NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2018

As of 9:15 p.m. PT, BC Hydro reports approximately 7,300 Vancouver Island customers are without power along with 3,700 in the Lower Mainland. Environment Canada has wind warnings in effect Wednesday evening for much of the South Coast and Vancouver Island

After the Big Bang, it was dark and cold. And then there was light. Now, for the first time, astronomers have glimpsed that dawn of the universe 13.6 billion years ago when the earliest stars were turning on the light in the cosmic darkness.

Russia's ban from the Olympic movement was lifted on Wednesday despite two failed doping tests by its athletes at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

Crown-wearing worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania church on Wednesday, prompting a nearby school to cancel classes.

A Florida woman awoke Wednesday afternoon to what she thought was a bomb going off. It turned out to be a life raft that had fallen from a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter and punched a hole in her roof.

An Australian government report says more than 57,000 illegal firearms including a rocket launcher and machine-guns were handed in during a recent amnesty in which gun owners could surrender such weapons without penalty.

Newly published research argues Indigenous hunting didn't cause the collapse of once-mighty caribou herds in Canada's North and harvest bans only force First Nations to shoulder the blame for problems they didn't create.

Sask. will lose $62M in funding if it does not sign by Feb. 28

A woman in Nevada who allegedly carried a pickaxe as she shouted threats at a playground where hundreds of children were playing has been arrested.

South Africa's constitution is now likely to be amended to allow for the confiscation of white-owned land without compensation.

Bruce Pardy: One might expect Justin Trudeau and his ministers to jump on ideological bandwagons, but it is telling when law schools want to ride along too

Former Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel has been chosen the next leader of the Alberta Party after receiving 66 per cent of the vote.

Buried deep in the 367-page budget, the Liberal government announced Tuesday some paper currency will no longer be accepted as legal tender.

John Norris represented Omar Khadr in his legal battle against the government's Ministry of Public Safety between 2011 and 2013.

The country's $1.1 trillion US sovereign wealth fund, which invests government royalties from offshore oil and gas, grew by 13.7 per cent in 2017, adding $131 billion US to its coffers.

Ontario's Eric Hoskins has resigned as health minister to chair a federal government advisory council with a goal of creating a national pharmacare plan.

Moscow said on Monday it would establish an 'evacuation corridor' enabling people to leave the besieged Damascus suburb.

The cyber attack that disrupted some networks and servers at the opening of the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang left a number of conflicting forensic clues about its source. The attack used a blend of techniques, tools, and practices that blended the finge

Children need opportunities to develop hand strength and dexterity needed to hold pencils

Scientists say they haven't spotted a single North Atlantic right whale calf in their usual breeding grounds, raising even greater concern over the fate of the endangered mammal.

Shares of US Steel jumped more than 5% early Monday after President Donald Trump reportedly told confidants he wants a 24% tax on imported steel and another 10% on aluminum imports.

Prairie farmers who grow, rather than raise, protein sources are looking to break into the mainstream with new research and investments on how to sustainably feed the world.

RCMP in Alberta have taken a rural homeowner into custody after a shooting that police allege happened when he confronted two people rummaging through his vehicles.

Officials in the Australian state of Queensland who studied their own failed implementation of an IBM-provided payroll system say Canada would have benefited from their hard-earned lessons before launching Phoenix for federal public servants.

Last week's breakthrough in a Yellowknife missing person case was made with the help of a Serbian forensics lab.

More than two dozen people were taken to hospital, and 136 were sent to warming centres, after a crash involving two buses, two semi-trailers and two passengers vehicles on the Coquihalla Highway 25 kilometres north of Hope.

Vancouver Island training program pairs Indigenous knowledge with Coast Guard rescue expertise. Indigenous mariners have jumped into their fishing boats and mounted rescues for some of the worst ocean disasters on the B.C. coast

The mixed-doubles gold was a great start, but Canadian curling leaves Pyeongchang with a bad taste in its mouth, and questions to answer, after Rachel Homan's and Kevin Koe's teams failed to reach the podium.

Despite some painful misses in the country's signature sports, the 2018 Winter Games will go down as a resounding victory for the Canadian Olympic team. | News | PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games on CBC

Frankenstein Bill Combines the Worst of SESTA and FOSTA. Tell Your Representative to Reject New Version of H.R. 1865. The House of Representatives is about to vote on a bill that would force online platforms to censor their users. The Allow States and Vic

Canadian ski cross competitor Dave Duncan and his wife Maja were each fined one million South Korean won ($1,176 Cdn), for their role in an alleged car theft and DUI Saturday in South Korea. Willy Raine, who was allegedly driving, was fined five million S

The International Olympic Committee's board recommends upholding the ban on Russia for the Pyeongchang Winter Games. But its full membership still must vote.

Canadian ski cross athlete David Duncan, his wife Maja, and Ski Cross High Performance Director Willy Raine were arrested and released Saturday after police in South Korea allege a vehicle was stolen, with the driver legally impaired at the time of arrest

A legion of nearly 1,000 jihadi brides are set to return to the West as the caliphate collapses bringing with them a dangerous new wave of terror.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hails the U.S. announcement that it would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May as "a great day for the people of Israel."

