NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2013

As a Supreme Court hearing on the controversial certificate system began Thursday, federal counsel Urszula Kaczmarczyk said the 2007 reworking allowed Mohamed Harkat of Ottawa, accused of terrorist ties, to know the case against him

Former Saint John councillor and youth ministry leader Donnie Snook was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to 46 sex crimes against children.

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai who was shot in the head by the Taliban wins the EU's Sakharov human rights prize. The 16-year-old activist was shot a year ago for campaigning for better rights for girls. The Sakharov Prize for free speech is awarde

Even though the people being spied on are often totally innocent, the government stores their information for a very long time.

The 82-year-old writer, known for her stories both simple and complex, is the first Canadian-based writer to secure the honour

Three hunters are trying to make amends after shooting dead the 'spirit animal' during a trip to the Cape Breton Highlands in Nova Scotia.

Early last year, password security researcher Kevin Young was hitting a brick wall. Over the previous few weeks, he made steady progress decoding cryptographically protected password data leaked from the then-recent hack of intelligence firm Stratfor. But

As World Mental Health Day approaches this week, he argues that, thanks to the DSM, "countless millions" are hooked on powerful antidepressants to cure a mythical "chemical imbalance", while rates of mental disorders in children, including autism, bipolar

A narrowing of the veins from the brain is unlikely as a cause for multiple sclerosis, say researchers from B.C. and Saskatchewan who found the narrowing is a common and normal finding in most people.

Paul Desmarais, one of Canada's most powerful businessmen and a self-made billionaire who befriended prime ministers and presidents, has died at the age of 86.

Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for laying the foundation for the computer models used to understand and predict chemical processes.

In terms of popular vote, the Liberals were at 45.5 per cent, the PCs at 26.4 per cent and the NDP at 26.9 per cent.

Mike Duffy had the Senate pay a friend $65,000 for "little or no apparent work," an RCMP investigator alleges in court documents filed today. The RCMP are seeking banking information for Duffy and Patrick Brazeau, two senators named by Prime Minister Step

An invasive species of mussel has arrived in British Columbia, carried over by a boat that appears to have been pushed across the Pacific Ocean by the massive Japanese tsunami of 2011.

Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion.

A 60-year-old shipwreck has been discovered in Lake Superior near Thunder Bay.

Peter Higgs and Francois Englert have won the Nobel prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson, discovered at Cern in 2012.

Vancouver shipbuilders got a huge surprise Monday, as the federal government announced it is ordering an additional 10 Canadian Coast Guard vessels, worth an estimated $3.3 billion. That is on top of the $8 billion already on the books at Vancouver Shipya

Struggling smartphone-maker BlackBerry Thursady said it has received NATO approval to use its BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES10) and BB10 smartphones for classified communications up to a "restricted" level. The approval for classified communication

Peter Laviolette's three-season-plus slide as head coach with the Philadelphia Flyers culminated in his firing on Monday, according to multiple reports.

A prominent Democratic fundraiser's claim that Canada is working with Republicans amidst the U.S. shutdown to get the Keystone XL pipeline project approved is 'completely bogus,' says Canada's ambassador to the U.S.

Mason Raymond, on an nifty turnaround backhand, and Tyler Bozak, through Craig Anderson's legs, scored in the shootout to give Toronto the win.

Dan Hamhuis and Jannik Hansen scored 18 seconds apart late in the first period Saturday as the Vancouver Canucks cruised to a 6-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers.

Silicon-free solar cells, light and flexible enough to roll up or use as window blinds, are under development at a University of Alberta lab.

Police are hunting for a man who allegedly grabbed at a teenage boy as he walked back to school in Surrey B.C. earlier this week.

The Vancouver Canucks' home opener against the Edmonton Oilers marks the start of an expensive season for hockey fans this Saturday.

HMCS Toronto intercepted and boarded a suspected smuggling vessel, seizing 154 bags of heroin weighing more than 180 kilograms, said a news release issued late Saturday.

As the manhunt for a high-risk sex offender continued in western Saskatchewan Friday, more information emerged about Michael Sean Stanley, 48.

Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap Dies at 102

The expulsion vote against Silvio Berlusconi represents his second setback of the week, after his failed attempt to bring down the country's fragile coalition government.

