NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2015

While balmy hints of spring melt piles of snow in the eastern U.S., the impending end of winter marks peak season for Arctic sea ice. But this year, that winter maximum area is currently on track to hit a record low since satellite records began in 1979

Some provincial branches of the Royal Canadian Legion are no longer using poppy funds to help pay for service dogs to treat post-traumatic stress disorder for veterans, a CBC News investigation has learned.

The Commons public safety committee isn't planning to give the federal privacy watchdog the opportunity to share his concerns publicly with MPs over sweeping new information-sharing powers.

Despite all the warnings from economists, a report released last week suggests Canadians continue their free-spending ways, which experts say is due to a carefree attitude towards borrowing money.

A group of Canadian imams is condemning followers of the Islamic State as non-Muslims and "outsiders" to the faith.

The world is not even close to grasping the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis in Syria, a top aid official says ahead of the fourth anniversary of the peaceful protests that marked the start of the devastating conflict.

Protesters gathered in Ferguson, their cheers at the resignation of the city's embattled police chief quickly giving way to angry chants

The shootings took place in 2010 and 2011 during a security drive called Operation Restore Confidence, which was aimed at reducing violent crime and boosting tourism

More homes have turned to online video with 40 percent of U.S. homes subscribing to a streaming service such as Netflix, Amazon Instant Video or Hulu.

Homeopathy isn't an effective treatment for anything, an Australian medical council concluded after a review of research.

A board member for the National Farmers Union says without laws that support decent farm livelihoods, Canada could lose its next generation of farmers. Matt Gehl, board member for Saskatchewan, says the country could end up with something like "the serfdo

A Canadian financial magazine says Thunder Bay is the best city in Canada to buy real estate.

OTTAWA - A company that made automated calls to Canadians telling them they had won a free cruise to the Bahamas in exchange for answering a survey has agreed to pay $200,000 for breaking telemarketing rules.Consolidated Travel Holdings Group Inc. ag...

A Pakistani man has been arrested in connection with a suspected terror plot against the United States consulate in Toronto, CTV News has learned.

A second dog is reported to have died after appearing at Crufts, amid fears that at least six of the animals were deliberately poisoned at the world famous show.

A man arrested by immigration officials this week is an ISIS supporter who had plotted to bomb financial buildings and the U.S. consulate in Toronto, the CBSA said

Archival documents suggest that NIH bowed to pressure to avoid research linking cavities to sugar consumption

A couple in Winnipeg paid $800 to cybercriminals to get precious photos of their children back after they were attacked by malicious software called ransomware. They hope others can avoid the same fate by learning from their story.

Vomiting, diarrhea and malnourishment are blamed on prison food in complaints launched by several B.C. inmates after the government cut $6.4 million for Corrections Canada's grocery budget.

The scathing, 105-page Justice Department report on Ferguson, Mo.'s civil-rights abusing police garnered headlines around the world. Though, as Neil Macdonald writes, it was not that unusual and far from the only indictment of America's police.

The main suspect in Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov's killing has signs of torture on his body and was forced to confess to the shooting, a human rights activist said Wednesday.

A woman wins a landmark Supreme Court bid to claim cash from her millionaire ex-husband 20 years after they divorced.

Mohamed El Shaer, a Windsor, Ont. man on an RCMP high-risk travellers list with ties to a known foreign fighter, has fled the country, according to police.

Kim and her ex-husband, Ryan, adopted Rylan when he was a baby. They thought the process had been smooth until they began to realize Ryan was not developing normally.

The plot allegedly focused on a canteen at Paint Hall Titanic Studios in Belfast, Ireland, where several former members of the RUC and army, who now work on the show, were known to eat each day.

Only the bravest among us would even contemplate climbing Mount Everest. Even dedicated climbers look at that feat as the ultimate achievement, so don't feel bad if you shiver to your core just thinking about it. Now a group of aerial cinema exper...

Utah lawmakers have passed a bill that would make it the only state to allow firing squads for carrying out a death penalty if there is a shortage of execution drugs.

Professor Paul Smaldino from the University of California has created a equation that shows how our common desire to be different means we will always converge toward conformity.

US directly involved in million-dollar MEPI program - which organizes 'strikes and protests' from the Arab community.

A 16-year-old has claimed she was raped by Manase Motaung, 32, at a drinking session in Peterborough. He has been accused along with Mohammed Khubaib, 43, of rape and trafficking.

Declaring that men make up half of domestic violence victims oversimplifies a complex set of statistics, one women's advocate noted

Vladimir Putin yesterday honoured the man Scotland Yard believes poisoned dissident Alexander Litvinenko with polonium in London.

It is now illegal to use foul language while out in public in a small Alberta town after council passed a bylaw outlawing swearing in Taber.

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended by the BBC "following a fracas" with a producer, the corporation says.

RCMP in western Newfoundland had to tackle a unique traffic problem today when a snowmobile without a driver started heading west on the Trans-Canada Highway.

Security researchers working for the CIA have been poking holes in Apple security as part of a multi-year campaign.

