NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2018

Two trails in the Lynn Headwaters Regional Park in North Vancouver were closed for several hours Thursday morning, as conservation officers tried to track down an aggressive black bear. Conservation officers believe the same black bear that killed a small

It's not every day that big telco lobbyists email me their internal documents about how they're going to try to shift all the negative press about themselves and try to flip it onto internet companies. But it did happen yesterday.

For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google

Just call it what it is: The summer of murder!A quick look at police crime statistics, comparing the end of August 2017 compared to the last of this month,  reveals a startling reality.By this time last year Toronto had 35 homicides. This year, T

A Swedish government study says there's been a recent surge in the number of automated Twitter accounts ahead of the Sept. 9 elections, noting that 40 per cent of them are more likely to support the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats party, which is expect

Is gun crime actually on the rise? And just how often, exactly, are Canadians getting shot? It depends, often, on where you live.

The six astronauts aboard the International Space Station are working to fix a hole found in the wall of the International Space Station.

The U.S. International Trade Commission has overturned duties imposed on Canadian newsprint after finding that imports of the paper product, part of the wider category of uncoated groundwood paper, do not hurt U.S. industry.

A pocket of warm ocean water underneath the surface of the Canada Basin could melt a significant portion of the region's sea ice pack if it were to ascend, a new study suggests.

An RCMP officer was rushed to hospital with serious injuries after he was shot Wednesday night in western Manitoba. The search is now underway for two to three suspects considered armed and dangerous!

The man accused of fleeing a dramatic crash that killed a B.C. woman last year has been sentenced for pulling off a jewelry store robbery just hours before the collision.

A New Mexico judge dismissed all charges against three suspects tied to a compound where alleged Muslim extremists reportedly trained children to be school shooters.

An 11-year-old boy sucked into a flooded Wisconsin storm sewer was saved when an eagle-eyed firefighter saw the boy's fingers pop through an opening in a manhole cover.

A Nunavut hunter who survived a polar bear attack that killed one of his friends last week says the encounter started when a mother bear and her cub approached their camp. The survivors refused to leave Kaunak's remains behind, and it took three men to ca

The B.C. government has extended the provincial state of emergency because of wildfires that have now burned more area than any other season on record. Close to 13,000 sq km of province has burned, breaking record set in 2017.

Federal income tax revenue fell by nearly $5 billion in 2016 and nearly all of the decline was attributable to Alberta, but exactly why remains an open question, says an economist with the University of Calgary.

Puerto Rico's governor raises the island's official death toll from Hurricane Maria from 64 to 2,975 after an independent study found that the number of people who succumbed in the desperate, sweltering months after the storm had been severely undercounte

Air Canada says the personal information for about 20,000 customers "may potentially have been improperly accessed" via a breach in its mobile app, so the company has locked down all 1.7 million accounts as a precaution until customers change their passwo

Three men in Pennsylvania are facing more than 1,400 charges in an 'extreme' case of animal abuse that prosecutors say included having sex with dogs, horses, a cow and a goat.

An air quality advisory for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley has ended, as clean air continues to push smoke out of the region. The air quality advisory was issued for Metro Vancouver on Sunday and continued into early Monday morning. It ended around

For decades, scientists have predicted that B.C. would experience longer, more intense wildfire seasons as the climate warms. But the destruction of the last two years is still a bit surprising.

A Lakehead University associate professor has helped shed new light on what, exactly, happened to the members of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 expedition to the Arctic.

Ken Sturdy was just 20 and training as a signalman in the Royal Navy in 1940 when he heard a message go out over the radio asking for able-bodied men to help get survivors on the boats at Dunkirk.

Two hikers were injured this weekend in Kananaskis Country after surprising a bear dining on a carcass in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. "This was a classic defensive attack and it could have been so much worse," said Alberta Parks conservation officer N

She worried about running into bears, but Penny Maguire never thought it would be cows that would give her the scare of a lifetime during her East Coast Trail adventure.

A man from Nunavut has been killed in a polar bear attack, according to local RCMP. A polar bear mother and cub were destroyed at the scene. 5 bears destroyed following attack that also injured 2 men

Birthright citizenship, known as jus soli, does not exist in Europe, Asia, Oceania or most of Africa

U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at tech companies Tuesday, accusing Google and others of 'suppressing' conservative voices and 'hiding information' and good news. He cited no evidence for the claim, which echoes both his own attacks on the press an

Alberta police have arrested a 16-year-old boy and charged him with attempted murder in the shooting of a German tourist earlier this month.

