NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2018

Joey Carbstrong, who describes himself as a 'vegan educator' and sober lifestyle promoter, lectured the BBC Radio 2 presenter for his ham sandwich on the table.

The first day of testimony in the trial of Gerald Stanley, the man accused of killing Colten Boushie in August 2016, offered the first glimpse of what happened that day. It also spurred stern questions from Stanley's defence lawyer about the RCMP's invest

A sweeping British spy law does not have adequate safeguards against abuse, judges ruled on Tuesday.

More than a few Canadians are now awaiting results of DNA testing kits they received as Christmas gifts, but many remain blissfully unaware of the privacy implications or the possibilities that flow from such a test.

A group of disabled veterans is taking its legal fight for better benefits to the Supreme Court of Canada. The six veterans involved in the Equitas case say the federal government has breached its sacred obligation to care for the country's wounded soldie

Scientists have taught a captive killer whale to imitate human speech and have recorded the female orca mimicking words including "hello" and "one two three."

The Australian government has launched an urgent investigation into the loss of thousands of classified documents that were sold with two second-hand filing cabinets.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley accused the British Columbia government of "political game-playing" Tuesday after B.C. announced a proposal to restrict shipments of diluted bitumen that creates more uncertainty around Kinder Morgan Inc.'s Trans Mountain exp

Sven Baertschi scored at 1:07 of overtime as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 on Tuesday night.

A collection of seeds from Dawson Creek, B.C. from 1967 will be replanted this year to find out how the region's plants have changed.

Two B.C. men have plead guilty after using a pickup truck to chase down a coyote and then killing it with a machete. Multiple witnesses were able to direct conservation officers to the men, who first denied their involvement.

A golden eagle worth $15,000 was stolen from an aviary near Erin, Ont. two weeks ago. Wellington County OPP are asking for people to come forward with information.

A group of six First Nations are hopeful meetings with provincial representatives will result in the end of fish farming the Broughton Archipelago east of Vancouver Island.

One team dominates the world championship. The other owns the Olympics. Barring an unthinkable upset, Canada and the United States will once again battle for women's hockey supremacy at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

The Canadian Press predicts the Canadian team will win 29 medals (9 gold, 10 silver, 10 bronze) at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. That would beat the previous high of 26 total medals (14 gold, seven silver, five bronze) claimed by t

Canada's ambition "to contend for No. 1" at the Pyeongchang Olympics is a shift from the two previous Winter Games, where the publicly stated goal by the country's top sport officials was to finish first in the race for the most medals.

A man and woman who were allegedly fleeing a bank robbery were arrested in Bouctouche, N.B., on Monday after they stopped at a Tim Hortons drive-thru.

A year into his presidency, President Donald Trump will address Congress and Americans tonight to set out his agenda to "make America great again" amid a host of challenges confronting the administration.

The Newfoundland and Labrador government has rejected a recommendation that it designate two caribou herds as endangered. Instead, the province will work with Indigenous groups to come up with a joint management approach to keep the numbers of the two Lab

It's not often that you get two full moons in one month. Well, this month we'll not only get that, but also a lunar eclipse. During an eclipse, there are actually two shadows: the penumbra and the umbra. The penumbra is the outer, dimmer shadow, while the

Canada's polar bear protection is getting good marks from an international conservation group. But the World Wildlife Fund says Canada could do better protecting important habitat and minimizing threats to the iconic predators.

Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge took a shot at bandy Tuesday to kick off a visit to Sweden and Norway -- with William winning a penalty shootout in the game, a Swedish sport similar to ice hockey.

Halifax council has voted to immediately remove a statue of Edward Cornwallis from a downtown park, with several councillors calling it a barrier to reconciliation.

The price per litre has climbed to $1.47 this week for most of Metro Vancouver and an analyst says he expects it to go higher still.

A Calgary school board trustee candidate who made headlines when she reported being the victim of racist threats has been charged under the Local Authorities Election Act following an investigation.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said that the United States considers the incident to be of 'the highest level of concern'

German car maker suspends chief lobbyist amid mounting fury over tests on both monkeys and humans.

