NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2015

Environmentalists say a groundbreaking a U.S. investigation involving ExxonMobil could open the door to tobacco-style lawsuits.

A Florida man has been sentenced to a year in prison for biting a small dog on the face and choking him so hard his eye popped out.

The federal government confirms a Canadian is under arrest in Iraq after it was reported that a former member of the Canadian Forces who fought there with the Kurds against ISIS has been detained.

The Russian jetliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from an Egyptian resort city broke up at high altitude, scattering fragments of wreckage over a wide area in the Sinai Peninsula, Russia's top aviation official says.

A fair amount of Winnipeggers either "just don't give a damn" or need to be reminded of why they should be wearing a poppy leading up to Remembrance Day, the daughter of a Second World War veteran says.

A 23-year-old grizzly bear was put down Wednesday after she had become too reliant on human food following an awful berry season, Alberta Parks said Friday.

News of Lewisporte, N.L resident Mary Canning's 100th birthday went viral after her care facility posted her photo online.

Two Ontario tourists are safe after an encounter with a grizzly bear in Banff National Park. Hilary Grant and friend came within a few metres of a grizzly while they were on a hike earlier this week in the Alberta park.

On Nov. 6, 1919, King George V called for all countries in the British Empire to grind to a halt for two minutes of silent reflection, to honour those killed in the First World War.

In Winnipeg, some children have been making crochet poppies to honour the bravery of Canada's servicemen and women. But despite their good intentions, some veterans say these creative poppies are disrespectful.

At least two people were killed when two dams burst in rural Brazil last week, inundating a village in a sea of viscous, clay-red mud and tailings from a mine, officials said Friday. Many bodies may remain buried in mud that reached roof level, officials

A University of Ottawa student who reported to police she was choked and raped at a party said she was told charges would not be laid because the man thought the sex was consensual.

The Montreal Canadiens on Friday unveiled the jersey they'll wear for the upcoming NHL Winter Classic. Montreal will play the Boston Bruins on New Year's Day at Gillette Stadium, home of the NFL's New England Patriots.

The World Curling Federation has banned controversial brooms at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Championships beginning Sunday in Kazakhstan.

You're about to start hearing a lot more from elected officials and government scientists. For nearly a decade, the Prime Minister's Office has exercised tight control over the release of information, but reporters are hopeful they can now do a better job

A nude portrait by Pablo Picasso brought in over $67 million US at Sotheby's on Thursday, a day after the auction house sold $377 million worth art from the estate of its late former owner.

Just look at this photo of five-year-old Vancouver police dog Niko learning to rappel with his trainer, which is gaining traction on Instagram. It's pretty clear the German Shepherd is not a fan.

One of the most renowned Belgian beer brewers said Friday it is a victim of climate change because increasingly high temperatures have shortened the brewing season by about a month compared with the 1950s.

Some of the extreme weather experienced around the world last year is our fault, according to a report by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A panel of scientists asked to review Montreal's plan to dump eight billion litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River has concluded that the city should only proceed with the dump after it looks further into the environmental impact.

Only about 600 of Canada's 22,000 firefighters are women, and that imbalance in the workplace is another obstacle when it comes to dealing with problems of bullying and sexual harassment, a fifth estate investigation found.

A young moose found itself face-to-face with a hunter this week in St. Anthony on Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula, but it wasn't for the reason you're thinking.

Brian Duncan is one of a handful of heroes who saved the lives of three people on Tuesday night outside of Fredericton. A car left the road, rolled, and started to burn. About thirty seconds later Brian and Bev Duncan hit that same stretch of road.

It's a race against the clock to produce new plaques for vandalized war memorials in Fredericton. A foundry in Amherst is racing to get them replaced, before Remembrance Day ceremonies on November 11.

The RCMP is investigating after a meth lab was discovered in a residential area of Brampton. This is the second meth lab discovered in Brampton in recent weeks, though police didn't say if the cases are connected.

Work resumed late Friday afternoon inside the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto after the building was evacuated following the discovery of an artillery shell that turned out to be a non-explosive prop.

An abandoned puppy, found dehydrated and cold in a back alley of Regina, is now thriving after being brought to a home where a dog had just had a litter of pups and quickly accepted the newborn.

A man has been taken to hospital following a shooting that involved Winnipeg police near Kenaston Boulevard and Grant Avenue on Friday afternoon.

Thousands of protesters wearing sinister Guy Fawkes masks brought chaos to the streets of London, targeting police outside Buckingham Palace and ending up outside Leicester Square.

Two Connecticut teenagers are accused of dressing up like the Columbine High School killers on Halloween and threatening to harm students at their school.

