michael Brown. Then he beat him.

Karleen Thibault is questioning how a police search was unable to locate her son Justin. His body was found in a towering fir tree after a fight at a party

Schools have threatened to report parents to the police if their children are caught playing violent video games such as Call Of Duty and Grand Theft Auto.

Authorities say the driver of a vehicle tried to ram a gate at Fort Meade resulting in a shooting. FOX News has reported that there were two occupants of the vehicle and that both were men dressed as women.

Thunder Bay city council passed a resolution this month to ban the sale of bottled water at most city-run events.

About three-quarters of the estimated $4.5 billion in federal tax cuts and increases in benefits promised to Canadians this year will be offset by provincial tax hikes and cutbacks, the Bank of Montreal says.

Calgary police and RCMP are once again searching for evidence on the property of the man accused of murdering Nathan O'Brien, 5, and his grandparents, Alvin and Kathy Liknes.

Duelling demonstrations by a small group of pro-secularism supporters and a group of anti-racism protesters turned violent after a man was attacked with picket-sign sticks.

An investigation revealed a scheme to "deceive" journal editors by suggesting fake reviewers for submitted articles.

VANCOUVER -- The Vancouver park board has launched a transgender public awareness campaign designed to make its facilities more friendly to all people.

Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask left Saturday's game against the New York Rangers 10 seconds into the second period for what described as a possible case of dehydration.

Passengers were in tears hours after arriving safely at Halifax Stanfield International Airport early Thursday during a massive Maritime spring storm that prompted a white-knuckle landing.

An Air Canada flight from Toronto to Halifax left the runway as it landed at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport early Sunday morning, sending 23 people to hospital with injuries that are not considered life-threatening.

John Klingberg scored 4:13 into overtime as the Dallas Stars edged the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Saturday. Jamie Benn, Patrick Eaves, and Tyler Seguin scored in regulation for the Stars (37-29-10) while Kari Lehtonen made 32 saves.

A dream has come true for young 'G-Man,' an 11-year-old from Saskatchewan who is unable to play hockey himself, but luckily inked his first NHL contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

The Yukon Research Centre is testing out a prototype for a project that could revolutionize the availability of fresh food for the north.

Good news, current and future royal princesses: as of today, your spot in the line of succession will no longer be bumped back by the birth of a baby brother.

When Kremlin goons beat his lawyer to death in a prison hospital six years ago, Bill Browder was just a talented investor trying to make his fortune in the rock-and-roll stock markets of post-Soviet Russia. Now, he's a human rights crusader who is in Otta

Dozens of Future Shop stores have been closed across Canada, its parent company Best Buy Canada Ltd. announced Saturday.

The family of a Quebec student says it will press charges against a Quebec City police officer after Naomie Trudeau-Tremblay was hit in the face with part of a tear gas canister during a protest on Thursday.

A woman was brutally sexually assaulted in Vancouver's Strathcona neighbourhood on Thursday afternoon, and police now have a 25-year-old man in custody.

Iraq's attempt to retake the city of Tikrit from ISIS has run into a major problem. More than 80 per cent of the ground forces involved on the government side are Shia militias. Many say they won't keep fighting if the U.S.-led coalition, including Canada

Newfoundland and Labrador's regional minister has stepped in to try to get a Corner Brook woman's sealskin purse returned to her after it was confiscated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Maine.

A newly identified marine creature found in a shale site on the Alberta-B.C. border lived more than 509 millions years ago, more than 250 million years before the first dinosaur walked the Earth.

Canadians are among the biggest online addicts in the world, visiting more sites and spending more time on the internet than anyone else in the world, according to comScore Canada.

A plane with nobody aboard crashed in a field near Nipawin, Sask., and sure enough, nobody was hurt.

Several Windsor communities in North America have received calls from royalty as part of a new book on the history of Windsor Castle, the Queen's retreat and the oldest continually inhabited castle in the world.

​A total of 111,438 public sector workers in Ontario were paid more than $100,000 in 2014, according to details included in the so-called Sunshine List released this morning.

Deep below the ice, far from the playful penguins and other animals that bring tourists to Antarctica, is a cold and barren world that by all indications should be completely void of life.

An hour before an apparent gas explosion sent flames soaring and debris flying at a Manhattan apartment building, injuring 19 people, utility company inspectors decided the work being done there was faulty.

Thanks to some creative pet detective work from an animal rescue worker, a cat that was missing for six years is finally being delivered back into the arms of her original owner.

