NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2017

While looking for signs of intelligent life, astronomers have detected 15 fast radio bursts from a distant galaxy.

A University of Alberta researcher says culling wolves is a "Band-Aid," and taking away the wolves' other prey is a better way to protect caribou.

Environment Canada has issued special weather statements for most of the South Coast, cautioning residents to expect temperatures to begin rising on Friday.

A five-month-old bear cub rides in style to a wildlife rescue where he is recovering swimmingly.

The 'No Fascists In Our City! Free Speech Comedy Show' was cancelled Saturday after backlash to the event's perceived ties to far-right groups, but the organizer says it was really just about poking fun at these very types of controversies

Four of the five Canadian Forces personnel who said they were members of the Proud Boys and disrupted a Mi'kmaq ceremony in Halifax on July 1 have been allowed to return to their regular duties.

The latest economic outlook for Alberta says the recession is officially over, with modest growth expected in the coming year — but it will be a few years before that translates into jobs.

A Saskatchewan paddler who came across a canoe abandoned on the Hayes River by a pair of German tourists says they were neither prepared nor properly equipped to paddle the rocky northern Manitoba waterway.

A prosecutor says a Pakistani court has sentenced two former police officers to 17 years in prison for failing to provide adequate security to assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.

The motion was brought to the floor of the Toronto District School Board meeting by trustees and was passed effective before the start of school next week.

Cummins has unveiled its Aeos class 7 electric urban semi tractor, with a 140-kWh battery pack providing 100 miles of range.

A 24-year-old Pakistani 'cultural mediator' for an Italian migrant-reception cooperative was suspended after commenting on Rimini rapes by a North African gang by saying that rape is "a worse act, but only at the beginning , when the willy goes in, then t

Two Canadian men are among more than a dozen people indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Washington, D.C., for attacking protesters in May 2017 during a U.S. visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Patients with pacemakers manufactured by Abbott — formerly St. Jude Medical's — are advised to reach out to their doctors and inquire about the availability of a security update for their implanted medical devices.

Opening a new era in cancer care, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first treatment that genetically engineers patients' own blood cells into an army of assassins to seek and destroy childhood leukemia.

For the first time this Friday, schoolchildren in Poland will lay poppies on the graves of Canadian soldiers who never returned home from the Second World War.

A Paris wine collector returned from holiday this week to a nasty surprise, finding a hole in his cellar and emptiness where his valuable collection of vintage wines had been.

A Saskatchewan man who viciously beat a homeless woman before setting her on fire will not be declared a dangerous offender.

A ghostly white fish likely had no idea it was breaking a record when it swam past a camera more than eight kilometres below the surface of the ocean.

The SIU director says the Toronto police made an �incorrect decision� when they neglected to notify the police watchdog about a man who was bleeding out of his ears after a police raid.

Alberta United Conservative Party leadership candidate Jeff Callaway says one way to jump-start the province's lagging oil industry may be to buy a piece of Manitoba.

The spambot has collected millions of email credentials and server login information in order to send spam through "legitimate" servers, defeating many spam filters.

Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier, a fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, discusses what consumers can do to protect themselves from government and corporate surveillance.

Temperatures are rising and the haze has returned across the province, blowing in from fires in the United States and causing health warnings across much of southern B.C.

It’s a milestone seven years in the making: 87 years since the Maud sank near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, the vessel is finally on its journey home.

A Calgary man was attacked by a bear last Thursday in the Panther River area, about 100 kilometres northwest of Calgary. The area has been closed to the public as wildlife officers try to trap the grizzly.

A $6-million robotic submersible is explore the seabed and live streaming sometimes spectacular high-definition video to the internet.

Climate change dramatically impacting permafrost in Northwest Territories

Two German tourists walked about 115 kilometres through the bush in northern Manitoba with minimal food after crashing their canoe in rapids on the Hayes River.

California highway officers say they stopped a young deer on a California toll bridge "for toll evasion." The officer joked that the fawn usually pays the toll but "today she was a buck short."

Green groups are lobbying for the $400-$600 audit to be a requirement for every house on the market — for Ontario residents it is soon to be a harsh reality

Stress from allegations of sexual harassment have forced Calgary MP Darshan Kang to take a medical leave of absence, he said in a statement released Tuesday that also denies any wrongdoing.

Some German industry officials have lately been touting 'e-fuels,' synthetic liquid fuels that can be burned in diesel engines, as an alternative to an all-electric automotive future. Is this workable - or mere PR?

