NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2019

Warm waters and infectious disease have been determined as the causes of a die-off of sunflower starfish along the Pacific coast, says a newly released study. The nature of the disease itself still eludes scientists, but one of the research theorize an in

Antarctica is not in a good place. In the space of only decades, the continent has lost trillions of tonnes of ice at alarming rates we can't keep up with, even in places we once thought were safe.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that energy companies cannot abandon old oil and natural wells in the case of bankruptcy.

Voters in Nanaimo, B.C. hit the polls on Wednesday in a high-stakes byelection that has the potential to tip the balance of power in the legislature.

A new first-come-first-served online application for immigrants seeking to sponsor their parents and grandparents to come to Canada is being condemned as "profoundly discriminatory" after the program opened and closed in less than 10 minutes on Monday.

A federal task force will watch for foreign interference in the 2019 federal election, ministers announced on Wednesday.

For the first time, astronomers have used supermassive black holes from just after the Big Bang to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. Now, we have a bigger mystery on our hands than the answer this effort provided.

​Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's lawyers have released a list of elaborate codenames they claim defence officials used in an attempt to bury documents sought by the defence in relation to his breach-of-trust case. Codename 'Kracken':

Frostbite - it's when the cold gets into the layers beneath the skin.

Canadian telcos make 70 times as much per gigabyte, per person as telcos in India, and 23 times as much as Finland.

Eighteen companies across Japan have received envelopes containing what a white powder that authorities have confirmed is highly toxic potassium cyanide along with a note demanding money.

Diabetics in the U.S. are dealing with the rising cost of insulin. Canadians may not be immune to cost issues either.

There are now at least two investigations underway into allegations Department of National Defence officials intentionally tried to subvert the federal access to information system in the breach-of-trust case involving the military's former second-in-comm

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says her government has met with about a dozen companies about potentially building a new oil refinery.

It might seem counterintuitive, but the dreaded polar vortex is bringing its icy grip to parts of the U.S. thanks to a sudden blast of warm air in the Arctic. Get used to it. The polar vortex has been wandering more often in recent years.

The request comes as the CAQ prepares legislation that would block public workers in positions of authority, including teachers, from wearing religious symbols.

A police dog in Halifax named Steeler is hanging up his collar after eight years on duty and more than 200 arrests.

Chicago police are reporting gunpoint robberies targeting people wearing pricey Canada Goose jackets as temperatures plunge in the city.

Among the charges are accusations of fraud, obstruction of justice and theft of technology.

A United Conservative candidate who says her church is expecting a carbon tax bill totalling $50,000 is making waves on social media, with critics questioning whether the astounding number is fact or fiction.

Denmark began construction of a border fence with Germany Monday in an effort to keep out African Swine Fever, which threatens the nation's industry.

Khadija Siddiqui's attacker was sensationally acquitted in Pakistan last year, but she didn't give up.

In 2012, Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly announced that one line of Apple's Mac products will be made in the United States. Well, it never happened for precisely the reasons you'd think of: Supply chain issues. More precisely, according to a New York Times

Alberta's election commissioner is probing allegations that someone is obstructing his investigation into claims of "irregular financial contributions" made during the United Conservative Party leadership contest.

The North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) says two F-22 and two CF-18 fighter jets identified two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers that were entering an area patrolled by the Royal Canadian Air Force on Saturday morning.

A rare tornado ripped through a number of working-class districts of Havana late Sunday night, leaving at least three dead and scores injured, state-run media and Cuba's president said.

Nato states will increase their defence spending by 100 billion dollars in response to Donald Trump's demands that European allies shoulder a greater financial burden, the alliance's secretary general has said.

Elizabeth Pipko, a 23-year-old model who has appeared in Maxim, has kept a secret from her industry colleagues out of fear it could derail her career: She was a Donald Trump supporter and worked full-time on his campaign.

A mural by the British artist painted in tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attack is removed.

U.S. women's hockey star Brianna Decker showed everyone how it's done in the passing challenge at Friday night's NHL all-star skills competition in San Jose. On Saturday, a hockey apparel company stepped in to compensate her following a social media campa

The federal government is giving Toronto $15 million to help address mounting demand on the city's shelter system as it faces the added pressures of refugee claimants. It's the latest injection of funding since Ottawa committed $11 million last summer.