Lewis Pugh completed four swims in the Antarctic with distances ranging from 200 metres to 500 metres. The goal was to show support for creation of a marine sanctuary in Antarctic waters.

Smokers, drinkers, speeders and high-income earners will pay more thanks to new measures introduced today by the Alberta government to deal with lower revenues brought by the plunge in oil prices.

A University of Manitoba researcher is hatching a plan to control mosquito populations by chemically sterilizing a batch of males and releasing them into the wild.

A discovery by an Alberta schoolteacher may have revealed what happened when Canada's ancient camels and horses met humans for the first time.

Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, al-Nusra, is gaining strength and rising to the top in the Syrian civil war, benefiting partly from the coalition's single-minded focus on attacking its rival, ISIS.

A large residential apartment building partially collapsed and was engulfed in flames on Thursday in New York City's East Village neighbourhood, critically injuring at least one person, authorities said.

Toronto letter carriers are being threatened with discipline if they refuse to deliver a controversial newspaper that slams politicians from across the political spectrum with profanity, the postal workers union says.

The office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner says there is enough information to examine whether lobbying efforts for Peguis First Nation by former senior MP Vic Toews violated conflict of interest guidelines.

There will be no more Downton Abbey for fans of the popular period drama after the upcoming season six, the show's producers confirm.

A woman who injected industrial silicone into the buttocks of customers as an illegal cosmetic procedure has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

Officers from the Canada Border Services Agency have charged a Minnesota man with smuggling firearms after a vehicle search last week at the Fort Frances, Ont. crossing uncovered two undeclared handguns

Instances of rickets, a rare disease caused by a lack of vitamin D, are far higher in the aboriginal population in the North, are continuing to rise.

For months Halifax and Irving Shipbuilding have been negotiating a special tax arrangement for the Halifax shipyard. There's now word the deal is done, prompting calls to make it public.

When a lynx attacked 'Stella', the pet goat, in Dinorwic, Ontario, earlier this month she ran inside her owner's home with the wild cat still on her back.

If Canada orders its warplanes into Syrian airspace to bomb ISIS targets, it will be joining a very small group of nations pushing the boundaries of international law in the name of self-defence, say legal experts.

Nazanin Afshin-Jam and Justice Minister Peter MacKay are expecting a new addition to their family, the human rights activist announced on Twitter.

Lt.-Col. Martin Bernier, the former commander of the 2nd Canadian Division Training Centre at 2nd Canadian Division Support Base Valcartier, faces two charges of sexual assault and two charges of harassment.

The human rights group Amnesty International says in a new report that Palestinian militants committed war crimes during the 2014 Gaza conflict by killing both Israeli and Palestinian civilians using indiscriminate projectiles.

Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier held by the Taliban in Afghanistan for five years before a controversial prisoner swap, is charged with desertion.

Britain will send two troop-carrying Chinook helicopters and new surface-to-air missile system to the Falkland Islands, amid fears Russia could be arming the Argentine government.

WASHINGTON (ABC News) -- Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is awful at parking. Congressional staffers who witnessed the parking fail Wednesday morning laughed at the display.

At Iraq's request, the U.S. began airstrikes in Tikrit on Wednesday in support of a stalled Iraqi ground offensive to retake the city from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters. The bombing marked a significant expansion of the U.S. military rol

King Richard III is set to get a new burial place Thursday after his bones were discovered in 2012 under a Leicester parking lot. CBC's Reg Sherren, in the U.K. ahead of the reinterment, looks at the Canadian connection in the historic process.

Saudi Arabia launches a military operation in Yemen against Houthi rebels to protect

The BBC has decided not to renew Jeremy Clarkson's contract as co-host of the popular program Top Gear after an investigation into an 'fracas' with a producer.

One team in the St. John's Junior Hockey League is looking for answers about who's responsible when fans are behaving poorly in the stands, after the forfeit of a crucial playoff game.

Two small earthquakes were measured just off Vancouver Island on Wednesday afternoon, about 150 kilometres south of Port Hardy.

Artyom Goncharuk, 27, of Richmond, B.C. is facing animal cruelty charges after he allegedly stabbed his three-year-old Pomeranian dog, Kaylly, 61 times last September.

Food fish stocks have declined at an alarming rate in the world's northern oceans and now the southern oceans are experiencing similar effects of overfishing, a B.C. study has concluded.