A Quebec man is back on the road after a dealership remotely disabled his vehicle over his refusal to pay an extra $200 fee to remove the device used to immobilize it - something consumer advocates say may have broken the law.

Global dietary guidelines should change to suggest people can eat more fat than previously thought, with a view to preventing overconsumption of carbohydrates, according to a new international study led by Canadian researchers.

One of America's most wanted criminals was apprehended in Montreal last week by two bicycle-mounted police officers patrolling a path in the city's Saint-Laurent borough.

The federal government is spending $73 million to create 10,000 work placements for students over the next four years.

After years of email crashes and outages, the RCMP had decided it can't wait for a new harmonized email system for the entire federal government.

Edmonton police have charged two former tenants in connection with a fire that killed an infant and displaced seven people from their home.

Taxpayers are on the hook for the cost of constructing a new office for former United Conservative Party MLA Derek Fildebrandt, which could cost tens of thousands of dollars.

A Winnipeg father was at home with his five kids when two men barged in to try to hide from police.

Chris Bear of Kamsack, Sask., posted a video on Facebook Thursday of himself wakesurfing at Madge Lake using a toboggan as his board. "As far as summer sports go, that's about as Canadian as it gets."

Building weapons, lighting fires, using power tools � it sounds like the perfect disaster for a bunch of children out in the N.W.T. wilderness � but parents, and now adults, are signing up for a unique opportunity in Yellowknife: Dangerous Camp.

More than 120 years after a Roman Catholic missionary named Moricetown after himself, a petition is circulating to change the name of the northern B.C. village to its traditional title: Wiset.

Flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey meant a man in Houston, Texas didn't even have to leave his house to go fishing.

When he wasn't rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars, Juergen Schau was enjoying a totally different type of night life — searching for stranded puffin chicks.

London police arrested a second man Sunday after another suspect drove up to a police van not far from Buckingham Palace, then reached for a 1.5-metre sword, an incident detectives called a terrorism attempt.

As the Canadian-led NATO battle group in the Baltics goes through its first major exercise, a senior Russian official told CBC News that her government sees the war games as "a very provocative action."

Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into Houston on Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground and overwhelmed rescuers, who could not keep up with the constant calls for help.

Operation Nanook is meant to show that the Canadian Armed Forces can operate in the country's most northern regions. CBC Videojournalist Jacob Barker goes to Voisey's Bay to take an inside look at the Canadian Armed Forces annual northern training exercis

A 50-year-old Mexican labourer working 10-hour shifts for Canada’s largest cranberry producer in Richmond, B.C., suffered heart damage but says a supervisor blamed symptoms on “too much chili.”

'Gone With The Wind' has been pulled from a Memphis theater after patrons complained the Civil War classic is racially insensitive. 

A Manitoba man has launched what is believed to be the first Canadian challenge to how wines produced in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are labelled in Canada, arguing that ‘Made in Israel’ is inaccurate.

Judge awards $750,000 civil judgment to Kevin Eng and family for eight sex romps with former Horndog High teacher Erin Sayar

It turns out that, when judged through the prism of our enlightened era, almost everybody from Canada’s past — from famed reformers to Indigenous icons to notable women — comes off as an extremist maniac.

General Electric has announced that it will shut down its Peterborough plant, which employs more than 350 people, in the fall of 2018.

Vietnamese airline VietJet has promised that all flight attendants on their soon-to-be-opened route from Ho Chi Minh City to Jakarta will be fully clothed after Indonesian authorities raised concerns.

A Louisiana judge dismissed the case between Sofia Vergara, 45, and Nick Loeb, 41, over their two frozen embryos in the latest step of the long legal battle between the exes.

Craig Mackey, deputy commissioner for the force, said the Met could decide who receives a face to face visit from the police depending how 'vulnerable' they are.

Vancouver's rising population of urban eagles could be responsible for a sharp drop in the survival of heron chicks at the Stanley Park heron colony, park biologists say.

B.C.’s independent forestry watchdog has slammed the province’s management of a threatened grizzly population, saying the government hasn’t properly handled the risks posed by logging roads.

Edmonton police say charges have been laid against the parents of a little boy found wandering the streets alone on Thursday afternoon.

British Columbia is experiencing its worst wildfire season on record and some experts say part of the solution is more “prescribed burning.”

Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona have seized a nearly 100-pound bundle of marijuana after spotting it flying over the border fence.

