NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2014

The Supreme Court of Canada said today it will hear an appeal by the BC Civil Liberties Association that could grant terminally ill Canadians the right to assisted suicide.

Whether it's Edward Snowden's example, or a resurgent faith in the rule of law, ordinary Americans are standing up to authority, police especially, like seldom before and videotaping their triumphs, Neil Macdonald reports. The proof is all over YouTube.

Kiss rock star Gene Simmons is helping to boost the health of children in Saskatchewan by auctioning off a custom 1956 Ford F-100 truck.

The province will face a shortage of roughly 96,000 workers by 2023, according to the Alberta Occupational Demand and Supply Outlook, released Wednesday.

The Edmonton Oilers traded the veteran goalie Dubnyk to the Nashville PredatorsWednesday afternoon for feisty left-winger Matt Hendricks, then proceeded to peddle a third-round pick to the Los Angeles Kings for netminder Ben Scrivens.

The companies that make 3-D printers want a spot in your home. They're just not sure exactly why you need one of their futuristic devices yet.

The U.S. military has obtained a new video made by those holding missing U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl.

Last summer British researchers provoked concern when they published a paper raising the possibility that by following an established guideline UK doctors may have caused as many as 10,000 deaths each year. Now they have gone a step further and published

Ottawa residents are spotting more snowy owls in the capital region this winter, thanks to an 'irruption' that's seeing more birds fly farther south of their usual range in the boreal forest.

The daughter of a U.S. woman whose casket contained the wrong body says DNA tests will be performed to determine if her mother was accidentally cremated in Canada.

A Morinville woman on trial for manslaughter told police she was frustrated when she sat her foster daughter down hard on the kitchen floor shortly before the girl had a seizure.

Some Marine Search and Rescue volunteers near Victoria got a bit of a surprise when they responded to a report of a stand up paddle boarder in possible distress in the gale force winds blowing on Monday afternoon.

Thousands of BC Hydro customers in Northern B.C. are still without electricity after a major windstorm blew through last night. Outages did not stop Blue Rodeo concert in Dawson Creek

CBC News has confirmed a Canadian-born Muslim convert believed to be fighting with the militant group Jabhat al-Nusra, a branch of al-Qaeda operating in Syria, has been killed in combat.

An 18-year-old man who was allowed to get on a flight at Edmonton International Airport in September after he was caught bringing a pipe bomb to security has been sentenced for possession of an explosive device.

At the centre of the effort is Canipre, the only anti-piracy enforcement firm that provides forensic services to copyright-holders in Canada

Sonja Power said a man enrolled and told the Halifax school's owner that, for reasons of his Islamic faith, he was not allowed physical contact with women

Islamic Republic has prevailed with Geneva deal, Iranian president says

A Hamilton, Ont., mother has reportedly filed a human rights complaint after she says her daughter's school did nothing to protect the girl from potentially deadly allergens.

Highway 40 W was completely closed near the Hymus exit after an object fell on a vehicle.

The FBI "most wanted" mug shot shows a tough, swarthy figure, his hair in a crew-cut. The $10 million price on his head, meanwhile, suggests whoever released him from U.S. custody four years ago may now be regretting it. Taken at the U.S.-run Camp Bucca i

Evidence shows the often-reclusive wolverine has taken up residence for the first time on an island off British Columbia's Central Coast and the animal's eating habits have changed along with its relocation.

Armed vigilantes seized a cartel stronghold in the Mexican state of Michoacan on Sunday after a gun battle with suspected members of the notorious "Knights Templar" criminal organisation. The vigilantes say they took up arms last year because the governme

A Calgary woman's developmentally disabled son is caught in a U.S. tax quagmire that she fears may cost him the money she spent years setting aside for his financial future.


The average salary of young men working in Canada's oil patch increased by 21 per cent between 2001 and 2008, more than five times the pace of gain seen by those workers in other parts of the country.

Marilyn McKenna, who has successfully lost 120 pounds, claims Facebook won't allow her to post a photo showing her dramatic weight loss because it promotes an 'idealized body image.'

For the first time ever, more than have of Congress members are millionaires, according to a new report from the non-profit Center for Responsive Politics.

A Vancouver-area university will roll out a diploma program for students wanting to hop in to the exploding craft brewing industry.

The mysterious disappearance of hundreds of thousands of starfish all along the Pacific Coast has left researchers in British Columbia scratching their heads.

Roman Catholic Jane Mulcahy argued that the lawyers should have clearly explained that a divorce would terminate her marriage.

Yes, people do ride mass transit in Los Angeles. And once a year, they do it without pants.

For the first time since the last major influenza pandemic in 2009, the Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton is directing its 126 parishes and missions to make changes to mass to help stop the spread of the virus.

A new book decodes cat behavior and explains what felines really think of us.