Computing scientists at the University of Alberta are using artificial intelligence to decipher ancient manuscripts. The mysterious text in the 15th century Voynich manuscript has plagued historians and cryptographers since its discovery in the 19th cent

People with high blood sugar stand to experience worse long-term cognitive decline than their healthy peers, even if they're not technically type 2 diabetic, new research suggests.

A geologic discovery indicates that a chunk of Canada that broke off 1.7 billion years ago is in Australia. The data suggests that the Georgetown rocks broke off from Canada and collided with northern Australia around 1.6 billion years ago.

A local company is studying what's believed to be the Canada's oldest hockey stick, and revealing information about our country's favourite sport.

Two Toronto police officers who allegedly ingested marijuana edibles, hallucinated and called for help while on duty Sunday have been suspended, CBC News has learned.

There will be a super blue blood moon on Wednesday and a total lunar eclipse, events that by themselves are not uncommon but combined they make for a spectacular night for skywatchers in Western Canada.

Miami police have arrested a 7-year-old boy accused of hitting his teacher. The boy was handcuffed last Thursday for hitting the teacher. The first-grader was then hospitalized under the Florida Mental Health Act for a psychiatric evaluation and later dis

A fan art group that supports a bid for a CFL team in Halifax touched off a fiery debate online when it proposed naming the team after one of the country's greatest Maritime disasters.

New research out of UBC suggests mammals and birds are better at adapting to climate change, shedding new light on how rapid temperature changes impact biodiversity.

A wayward seal pup that was struck by a car after wandering onto a road two times in Cape Breton is munching on fish and recovering at a wildlife shelter outside Halifax.

Scott Tilley from Roberts Creek, B.C., came across signals he wasn't expecting when he was hunting the sky for a secret military satellite.

Bad road conditions appear to be responsible for a single vehicle crash that left a Castlegar bus precariously perched on a retaining wall.

Police said the 57-year-old man who uses a walker was crossing the tracks on Pine Street in Chase around 1:45 p.m. PT Sunday when he was struck by a westbound CP train.

After the weekend of extreme weather and storms, a much-loved Ucluelet hiking trail is undergoing repairs. The Wild Pacific Trail took a hit to its lookout points and shoreline trails as waves, rain and high winds battered the province's coast.

Video shows seven killer whales, ranging in size from two to eight metres, scraping bodies up and down the pebbly beach. According to the Vancouver Aquarium, the behaviour is fairly common, but unique to northern resident killer whales.

A kayaker reported earlier to be in distress on the Capilano River is dead, according to police and rescue officials.

Allcock, from Kerrobert, Sask., located about 200 kilometres southwest of Saskatoon, celebrated his 108th birthday on Friday and is officially the oldest man in Canada.

The dead North Atlantic right whale found off the coast of Virginia last week was a female of reproducing age last seen in the Gulf of St. Lawrence last summer, say U.S. fisheries officials.

Former Toronto councillor Doug Ford says he will run for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, announcing his bid days after Patrick Brown stepped down amid sexual misconduct allegations.

The 31-year-old, the mother of a young child, was arrested after she took off her headscarf and waved it in the air while standing on a pillar box in central Tehran, Iran last month.

Aasma Rani - a third-year medical student in Abbotabad, Pakistan - was shot three times outside her home in Kohat after stepping out of a rickshaw on Saturday. She died on Sunday.

Beleaguered FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is stepping down immediately, NBC News reported.

Toronto landscaper Bruce McArthur now faces three additional counts of first-degree murder, bringing the total to five in what police are calling a serial killing case that the city has never seen before.

An emergency tuberculosis clinic is taking over the community hall in Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut, on Feb. 5. The mobile clinic will run for seven to 10 weeks and will screen every person in the community of 600 for the disease.

Parents are making their children drink industrial bleach to "cure" them of autism, with the potentially deadly practice traced back to a cult in the United States.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has officially gained agency-wide access to a nationwide license plate recognition database. The system gives the agency access to billions of license plate records and new powers of real-time location tracki

Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities

Researchers from Susquehanna University and Illinois State University have found that attractive people have an easier life and are more likely to be conservative.

Companies who took part in an industry day outlining government plans were told the jets, dating from 1982, will be retired after 50 years of service

What a weekend for Canucks rookie Brock Boeser: Saturday he won the shot-accuracy competition at the NHL All-Star Skills Competition and Sunday he was named most valuable player of the All-Star Game.