A bakery employee at Loblaws is speaking out about best-before dates. Marketplace has been investigating how stores extend dates on food. Some of the methods may make food unsafe.

Hacking group Crackers With Attitude says it gained access to more than a dozen law enforcement tools.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's "disappointed" by the U.S. decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, but that it will not hurt the strong ties between the two countries. "We are disappointed by the decision but respect the right of the United S

What would happen if a sports reporter asked Pittsburgh Penguins hockey star Sidney Crosby about his outfit?

A baby whom doctors thought almost certain to die has been cleared of a previously incurable leukaemia in the first human use of an "off-the-shelf" cell therapy that creates designer immune cells.

NATO's secretary-general sounded the alarm Thursday over the build-up of Russian military forces from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean and called on the U.S.-led alliance to come up with a response.

The commander of the Russian Air Force says Russia has sent anti-aircraft missiles to Syria in order to safeguard its jets involved in airstrikes against militants in the war-battered Arab country.

The annual Remembrance Day poppy campaign has just started, but police in British Columbia are already dealing with several thefts of donation boxes.

Two Alberta-based wildlife biologists are calling for an end to bounties offered on wolves and coyotes, calling them "inhumane" and ineffective.

You already knew Stompin' Tom was a national icon, but having fellow Canadians raise money to erect a statue as a tribute to his life truly solidified his legendary status.

RCMP say they have arrested a naked and incoherent man after responding to a complaint of a cabin break-in on Galiano Island overnight. Police are alleging that he's the same man who leapt from a B.C. Ferry Wednesday night.

Mike Babcock is back to coach Canada at the World Cup of Hockey. Coming off back-to-back Olympic gold medals, Babcock will lead the staff next fall in the return of the World Cup tournament next fall.

Nunavut MP Hunter Tootoo says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau picked him for minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard with one particular reason in mind.

A memorial of more than 100 flags honouring Canadian war veterans had been plagued by thefts in Kingston, Ont., so the community stepped in to protect it.

Ben Carson thinks archeologists have it all wrong when it comes to the origins of the Egyptian pyramids.

Pact decrees investments of less than $1.5-billion not subject to Investment Canada examination, up from $600-million

The Liberal government will announce a plan today to restore the mandatory long-form census that was scrapped by the Conservatives in 2010. Ministers Navdeep Bains and Jean-Yves Duclos will speak to the media at 11 a.m. ET.

Patrick Kane will not face criminal charges, Erie County district attorney Frank A. Sedita, III announced Thursday morning.

The long-awaited text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal was released on Thursday by New Zealand, revealing the details of a pact aimed at freeing up commerce in 40 per cent of the world's economy but criticized for its opacity, including b

If agreed, any UN member state who fails to honour the international deal to tackle climate change - which is to be negotiated in Paris next month - could be brought before the tribunal.

Canadian cannibal killer Luka Magnotta's letters, which are covered in hearts and roses, boast of his comfortable life behind bars but complain of not having Ferrero Rocher.

Money is flooding out of Canada at the fastest pace in the developed world as the nation's decade-long oil boom comes to an end and little else looks ready to take the industry's place as an economic driver.

Sidney Crosby scored his second goal of the season and Marc-Andre Fleury made 18 saves as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Wednesday night

In wake of shooting by terrorist released from jail two weeks earlier, Denmark launches plans to prevent Muslim radicalization in prison.

UC Merced stabbing suspect shot dead by police A knife-wielding student was shot to death Wednesday on the campus of UC Merced after he stabbed four people outside a classroom and office building, officials said. Leonard said the student was shot to dea

A 54-year-old Shelburne County man with dozens of criminal convictions, 30 of them driving-related, has been prohibited from getting behind the wheel for 99 years.

The hope was that rookie of the year favourite Connor McDavid would be bringing home some hardware this season, not having it fused into his body while he lies on a hospital bed.

Animal rights activist Anita Krajnc was formally charged with mischief under $5,000 for a June protest in which she and a friend fed water to pigs in a truck.

From veteran MPs to political newbies, CTVNews.ca has compiled some facts and biographical information about everyone chosen to be part of Justin Trudeau's cabinet.

A program in Richmond, Calif., that pays men who are pulling triggers to put down their weapons is serving as a model for other U.S. cities looking to tackle rising levels of gun crime.

Biologists are feeling "pretty excited" about the potential to return city landscapes to their natural states. Still Creek runs through some of Vancouver and Burnaby's most industrialized areas. Chum salmon hadn't swam their way through there for 80 years

Two tourists are lucky to be alive after nearly having to spend a night out in the snow on Vancouver's North Shore Mountains.

A video of traffic zooming past as a P.E.I. school bus stops while children wait is "disconcerting" and shows "absolutely unacceptable behaviour," say RCMP, who are launching an investigation into the incident.

