NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2017

A South Carolina man has been found guilty of illegally killing a grizzly bear while hunting in northern Manitoba.

The Alberta government plans to borrow more than $2 billion over four years to cover losses from power contracts, despite claims there are cheaper alternatives. Four companies that bought coal-fired electricity from generators and resold it to the grid un

The Alberta Party hosted a pub night Thursday night in Calgary, hoping to bring in voters over beers who are looking for a new political home.

WikiLeaks has published hundreds more files today which it claims show the CIA went to great lengths to disguise its own hacking attacks and point the finger at Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.

CIBC is eliminating up to 130 jobs in its Toronto finance department and sending the work to India. Staff losing their positions must train other local CIBC employees, who will then train workers in India to take over the jobs.

A nondescript spot on the border between Quebec and New York has come to symbolize the plight of those who no longer feel welcome in the U.S., but know they cannot enter Canada through the front door.

The study aims to identify all the ways other countries allegedly pull a fast one on the United States through anti-competitive trade practices

Murali Muthyalu allegedly convinced a man that his daughter was carrying an evil spirit. Over the course of one month, he performed multiple rituals and charged $101,000

Canada currently spends about one per cent of its GDP on defence, which is half the agreed-upon NATO target

Patrick Maroon scored twice and Connor McDavid had a single as the Oilers posted a 3-2 victory winning their seventh straight home game. The win lifted Edmonton into sole possession of second place in the Pacific Division with 95 points, just one point be

Over 90 per cent of Canadians think the current approach to dealing with asylum seekers in Canada needs to change, a new poll from Ipsos reveals.

Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced late Wednesday that a widely used pesticide will remain available to farmers, despite agency scientists recommending last year that it be banned due to neurotoxicity risks to farm worker

A couple of years ago, when I was investigating the UK's safest ISP, a high-ranking employee at Virgin Media told me there was no NSA or GCHQ Internet traffic interception equipment hiding within Virgin's network. He also said that, in his opinion, not mu

A University of Washington professor started studying social networks to help people respond to disasters. But she got dragged down a rabbit hole of twitter-boosted conspiracy theories, and ended up mapping our political moment.

A Texas judge dismissed felony charges against anti-abortion rights activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt. Now they face charges in California for allegedly recording people without permission.

About 23,000 people convicted of low-level drug crimes could have their cases wiped away as the result of an epic Massachusetts lab scandal.

Canadian Ece Heper has been released from jail despite being found guilty of insulting the Turkish president on Facebook.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the majority of Liberal MPs have voted against a Conservative motion declaring that the violence perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant constitutes genocide.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an order to undo Obama-era climate change regulations, keeping a campaign promise to support the coal industry and calling into question U.S. support for an international deal to fight global warming.

A week after posting a video of himself and a passenger doing a "Chinese fire drill" Halifax Coun. Matt Whitman removed it saying it was a "distraction."

A 94-year-old Indiana woman is celebrating 44 years of working at McDonald's.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is issuing a recall for the Robin Hood brand of all-purpose flour sold in Western Canada due to possible E. coli contamination.

A Royal Canadian Navy vessel was involved in an international anti-drug trafficking mission that led to the seizure of more than 14 tonnes of cocaine in international waters along the coasts of Central and South America.

Due to a white student percentage above 30 percent, Walter Reed Middle School faces layoffs and increased class sizes.

Two Canadian researchers are among the winners of this year's Gairdner Awards, which recognize some of the most significant medical discoveries made by scientists around the globe.

"There is most certainly a culture of impunity here that big people, which means roughly people with power and money, expect to be able to get away with a certain amount of wrongdoing," said Baker. "This happens so often, so constantly, it is very clearly

With seeded cells, tissue engineers hope to harvest flesh from plants.

A powerful storm is expected to bring waves of up to 8m to the Queensland coast.

Federal government ministers are keeping mum on the details of the Liberal's marijuana legalization plan, as provinces consider the legislative and regulatory burden that will fall to them when pot is legalized.

This week a medical sting operation unmasks predatory scientific journals and the problem of scientific bias is put under the microscope.

German police say a giant gold coin known as the Big Maple Leaf has been stolen from Berlin's Bode Museum by a gang who climbed in through a window at around 3.30am on Monday.

A startling discovery made this weekend northwest of Thunder Bay may answer a decades-old question: do cougar prowl northwestern Ontario?

The number of children and young people injured by firearms in Ontario amounts to nearly one a day, say doctors who urge prevention measures.