Flashback to Brian Mulroney in 1991

Many parts of the region are under a snowfall warning. Flurries started in Metro Vancouver, Whistler and the Fraser Valley, as well as on the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island shortly before 9 a.m. and piled up quickly.

A transport truck driver was stranded inside the cab of his vehicle when the bridge he was travelling over in Port Bruce, Ont. collapsed Friday into rushing flood waters.

Video captured on a cellphone shows the dramatic moment that a woman rescued a dog after it fell through the ice on frozen lake in East Vancouver. The dog, whose name is Tessa, was towelled off, seemed to recover quickly from the mishap, and began playing

A senior government official with knowledge of the prime minister's security protocols is suggesting rogue political elements in India may have orchestrated the embarrassing invitation of a would-be political assassin to a formal dinner with Justin Trudea

An independent investigator calls the jailing of sex assault victim Angela Cardinal "a complete breakdown of legal protections" in a case that "should be seen as a call to action, to get back to the fundamentals of criminal law."

The two-week boycott of B.C. wine by the Alberta government is over, after the former said it would turn to the courts to settle a dispute over bitumen exports.

The decision to cleave off a quarter of the Arctic surf clam fishery and give it to a new Indigenous consortium has blindsided those on Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula.

After being on the run for nearly 20 years, a man considered America's most wanted deadbeat dad is behind bars thanks to a cherry pit and the investigative efforts of a Bearspaw, Alta., restaurateur.

Edmonton police and city officials are investigating after a 15-year-old boy filed complaints against two transit officers for alleged excessive force and racial profiling.

Warplanes pound the last rebel enclave near the Syrian capital for a fifth straight day as the UN pleaded for a truce to halt one of the fiercest air assaults of the seven-year civil and prevent a "massacre."

Reports say letter contained a racist note as Met investigates if it is linked to Westminster scare

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for a meeting with the Prime Minister after two more young men were stabbed to death as London's knife crime epidemic worsened.

Nichole Cevario's journal was not your typical high school diary. Rather than tales of schoolwork, the 18-year-old detailed her plans for a Columbine-style mass shooting at her Maryland high school, according to law enforcement.

Canada's energy companies can't get any love, even from many Canadians. With pipeline, regulatory and political frustrations reaching new heights, the nation's energy stocks slumped to their lowest level in almost two years this month. The iShares S&P/

Delays in installation. Complaints of broken machines and bad customer service.Two years after Ontario’s Liberal government introduced a province-wide program to expand electric vehicle use, the program is being called “a screw-up&

In secretive North Korea, Canada is but a vague geographical concept that could be anywhere in the world, writes Matt Kwong.

Serious accidents involving both rail and pipeline transport of dangerous substances like crude oil and gas increased in 2017 over the previous year, according to statistics compiled by the Transportation Safety Board.

Residents of Syria's eastern Ghouta district said they were waiting their "turn to die" on Wednesday, amid one of the most intense bombardments of the war by pro-government forces on the besieged, rebel-held enclave near Damascus.

The Alberta Provincial VEX Robotics Championship geared up at NAIT this morning with 45 teams battling for three spots in the upcoming world championship in Louisville, Ky.

Aim is for players to build a fake news empire, which researchers hope will expose propaganda tactics

Video footage shot by climber from Crown Mountain shows dramatic helicopter rescue from treacherous terrain by North Shore Rescue. North Shore Rescue was alerted just after dark on Feb.12. A ground team was deployed immediately to hike the estimated five

Syncrude celebrates 25 years of its bison ranch at its oilsands operation north of Fort McMurray. Syncrude introduced 30 bison from Elk Island National Park outside Edmonton to Mildred Lake, north of Fort McMurray, in 1993. The herd has now grown to 300.

Researchers began occupying the Cambridge Bay facility in 2015. While the federal government hasn't set a date for a grand opening, the CHARS main research facility is weeks away from completion.

Archaeologists exploring the world's biggest flooded cave in Mexico have discovered ancient human remains at least 9,000 years old and the bones of animals that roamed the earth during the last Ice Age.

A Pennsylvania-based offshoot of the Unification Church is encouraging couples to bring their AR-15 rifles with them to a commitment ceremony in the Pocono Mountains, a half-mile from an elementary school.

Natural selection overcame the challenges vampire bats face by relying on a blood-only diet, and fashioned an intestinal ecosystem perfectly suited to a life of silent blood sucking.

A grey whale has been returned safely to the Pacific Ocean after three days beached on the coast of Mexico's Baja California Sur state. Workers spent three days using pumps to keep the whale hydrated. Photos released by the agency showed them hosing it do

Officials tracking two bears that were badly burned in the largest wildfire in California history say the animals are settling back into their home in the wild after receiving unusual treatment for their injured paws.

Quebec has announced new restrictions on pesticides that many say have been destroying honeybees. But farmers say the new rules will make it even harder to them to protect their crops, and their livelihoods.