The decision by Veterans Affairs Canada to pay for treatment for a Halifax man who never served in the military and got PTSD from murdering an off-duty police officer is upsetting both an advocate for veterans and a family member of the officer.

Russia will hold its biggest war games in nearly four decades next month, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says, a massive military exercise that will also involve the Chinese and Mongolian armies.

In short, the work in Saskatoon debunks the theory that lead killed the crew.

Calgary Police say they are investigating an alleged attack last week at an event in northeast Calgary that the victim claims was politically motivated.

Tesla Motors Canada has won its case against the Ontario government over electric vehicle rebates.

Instead of boosting domestic production, U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports led to unwarranted price-gouging, alleges the CEO of the National Association of Home Builders

About 400 people had said they would turn out for the meat-eating event, but insisted they would have remained peaceful

Investigators working for the UN's top human rights body say Myanmar military leaders should be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims, taking the unusual step of identifying six by name among those behind deadly, systematic crimes against the e

Shared Services Canada wants to consolidate 595 aging data centres, and is looking for high-tech firms to help. But Canadian firms say requirements for applicants will automatically exclude them.

A passenger ship that ran aground Friday morning in the Far North has been refloated, and all its passengers were safe and being cared for on another ship.

Some customers are angry Walmart Canada is charging more for plus-size clothing, a policy critics say amounts to an unjust "fat tax." The company defends its pricing arguing that larger items cost more to produce.

Playwright Neil Simon, known for his Tony Award-winning works The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues and Lost in Yonkers, has died at age 91.

There was a mass shooting at a video game tournament that was being streamed online from a restaurant in Jacksonville, Fla., on Sunday, and the local sheriff's office said there were multiple fatalities.

'Apparently whoever called the police didn't think the police were a good enough judge of what was okay and not okay. Then they called (family services)'

MUNSON, Pa. - Three men have been charged with more than 1,400 counts for allegedly having sex with dogs, horses, a cow and a goat on a makeshift farm in Pennsylvania.

A host of internal problems have forced more than a million Venezuelans to abandon their home country as the United Nations warns the nation is teetering towards a 'crisis moment'

Longtime Canadian national team star Hayley Wickenheiser is the Toronto Maple Leaf's new assistant director of player development.

Swedish national TV says 58% of men convicted of rape in the past five years were born abroad.

Rosemary Powell (pictured) helped her mother sell poppies on Richmond Bridge for the Royal British Legion's first Poppy Appeal in 1921, when she was just six years old.

Residents in Maracaibo, Venezuela - once the oil capital of the country - are eating spoiled meat after months of powercuts have made refrigerators idle and ruining whole sides of beef.

After he was ordered to surrender, the driver of a stolen vehicle involved in a hit-and-run Saturday evening fired a rifle at police before he was shot and killed by an officer, CBC News has learned.

An Australian investigative journalist has praised the Canadian government for granting refugee status to a man who infiltrated the Bandidos motorcycle gang in his country.

Usually frozen waters open up twice this year in phenomenon scientists described as scary

Hawaii residents rushed to stores to stock up on bottled water, ramen, toilet paper and other supplies as they faced the threat of heavy rain, flash flooding and high surf as a strengthening hurricane churned toward the state.

An Alberta teacher who went to Guinea-Bissau to help rescue a chimpanzee is now trying to free four chimps from the West African country.

Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for five activists including Israa al-Ghomgham, who could become the first woman in the country to face it for human rights-related work.

Facebook has identified and banned hundreds of accounts, groups and pages engaged in misleading political behaviour, a far larger discovery than a "sophisticated" effort it reported three weeks ago with great fanfare.

The United States says it will impose preliminary anti-dumping duties on large-diameter welded pipe from Canada and five other countries.

A new study examines just how much information Google collects about people each day.

After more than a century behind bars, the beasts on boxes of animal crackers are roaming free now that the company that owns the brand has redesigned the packaging.

A powerful earthquake has shaken eastern Venezuela, causing buildings to be evacuated in the capital of Caracas.

The number of measles cases in Europe jumped sharply during the first six months of 2018 and at least 37 people have died, says the World Health Organization.

Hackers linked to Russia's government tried to target the websites of two right-wing U.S. think-tanks, suggesting they were broadening their attacks in the build-up to November elections, Microsoft says.

