NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2015

Edmonton-Leduc MP James Rajotte says he will not run in the upcoming federal election.

The female victim, 12, lost part of her arm and suffered tissue damage to her leg while the 16-year-old boy lost his arm. Neither was a resident of Oak Island, a hospital official said.

Slow sales and falling gasoline prices have prompted Honda to stop selling gas-electric hybrid and natural gas-powered versions of its Civic compact car.

An Arizona Coyotes fan got to take out her frustration on the mayor behind the decision to send the hockey team packing.

The McDonald's McFlurry was celebrated in Bathurst, N.B. to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its invention by a Canadian franchisee.

Men who are out of shape, overweight, drink too much and smoke are costing Canada $36.9 billion a year, according to a new study.

A man is in stable condition after he was shot with an arrow at a Calgary parkade early Monday morning.

Cabinet ministers, government officials and senior RCMP figures applied "a lot of pressure" on RCMP agents to accelerate the destruction of long-gun registry records, despite active access to information requests and written assurances the records would b

Nearly four decades after the power rock trio formed in Toronto, Rush is appearing on the July 2 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.

Famed U.S. gun maker Colt Defense announces it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. The company has a factory in Kitchener, Ont.

We emailed Liberal candidates asking about C-51 and instead of answering, they just forwarded us to Wayne Easter. Are candidates scared to voice an opinion?

Canadians tend to think of Mexico as little more than a sunny vacation destination, but over the past 15 years it has transformed its economy into a manufacturing powerhouse that has lessons for Canada, Amanda Lang writes.

Nine graffiti artists who spray painted creations across the world-renowned 5Pointz building filed a lawsuit Friday in Brooklyn federal court, seeking unspecified damages from the owner who whitewashed away their artwork.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dinosaurs are anything but extinct at the box office. "Jurassic World," the fourth film in the series, became the highest global opener of all time with a staggering $511.8 million in its first days in theaters. It also devoured a n

Residents in the Georgian capital Tbilisi have been warned to stay indoors after dangerous animals escaped for the city's zoo after flash floods destroyed their enclosures, setting them free.

With the passage of the bizarrely named Building Ontario Up Act the day before the legislature adjourned for the summer on June 4, Premier Kathleen Wynne fixed her Hydro One problem.

In a public Facebook post, Asghar Bukhari, founding member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, pictured, said someone had tried to intimidate him by mysteriously taking his footwear as he slept.

A group of around 50 huddled together in Ventimiglia. The town is three miles from the France-Italy border, where Italian police moved in yesterday to disperse around 200 migrants staging a sit-in.

Germany's vice-chancellor says that

A West Yorkshire teenager is believed to have become Britain's youngest ever suicide bomber after reportedly blowing himself up in Iraq.

Mexican Girls' Cheer-Dance Team Does Nazi-Themed Routine

A photographer from Cornwall, Ont., says he's delighted with the perfectly timed shots he took of a red squirrel doing battle with a pileated woodpecker earlier this month, and we're pretty certain you'll be equally impressed.

A photo of musician Dave Grohl playing on stage during a concert while another man attends to his freshly broken leg makes the rounds on social media.

Since their beagle, Moe, passed away in April, Mary Westbrook and her son Luke have written letters to the dog from their Norfolk, Virginia, home. On Wednesday, they received an unexpected reply.

For the last eight years during the non-winter months, Norah Toth has trekked out to Ontario's Sauble Beach about once a week to help guard nesting piping plovers on the shores of Lake Huron. Toth is among hundreds of volunteers around the Great Lakes who

After years of waiting and $20,000 in legal fees, a Calgary woman has finally won the right to tell the story of her nightmarish experience with a local dog kennel.

Majority of cases involve plastic packaging bands commonly used for moving, scientists say.

The cost of temporary Senate offices could cost tens of millions more if the Senate doesn't agree to extend its search boundaries by a single block, an internal government document shows.

Drought-stricken California on Friday ordered the largest cuts on record to farmers holding some of the state's strongest water rights.

Four Mounties have been rescued after their boat capsized on a river in northwestern Alberta. RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Josee Valiquette says the officers are all doing fine. They had been on duty, patrolling the Athabasca River about 35 kilometres nort

A Vancouver Stanley Cup rioter who helped overturn a truck and participated in the beating of a Good Samaritan has been given a conditional sentence.

A Maple Ridge restaurant is defending itself after a local mom alleged she was told to cover up while breastfeeding during a meal, prompting growing social media backlash.

The highest scoring team in baseball put up its highest scoring inning of the season. The Toronto Blue Jays scored nine runs in the seventh, all before making an out, and beat the Boston Red Sox 13-10 by overcoming an 8-1 deficit Friday night.

Checker Yellow Cabs driver Urga Adunga found a duck and nine ducklings stranded in traffic at 16th Avenue and Shaganappi Trail on Thursday.

Who would have thought that a hockey puck would be the thing to finally shut down the RHNB's hot streak?