Chinese geneticists have been criticised after cloning five monkeys that were deliberately "edited" to be mentally ill.

The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador says Quebec's approach to its soon-to-be implemented long-gun registry does not address First Nations issues or jurisdictions, and rights to traditional and subsistence practices.

The heads of the Ryerson Students' Union have been given one week to explain approximately $250,000 in credit card spending, which includes numerous questionable expenditures.

An RCMP officer has been charged with one count each of assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon after a violent arrest of a suspect in Nisku in 2017.

Find out why Alberta will likely have to pay a premium to secure the thousands of tank cars it says it needs.

For the fourth year in a row, Canada is ranked the top country to live in when it comes to quality of life. Another category Canada ranked highly in? Best countries for women.

A court in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Thursday sentenced former president Viktor Yanukovych in absentia to 13 years in prison after finding him guilty of treason and helping Russian aggression.

The Red Lion Hotel promised free beer if it topped 45 C but only while it exceeded that benchmark. The pub ran dry after giving away more than 700 litres of beer

The animals were found in a dried-up waterhole, amid a fortnight of record-breaking temperatures.

For weeks now, the Canadian government has argued it is simply following the rule of law in detaining Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on behalf of the U.S. That position took a serious hit Tuesday, when Canada's ambassador to China, John McCallum, said that

Opposition Leader Juan Guaido takes an oath swearing himself in as Venezuela's interim president as hundreds of thousands marched to demand the end of socialist leader Nicolas Maduro's government.

Peter Chiarelli has been fired as general manager of the Edmonton Oilers and replaced on an interim basis by Keith Gretzky, who was previously Chiarelli's assistant.

A built-in tool in Microsoft's Edge app says the Daily Mail's journalism is often inaccurate.

A fighter pilot has been fined $2,000 after pleading guilty at a court martial to flying his CF-18 jet too low during a training mission in which his wingman died in a crash.

The Alberta government is providing a $440-million loan guarantee to help a Calgary-based company build a bitumen upgrader east of Edmonton.

The Canadian government has shared more than 1.6 million Canadian banking records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service since the start of a controversial information sharing agreement in 2014, CBC News has learned.

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen is defending the Liberal approach to asylum seekers, insisting the Conservatives' proposed alternatives are "half-baked" and impractical.

Instead of eating food from four groups, Canadians are now encouraged to follow three guidelines on: what to eat regularly, what to avoid, and the importance of cooking and preparing meals at home.

Ran malware on own phones as test, uploading all their WhatsApp messages, other data.

The longest shutdown in American history has halted the flow of vital data to Canadian farmers, already battling with trade uncertainty from the U.S., China conflict

Former U.S. marine Paul Whelan was given a flash drive containing Russian "state secrets" before he was arrested in Moscow on suspicion of spying, but did not know he had them and had not looked at them, the lawyer for Whelan, who has U.S., Canadian and o

Tony Clement was a member of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians at the time he was corresponding with 'Brianna Dounia'

The Nova Scotia owner of the Zamboni that's the subject of a widely shared photo on Facebook says powerful winds from a winter storm that blew through the area Sunday into Monday slid the ice resurfacing machine into the ditch.

Between 1999 and 2016, the government signed three security certificates naming Jaballah, all of which ultimately failed to stand up in court

Gigu Wu, 36, who is known for her bikini-clad hiking, was found dead by search parties 28 hours after her distress call was sent out from a deep ravine close to the Yushan mountain in Taiwan.

Israel's military said it had targeted Iranian installations near the Syrian capital Damascus early today, hours after intercepting a rocket fired from Syrian territory.

The event at Parc Jean-Drapeau won't run today due to the snow and cold temperatures.

With a new Asia-Pacific trade deal slashing tariffs, Canada's pork and beef producers see even more potential in a lucrative Japanese market.

