NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2017

Rob Lowe says he thought he was going to be killed during an encounter with a bigfoot creature while filming his new A&E docuseries.

Sam is made up of a series of stacking dolls, with each layer of the toy representing a stage of gender questioning and transitioning.

PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been charged with allegedly misusing European Parliament funds relating to the payment of parliamentary aides.

The southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz soared to a brutal 129 degrees Thursday, which is Iran's highest temperature ever recorded. It's also one of the world's hottest reliably measured temperatures and the highest June temperature in Asia on record.

Since NAFTA began in 1994, Canada has been sued 39 times by foreign companies claiming Canadian policies have violated their rights

Storage prices are dropping much faster than anyone expected, due to the growing market for consumer electronics and demand for electric vehicles (EVs). Major players in Asia, Europe, and the United States are all scaling up lithium-ion manufacturing to s

Parks Canada marine archeologists will dive this summer on HMS Terror, the once-elusive Franklin ship discovered in the Arctic last September, even as troubling ownership and security issues remained unresolved.

After 16 years and two months in power, the B.C. Liberals have lost the confidence of the legislature.

Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly said Thursday that members of Congress have tried to "threaten" him over his department's stepped up enforcement of the immigration laws they wrote, and called for even stiffer laws to punish sanctuary cities and

British Columbia's minority Liberal government is staring at defeat today in the legislature, more than seven weeks after squeaking out a minority government in a provincial election.

Low crude prices are making for relatively cheap driving this weekend, which could be just what the oilpatch needs. According to research done by GasBuddy.com, gasoline prices in Canada are averaging $1.04 per litre, 14 cents per litre lower than the 10-y

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have begun a three-day Canadian tour today in Iqaluit that will include a speech by the member of the Royal Family and a meeting dedicated to Inuit language revitalization.

A horse-drawn wagon overturned on a steep embankment west of Williams Lake on Tuesday afternoon, injuring five people. The wagon trip is an eight-day journey from the First Nation's territory in the Nemiah Valley to the Williams Lake Stampede.

New research suggests hydraulic fracturing and saltwater disposal has limited impact on seismic events.

The historic Quinsam Hotel in Campbell River has suffered heavy damage in a late night fire.

This year's return of Skeena River sockeye is setting up to be the worst on record. As of June 27, 2017, just shy of 13,000 sockeye had returned. By the same day in 2013 a total of more than 25,000 sockeye had made their way up the river.

A disturbing video has led to the arrest of a driver suspected of hitting two construction flaggers in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday morning, RCMP have confirmed.

The sole surviving eaglet in a nest brought crashing down by fierce winds in a thunderstorm near Edmonton is getting a second chance.

It's a popular time to buy a new Canadian flag. But many Canadians are unsure of what to do with older flags that are no longer fit to fly.

Existing air quality rules in the U.S. are not enough to prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths each year, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Canada is extending its military mission against ISIS by two years, to March 31, 2019, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced today in a news release.

Southern Company and Mississippi Power announced Wednesday afternoon that they would suspend all coal gasification operations at a Kemper County plant and simply use natural gas instead. The decision comes after the Mississippi Public Service Commission (

A bird of prey typically found wandering South America and the deep south of the United States has been spotted in New Brunswick.

The Yukon River Quest started Wednesday in downtown Whitehorse. The 715-kilometre race to Dawson City is the world's longest annual canoe, kayak and stand up paddleboard race.

Community members in Paulatuk, N.W.T., captured rare images this week of two moose wading in the Arctic Ocean.

Conservation officers believe the same bear was involved in two recent encounters. The most recent involved a motorcyclist forced to back up by the approaching bear.

An East Vancouver resident and his neighbours are getting their mail back after Canada Post temporarily suspended delivery over several crow attacks.

The massive aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the largest weapons in the arsenal of the United States military, is steaming toward Halifax for a rare visit that will include a stopover extending to Canada Day.

A Montreal man accused of stabbing an airport police officer at a Michigan airport was denied bail Wednesday and will remain in custody in Flint.

The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a B.C. court ruling that ordered Google to remove the website of a company from its global search results.

Everything you need to keep mosquitoes away could be sitting in a pot on your back deck, says a UPEI biology professor.