An invasive species with a jarring name has turned up in Lake Superior: the bloody red shrimp. Researchers found a single specimen of the tiny shrimp in a sample collected from the Duluth-Superior harbour last summer as part of routine surveillance for in

Images captured by police the night of a grisly and curious home invasion in St. John's were shown at the trial of Tyler Donahue, Gary Hennessey, Abdifatah Mohamed and Mitchell Nippard on Tuesday.A safe. A bag of marijuana. Small baggies of cocaine. One d

A mother from Hay River, N.W.T., says she started crying reading the first page of a children's book for her Grade 3 child. The book is called I am Not a Number. The story is about a girl who was taken from her home to attend a residential school.

Police are crediting an eagle-eyed rural resident in central Alberta for alerting them to a suspicious vehicle, which led to the arrest of two people and the seizure of three firearms following a lengthy chase.

Canada will not win an Olympic medal in women's curling for the first time. Rachel Homan's fifth loss Wednesday eliminated them from medal contention. Since curling made its return to the Winter Olympics in 1998, a Canadian team had never finished out of

16-week-old puppy died after blunt-force trauma to head and ribs. A Vancouver Island man has been sentenced to four months in jail for fatally beating a four-month-old puppy. Robert Carolan of Duncan is also banned from owning animals for 10 years after b

For CBC Sports analyst Pj Kwong, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are the greatest ice dance team of all-time. They proved it again at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. More importantly, the Canadian duo reached a level that won't be seen in quite

An annual ice fishing expedition happens on Moyie Lake to harvest the eggs of burbot fish and bring them to a hatchery. The fish are later released in Kootenay Lake to help with the dwindling population.

Several residents in Thunder Bay, Ont. say a wild lynx was spotted on Monday evening around 5 p.m. near Marina Park along the Marina Park Drive.

President Donald Trump's decision to hit imports of Canadian solar energy modules with staggering tariffs, starting this month, has sparked another court battle over the extent of his powers to push through his America First agenda.

A provincial court judge in St. John's has ruled it could be illegal to shout a sexist slur at female reporters, but not in the case of what happened to NTV reporter Heather Gillis last year outside the city dump.

A few climate scientists have found themselves in court in recent years. Generally, they've been the targets of suits, often by political groups filing Freedom of Information Act requests to fish through their emails. But in a couple of cases, fed-up scie

A new study sheds light on the magnitude of microplastic pollution in our oceans. The study, published today in open-access journal Frontiers in Marine Science, found microplastics in the stomachs of nearly three out of every four mesopelagic fish caught

Did a 1970s CIA plot spark a boom in deep sea mining?

The legal troubles of Gerald Stanley, the Saskatchewan farmer acquitted in the shooting death of Colten Boushie, are slated to carry over into provincial court next month.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and family lark about on 'Diana's' Taj Mahal bench after he is 'snubbed' by Indian leader Modi

Canada is opposed to Israel's plan to deport or imprison thousands of African asylum seekers and has officially registered its concerns.

Coyotes are getting too close for comfort for some residents of a northwest Calgary neighbourhood. An uptick in sightings has prompted calls for action by local officials amid rising fears of an attack.

Bad news, Elon: There's a chance your Tesla Roadster will come crashing down to Earth. 'After a few million years, it may not look like a car anymore,' researcher says

An Alberta man wants to become the first Canadian to win the historic Iditarod, a multi-day dog sled race in Alaska. No Canadian has ever won the historic Anchorage-to-Nome race, which started in the 1970s as a way to preserve the fading sled dog culture.

In the past, scientists who looked at the sport simply assumed the "curl" of a curling rock was affected by friction with the ice. A pair of Canadian scientists believe they may finally have an answer to how a curling rock curls.

The Lunar New Year, which is celebrated in many Asian countries, follows the Lunisolar calendar and occurs on the first day of the lunar month. Vancouver police are asking people to be patient getting to and from the area as up to 100,000 spectators are e

KENSINGTON, Md. (WJLA) - A female human trafficking victim too young to legally drive a car or buy a lottery ticket was savagely beaten with a bat by a pack of incensed MS-13 members, Montgomery County Police say.

Approximately 27,000 people woke up without power Sunday morning. BC Hydro is actively working to restore power to thousands after strong winds and snow caused outages across the South Coast.

One of Patrick Brown's accusers received an award from CTV, the media company that first reported the allegations against the former Ontario PC leader, the Toronto Sun has learned.

The killing of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro (pictured) in Macerata, north-east Italy and the subsequent arrest of an illegal immigrant triggered a local neo-fascist to launch vigilante attacks.

Former UNICEF consultant Peter Newell, a leading children's rights campaigner, who helped governments around the world tackle the issue of abuse, has been jailed for raping a 13-year-old boy

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he will present a plan in April to amend an outdated policy that excludes immigrants based on medical condition, but the NDP wants the government to act with greater urgency to end the discriminatory clause.

Female RCMP members say a secret Facebook group restricted to male RCMP members reinforces the boys' club nature of the force at a time when it is facing harassment lawsuits.

Last week, I found myself in the backseat of a Halifax cab at 3:30 a.m. After numerous flight delays and tarmac waits, which meant I had been travelling from Edmonton for almost 24 hours, I wasn't in a chatty mood.