NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2019

The party hauled in just over $8 million from the beginning of the year to the end of March

Fan Wei is the second Canadian to be given the death penalty in China amid a diplomatic row.

The vote to send a new country to the Security Council table at the United Nations is creeping up, and so is Canada's spending to secure a seat around that table.

A backlog of "legacy" refugee claims filed by applicants who have been waiting over seven years to find out if they can remain in Canada will soon be cleared, as Ottawa now turns its attention to an even bigger backlog of fresh asylum claims.

Canada's lack of oil pipeline capacity cost our national economy $20.6 billion last year, or 1% of Canada's Gross Domestic Product, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

The US has spent $1.5m a day fighting the opium war in Afghanistan. Why is business still booming?

As plants struggle to sell the plastics, paper and other materials they've collected, Canada's recycling industry is having its moment of reckoning.

Six people are killed in the first attack on a church since jihadist violence erupted in the country.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena used emergency powers to ban any form of face covering in public. The decree means Muslim women in the country will no longer be able to wear veils.

A tame beluga wearing a Russian harness is thought to have come from a Russian navy facility.

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was pictured in a new video for the first time since July 2014, SITE Intelligence Group said Monday.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to answer China's ban on Canadian canola shipments by pulling hundreds of millions of dollars Ottawa has committed to Beijing's multilateral development bank.

The man was reportedly left bloodied outside a cinema in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, after shouting out spoilers of the final Avengers film to eager cinemagoers who were queuing to see it.

Seven people have been shot outside a Maryland church. The shooting occurred close to the Perkins Square Baptist Church in Baltimore at about 5.30pm on Sunday.

The cat, an 80-pound cougar, fell asleep in the tree after being tranquilized. It was rescued and released in the wild.

Farm targeted due to video footage released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that they claim depicts 'the horrific conditions that the pigs were being raised in at this farm'

Canada's oil imports from Saudi Arabia have been rising steadily for the past five years, according to Statistics Canada trade data reviewed by CBC News, and a festering diplomatic spat with the kingdom appears not to have had any significant impact on Ca

The video game industry is hugely profitable, but it has a dirty little secret: Crunch. For years, many workers have toiled for incredibly long hours to meet game release deadlines, often with no overtime pay. It takes a toll on their health. Now, some in

Mice adapt to microgravity on the International Space Station by inventing unusual 'race-tracking' activity

"You have fires that can get into that deep, deep dried organic material, and with just a little bit of oxygen they can hang on for years."

At the height of Vancouver's housing boom, Patryk Gwardys was clearing $150,000 a year as a real estate agent. So how did he wind up in an Australian prison after admitting to flying from Vancouver to Sydney with a belly full of cocaine?

A look at today's Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.A snowfall warning was in place for the Edmonton region Saturday morning, with 10 cm to 20 cm expected. Temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured

Hundreds of migrants hoping to reach the United States boarded a freight train in southern Mexico late on Thursday, frustrated by efforts to slow their progress by the Mexican government.

The City of Toronto has launched a gun buyback program, offering residents money and protection from illegal weapon possession charges in exchange for turning in their handguns and rifles.

A Massachusetts judge left court in tears after being indicted on obstruction of justice charges for allegedly helping a man who is in the country illegally to evade immigration officials.

It's become the No. 1 concern for police and area business owners.Intended to stem a foul tide of public urination complaints, a glass-walled public toilet plaguing a popular Edmonton nightlife destination has instead become a popular go-to for those with

The report says that some 98,000 undocumented immigrants are estimated to graduate from public high schools in the United States annually, with 44 per cent living in California and Texas.

The disease is rare, but if it takes hold, it has a fatality rate of about 26 per cent.

RBC report says a high number of millennials, mostly from abroad, are moving to Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal

The middle-class, Russian immigrant who pretended to be a wealthy German heiress swindled $275,000 out of friends, banks and others

The ships paint false names on their hulls, steal ID numbers from other vessels and trade using ship-to-ship transfers at sea

The Satanic Temple has been given section 501(c) tax exempt status which puts it in the same bracket as major religions like Catholicism and organizations such as the Salvation Army.

Big business leaders worried about Canada's aging demographics have been urging political parties to avoid inflaming the immigration debate ahead of this fall's federal election.

Omo Akintan started off her presentation at General Government committee earlier this week by reprimanding chairman Paul Ainslie for calling her division People, Equity and Human Resources.“You just committed the one faux-pas that is not allowed

Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson today is announcing a total ban on oil and gas work, as well as mining, waste-dumping and bottom-trawling, in all of Canada's marine protected areas.

