NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2014

Videos of Vancouver police arresting marchers during a May Day protest against pipelines are making the rounds online.

They were the shots heard around the world, fired by a mom defending her home.

NATO is keeping a close eye on events in Ukraine, using surveillance planes to patrol along the edges of Poland and Romania.

A Chilliwack man says he's lucky to be alive after his car was rear ended by a tractor-trailer on Highway One early Wednesday sending it flying onto a water-filled ditch.

The number of kidnapped schoolgirls missing in Nigeria has risen to 276, up by more than 30 from a previous estimate, police said, adding that the actual number abducted by Islamic extremists on April 14 was more than 300.

A dead Minke whale that washed ashore in New Jersey suffered some further indignity: someone tagged it with graffiti. The whale, which was up to 4.57 metres long, was discovered Thursday morning below Atlantic City's Central Pier.

Newfoundland and Labrador's Gros Morne National Park, known for its stunning, sweeping landscape that's showcased in Canadian tourism ads, may lose its world heritage site designation if it's not protected from the oil industry, UNESCO is warning.

A British Columbia First Nation is turning to the courts in an attempt to delay -- and ultimately stop -- a controversial pipeline project that will run through its traditional territory.

A Charlottetown teen is being honoured for his bravery this weekend after saving the life of a woman back in 2012.

Provincial police are warning people about pack dogs that pose a risk to public safety.

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Second World War Lancaster bomber will soon be flying across the Atlantic to join the only other airworthy plane of its kind for a series of special flights over the U.K. - and it will only cost you $40,000 or so to

A B.C. astronomer is scrambling to find funding to maintain a Canadian space telescope that has revealed details about planets outside our solar system after the Canadian Space Agency cut its support this week.

Ludmilla Yelsukova's burial ceremony for her pet Yorkshire Terrier happened three years ago in Bashkortostan, a federal subject in south-western Russia.

When the bullets began flying the man began running from the home glad no doubt he made it out alive.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada will send soldiers to Poland to take part in NATO exercises amid growing concerns about Russian aggression toward Ukraine.

Michelangelo's David represents the Renaissance era's ideal male physique, but age is catching up with the iconic sculpture, which is at risk of collapse due to its weakening base, according to an Italian study released this week.

Shawn Atleo has quit as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations amid rancour over the federal government's proposed overhaul of aboriginal education.

TORONTO - Ontario is heading to the polls. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath announced Friday morning she would vote against the Liberals' spring budget, which prompted Premier Kathleen Wynne to visit Lt.-Gov. David Onley and ask him to disolve parliament.

A landslide triggered by heavy rains buried a village Friday in northeastern Afghanistan, leaving as many as 2,000 people missing, a top official said.

Canada's harsh winter, which set cold records in many regions, hasn't just been a trial for humans. Some entomologists are concerned that honeybee and butterfly populations will suffer noticable declines.

P.K. Subban scored in double overtime as the Montreal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 to win Game 1 of their second-round playoff series.

Dutch police stormed a Greenpeace ship Thursday and ended environmentalists' attempts to block a Russian tanker carrying oil from the Arctic Ocean from mooring at Rotterdam Port. In all, 31 activists were detained.

A high profile federal cabinet minister is calling for new leadership at Via Rail.

Canada Post is preparing for a 50 per cent drop in the volume of mail and will have to reinvent itself over the next five years, says CEO Deepak Chopra.

North Korea says it may still go ahead and test a new kind of nuclear device following U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Seoul, but is keeping analysts guessing as to when that test might take place.

Vancouver Canucks president Trevor Linden says the decision to fire head coach John Tortorella was a difficult one, but necessary to turn the team around.

Thousands of B.C. health care workers employed at hospitals, residential care facilities and in emergency health services have voted 96 per cent in favour of job action to back contract demands.

Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan has been acclaimed the new leader of the B.C. NDP. Horgan replaces Adrian Dix as leader of the Official Opposition.

A group of people restoring a Lancaster bomber in Windsor, Ont., is interested in saving a second Lancaster currently in Edmundston, NB.

One of Canada's few remaining Lancaster Bombers from the Second World War appears on the verge of being headed to a scrap heap.

The father of a German exchange student shot dead in Montana while trespassing in a garage says the US cannot continue to "play cowboy" with guns.

A popular tale by Dr. Seuss was one of seven books that patrons have asked Toronto Public Library to remove from its collection over the past year.

The Mounties are not disputing a report that they have identified more than 1,000 cases of missing or murdered aboriginal women and girls.

Johnson & Johnson is halting sales of devices used to remove growths in the uterus following a U.S. government warning that the electronic surgical tools can inadvertently spread cancer to other parts of the body.

The family of Dave Walker, a Canadian filmmaker who went missing in Cambodia in February, says he was found dead today.

An angry beaver was roaming around Miramichi on Tuesday, creating traffic delays and chasing onlookers.

A shortage of rail cars has caused a problem for Resolute Forest Products in Thunder Bay.

An explosion rocked a jail in the Florida Panhandle late Wednesday, killing two people, injuring more than 100, and causing the building to partially collapse, according to a county spokeswoman.

John Tortorella will be let go after only one season as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, according to a report.