Two helicopters carrying French sports stars filming a popular European reality show crashed in a remote part of Argentina, killing 10 people, including two Olympic medal winners and a sailing champion, authorities said.

"Apologists" for those who commit acts of terrorism are partly responsible for the violence, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond will say later.

With a poor harvest of olives in traditional high-producing countries like Spain and Italy pushing global production to a 15-year-low and driving up the price of olive oil, it's more important than ever for consumers to be wary of what they're buying.

Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O'Toole says the federal government is introducing new financial assistance for moderately and seriously disabled veterans who are 65 and older.

The UBC student who reported a sex assault on Canada Line last week describes what happened and how she hopes the victim comes forward so charges can be laid.

VANCOUVER - Zack Kassian scored the winner in the third period Monday as Vancouver Canucks defeated the Anaheim Ducks 2-1. Bo Horvat had the other goal for Vancouver (38-24-4), while Eddie Lack stopped 29 shots as the Canucks beat the Ducks in regulation

Do Canadians want their doctors to tell them about genetic risks that might be exposed when screening the genome for an unrelated medical reason? It depends, a new study suggests.

Sam Simon, an Emmy-winning writer and producer, gave away much of his money to charity after he was diagnosed with colon cancer.

The head of the eurozone's finance ministers calls on Greece to "stop wasting time" and engage in serious talks on reform.

Islamic State militants are said to have kidnapped nine foreign oil workers in an attack in Libya, when they reportedly beheaded eight guards.

The RCMP are investigating 150 Senate expense claims made by Pamela Wallin, including those for 24 trips related to her work on corporate boards, according to documents filed in court.

Calgary imam Abdi Hersy is wanted in the United States on outstanding criminal charges connected to two alleged sexual assaults.

A colleague of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition figure shot dead near Moscow's Red Square, says suggestions he was killed by Islamists are nonsensical and useful for the Kremlin because they deflect accusations that officials were involved.

Bison will be reintroduced to Banff National Park over the next five years, the federal government announced Friday.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has said that Zaur Dadayev, accused of killing opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, was angered by Nemtsov's support for the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. But friends of Nemtsov fear Charlie Hebdo theory could be a smokescreen for p

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The man, who was 23, harassed the girl for several months, sending pictures to her via Whatsapp and arranging to meet her in the state of Goias, Brazil.

A record-breaking attempt to fly around the world in five months in a solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse-2, gets under way in Abu Dhabi.

Two Canadian sisters who were found dead in their Phi Phi Island hotel room in 2012 were probably killed by phosphine, a deadly chemical used to kill bedbugs, a Canadian coroner says.

Emma Watson has said she was 'raging' after a hoax website threatened to release nude photographs of her online.

Bustling restaurant patios and cherry blossoms in full bloom marked yet another sunny and unseasonably warm day in Vancouver.

Fish at three aquaculture sites in Nova Scotia have died and a so-called superchill is suspected, the provincial Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture said Tuesday.

Standing before a provincial court judge in Surrey, Robyn Gill listened to the list of assault charges filed against her after yet another bar fight and vowed to turn her life around.

Environmentalist party will also propose creating a fleet of hospital ships to serve the developing world, cutting the size of National Lottery prizes and banning the Grand National

Radim Vrbata scored his second goal of the game to break a tie in the third period and made an alert defensive play to preserve the lead and help the Vancouver Canucks complete the rally from a two-goal deficit to beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 Saturday nig

A geologist who took part in the excavation of the ancient burial mound in Amphipolis in northern Greece says the ancient tomb found together with a series of vaulted rooms wasn't built at the same time, but somewhat later than the rooms themselves.

Darcey Beaucage says his father, Larry died, 10 minutes after getting back his stolen ring at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon on Saturday monring.

Masatatsu Abe plans to spend the next two months walking alone to Canada's most northerly community. The 32-year says it's his lifelong dream to walk to the polar ends of the earth.

It's a business that sells itself on being non-judgmental but Planet Fitness has allegedly revoked the membership of a woman for complaining.

Boko Haram militants pledge allegiance to Islamic State, in a message apparently from the Nigerian group's leader Abubakar Shekau.

A shocking video emerged Friday allegedly showing a vandal lying bloodied on the ground moments after he spray painted a Kensington Market storefront.

Defence lawyer Michael Magarian, QC, said the girls abused by a gang in Banbury, Oxfordshire, came forward so they wouldn't be called slags.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Thousands of furious Indians swarmed the streets to violently kill the man who was suspected of raping a female students several times last month.

The Dancing Man was identified as Sean from London on Friday morning after Twitter user Cassandra Fairbanks, from California, launched a heartwarming campaign to track him down.

A Canadian soldier was killed Friday in Iraq in what the defence department described as a friendly fire incident when members of a special operations team were "mistakenly engaged" by Iraqi Kurdish forces while returning to an observation post behin

Robert Collins, 39, called 911 on his wife earlier this week in Alliance, Ohio. When cops came, he changed his mind and said there was no emergency. Collins was arrested for two charges.