Kofi Annan, one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary general, has died.

Farmers and ranchers across the prairies have been facing off against hot and dry weather conditions for the past year, and a drought researcher says simulations show it's time to start treating these conditions as the "new normal."

Sunday marked the 76th anniversary of the Dieppe raid in France during the Second World War. It also marked the first time there wasn't a Dieppe veteran present in Hamilton.

The bridge that collapsed this week in Genoa, Italy and tragically killed at least 39 people has an unusual tie to Castlegar of all places: the architect.

The Liberal government is scrapping its controversial lottery system for reuniting immigrant families and reverting back to a first-come, first-served system following backlash from frustrated sponsors.

The Arctic permafrost really should stay frozen. In many places it's been frozen for tens of thousands of years, locking away greenhouse gasses and ancient diseases.

A U.S. national security review has given Canada's purchase of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline the thumbs-up. The federal government says all necessary regulatory approvals have been received to close the sale.

Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India's Kerala state.

With Toronto's gun-related murders already at 31 this year, the city's smoke and mirrors approach to combating gangs and guns including a handgun ban won't stop the bullets and bloodshed, law enforcement sources say.

A man accused of assaulting a Toronto Sun photographer at an anti-racism rally in Nathan Phillips Square last weekend has been arrested.Toronto Police confirm the suspect, Donald Joseph MacLeod, was taken into custody in 52 Division on Saturday &mdash

A Yazidi teenager sold into slavery by IS tells of her horror at meeting her captor in a German street.

Mark Lewis, an ex Labour supporter who represented victims in the phone-hacking case, and Mandy Blumenthal said they are planning to move to Israel by the end of the year.

'(Canada's) tariffs are too high, their barriers are too strong, so we're not even talking to them right now,' Trump said

81 per cent of CRA employees surveyed in a recent PIPSC report agree that tax loopholes and exemptions disproportionately benefit wealthy Canadians.

Trump decried the 'ridiculous' imports of lumber from Canada while fallen trees in the U.S. are left to rot on the ground, which could then become wildfire accelerant.

The Green party will not run a candidate against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in the riding of Burnaby South.

A judge in Washington state on Tuesday dismissed a climate change lawsuit filed against the state by a group of child activists.

As the federal Liberals forge ahead with expensive tax-and-spend policies to tackle climate change, more and more Canadians aren't buying into their agenda.

The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada polled 1,700 of its union members who work for CRA chasing down taxes owed by corporations and the wealthy. The survey found that 90 per cent of them believe the system is skewed to benefit the ri

The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada polled 1,700 of its union members who work for CRA chasing down taxes owed by corporations and the wealthy. The survey found that 90 per cent of them believe the system is skewed to benefit the ri

Bread, like wine, is pivotal in Judeo-Christian rituals. Both products exemplify the use of human ingenuity to re-create what nature provides, and the fermentation they both require must have seemed nothing less than magical to ancient minds.

A study of more than 1 million pregnancies in Finland reports that elevated levels of a metabolite of the banned insecticide DDT in the blood of pregnant women are linked to increased risk for autism in the offspring.

Many populist leaders in Europe bristle at the idea of being led by an American

The number of irregular border crossers in Canada went up in July after two months of decline, but is half the number of people who arrived in July of last year.

The Canada Border Services Agency raided the home and office of former Alberta Progressive Conservative MLA Carl Benito as part of an investigation into what the agency says was a three-year immigration fraud scheme.

A new Canadian study suggests that if the world's population adopted a diet recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture there wouldn't be enough agricultural land to grow the food.

Multiple Grammy Award winner Aretha Franklin died today at her home in Detroit, the Queen of Soul's publicist says.

A "surge" in foreign steel products coming into Canada has federal officials considering "exceptional" safeguard measures.

The British Columbia government has declared a state of emergency to support the provincewide response to the ongoing wildfire situation.

Scientists have found a rapid way of producing magnesite, a mineral which stores carbon dioxide. If this can be developed to an industrial scale, it opens the door to removing CO2 from the atmosphere for long-term storage, thus countering the global warmi

If you expect a long line of eager prospective employees to show up for your minimum wage job posting, it might be time to rethink your business model and your attitude. When labour is in short supply, it should create upward pressure on wages, but B.C

A researcher from the University of Calgary says temperatures are on the rise across Alberta, but Calgary, along with Banff and Jasper national parks, is really feeling the heat.