A Russian doctor butchered and cooked his lover after discovering she was transgender while they were having sex, police say.Dr. Mikhail Tikhonov, 27, allegedly confessed the gruesome dismemberment murder of Nina Surgutskaya, 25, in her Kursk apartment.

Drone home delivery company Wing will start deliveries in rural Virginia "within months".

Mayor Brian Bowman is calling for the removal of U.S. activist Linda Sarsour from a speaking engagement planned for Winnipeg on Friday.

The West African girl was forced to clean and cook for the Texas family for 16 years.

A minor accused of terrorism is back behind bars after an alleged breach of his bail conditions. The Kingston, Ont. youth was arrested Sunday and sent back to jail. There is a court-ordered publication ban on the specifics of the breach.

California police have arrested a man who 'deliberately' drove his car onto a sidewalk and plowed into a group of eight pedestrians - including a 13-year-old child on Tuesday night.

Canada has been butting heads with some of its closest allies over the extent to which rising white supremacy at home and abroad poses a global threat, federal insiders say.

What better way to mark a transition of power?

An anti-Semitic attack originally called "the most brazen" the city had seen was staged by the owners of the restaurant that reported it, Winnipeg police say.

Kingdom reports largest mass execution in single day since January 2016 after attacks

President Trump on Wednesday threatened to send armed US troops to the border after a Mexican soldier removed a weapon from an American patrolling in Texas earlier this month.

The immigration raid targeted a group of 3,000 Central Americans who are trying to reach the US.

The move, which could affect five countries, is intended "to bring Iran's oil exports to zero".

Closing arguments began in Kitchener, Ont., in the first test case of whether Canada's prostitution laws violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The president of the Philippines says that if Canada doesn't take back tonnes of trash within the next week, he will "declare war" and ship the containers back himself.

Young people gather at the airport calling for action on climate change but police say they have "strong plans" to respond.

As coyotes increasingly take up residence in cities and towns across Canada, both provinces and municipalities have adopted "living with coyotes' policies. A group in Collingwood, Ont., is demanding action, saying governments are failing to protect their

SpaceX has suffered a serious setback in its effort to launch NASA astronauts into orbit this year, with the fiery loss of its first crew capsule during testing.

CRA commissioner Bob Hamilton last fall approved the writeoff of a huge tax debt of $133 million owed by one taxpayer, though the agency won't say whether it was an individual or firm. A spokesperson acknowledges writeoffs of that magnitude "are not commo

Under the Secure Air Travel Act, the three have been told there are reasonable grounds to suspect they might 'threaten transportation security'

Waheba Issa Dais, 45, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of providing material to support a terrorist group in exchange for another being dropped.

Alberta premier-designate Jason Kenney has consistently said he will immediately repeal the province's carbon tax, putting his government on a potential crash course with the federal government.

Five police officers are reportedly facing criminal charges for ramming thieves off their mopeds under new policing tactics signed off by Scotland Yard.

Toronto police say an Uber driver is facing sexual assault charges in relation to two investigations.

City officials say a tiger mauled a zookeeper at the Topeka Zoo in northeastern Kansas.

With French police suicides on the rise, Paris authorities are investigating yellow vest protesters who encouraged police to kill themselves.

In the tiny Japanese village of Nagoro, the number of scarecrows significantly out number the populous of 27.

At least 207 people were killed and hundreds more injured in eight blasts that rocked churches and hotels in and just outside Sri Lanka's capital on Easter Sunday.

The boy had deep cuts on his head from the attack on Fraser Island in Queensland state

One document shows spots in 17 jobs were designated EE, meaning employment equity, and were 'accepting applications from females only'

Electric vehicles in Germany account for more CO2 emissions than diesel ones, according to a study by German scientists. When CO2 emissions linked to...

BURIEN, Wash. - From his home at the All-Merciful Saviour Monastery on Vashon Island, Abbot Tryphon told KIRO 7 about how he was suddenly attacked Tuesday morning while gassing up at the Mobil Station on Southwest 148th Street in Burien.

A Lebanese mechanic now living in Canada has been found complicit in crimes against humanity for repairing military vehicles for ISIS.

The first Iranian woman to contest an official boxing bout has cancelled plans to return home after an arrest warrant was issued for her in Tehran.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the the impact of meat-eating on the environment and provide a primer on electronic waste.

The ad - called Inseparable - follows a black woman by the name of Abigail Williams who meets with an unnamed love in an unknown location that is supposed to be 'the South.'

The study could aid medical research and fuel debate about the difference between life and death.