Interior Health is urging residents using, or considering using, drugs to reconsider after a sudden spike in suspected drug overdose deaths since January 23.

Julie Payette, the Governor General of Canada, will attend the winter Olympics in South Korea, the prime minister announced Sunday. Payette will be in PyeongChang as part of a tour of South Korea from Feb. 7 to 12.

Floodwaters are nearing their peak in Paris, with the rain-swollen Seine River engulfing scenic quays and threatening wine cellars and museum basements.

A state of emergency has been declared in Swan River, Man., as the town's water supply has almost run out and officials don't know what the problem is.

NASA launches GOLD to investigate where weather from our planet meets weather from space. The GOLD mission will look at the entire Earth from the high perspective of geostationary orbit, 35,000 kilometres above.

The Vancouver Park Board plans to restore a waterway that once connected Tatlow Park to English Bay. Kitsilano was once home to First Creek, a salmon-filled stream that ran north through Volunteer Park, across what is now Point Grey Road, and into the oce

With an estimated 20 western screech owls remaining in the Victoria area, conservationists are asking the public to keep an ear open for its distinctive call as they aim to bring the bird back from the brink.

The Flood of the Century may have spawned the largest walleye that Lake Winnipeg ice fishers have seen in recent memory. Walleye weigh roughly one to two kilograms (two to four pounds) in a normal year, said Nolan. This year, they're seeing seven-kilogram

Hundreds of engineer students from 18 universities across Canada are trying out their concrete toboggans at the 44th Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race in Chicopee Tube Park in Kitchener on Saturday.

Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning Sunday morning for much of British Columbia's South Coast. Some coastal areas can expect 100 millimetres of rain by Monday.

'We've figured out that low and slow, and braising and stuff, is probably the best way to cook these really different items,' said Brian Moore, chef for the Fish and Game Association's annual banquet.

An extremely rare alignment in the lunar calendar will bring together a super moon, a blood moon and a blue moon to create a 'super blue blood moon' on Wednesday morning.

The Canadian Space Agency says it used a "creative software solution" to fix a replacement part on the Canadarm 2, postponing the need to send astronauts on a spacewalk.

There were some empty chairs at the Adult Video News Awards on Saturday night. The AVNs are the Oscars of porn, and porn stars are dying at an alarming clip.Five stars of XXX entertainment have died over the last several months, all in disturbing circumst

Young blood and smart fasts - are Silicon Valley companies all talk when it comes to helping us live longer?

The Vatican on Saturday declared seven French Trappist monks beheaded by Islamists in Algeria in 1996 as martyrs, paving the way for their beatification - the first step towards sainthood.

Leslie Kleinman, 88, whose concentration camp tattoo is still visible, has told MailOnline for the first time about the heart-stopping encounter with one of history's most notorious sadists in 1944.

Hackers break into a Japanese digital currency exchange, causing a loss worth some $534m.

Brock Boeser made quite the impression in his first day at his first NHL All-Star Weekend, beating out the likes of Steven Stamkos and Sidney Crosby - renowned snipers, the both of them - to win the accuracy shooting competition in Tampa Bay on Saturday.

The maximum penalty he'll face when he's sentenced in March could keep him in a juvenile prison until he's 21.

Many people are hurt in a Taliban suicide attack in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul.

Three former Green Party employees allege that leader Elizabeth May created a hostile work environment by yelling at and insulting employees.

Researchers have identified a mummified body found in a Basel churchyard as a wealthy 18th-century Swiss woman who is an ancestor of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

After allegations of sexual misconduct rocked Hollywood and Canada's arts and entertainment industry, former Parliament Hill staffers say it was only a matter of time before the spotlight turned to Canadian politics.

A man has been sentenced to seven years for the 2014 killing of a Winnipeg mom of three. Poorman was found lying on the street with $20 in her hand on the morning of Dec. 14, 2014.

For half a century, Stilton has hosted a huge annual cheese rolling event. But this year, it won't be rolling out. According to the Stilton Parish Council's Facebook page, the village festival is "no longer seen as 'cool.'"

A Marketplace investigation finds reports of resident-on-resident violence have risen sharply in Ontario nursing homes. The family of an 84-year-old victim shares his story.