The leaders of almost all the other 28 NATO member countries have made time for Stoltenberg since he took over the world's largest military alliance in October.

Scientists at the US Geological Survey in Virginia are investigating ways of flushing out the valuable minerals, including gold, silver and rare elements such as palladium and vanadium.

The cost of salary and benefits for Ontario public sector workers has increased by 47% in less than a decade, growing at a significantly faster rate than either inflation or the provincial economy, according to a new Fraser Institute report.

The Izumo helicopter carrier is as big as the Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carriers that battled the United States in the Pacific during the Second World War.

VANCOUVER -- Vancouver's police force has been ordered to pay a trans woman $15,000 for repeatedly referring to her as a man and refusing to provide her post-op treatment while she was in jail.

Prince Edward Island RCMP have made an arrest under a section of the Criminal Code that is related to terrorism.

The ground has truly shifted when a policeman actually says it's perfectly reasonable for a rape victim to just do nothing, or to let educational officials handle one of the most serious of crimes facing society today, Neil Macdonald writes.

An ongoing investigation by CBC News and the investigative consumer program Marketplace finds that pharmacists feel pressured to push extra services on patients.

A military antiques collector who turned over a Second World War helmet to the soldier who wore it in battle now has that helmet once again.

Nova Scotians take to Twitter after noticing a glowing light in the night sky.

CBC Windsor's Nick Boisvert climbed aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Bristol Bay, spent the day breaking ice, shot video and put together a photo gallery.

Radim Vrbata was signed to provide the Vancouver Canucks with some much-needed offence, and that's just what he's done as the team continues its push for a return to the playoffs. The veteran sniper scored twice, including a beautiful effort on the winne

A Medicine Hat College basketball forward with an awkward surname is finally being identified by it when he plays the game.

Here's 10 enduring images involving Canadians.

Lana Barrett happened to catch two bobcats hanging out in her yard in Kelvin Grove, and it's not the first time a wild cat has visited the southwest Calgary neighbourhood.

Students at Newfoundland and Labrador's Memorial University say the food they're being served on a meal plan mandatory for students in residence is frequently undercooked and rotten, and something needs to change.

The Vancouver Aquarium is sending some of its experts to California to help rescue hundreds of starving sea lion pups that have been washing up along the coast.

Vernon, B.C. woman Holly Schellenberg took an icy cold plunge into Kalamalka Lake on Thursday to rescue a little girl's golden retriever pup that couldn't swim back to shore.

A Detroit mother is arrested after officials find two of her children dead inside her freezer.

Residents who own security cameras are being asked by Thunder Bay police to assist with investigations.

Boston Bruins fans don't like Montreal Canadiens star Max Pacioretty. But what happens when they don't recognize the Habs foe and he offers them free burgers?

Trying to go green by replacing your gas guzzler with an electric car? In some provinces, that may actually be worse for the environment, a University of Toronto researcher says.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will be back as agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in a limited X-Files series, Fox confirmed Tuesday.

A 21-year-old Winnipeg man who had a first date interrupted Tuesday night is grateful the driver he pulled from a burning vehicle is alive.

Canada's telecom regulator says four air duct cleaning companies paid a total of $55,000 as part of a settlement following violations for unsolicited phone calls to potential customers.

A single mother in a small Alberta town is stocking her house with donated furniture and shopping at a second-hand store because the moving company she hired more than a month ago still has her possessions after demanding four times the price it quoted he

In what may be a first for a central Newfoundland airport, a mother and newborn baby appear to be healthy in a Gander hospital after the child was born mid-flight in Canadian airspace.

Australian scientists have uncovered what is believed to be the largest asteroid impact zone ever found on Earth, in central Australia.

Britain will reinforce its military presence on the disputed Falkland Islands to ensure they are properly protected, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said on Tuesday, a move rejected as unnecessary by Argentina which lays claim to the archipelago.

The cable guy has a new competitor: the anti-cable guy. He helps you cut the cord on traditional television services and hooks you up with alternatives. Most Canadians still watch cable or satellite TV, but cord-cutting is catching. Help is available for

WestJet said it uncovered the scam, which advertised return flights for up to 50% lower than fares available through its website, while doing routine checks of its credit-card transactions

There are likely "no survivors," says French President Francois Hollande following the crash of a Germanwings Airbus A320with 150 people aboard in southern France.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada plans to expand its mission against Islamic State militants by sending fighter bombers to attack targets in Syria as well as Iraq, two well placed political sources said on Monday.