The provincial policy of privatizing home and community care services for seniors has resulted in less access for people in need, says a new report released today. Between 2001 and 2016, the closure of 40 care facilities operated by either health authorit

When a worried motorist stopped to help a wounded porcupine in Debert, N.S., last weekend, the animal was so weak it fell over when approached.

An 18th-century avalanche near Nain is Canada's earliest recorded avalanche. The avalanche occurred in the winter of 1781-82 about 20 kilometres from Nain and killed 22 people in their homes, Livermand said.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked conservative lawmakers for the failure of the Republican bill to replace Barack Obama's health-care law as his aides pledged to court moderate Democrats on upcoming initiatives from health care to tax cuts.

Gunfire erupted early Sunday inside a crowded Cincinnati nightclub after a dispute broke out among several men, killing one man and injuring 15 other people, authorities said.

Thousands of people crowded into Moscow's Pushkin Square on Sunday for an unsanctioned protest against the Russian government, part of a wave of demonstrations taking place throughout the country.

Supporters of President Donald Trump were doused with pepper spray during a rally by counter-protesters in Huntington Beach.

Carol Reid was 23 years old when she donned a garland of iris flowers and walked out the door of her Fourth Avenue home to join hundreds of hippies making their way to Stanley Park.

Underwater filmmaker Russell Clark got up close and personal with dozens of curious sea lions off the coast of Vancouver Island.

Irish dad Damien Murphy only turned away for a few seconds at a children's play centre. Moments later, he found his three-year-old son, Jamie, inside a toy machine.

When Ivy Rudell spotted a mysterious flag pole on top of Golden Horn mountain near Whitehorse, a social media probe got us the answers.

The Liberal government has yet to formally serve notice to the United Nations that it's ready to join international peacekeeping operations. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted Canada might still have boots on the ground in 2017, which would head o

What was supposed to be a quick and easy kill for the Edmonton Oilers dragged out into a uncomfortable struggle Saturday. It was like instead of putting Old Yeller out of his misery with one shot behind the barn, the family chained him to the coffee table

Las Vegas police say the gunman in a fatal shooting on the Strip who barricaded himself inside a public bus has surrendered peacefully after shutting down the busy tourism corridor for hours.

Canada's aging CF-18s will conduct unarmed patrols out of Iceland for several weeks, beginning in late May. That will be followed in September by another air policing mission in Romania, defence officials confirmed to CBC News.

A century after Canada's so-called black battalion left Halifax harbour for Europe, the soldiers' relatives say their experience still carries relevance today.

Federal corrections facilities in Canada make thousands of drug and alcohol seizures, with homemade alcohol the largest problem.

The party will be refunding $92,874.36 as part of an ongoing review of donations.

Brandt steps up with plan to save shuttered Saskatoon manufacturing facility

TransCanada says it has received a presidential permit from the U.S. State Department that allows it to build the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline.

Heavy caseloads, a toxic workplace culture, concerns about officer safety and low pay are among the reasons cited by Mounties who spoke to CBC News after leaving the RCMP for new careers at other Canadian police forces.

An 18-year-old Quebec murder victim feared her ex-boyfriend and tried to seek help from police before her death, friends allege.

After months of bitter debate, the House of Commons passed M-103, a non-binding motion condemning Islamophobia and religious discrimination.

International Ice Hockey Federation President Rene Fasel tells The Associated Press he needs to know by the end of April whether NHL players will be cleared to play in the South Korea Olympics next year.

A Dartmouth man is furious that after 25 years the Nova Scotia Registry of Motor Vehicles has cancelled his personalized licence plate with his last name Grabher on it, following a single complaint.

Police say the 15-year-old girl was assaulted in a Facebook live video viewed by at least 40 people.

Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centres and other institutions in Canada and the U.S., marking a potential breakthrough in a case that stoke

A hundred years after the Battle of Vimy Ridge, French citizens are travelling in Cape Breton to honour Nova Scotians who died in the First World War fight. One of the stories they are following is that of John Arsenault.

An inquiry starts Friday into the 2007 death of a Chinese temporary foreign worker after an accident at a Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. site near Fort McMurray.

Israeli police arrest Israeli-US teenager on suspicion of making bomb threats against Jewish community centres in US

A Saint-Michel mosque is facing a police complaint after a video of an Imam delivering a sermon in which he asks for Jews to be killed surfaced online.

Former Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov was shot and killed in Kyiv Thursday in what the Ukrainian president described as an "act of state terrorism" by Russia.