A recent military exercise in central Newfoundland focused on how well the Gander military base could respond to a disaster, writes Chris Ensing.

Members of Canada's Armed Forces were out of the streets of Charlottetown Tuesday, dressed in vintage uniforms from the military that went back to World War II.

A killer whale that may be entangled with a rope and buoy has prompted the Department of Fisheries and Ocean to ask whale watchers in the South Salish Sea to alert them if they spot the orca.

A Saskatchewan man is trying to cope with massive veterinarian bills after his dogs ran into a prickly situation.

A symbol honouring Canada's war dead since 1921, the poppy has been reimagined in the last two years on clothing, as jewelry and even on tote bags and headstones as an important marketing tool for the Legion.

Five things to know about poppy protocol recommended by the Royal Canadian Legion.

Two Muslim inmates have filed complaints with the Canadian Human Rights Commission over their treatment at Grande Cache Institution, a federal prison in northwestern Alberta.

While TransCanada has been cooling its heels on its Keystone XL proposal for the past six years, the oil pipeline business has been booming in the United States

Get ready for a man-made fireball. A object discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on Oct 3rd temporarily designated WT1190F is predicted to impact the Earth about 60 miles (100 km) of the southern coast of Sri Lanka around ...

Something spectacular has happened in South America this year. The Atacama desert of Chile, known as the driest non-polar place in the world, erupted in bloom, not once, but twice over the past year, a phenomenon never before seen.

Justin Trudeau takes power with the wind at his back. The wind may shift, though, and blow him onto a couple of rocks. One's called the Senate and the other, federal-provincial relations.

​Shortly after Justin Trudeau takes power, he will face an early, major test on whether to bail out Bombardier.

Jake Virtanen scored his first NHL goal and Ryan Miller made 27 saves as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 on Monday.

We are far more afraid of coyotes than we ought to be, according to one University of Calgary professor.

With October now behind us, things are about to get hairy. Since the practise of growing facial hair to support men's health started in 2003 in Canada, $175 million has been raised, mostly for prostrate and testicular cancer.

It's November 1 and it's snowing on the North Shore Mountains! Grouse Mountain reported it received 5 centimetres of snow by 3 p.m. on November 1.

Local dog rescue group Thank Dog I Am Out is bringing 120 rescue dogs from California to Vancouver this Saturday in hopes of giving them a forever home.

DNA testing has proven that the sale of farmed Atlantic salmon fraudulently labelled as wild salmon is a widespread problem, according to a new report.

Defence giant BAE Systems to buy a stake in Britain's Reaction Engines, which is developing revolutionary SABRE engines for ultra-fast aircraft

A clear majority of Iranian legislators say the Islamic republic will not abandon the slogan of Death to America despite its July nuclear accord with world powers

A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.

CBS Television Studios has just announced that it will be introducing a "totally new" Star Trek TV series in January of 2017, the first since Star Trek: Enterprise went off the air in 2005. This TV rebirth follows the two latest movies, and though the pre

Emails obtained from a freedom of information request reveal a pattern of back-scene spats and power struggles during the attempt to establish a new Enbridge-funded research centre at the University of Calgary.

One other thing the new Liberal government will have to consider is whether to 'pivot' Canada's defence posture to the Pacific, as the U.S. is doing, Brian Stewart writes. The rationale: Russia's massive buildup in the Arctic and Pacific rim.

Internal documents show the highest echelons of Canada's public service met in May to talk about how the federal bureaucracy has had partisanship imposed upon it by the Harper government.

A new Edmonton park will commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lt.-Col. John McCrae's legendary poem, In Flanders Fields.

Eleven adults from Manitoba's Red Sucker Lake First Nation were air lifted to a Winnipeg hospital on Thursday to be treated for chemical poisoning, band councilor Lester Harper told CBC News.

The ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood is set to be lifted if one of the promises by the incoming Liberal Party of Canada majority federal government comes to fruition.

Because of new development, the windmill at Lisgar GO station produces less than it takes to power a typical home in Toronto.

Five of Somalia's Islamic extremists attacked a leading hotel in the capital at dawn Sunday, killing at least six people and injuring 10, before all the assailants were killed by security forces.

Electricity prices in Ontario officially went up, again, on Sunday, and the rate hike is expected to push up the average household hydro bill by 3.4 per cent.

Rev Barry Trayhorn was acting as a volunteer chaplain at an institution for sex offenders when he recited verses from Corinthians which included homosexuality in a long list of sins.

Non-Muslim inmates in several of Britain's category A prisons are being forced to pay a 'protection tax' to radical Muslim prisoners or face violence.The 'tax', known as 'jizya', has been demanded in some prisons.