An American court decision in the case of an alleged al-Qaeda recruiter Friday has cast further doubt on the war crimes convictions of Canada's Omar Khadr.

Cheyann Peeteetuce, the young Saskatoon woman who has pleaded guilty to killing two teenagers while driving impaired, was sentence today to six years in prison.

French data watchdog CNIL has given Google just 15 days to comply with the European 'right to be forgotten' rule. Google has removed information, but only on European domains and not on google.com.

A grizzly bear's week-long fishing trip near Banff was captured in a new video by Parks Canada staff.

The South African recipient of the world's first penile transplant is to become a father, a surgeon who performed the operation tells the BBC.

Ford will compete at Le Mans ad in the full WEC series and TUDOR United SportsCar Championship with its sensational Ford GT supercar.

Tina Fontaine, a 15-year-old girl who was killed in Winnipeg last summer, spent one of her last weekends alive at a home now at the centre of a sex trafficking case.

The suspect in last Sunday's fatal hit and run following a gas theft was free on bail at the time for allegedly driving dangerously in a stolen vehicle.

The chief of staff to Alberta's Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd is registered as a lobbyist against the Northern Gateway and Energy East pipelines

The NDP's recent surge in the polls has pushed the Liberals aside, but that only underscores a Liberal slump that has been going on for months. Poll analyst Eric Grenier explains.

Trying to catch nighthawks isn't the easiest job, but three researchers from Saskatchewan working in B.C.'s Okanagan are having a harder time than usual.

Thanks to an extensive database containing vast amounts of voter information, the Conservatives have long played a strong ground game during election campaigns. CBC News has learned exclusive details of a new mobile app that will allow the party to track

Ali Omar Ader, a Somali national alleged to have been part of the 2008 kidnapping of Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, was arrested in Ottawa by RCMP, the Mounties said today.

Liberal John McCallum and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander had a heated exchange in Parliament that ended with Alexander calling the Liberals 'racist.'

A 72-year-old man and his dog died of heat exhaustion on Monday after they were unable to get out of his locked Corvette, according to police.

A 17-year-old girl says she was forced to have sex for money with at least 20 and up to 50 men and was held against her will for about 10 days.

A lemonade stand operated by two young girls received national attention after police asked for a permit. Wednesday, police released the video of their encounter with the girls' mother.

34-year-old from Cardiff subjected victim to years of abuse, systematic rape and blackmail involving hidden camera footage

FANATICAL jihadi group Islamic State (ISIS) has obtained enough nuclear material to make a DIRTY BOMB, a high ranking official has said.

We asked two psychologists to weigh in on the Walmart fight where a mother asked her young son to punch another woman "in the [expletive] face." Here's what they had to say.

The parents of a Surrey, B.C. toddler are seeking answers after their daughter disappeared from the child-minding section of a local gym, only to be found by a stranger metres away from the facility.

Loblaws says that by the end of 2018, it will stop using triclosan, phthalates or microbeads in the household and cosmetic products it manufactures.

A program that taught college women ways to prevent sexual assault cut in half the chances they would be raped over the next year, a Canadian study found. It was the first large, scientific test of resistance training, and the strong results should spur m

British actor Christopher Lee, perhaps best known for appearing in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and for his role as Dracula for Hammer Films, has died at age 93.

Our brains are incredible little mushboxes; they are unfathomably complex, powerful organs that grant us motor skills, logic, and abstract thought. Brains have bequeathed unto we humans just about every cognitive advantage, it seems, except for one little

A Toronto man who claims he has been repeatedly carded by Toronto Police due to his race is launched a court challenge against the practice today.

Mrs Justice Pauffley made the comments as she ruled on a case where an eight-year-old boy of Indian descent said his father had attacked him, after they stayed in the UK past their visa.

The NDP are now out in front on the Nanos Party Power Index, having surpassed both the Liberals and the Conservatives this week.

Environment Canada issued tornado watches across southern Ontario Wednesday morning.

A Canadian musician with ties to Vancouver and his girlfriend were found dead in a cabin in Australia.

Harper was on HMCS Fredericton, a frigate part of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization mission to reassure Eastern Europe members they will be protected should Russian aggression in Ukraine spread to other countries

The Centex gas station attendant who was hit by a stolen truck while trying to stop a theft on Sunday has died, say Calgary police.

Stephen Harper, seeing himself as the representative of conservative business interests, has been dragging his feet on climate change. But once businesses see where the money is, they will speed us into a low-carbon future faster than anyone thought possi

British Columbia puts $54 per capita into energy conservation, smaller Saskatchewan manages to find $24 per capita while the tiny state of Massachusetts spends $90 per capita. But Alberta? There is no funding to encourage energy efficiency. It is the only

Back in 2013, we wrote about a FOIA lawsuit that was filed by William New at IP Watch. After trying to find out more information on the TPP by filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and being told that they were classified as "national securit

The orphan, who was originally from Pakistan, was kept locked in a cellar by Ilyas Ashar, 84, who beat her, raped her and forced her to sleep in the cellar of his home in Eccles, Salford.