ANAHEIM - The coaches usually say it�s all about the process, one game at a time, one shift, then the next. But this was not just game 1,088 on the NHL schedule Wednesday night. While the playoffs officially begin April 12, we got a big, bold, loud prev

The federal government is offering almost no new spending in the 2017 budget, a document that brings into focus already announced funding amid an economic crunch.

The province will be seeking changes to a new course taught at a rural Alberta school called "women studies," which covers topics such as hairstyles, dinner parties, recipes and interior decor.

Alleged assailant was shot by armed police following the incident, Commons Leader says.

A recent email equating feminism with cancer issued by the Wildrose on Campus at the University of Calgary marked the climax of an implosion of the student group that started with a takeover by supporters of PC leadership candidate Jason Kenney, according

A group of Canadian researchers say they have, for the first time, successfully raised wasps that will be used this summer as a weapon against an insect that is ravaging forests.

One mob called the other 'communists' and the other mob called the first one 'fascists' as tempers flared hours before a debate in the House of Commons

The Trump administration warns that U.S.-bound travellers from 10 airports in Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa will be banned from carrying certain electronic devices on board, owing to fears terrorists could conceal bombs in larger devices.

The extreme weather seen in Canada this past year -- such as massive snowstorms on both coasts and incredibly warm January weather in Toronto -- is set to become the new norm, a scientist says.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said on Tuesday that with negotiations on Olympic participation at a standstill people should assume the league will not be sending its players to the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

Canadian military planners are grappling with how much intelligence they can share with allies deployed with them in Latvia this summer. The other NATO members will also be arriving with restrictions on how their troops are used.

North Korea's latest missile launch appeared to have ended in a failure on Wednesday, South Korean defence officials said, three days after the North claimed a major breakthrough in its rocket development program.

The world experienced its hottest year in 2016, a trend that contributed to the wildfires that decimated parts of Alberta and appears to already be worsening, according to a global analysis released Tuesday.

Daniel Sedin scored a power-play goal 2:12 into overtime and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-4 on Tuesday night to end a six-game skid.

It's not every day that you see a polar bear flying through the air, but that was the scene over David Daley's Churchill, Man. property. Daley runs a dog-sledding company a few kilometres outside of the northern Manitoba town, and came home last Thursday

A ghost town in the B.C. Interior is raising money on GoFundMe to attract a student employee and reopen its museum.

The Kiskatinaw Bridge, built during WW II, has been damaged after a pickup truck crashed into it early Monday morning. The bridge was constructed as part of the Alaska Highway during the Second World War.

After 13 years of being "the only pub in town" the Falkland Pub is looking for a new owner to take the helm of the saloon-style establishment dating from 1937.

More than 100 years after he was killed in the line of duty, a Vancouver police officer has finally received a ceremony befitting a fallen officer.

A plaque was unveiled in B.C.'s Cariboo region to commemorate the contribution of Chinese Canadians and to signify their "hardship and suffering" under past provincial governments.

Charges have been laid in connection with an alleged illegal clam digging operation on Vancouver Island that turned violent Friday.

Players, parents, and coaches flipped out when a critical AA Bantam playoff hockey game was decided by a coin toss in Calgary over the weekend.

Three people are facing human trafficking-related charges after police say they were called to a home in Georgina where a woman was being held against her will.

Senior defence officials have ordered a curb on non-essential activities across the department, The Canadian Press has learned, as they look to free up millions of dollars for military operations and other more critical tasks.

Crimes motivated by religion accounted for 46 percent of the incidents reported, the highest in the last 10 years

McGuinness was once Britain's number one terrorist and a feared commander accused of ordering some of the IRA's most spectacular attacks across Ulster and on mainland UK.

Cam Talbot made 35 saves to record his second shutout in as many games and seventh of the season as the Edmonton Oilers closed out an eight-game homestand with a 2-0 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Monday.

FBI director James Comey on Monday confirmed the agency was investigating possible Russian government efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election, including any links between U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign and Moscow.

Seyed Mirsaeid-Ghazi, who was 45 years old when he was arrested and charged last year, appeared in Nova Scotia provincial court to finish his preliminary inquiry, which began in December. Mirsaeid-Ghazi was arrested and charged in April 2016 in relation t

The Canada Border Services Agency detained more Mexican migrants in the first two months of 2017 than it did in all of 2016, new statistics show.

While convention-goers waited for the results of the Alberta PC leadership vote Saturday afternoon in Calgary, a spontaneous gathering took place just outside the main auditorium.

While several factors suggest a gloomy outlook for production from the world's third-largest proven oil reserves, Canada's oilsands output is still expected to set new records in 2017 and climb even further in the coming years.