We know the oceans are warming. We know they are acidifying. And now, to cap it all, it turns out they are suffocating, too. A new health check on the state of the oceans warns that they will have lost as much as 7 per cent of their oxygen by the end of t

Labour-starved employers should take a short look south to American workers, according to a new study by The Conference Board of Canada released on Friday. The report said Alberta, which faces the most severe skills shortage in Canada, launched a pilot pr

GMO foods are safe to eat, but they pose challenges in the environment. The worries about GMO foods largely focus on their safety, but much of the debate ignores the extensive studies that have been done to understand both the potential risks and what we'

A new study by researchers at the London School of Economics suggests the music and movie industries have been exaggerating the impact that digital file sharing has had on their business and found that for some creative industries, copyright infringement

A Hamilton mother is fuming after her feud with a local hockey association led to the ban of her seven-year-old son from league play.

Canadian crew members Alexandre Paul and Paul Ruzycki are among the 30 people charged with piracy by Russia after its coast guard seized a Greenpeace ship following a Sept. 18 protest at an offshore oil platform owned by Russian state-controlled energy co

An 89-year-old Toronto woman who is a Second World War veteran is in court facing a judge for refusing to fill out the 2011 census form, a federal criminal charge under the Statistics Act.

At least 92 people died and scores were missing after a boat packed with up to 500 African migrants sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday, the coast guard said.

How did the FBI catch "Dread Pirate Roberts," the alleged mastermind behind Silk Road, a notorious online drug marketplace? They found him in a public library after a package of fake identification documents he had ordered from Canada was intercepted at t

OTTAWA - Stephen Harper's office appears poised to prevent a veteran TV cameraman from travelling with the prime minister this week because he asked an impromptu question at a media event.The TV networks are fighting back, insisting that they, not the Pri

A small Somali town is in shock following the beheading of four young boys allegedly by their Somali-Canadian father. Police arrested Omar Hassan, 60, after the children, ages 11, 9, 7 and 6 were killed Monday, the boys' mother told The Canadian Press ea

Authorities say that death toll from an unusual spate of hornet attacks in central China has reached 41 people. The Shaanxi provincial government said Wednesday the attacks had plagued not only the city of Ankang, where 19 died as reported by the official

An Environment Canada report says more than 270 million birds are killed every year in Canada from human-related activity, including run-ins with with man-made structures - and cats. Lots of cats.

An Edmonton woman is blaming an American no-fly list after she was prevented from flying to Frankfurt, Germany without explanation.

Bestselling author Tom Clancy, known for his hit military thrillers, has died in a hospital in Baltimore.

Michael Frolik scored a pair of goals as the Winnipeg Jets came from behind to spoil Edmonton's home opener with a 5-4 victory over the Oilers on Tuesday.

The marriage of Danne Desbrow and his fiancee, Destiny, came just minutes after he was sentenced to 53 years-to-life in prison for first-degree murder, U-T San Diego reported Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played the spoiler Tuesday to Iran's attempts to ease relations with the West, calling the Iranian leader "a wolf in sheep's clothing" and declaring that Israel will do whatever it takes to prevent Tehran from dev

Inmates in several federal prisons across Canada have gone on strike to protest against a 30 per cent cut in their pay that took effect this week.

Tyler Bozak scored shorthanded and Mason Raymond got the winner in his first game with the Maple Leafs as Toronto spoiled the Montreal Canadiens home opener with a 4-3 NHL victory on Tuesday night.

The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is trying to solve a sky riddle from New Brunswick.

A rare, dark glimpse of the days that followed the sinking of the Titanic is being sold off by an English auction house later this month.

Conservation officers are combing through the eastern slopes of Butler Ridge Provincial Park in northern B.C. after a grizzly bear attacked a hunter on the weekend.

A group of notable Canadian women is launching a campaign for gender-neutral language in the English lyrics of O Canada.

The residents told VOA's Burmese service the outbreak of sectarian violence came Tuesday, in and around the town of Thandwe in Rakhine state. They accused Burmese police and military personnel of standing by as hundreds of Buddhist rioters burned down mor

A topless protest interrupted the daily question period in Quebec's national assembly Tuesday, in a screaming semi-nude denunciation of the controversial values charter.

Other nominees were Malala Yousafzai and imprisoned dissidents from Belarus. Snowden was praised for 'risk[ing] his freedom to protect us'

Veterans Ombudsman Guy Parent says the new veterans charter is putting the most severely wounded veterans at a big disadvantage compared with the pre-2006 compensation legislation, and is calling on the government to act now to fix the problem.

An Iraqi sheik carried his infant grandson's tightly wrapped body, staring ahead with a blank gaze as men behind him bore the coffin of the baby's mother during their funeral Tuesday, a day after they were killed in a wave of bombings in Baghdad. The hea

A CBC News hidden camera investigation into the world of offshore banking revealed bankers, lawyers and accountants providing advice on hiding money from Canadian tax authorities.

Reports and video from several witnesses helped lead to the conviction of two men for harassing a moose on a northwestern Ontario lake.