Nearly half of all criminal charges in Ontario are withdrawn or tossed out before trial, according to new research, prompting calls for reforms to how charges are laid.

"I just have the picture of the squad cars, the pistols pointed at me stuck in my head," says 20-year-old Malik Smith. He says he was detained for nine hours and then released without an apology.

The Ontario Provincial Police says speeding has been linked with 30 road deaths as of Monday, compared to 17 at the same time last year.

Lightning storms across southeastern British Columbia have sparked numerous wildfires.

Canada Post says it will only resume mail delivery to three addresses in East Vancouver when it's safe, after a mail carrier was attacked by a well-known neighbourhood crow.

Leonard Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during the Second World War, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches.

Andrew J. Spieles, 21, of Harrisonburg, pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

Experts hope to conduct at least two or three necropsies and says other reasons could include collisions with vessels or entanglement in fishing gear.

A quickly-spreading, world-wide ransomware outbreak has reportedly hit targets in Spain, France, Ukraine, Russia, and other countries.

It's a phenomenon that's been noted throughout history: bright nights when you could read even though there was no illumination from the moon, candles or any other form of light. Now, Canadian scientists believe they've unravelled the mystery.

U.S. energy firms added oil rigs for a record 23rd week in a row, extending a year-long drilling recovery as producers boost spending on expectations crude prices will rise in future months despite this week's decline to a 10-month low.

Women stripped down to their swimwear in the Czech Republic to pose up for photographs in the plant's cooling tower and Facebook users were asked to vote for their favourite.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his temporary bans on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and all refugees to go into effect for people with no connection to the United States while agreeing

Over the past 12 years, six provinces have banned junk food from schools, and a new study says the measure is having a positive impact on student health.

Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical entrepreneur who has been called the "pharma bro" for raising the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 per cent, will go on trial in Brooklyn, N.Y., today for what prosecutors are calling a Ponzi-like scheme at his forme

The Gerard Comeau case, which will be heard at the Supreme Court, could change everything. It depends on how willing the high justices are to upend our entrenched statism.

Michael Broadfoot says while most Canadians will be celebrating confederation, some will be protesting 150 years of colonization. He didn't want to do either.

A viral video of Saturday's parade quickly sparked controversy with some saying organizers were advertising systemic racism by allowing floats to be pushed predominantly by minorities and ridden predominantly by white people.

An editorial in Monday's Canadian Medical Association Journal is calling on the federal government to crack down on natural health products, which the author argues are poorly tested and can do patients more harm than good, compared to conventional medici

A Canadian soldier has upended more than 300 years of British history, becoming the first woman to command the troops guarding the Queen and royal residences in London. Capt. Megan Couto led some 40 Canadian soldiers through the Changing of the Guard at B

A secretive Washington firm that commissioned the dubious intelligence dossier on Donald Trump is stonewalling congressional investigators trying to learn more...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - People had rushed to the scene of a highway accident about 60 miles southwest of Multan after the tanker overturned to gather leaking fuel.

Whit Merrifield hit a two-run, two-out double that capped a four-run rally in the ninth inning, as the Kansas City Royals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Friday night to reach .500 for the first time since April.

Police say they shot and killed a cougar that had climbed a tree near a school in west-central Alberta.

Environment Canada has issued a frost advisory for parts of Saskatchewan, including Regina.

After a winter of snow and rain, Metro Vancouver's first heat wave of the summer is coming this weekend. As a high pressure ridge builds over the South Coast, temperatures will peak around 32 C in inland areas of Metro Vancouver and the rest of the South

The thief who made off with a human toe that is used in an infamous cocktail served by a Dawson City bar has mailed it back, Yukon RCMP say.

A Brussels court has handed a 15-month suspended prison sentence to eight Arab princesses. The widow of an Abu Dhabi sheikh and her seven daughters were found guilty of human trafficking and degrading their servants.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has opened a probe into former Attorney General Loretta Lynch's efforts to shape the FBI's investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the committee's chairman announced Friday.

The province expanded access last year to referrals for transition-related surgeries, although patients often had to travel out of the province for procedures

Yuri Drozdov was in charge of the "illegals", who gave up their identities to go undercover in the West.