Several cars have caught fire after a Canadian National Railway train carrying crude oil derailed in northern Ontario, prompting officials to advise nearby residents to stay indoors and avoid consuming water from local sources.

Vancouver broadcaster Fred Latremouille, whose affable voice was once the first thing thousands of people woke up to every morning, has died. He was 69.

An 85-year-old man says his suburban Cleveland home has been pelted with eggs several times a week for a year, and police haven't been able to crack the unusual case despite stakeouts, questioning neighbours, installing a surveillance camera and even test

Sherri Wolfrey of Rigolet had no problems taking pictures of the first polar bear she has ever seen, but when the Labrador woman raised her rifle to kill the massive carnivore, she just couldn't do it.

Vancouver police are asking for help locating Daniel Alphonse Paul, 42, in connection with the suspicious death of a 36-year-old Vancouver woman.

An abandoned railway line is all that remains at the summit of the Rogers Pass to mark the spot where 58 men lost their lives in what's believed to be Canada's deadliest avalanche.

Daylight saving time kicks in this weekend, costing Canadians an hour of sleep but giving many of us a daily dose of waking sunshine.

Much of the start of the world's most famous sled dog race is covered in barren gravel, forcing Iditarod organizers to move the start further north where there is snow and ice.

The 30-kilowatt fiber weapon system successfully disabled the engine of a pickup from more than a mile away.

A Superior Court judge has ruled that although Ottawa blogger Dr. Dawg was defamed on a conservative message board, the hurtful words fell within the bounds of fair comment in the rough and tumble blogosphere.

Two McGill students have brought forward a proposal to have women-only hours at the Montreal university's fitness centre. But reaction has been mixed to the suggestion.

The murder rate in New York City has spiked an alarming 20% in the first two months of the year, prompting NYPD brass to rethink strategy to curb the deadly trend.

Ice melt had been flying off the shelves at Strosniders Hardware Stores in Bethesda all week. But on Wednesday night, the salt hysteria reached a new high. Four to 10 inches of snow expected across the region.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A BNSF Railway [BNISF.UL] train loaded with crude oil derailed and caught fire on Thursday afternoon in a rural area south of Galena, Illinois, according to local officials and the

Terror suspect Amanda Korody is captured on surveillance video saying she was playing a major supporting role to her husband and co-accused John Nuttall and wanted to kill as many people as possible in their planned terror attack.

This is the result of an ongoing trend of declining birth among white Americans and a baby boom among immigrant groups, as well as a surge in immigration.

A MailOnline experiment tests if anti-Semitism exists on Britain's streets. Journalist Jonathan Kalmus is spat at, abused and stalked in shocking footage with very different findings in European cities.

The news is all the more surprising because of her insistence that she didn't see anything at all. 'I turned around and all I saw was a light-coloured car'

The Alberta government is holding a huge new sale of energy leases more than 10 times the size of previous offerings on endangered caribou habitat. Bidding is to close next Wednesday on 21,000 hectares in northwestern Alberta that are home to the Redro

Archaeologists and officials express outrage about the reported bulldozing of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq by Islamic State (IS) militants.

A Halifax-based warship has arrived in the Black Sea to take part in NATO training exercises.

Actor known for roles in Indiana Jones and Star Wars films reportedly conscious and breathing after crashing small plane on golf course in California

American tinkerer hit with Islamophobia claims after applying for patent on controversial invention

A Thunder Bay court has handed a city man a $500 fine for feeding squirrels.

Maxis Emeryville, the video game studio known for creating popular games such as SimCity, The Sims and Spore, was closed down by publisher Electronic Arts on Wednesday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have set fire to oil wells northeast of the city of Tikrit to obstruct an assault by Shi'ite militiamen and Iraqi soldiers trying to drive them from the Sunni

YouTube on Thursday began blocking access to the controversial BBC documentary on the December 16, 2012 gang rape, citing court orders, while the government served legal notice to the top news channel after it ignored a court's restraining order and aired

Mohammed Aqeeq Ansari, 30, a Pakistani citizen arrested in Toronto in October, responded to allegations he was recorded at a Toronto mosque professing hatred for Canadians

Jury clears Polly Chowdhury, 35, and Kiki Muddar, 43, of murdering Chowdhury's daughter Ayesha Ali but finds them guilty of the manslaughter

Police fail to catch pilots of drones in ten sightings around Paris on Tuesday night amid concerns they could pose terror threat

Turkish investigators examining the links between Yumuşak and the terror group are said to have discovered the 29-year-old talking with potential clients about the price of sex with refugees.

A chemistry teacher from Manchester who was planning to travel to Syria "to fight jihad" is jailed for six years.

The case of a Quebec man charged with obstructing border officials by refusing to give up his smartphone password has raised a new legal question in Canada, a law professor says.

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products that critics decry as an environmental catastrophe.

A Delta plane has skidded off a runway while landing at LaGuardia Airport. The Fire Department of New York says no injuries have been reported.

The lawyer for a security guard involved in the fatal shooting of two men at an east-end Toronto McDonald's early Saturday says the gun that fired multiple shots was "lawfully possessed."