B.C.'s Nancy Greene Raine, former Olympic slalom skier, is one of six athletes featured in the Canada Post stamp series Canadian Women in Winter Sports.

Motorists who travel the isolated stretch of highway from Castle Junction at the Alberta border to Radium, B.C., can feel a little bit safer with access to an emergency call box along the route.

A high stream-flow advisory has been issued for the South Coast ahead of a major storm expected Sunday. The River Forecast Centre is urging caution around creeks and streams in the Howe Sound and Sunshine Coast regions, on the North Shore and the lower Fr

Researchers from UBC are developing new techniques to identify the seafood sold in Metro Vancouver and they say their findings, released Friday, point to widespread seafood fraud.

Canada's oldest warship is getting $3.5 million in federal funding to help with extensive repairs. HMCS Sackville was commissioned in 1941 and escorted allied ships during the Second World War Battle of the Atlantic.

The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs is calling for the immediate removal of the statue of Edward Cornwallis from a downtown Halifax park.

A 'frustrated' Ottawa landlord says one of his former tenants is claiming diplomatic immunity in refusing to pay him more than $8,000 in owed rent.

Global warming will allow new faster shipping routes to be developed in the Arctic, China says.

Canada's highest-ranking military judge has been charged in an alleged fraud involving false documents and an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate.

Putting down that doughnut could save your life, at least according to a new study that includes researchers from the University of Calgary.

'There are a lot of people who have been in denial and now they suddenly realize this is for real'

A study in the Pacific Ocean finds that bags and bottles are sickening and killing reefs from Thailand to Australia. Coral reefs already are susceptible to disease due to unusually warm water.

Tommy Banks won both a Juno and Gemini award, hosted The Tommy Banks Show from 1968-83 and numerous other TV programs, and performed throughout North America and around the world.

The RCMP has received a penalty of $550,000 after a judge ruled the national police force failed its officers during the June 2014 shooting in Moncton, N.B., that left three officers dead and two wounded.

Bombardier Inc. will find out this afternoon whether nearly 300 per cent duties will be applied to American imports of its C Series aircraft from Canada.

Former NHL stars Ilya Kovalchuk and Pavel Datsyuk will lead the Russian men�s hockey team through the doping scandal mess that has its Olympic squad competing as neutrals in Pyeongchang, South Korea next month.

Sitting next to Netanyahu in Davos, US president says Israel 'wants to make peace,' Palestinians 'disrespected' US in refusing to meet Pence

The Pakistani doctor was sent to Bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad to offer hepatitis vaccines in order to obtain DNA to identify the people living there.

The train conductor who was in the locomotive during a 2014 Banff derailment has once again been fired by CP Rail, this time after butting heads with the company over social media pictures and posts.

China's 'Station of Extreme Light' could be first laser to reach 100 petawatts

Procter & Gamble says it's working to stop a social media-fuelled trend called the Tide Pod challenge, which involves teenagers eating single-load laundry detergent packets.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Wednesday he thinks Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used his speech at the World Economic Forum a day earlier to apply pressure on the United States in the NAFTA renegotiations.

Score another one for Seoul while Silicon Valley slides. The U.S. dropped out of the top 10 in the 2018 Bloomberg Innovation Index for the first time in the six years the gauge has been compiled. South Korea and Sweden retained their No. 1 and No. 2 ranki

In trying to understand what Finance Minister Bill Morneau means when he talks about viewing the federal budget through a gender lens, consider Sweden's experience with the humble and oh-so-Canadian snowplow.

A halal abattoir boss and three slaughtermen have admitted causing unnecessary suffering to sheep after they were secretly filmed 'hacking and sawing' at animals' throats.

Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc has announced four new management measures for the snow crab fishery in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to protect North Atlantic right whales, including reducing the amount of rope floating on the surface o

Canada has agreed to a resurrected version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and will sign on to the deal, according to government sources.

A tsunami warning is in effect for coastal British Columbia and parts of Alaska after an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck 256 kilometres southeast of Chiniak, Alaska, at a depth of 10 kilometres.

A controversial series of tweets from the communications chair of the United Conservative Party questioning the purpose of the Women's March is drawing criticism from those involved in the recent events that took place in Alberta.