Make no mistake, there is plenty of talent available in the 2017 draft. But for all the talk that this year's talent pool isn't deep, there are still plenty of good players available in the first round and beyond.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday proposed a $120 million fine on a Florida resident alleged to have made almost 100 million spoofed robocalls to trick consumers with "exclusive" vacation deals from well-known travel and hospitality c

Organizers of a graduation ceremony for black students at Canada's largest university say the event is meant to acknowledge the barriers that remain for people of colour pursuing academia.

Dozens of Baltimore business owners are suing city officials, including the police department and former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, for mishandling the city's response to the rioting in 2015.

Tina Martino revealed that allies of her son had taken revenge against a captured ISIL fighter on her behalf. 'They shot him and booted him and punched him'

The Vancouver International Airport says it will give one per cent of its annual gross revenue for the next 30 years to the Musqueam Indian Band as part of an agreement signed Thursday.

Residents in and around Thunder Bay and Hamilton, Ont., have started to receive packages from the provincial government soliciting people to sign up for the basic income pilot project.

Police say the man who caused a rush-hour traffic jam by climbing the bridge between Surrey and New Westminster, B.C., was likely under the influence of crystal meth at the time.

It is unclear whether a young whale flown from a New Brunswick river to Quebec is able to eat or has joined other belugas, a marine mammal group says.

Dozens of bikers escorted a bullied 10-year-old boy to school in Sydney, N.S. on Wednesday morning in a heartwarming show of support.

The streets of Las Vegas and Phoenix have been reduced to ghost towns as temperatures hit 118F and climbing during a punishing heat wave that has grounded planes.

An armed Russian fighter jet buzzed a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft in the Baltic Sea on Monday, two U.S. officials told Fox News.

The eruption risk at Yellowstone remains low, but one of the recent earthquakes was the biggest to have hit since 2014.

The man is mauled to death in the second fatal attack by a black bear in the state in as many days.

Ashton Phillips was on a Father's Day fishing trip in Kyuquot, B.C., when he captured a video of an eagle swooping down to grab a piece of salmon.

Adidas has released its line of all 31 NHL jerseys for the 2017-18 season and the hockey world can't stop talking about them.

The carmaker had planned to build the Focus in Mexico, but cancelled plans for a new factory after pressure from Donald Trump.

The orcas will wait all day for a fisher to accumulate a catch of halibut, and then deftly rob them blind. They will relentlessly stalk individual fishing boats, sometimes forcing them back into port. Most chilling of all, this is new: After decades of

The Liberal government has introduced long-awaited legislation to overhaul Canada's anti-terrorism regime, which will include a "super" civilian review body for security and intelligence agencies.

The new National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) is a centrepiece of the government�s new anti-terrorism legislation that was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday by Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale

High temperatures are forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights in Phoenix, Arizona.

Otto Warmbier case remains a mystery, as the student dies six days after he is returned to the US.

Armed police will join druids and revellers as thousands of people will gather at Stonehenge (pictured) in Wiltshire for the summer solstice after the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London.

Sensitive personal details were available on a cloud server to anyone with the correct link.

At age 95, former Second World War pilot Hal Burns could be called a living embodiment of Canadian history. On Sunday, at the tiny Fairview Municipal Airport in northwestern Alberta, he met another one.

An RCMP constable faces criminal charges in the death of a 41-year-old last summer on a northern Alberta highway, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team said Friday. The man, already injured from being hit by another vehicle, was struck by the RCMP ve

Amid the dull claystone of a tube-shaped sample of rock, the gleaming, pulse-quickening swirl of gold is unmistakable.

Freda Watson was devastated when her cat, George, went missing 12 years ago in Winnipeg, saying she cried a long time for the pet she affectionately called her "little boy."

Millions of translucent, sea cucumber-shaped pyrosomes have 'invaded' northern waters. Local scientists know little about them and say it's unclear how long the tropical creatures will survive or what impact they might have on the local food chain.

Police arrested a man after the "potential terrorist attack" in Finsbury Park, which also left 10 people injured.

The water is also reported to have swept away 11 homes from a village on the west coast.

For the first time since 1999, a United States fighter jet has destroyed a a manned enemy aircraft in air to air combat in an incident the US military is

Officials said the seven sailors' bodies were found in flooded berths onboard the USS Fitzgerald.