The death tolls are huge and the individual incidents gruesome. One estimate says nearly 10,000 people have been killed in South Sudan in a month of warfare, while in neighbouring Central African Republic combatants in Muslim-vs.-Christian battles have be

A cheap rechargeable battery that harnesses energy by using the electrochemistry of organic molecules rather than metals is being touted by Harvard researchers as a breakthrough for renewable energy.

Rather than a stodgy venue where tech behemoths roll out unimpressive iterative products, the Consumer Electronics Show is quickly becoming what it was really meant to be: a showcase for innovative and exciting new advancements.

CBC News has learned the teacher facing sex charges for inappropriately touching two pre-teen girls at a pool was a substitute math teacher at Crestwood School in west Edmonton.

The Canadian military is dealing with another case of suspected suicide, the third sudden death in a week.

The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled its 2014 "lucky loonie" Saturday at the Canadian Olympic team's Sochi Block Party event in Banff, Alta.

A handful of people have been hospitalized and several hundred thousand remain without water after a chemical leaked from a storage tank in Charleston into the public water treatment system, state authorities said Saturday.

Police in Toronto say a 37-year-old man is facing charges after cocaine-filled chocolate candies were intercepted by Canada Border Services Agency.

The brother of Robert William Pickton says he had no idea sex workers were being taken to his family's property near Vancouver and murdered, and he denies ever helping the serial killer cover up his crimes.

A Canadian woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for travelling to northern Virginia to have sex with two children.

An off-duty Houston firefighter made the best of his resources when trying to put out a truck tire fire: He used beer the rig was hauling.

Ariel Sharon, whose half century as a military and political leader in Israel was marked with victories and controversies, died Saturday after eight years in a coma, Israeli Army Radio reported. Sharon was 85.

A Canadian Pacific Railway train operated by a CN Rail crew derailed in Burnaby, B.C., sending seven cars off the tracks and spilling coal into a creek that feeds into a lake.

Nearly two years after an explosion and fire tore through a British Columbia sawmill leaving two workers dead, the Crown announced there will be no charges, pointing a finger at a questionable investigation by the province's worker safety agency.

She's shown in a head shot, in black and white, while three others are shot full-length, in color.

The Vapor Social is a hassle-free place to smoke weed

A family is demanding answers from health officials after a 78-year-old Winnipeg man who was sent home from the hospital in a cab died on the way to his doorstep.

Venezuelans are finding out that their money is no good with one airline, and others may also cut off the country from flights abroad. Air Europa, a Spanish discount airline, suspended sales of tickets in bolivars, the Venezuelan currency, because Venezue

Curious why despite the huge miss in payrolls the unemployment rate tumbled from 7.0% to 6.7%? The reason is because in December the civilian labor force did what it usually does in the New Normal: it dropped from 155.3 million to 154.9 million, which mea

The RCMP has unveiled more details about its allegations of mortgage fraud against former senator Mac Harb. In newly released court documents investigators allege that hours after Harb took out a $177,000 mortgage on his home in Cobden, Ont., in Oct. 2007

Scanadu Scout, developed at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California, is held on a person's temple and can read temperature, pulse blood oxygen levels, and more.

RCMP say a man who was wounded in a shootout with Mounties on a farm east of Edmonton will likely face attempted murder and firearms charges.

Husky Energy Inc. has given the green light to two new heavy oil projects in Saskatchewan that will together churn out 20,000 barrels of crude per day.

He's selling his restaurant because one of his servers has a brain tumour.

An Alberta man and his two children were killed and his wife and a third child were seriously injured in a crash earlier this week near Valemount, B.C., RCMP said Thursday.

The Alberta government admitted for the first time Wednesday that 741 children and teens who were known to child welfare authorities have died since 1999.

Many in Canada might get a chance to glimpse the northern lights Thursday night.

Police are warning the public about the release of a convicted pedophile considered to be a high risk to re-offend. Ryan James Gabourie, 32, will be released from Headingley Correctional Institution Thursday after serving sentences for breaching the condi

A York University student who refused to work with women for religious reasons has sparked a human rights tug-of-war between a professor and campus administration.

Bradley's representative in Italy told a local radio station that the American's big-money move to MLS will be happening soon.

Weather has been dominating the news cycle the past several days, as much of the U.S. has suffered through record-breaking cold. But while it might seem as if we've all been sucked into a polar vortex of weather news, 2013 was punctuated by coverage of ma

Nigel Wright could avoid facing the legal consequences for his central role in the Senate expenses scandal if the RCMP remains focused strictly on possible criminal offences, parliamentary law experts say

Bats are dropping from trees, kangaroos are collapsing in the Outback and gardens are turning brown. While North America freezes under record polar temperatures, the southern hemisphere is experiencing the opposite extreme as heat records are being set in

Alberta health officials have confirmed an isolated, fatal case of H5N1 or avian influenza, Health Minister Rona Ambrose said Wednesday in Ottawa.