You've likely seen cookies baked in cars and eggs fried on sidewalks amid our own heat waves here at home, but with temperatures topping 40C for 37 days and counting since December 16 in some places, Aussies are finding new ways to showcase the

The case dates back to 2016 when the Canadian International Trade Tribunal ruled that the process which awarded a truck contact to Mack Defense of the U.S. was flawed

A lawyer and political activist is accusing United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney of claiming his primary residence was in Calgary while living in Ottawa, an allegation Kenney disputes.

Two middle schools in Butler County, Iowa will receive week-long intensive classes that will train students on a variety of survival skills, including gun safety beginning in the Spring.

The soul singer says she wants to "give the anthem back its voice" and criticised Colin Kaepernick.

His plan includes a concession on so-called Dreamer immigrants but Democrats have already rejected it.

Forensic experts attempted to separate and count charred heaps of corpses in central Mexico on Saturday after a massive fireball erupted at an illegal pipeline tap, killing at least 66 people.

A 20-year-old man who pleaded guilty to setting a fire that killed a baby in Edmonton has been released after spending 51 days in jail.

Gunhild Stordalen, who funds a campaign to save the planet by drastically cutting meat consumption, has been slammed by critics who point out her globetrotting adventures increase air traffic pollution

Huseyin Onel, 24, was filmed on CCTV (pictured, holding a white bottle) squirting liquid at revellers after they stepped in to stop an attack on man outside the venue in Hackney, east London.

"From a legal perspective, we will be working on evidence to build the case where we can lay charges and prosecute," Goodale told reporters.

China's envoy to Canada on Thursday warned Ottawa of possible repercussions if it banned technology firm Huawei Technologies from supplying equipment to Canadian 5G networks, the latest blast in a deepening bilateral dispute.

Last spring, Marketplace host Charlsie Agro and her identical twin sister, Carly, bought DNA ancestry kits from five of the most popular companies in the industry. Find out why some of the results they received left a team of computational biologists at Y

The National Energy Board has rejected a request by Burnaby, B.C., that it rescind orders allowing the company building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to conduct work at the city's terminal.

Anyone in Canada who knows anything about the target on the back of Canadian oil and gas knows the name Vivian Krause.

A Toronto-area woman who admitted to attacking workers at a Canadian Tire store with a golf club and butcher knife in an effort to help ISIS has been found guilty of several terror charges.

Biologists are attempting to round up the remaining animals and breed them.

Terrorism experts say a recent speech by Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale provided some much-needed clarity about Canadians who have travelled overseas to fight in conflicts and the few who have returned home.

A Canadian kidnapped in Burkina Faso has been found dead, says his family, two days after he was abducted by gunmen.

Researchers found evidence that fasting affects circadian clocks in the liver and skeletal muscle, causing them to rewire their metabolism, which can ultimately lead to improved health and protection against aging-associated diseases.

The British SAS soldier was in Nairobi to train Kenyan Special Forces when five Islamist terrorists attacked a luxury hotel complex in the city, killing 14 people, and he stepped in to help.

Two months ago, a record-breaking heatwave devastated Australia's population of spectacled flying foxes.

The tiny remains of an extinct bug-like creature discovered at British Columbia's 500-million-year-old Burgess Shale fossil deposit add a new branch to the evolutionary tree of life, says a PhD student who tracked down the organism's development.

A slight majority of Canadians are calling the lack of new oil pipeline capacity in the country a crisis, according to findings from a recent survey by the Angus Reid Institute.

Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished

The mayor of Lac-Megantic, Que., says she wants footage of the 2013 rail disaster in the town removed from two Netflix productions.

Civil rights attorney Areva Martin was embarrassed live on air Tuesday when she was scolded by Sirius XM radio host David Webb who she said possessed white privilege.

Indigenous leaders will debate this week which financial model is ideal if they are able to purchase the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline project.

China is expressing ``strong dissatisfaction'' with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over his criticism of a death sentence given to an alleged Canadian drug smuggler at a retrial.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul plans to undergo hernia surgery at a private hospital in Canada because of injuries he suffered when a neighbour tackled him while he was doing yard work at his Kentucky home.

People often suffer from an 'illusion of knowledge,' write the authors of a new study that finds that people who hold them most extreme views about genetically modified foods know the least