A wildfire in B.C.'s Okanagan region inched closer to homes overnight after forcing more than 1,000 people to flee on Thursday, but officials say cooler weather made a difference in the firefight.

North Korea early on Saturday fired unidentified projectiles into the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said they seem "to be short-range missiles," citing South Korea's military.

With time running out, tens of thousands of people are fleeing from the path of Hurricane Harvey as it takes aim at a wide swath of Texas that includes oil refineries, chemical plants and dangerously flood-prone Houston, the fourth-largest city in the U.S

The B.C. government is getting rid of tolls on the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges starting Sept. 1, Premier John Horgan has announced.

Premier Kathleen Wynne has weighed in on a controversial proposal by the Ontario elementary teachers union to rename public schools bearing the name of Canada's first prime minister, saying it has "missed the mark."

Rushing to John A. Macdonald's defence over the use of his name, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall both got his last name wrong.

Veterans' groups are outraged by a website they believe is scamming Canadians for profit by exploiting both the country's military symbols and those who have served.

An anti-fascist group whose members assaulted two Global News journalists at a demonstration in Quebec last weekend threatened more violence against journalists covering future protests

Jemma Beale, 25, from Middlesex, has been jailed for 10 years after making up bogus rape and sexual assault claims against 15 men over the course of three years.

Ocean temperatures in the Scotian Shelf and the Gulf of St. Lawrence reached record or near-record highs in 2016, according to a federal report on Atlantic Canada's marine ecosystem.

Data has surpassed oil as the world's most valuable resource, much of it controlled by just five mega-companies — and jurisdictions are struggling with how to contain, regulate and protect all those ones and zeros.

Germany has banned and raided an independent news website popular with left-wing readers. Officials found linksunten.indymedia.org's "intent and activity contrary to criminal law."

Anyone relying on the CIA for tech support got a nasty surprise this morning, as documents published by Wikileaks revealed a secret project to siphon out data through its technical liaison service, dating back to 2009.

The remains of two soldiers who died in a historic battle for Canada during the First World War have been buried in France. Both sets of remains were discovered during munitions clearing in advance of a construction project.

A video released online by an independent biologist and marine activist appears to show farmed salmon along the east coast of Vancouver Island with disfigured spines, lesions, swollen gills and unsightly growths.

The U.S. government is launching an investigation into the recent deaths of endangered North Atlantic right whales.

The nuggets were once owned by 'Skookum Jim' Mason, one of the original discoverers of gold in the Klondike in 1896. Evan Nelson even has the papers to prove it.

Biologist says the walruses in Bay Bulls and Brigus South swum down from the arctic in search of food, fun and females.

A Calgary man is in hospital after being attacked by a bear in the Panther River area. "A bear actually came out of the woods and grabbed him by the legs," said Sundre RCMP Cpl. Ronald Bumbry.

Clayton Matchee was charged with second-degree murder and torture in connection with the 1993 death of Somali national Shidane Abukar Arone, 16. His wife says if it wasn't for an antimalarial drug, none of it would have ever happened.

The question isn’t why did the salmon leave the net, but what happens now that thousands of fish have escaped a Washington state salmon farm and swum off into the Pacific Ocean. Here's what experts think about the risk to B.C.'s native salmon and local ec

Scientists in London, Ont. are trying to bring the eastern spiny soft shell turtle back from the brink of extinction by releasing a record number of lab-produced hatchings into the wild.

RCMP say conservation officers later put down the bear after determining it lacked a fear of humans.

The study from Simon Fraser University found that visits by Fisheries and Oceans Canada to spawning streams have been steadily declining since the 1980s.

Restrictions on travel to British Columbia's backcountry and campfires are slowly being lifted in some parts of the province as improved conditions have lowered the wildfire risk.

A Hamilton man who killed his girlfriend two years ago is suing the province, the Barton jail and police, claiming that officers failed to keep him safe from assault while in custody.

After Ottawa decided to eliminate fees for national parks and historic sites for all of 2017, Parks Canada says preliminary estimates show more than 14 million visits between January 1 and July 31. That's an increase of 1.5 million over the same period in

Hundreds of dead snow geese have washed up on the shores near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and it may be some time before officials figure out what caused them to die.

Seven police officers in five squad cars swooped on a pensioner's cottage to seize her 'dangerous' Yorkshire terrier. Police stormed the 73-year-old Claudia Settimo-Bovio's home after Alfie chased a squirrel...