After costly storms and flooding, property and casualty insurers are looking to hike rates. Some property and casualty (P&C) insurers are already charging more for home insurance following a particularly expensive year for claims from flooding, ice storms

Half a million people die each year in China because of air pollution, according to the country's former health minister. Chen Zhu, who is also a professor of medicine and a leading molecular biologist, is the most senior government official to put a huma

Mark Duggan, whose death sparked riots in England in 2011, was lawfully killed by police, an inquest jury concludes by a majority of 8 to 2.

An 88-year-old German man is charged with involvement in one of the most infamous World War Two Nazi atrocities, at Oradour-sur-Glane in France.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be making an announcement today in Inuvik that is expected to focus on an all-weather road linking Canada's Arctic coast to the south for the first time. Initial work is nearly finished on the 140-kilometre gravel highwa

Just how cold is it in the U.S.? Apparently cold enough for an escaped prisoner to turn himself in.

Scientists knew last spring that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was closing seven of its 11 regional libraries housing decades of aquatic research. But it was not until they saw the shelves being cleared, the books and journals being scooped up fo

On April 2 1806, an intriguing advertisement was placed in The Times. It described a Mr Daniel Lambert, "the greatest Curiosity in the World who, at the age of 36, weighs upwards of FIFTY STONE". Mr Lambert, it went on, "will see Company at his House, No

Former Canadian defence minister Paul Hellyer, the so-called highest-ranked alien believer on earth, says that extraterrestrials live among us and they refuse to share their advanced technology due to wars and pollution.

In the great play of life, Rodman has sided with the villains. Though no court will charge him, he is a criminal against basic decency.

Chinese state media say the country's icebreaker has broken free from heavy sea ice in Antarctica after becoming trapped last week.

EDMONTON - Edmonton's police chief wants the provincial government to consider changing the way it distributes social assistance cheques to help reduce crime against the poor and the handicapped, especially in the inner city.

The Canadian military has been going across the globe to keep its aging search-and-rescue airplanes flying, reiterating the desperate need for replacement aircraft following decades of delays and political squabbling.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has revealed the company's vision for wearable computing - and at its core is an SD-card sized PC called Edison. Edison is based on Quark technology, the tiny, low-power system-on-a-chip that was designed for wearable computers, s

Militant anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd said they had zeroed in on a Japanese fleet Monday, January 6, and captured evidence that four whales had been slaughtered, alleging the ships were found inside a Southern Ocean sanctuary. Sea Shepherd said it

The file of a Montreal police officer who threatened to tie a homeless man to a pole in sub-zero weather will be handled by the department internally.

In a first for Alberta courts, an American woman will be sentenced today for helping her seriously ill mother die while carrying out a suicide pact last May.

An engagement party got ugly after a cake arrived shaped like something that belonged in the toilet.

A total of 10 people are now confirmed to have now died from H1N1 in Alberta, with about 300 having been hospitalized and another 40 in intensive care units.

An Afghan girl as young as eight has been detained wearing a suicide vest in southern Afghanistan, officials say.

Two climate change activists managed to sneak up behind Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday just as he was getting ready to start a question and answer session at the Vancouver Board of Trade.

Power outages in Newfoundland worsened Sunday night after a main generating station was knocked offline, affecting over 100,000 customers.

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Alicia Rhett, who had been one of the oldest surviving cast member of the classic film "Gone With the Wind," died Friday

Celebrities, businesses and even the U.S. State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from offshore "click farms," where workers tap, tap, tap the thumbs up button, view videos or retweet comments to inflate soc

A task force report has been handed in to the British Columbia and Alberta governments that examines the idea of transporting oilsands' crude via rail if proposed pipelines don't get the green light, government documents show.

Canada�s oldest citizen � and the country�s last living link to the Victorian era � celebrated her 113th birthday just before Christmas at a B.C. residential hospital.

In her Grade 8 yearbook, Christy Foley wrote that she wanted to be among the first humans to colonize the moon. She never got the chance. Instead, she might go to Mars.

Pharmacies around Edmonton had to be restocked with flu vaccines Saturday as shortages led to some people being turned away.

The document, drawn up by Canadian counterterrorism agencies and shared with British intelligence, says Doku Umarov poses the greatest terror threat for the Games at Sochi in southern Russia.

The hapless Australasian Antarctic Expedition is finally homeward bound - and thousands of trees will have to be planted to offset the carbon footprint from the prolonged rescue effort.

The chief medical officer for Fraser Health says that more than a dozen patients are in intensive care, some on ventilators, because of the H1N1 flu virus.