According to the rumours, the asteroid would strike near Puerto Rico triggering earthquakes and tsunamis sometime between between 22 to 28 September this year.

After almost 80 years in Canada, the Blacks photography chain says it is no longer able to make a profit and will be folding.

Italy's government criticises leaders in the north of the country for their refusal to host any more migrants rescued from the Mediterranean.

An area of west Edmonton has been cordoned off after a police officer was shot in the back just after 8 p.m. Monday.

The recent suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Tacoma, Wash has thrust the topic of parents shaming their kids back into the spotlight.

Canada has now executed more than 100 airstrikes in support of the anti-ISIS campaign in Iraq and Syria.

A man made a huge mistake over the weekend when he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman outside of a California nightclub.

Dr Xiaoping Ren said he is now prepared to move from operating on mice, pictured, to working on more complicated animals such as primates - even though the mice only live for 10 minutes following surgery.

Extremists fighting for the Islamic State's fledgling outpost in Afghanistan have brutally beheaded at least 10 Taliban members, as the bloody rivalry between the two Islamic terror groups intensifies.

A Chinese woman is seeking a court order to preserve the remains of a dismembered West Vancouver millionaire in order to prove he fathered her baby.

Canadians coping with the financial stress of heavy debt are increasingly talking about suicide as they struggle with sleepless nights and high blood pressure, a psychologist says.

Artificial sweeteners used in many food and drinks are making their way into bodies of water around the world, according to researchers. Now, scientists are studying what impact these sugar substitutes could be having on aquatic life and the human food ch

Today is June 8th. The S&P is 2100, Presidential hopefuls are dialing for dollars. Stephen Curry and Lebron James are battling in the NBA Finals. But today is also World Oceans Day, and given the crisis in our oceans, we should take time to consider this

Scientific studies increasingly suggest marijuana may not be the risk-free high that teens think it is, researchers say.

At just shy of 10 meters in length and standing 3.65m tall, the Sin City Hustler is bigger than the average studio apartment.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing the G7 to endorse a pledge to reach zero carbon emissions, but Canada and Japan are holdouts

Negative early-life experiences, such as abuse or the loss of a parent, shape how the brain copes with future stress.

The Department of Foreign Affairs says they are assisting two Canadians barred from leaving Malaysia, amid reports that the pair could be charged after allegedly posing naked atop Mount Kinabalu, the country's highest peak.

Two convicted murders used power tools to cut through steel and shimmied through a steam pipe to escape from a maximum-security prison near the Canadian border, leaving behind a taunting note urging authorities to "Have a nice day."

Prime Minister Stephen Harper used the first day of the G7 summit to push European leaders to ratify the comprehensive Canada-EU free trade agreement.

Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upheld an internationally condemned verdict against a liberal blogger who was publicly flogged after being found guilty of insulting Islam, state-linked news websites reported Sunday.

WOMEN bearing their breasts to the world have been duped after it was revealed the social media trend has nothing to do with charity.

Kevin Pillar and Justin Smoak drove in two runs apiece and Drew Hutchison turned in a quality start as the Blue Jays extended their winning streak to a season-high four games Saturday.

Kekuta Manneh scored a first-half goal and the Vancouver Whitecaps beat Los Angeles 1-0 on Saturday to snap the Galaxy's 23-game home unbeaten streak.

Jason Garrison's power-play goal at 8:49 of the third period lifted Tampa Bay to a 4-3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup on Saturday night. The Lightning gained a split to start the series, which shifts to Chicago for Games 3 an

Captain Christine Sinclair saved the day for Canada, converting a stoppage-time penalty for a 1-0 win over China in the opening match of the Women's World Cup on Saturday.

Why do some personalities that appear in the media get a free pass on misogyny? The CBC Nova Scotia bureau was forced to examine that question after a recent interview with the American rapper Snoop Dogg.

A California bus driver is being called a hero for helping to rescue a 3-year-old kidnapped boy after tricking his suspected captor Friday.

TORONTO - The Lotto Max jackpot drought is over. There are four winning tickets for last night's $50 million grand prize -- each of them worth 12-and-a-half million dollars.

An effort to use a fake, life-sized orca to scare off hundreds of sea lions crowding docks off the Oregon coast ended, at least temporarily, Thursday night with the fiberglass creature belly-up after it was swamped by a passing ship.

Mourning a loss that touched people from the streets of Delaware to the White House and beyond, President Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton joined Vice-President Joe Biden in bidding farewell Saturday to Biden's eldest son, Beau.

Allied veterans and families of their fallen comrades gathered Saturday at the U.S. cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach to mark the 71st anniversary of the D-Day invasion that helped defeat the Nazis in World War II.

Environment Yukon's carnivore biologist is enthused about cougar sightings near Whitehorse, as tracks suggest the big cats are breeding in the territory.