Actress Emma Thompson was among climate change protestors who called in hundreds of samba-playing reinforcements after police descended on Oxford Circus to make arrests.

The province and Ottawa will share $114 million in costs of improving over 64 kilometres of dikes and their aboiteaux - sluices under the dikes that allow water out at low tide.

The Doug Ford government is taking its fight against a federal carbon pricing plan to the court of public opinion with a new advertising spot that highlights added costs at the pump and the heating bill.

Justin Trudeau will increase the federal government’s per-person debt more than any prime minister in Canadian history who did not face a world war or recession, says a new report by the Fraser Institute.

Nusrat was set on fire after accusing her headmaster of sexual harassment, but spoke out before dying.

The redacted version of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's report has finally been released. Read it here.

Video recorded by one of the militia, Jim Benvie, shows the asylum seekers walking on a dirt road having crossed through a fence gap in Sundland Park, New Mexico.

The remains of Ivan Klyucharev (pictured) were found handcuffed to a tree in woods 80 miles from Moscow almost two years after he went missing, with a video camera pointing towards his body.

The woman claims the officer took her to a house on the pretext of an interview and then attacked her, after she had gone to a police station in Ahmedpur East to report the earlier attack.

The major system has buried some areas under more than two feet of snow and a state of emergency has been declared in Minnesota

Around 20,000 gun lovers fired Tommy Guns, AK-47s and Uzis at abandoned vehicles and barrels of fuel strapped with pyrotechnic charges to create 'fireballs from hell' at Knob Creek Gun Shoot, Kentucky.

It's a new world for Vancouver's housing market, where Chinese investors are decamping and low-ball offers are the norm

Albertans are going to the polls today to decide whether to give Rachel Notley and the NDP government a second mandate, or choose Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party to lead the province for the next four years.

Canada has formally joined a German-French coalition aimed at saving the international world order from destruction by various world dictators and autocrats -- and U.S. President Donald Trump.

McAllen lies eight miles from the Mexican border, in one of the 30 poorest enclaves in the country, Hidalgo County, where 34 percent of residents live in poverty, according to US Census data. So who is spending all this cash?

The U.S. Coast Guard said it worked with a cruise ship to rescue 23 people adrift for days in the Gulf of Mexico.

An anonymous threat, received by the Thunder Bay Police Service has forced Hammarskjold High School to close again on Monday April 15. It is the 13th threat directed against the school since February 13.

Agency restricted to filling out forms for asylum cases in wake of provincial funding cuts.

Police say they're looking for a man they believe posed as a delivery man in order to shoot a woman with a crossbow in Mississauga, Ont. The man allegedly shot her with a crossbow he was hiding inside a box.

Winnipeg's Whiteout street parties are attracting thousands of Jets fans downtown to celebrate their team, but for some people the image of throngs dressed head-to-toe in all white can be threatening.

A major operation is under way to tackle the blaze at the 850-year-old Gothic building.

The United States claimed a fifth straight women's world hockey championship Sunday, edging Finland 2-1 in a shootout, after Petra Nieminen's goal in overtime was waved off.

Before being tackled to the ground in a Whyte Avenue Starbucks in Edmonton, the man who allegedly lit 13 vehicles on fire moments before had one request for the baristas: a grande macchiato.

A large, flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea killed its Florida owner when it attacked him after he fell.

A former British sailor acquitted of sexually assaulting a woman at a military base near Halifax is trying to have his accuser charged with lying in the case, according to reports.

A December Public Safety Canada report contained, for the first time, a small section on the alleged threat of Sikh extremism. Liberal MPs face blacklisting as a result

If Hani Al Askari wasn't facing the loss of his refugee status he would likely be serving more than an 18-month sentence, a judge said Friday.But because Al Askari's criminal convictions for possessing and importing child pornography will mean he'll be ex

A House of Commons committee is making a cross-party call for the federal government to offer financial incentives to political parties that nominate more women candidates to run for election.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau road tested his campaign strategy at an event Friday, lumping Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer with with Ontario Premier Doug Ford and other right-of-centre politicians who deny climate change, vilify immigrants and tolerate

The Peel District School Board says concerns were raised about the campaign earlier this week. A spokesperson said the poster is part of a social justice course at the school and that an investigation is underway.

Edmonton police have arrested a man who allegedly damaged 13 vehicles Friday night on Whyte Avenue.

Ekaterina Andreeva from Perm Krai, Russia, was sentenced to a year in jail for 'inciting debauchery' at Giza Misdemeanours Court. It comes after a racy video of her dancing emerged last year.