Airport security workers intercepted a man who tried to smuggle an unloaded gun aboard a plane in Winnipeg on Monday.

A Vancouver Island softball player who was critically injured over the weekend while playing in a recreational league tournament is receiving an outpouring of community support.

A major cleanup effort could last several days in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, which was hardest hit by a powerful storm that passed through the region Tuesday. The same system produced a tornado in Lachute, northwest of Montreal.

Two people face charges after several prohibited high-powered weapons were recovered from a black-market machine-gun fabricating operation west of Edmonton.

Billy Joel wore the bright yellow Star of David with his black suit during an encore at Madison Square Garden this week.

Calgary police Const. Chris Harris was so alarmed by the beating he was witnessing during the "out of control" arrest of Clayton Prince, he tried to get his fellow officers to stop their attack by yelling "Youtube alert" in hopes they'd be scared a member

Dr. Joshua M. Ferguson does not identify as exclusively male or female.

Members of the public in Washington state are being asked to help mop up a spill of Atlantic salmon from an imploded net holding 305,000 fish at a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm near Cypress Island. Washington state's Department of Fish and Wildlife is ur

Five people died, at least 153 were injured and two were still missing in Macau on Wednesday night, while the city also endured a power shutdown for several hours, after Typhoon Hato battered the former Portuguese enclave.

Donald Trump has threatened to blow up NAFTA less than one week into the renegotiation of the trade agreement, providing an early indication that the upcoming talks might occur under a cloud of menace.

When the prime minister's top adviser, Gerald Butts, defended the government’s decision to pay his friend Rana Sarker, the country’s new consul general in San Francisco, far more than the usual scale for the posting, it was worth paying attention.

The team from the University of Edinburgh has been monitoring effects of climate change on Yukon's north coast since 2008.

Rehab Dughmosh faces 14 terror-related charges, including participating in terrorist activity.

The light trailers introduced in 1968 have always had a cult following, but in recent years demand has surged.

The Calgary Airport Authority says it has relocated some disabled parking bays that were converted to more lucrative "Lexus-only" spaces. Some customers aren't too happy with the move.

A study found that 80 per cent of Bohra women surveyed have undergone FGM and two of the study’s 18 Canadian participants said it happened within Canada’s borders.

Neshan Wagstaffe has been lavishing his dog Clouseau with some extra treats and even a new bed ever since the animal woke him from a mid-afternoon nap last week.

A memorial park commemorating Canadian soldiers who died in a "remarkable" but not well known First World War battle opens next week in France. While the Canadian Corps' accomplishment at Vimy is a storied and celebrated part of Canada's history, the vict

One expert says gas stations are buying fuel for about the same price they're selling it for and market prices have gone up dramatically.

Syncrude is one of the first oilsands companies trying to restore a wetland back to some semblance of what it was before it was mined. It's been five years since the company began the science experiment. This week, they invited reporters to have a look.

Jerry Bigam fondly remembers the day "way back when" the new automated order notification system at his bakery crashed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website.

President Donald Trump, returning to the White House on Sunday night, responded to reporters' questions about the collision by saying: 'That's too bad'

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for asylum seekers: crossing illegally into the country doesn't offer an advantage when it comes to obtaining refugee status in Canada.

This is the first major test of the power grid since America started bringing large amounts of intermittent solar and wind resources onto the system

After getting locked out of their Toyota Estima minivan for almost two months, a Canadian family has regained access to their car after a hacker agreed to help them.

What if the routers and servers that underpin the internet could also double as one big anti-censorship tool?

A handful of small fires in B.C.'s west Cariboo region have merged to create what is now the largest fire in the province.

A 'cosmic geometric lottery' is bringing a total solar eclipse to parts of the U.S. on Monday. Canada will miss totality, but B.C. will still get the best show in the country.

Big Ben, in London’s most famous landmark, will stop tolling during extensive renovation work. The planned silence has caused a loud commotion across England's capital. Even Prime Minister Theresa May has called for a rethink of the shutdown, expected to

Police have declared a protest illegal in Quebec City due to "violence and vandalism," after a group of anti-fascists opposed to a far-right gathering set fires and threw bottles at police.

It had 1,259 signatures as of press time. There is a 100,000 benchmark within 30 days after which the White House must reply.

If he blinked, he may have missed it. Murphy yells "moose" before the animal is seen within what appears to be inches from his vehicle.