NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2015

The lawyer for three Ottawa police officers facing criminal charges after an explosion during a training exercise more than a year ago says the officers have the "full support" of the police service and intend to vigorously defend themselves.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is raising concerns about Canada's new anti-terror legislation, saying it could run afoul of the international covenant on civil and political rights.

Foreign Affairs bureaucrats were told this spring to produce three terrorism-related statements for minister Rob Nicholson to make to the media each week, ahead of a fall election in which security and Canada's response to terrorism are expected to be key

Some high-profile, controversial cases have brought the issue of police traffic stops to light recently. Here are some tips on what to do if you get pulled over in Canada or the U.S.

Canada has virtually eliminated the incidence of mothers passing HIV to their infants at birth, primarily because of high rates of pre-natal testing and ready access to drug treatment that subdues the infection, researchers say. In 2014, there was only

Instead of carrying 40 scientists deep into the Arctic to research climate change, the Amundsen has been temporarily reassigned to break ice for several commercial supply ships trying to reach remote communities on the Hudson Bay coast.

Workplace tokers may soon find their cover blown by a high-tech machine built to smoke them out.

RUSSELL BRAND has launched a shocking attack on the Queen and her German heritage, saying she should be called

The Canadian dollar has plummeted to its lowest point in nearly 11 years thanks to slumping oil prices and a strengthening greenback.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an 18th-century village buried beneath Montreal's busiest highway interchange.

A Toronto woman died at the age of 94 earlier this month, so her son wrote her the only kind of obituary he felt would do her justice: a tongue-in-cheek tribute to a woman with a foul mouth, a quick wit, and a tendency to burn everything she touched in th

Changes in Arctic sea ice volume affect regional heat and freshwater budgets and patterns of atmospheric circulation at lower latitudes. Despite a well-documented decline in summer Arctic sea ice extent by about 40% since the late 1970s, it has been diffi

What could be the world's oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham.

Melting permafrost caused by climate change is causing changes in the northern landscape on a scale not seen since the end of the last ice age, experts say.

Canada saw a significant rise in police-reported cases of terrorism and child pornography in 2014, even as serious crime rates fell to their lowest rate since 1969.

New projections by the parliamentary budget officer suggest the federal government's budget won't be balanced this year, despite the Conservatives' promise to have no deficit in 2015.

Statistics Canada on Tuesday released the results of a national survey on childhood immunizations showing a high percentage of two-year-olds have been vaccinated against a variety of childhood diseases, though the figure is still short of so-called herd i

Public-housing officials have relocated a Caucasian family after they went public with allegations of racially charged bullying by their neighbours.

The federal government says this week's child-care lump-sum payouts will help families and stimulate the economy without negatively affecting the projected budget surplus. Here's a closer look at the impact of the increased UCCB payments.

The number of people turning to food banks is surging across Alberta. And some believe, with so many rumblings of a recession, the upswing could be a sign of tough times ahead across much of the country.

Fire crews and officials scrambled to keep residents safe from a quickly spreading blaze near Westside Road in West Kelowna, B.C., which has so far destroyed at least one home.

Stage 3 water restrictions mean lawn sprinklers and outdoor car washing are banned.

Two groups say they plan to launch a charter challenge today against sections of the controversial Anti-Terrorism Act, also known as Bill C-51.

All supported versions of Windows now need to be patched - again - to fix an urgent remote code-execution vulnerability emerging from the ongoing Hacking Team hack fiasco. Details of the vulnerability were found and reported to Microsoft by security re

Ten members from British Columbia's Okanagan Indian Band have been selected for specialized training to learn how to rid their reserve of the buried bullets and bombs that have accumulated over a century.

A violent serial rapist, sentenced to 20 years in prison after he viciously beat his last victim in Belleville with her own cane, is now free after refusing sex offender treatment in prison

A Labrador woman is recovering indoors after being swarmed by hundreds of black flies, leaving her feet purple and oozing with blood and incapacitating her with fever and swelling for days.

A suspect has been arrested after five Winnipeg police vehicles were rammed by a truck on Monday, leading to a police chase that ended in another municipality.

Lightning strike survivor Pete McCathie beat the odds by winning the Atlantic Lotto 6/49 on Monday.

Kia Nurse poured in 33 points to lift Canada's women's basketball team to a 81-73 victory over the United States on Monday night for its first-ever Pan American Games gold medal.

The flagship vessel in the Royal Canadian Navy's East Coast fleet has been called back to Halifax from deployment to fix serious deficiencies, including problems with the propulsion system.

Friends and family are mourning the death of a cyclist in Kelowna, B.C. who died after crashing her bicycle into a car door.

Surf champion Mick Fanning's mum watched "terrified" on live television as her son was attacked by a shark in South African waters. The Australian surfer, 34, was competing at an event in Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape on Sunday when a black fin appeare

Earth dialled the heat up last month, smashing warm temperature records for both the month and the first half of the year.

Allowing Canadians who have lived abroad for more than five years to vote in federal elections would be unfair to those who live in Canada, Ontario's top court ruled Monday.

Cuba's blue, red and white-starred flag was hoisted Monday at the country's embassy in Washington, signalling the start of a new post-Cold War era in U.S.-Cuba relations.

A peaceful "smoke-in" protest by medicinal marijuana supporters outside Winnipeg's police headquarters was disrupted when a truck slammed into five parked police cars this morning.

Nearly four out of 10 women surveyed had received unwanted comments of a sexual nature in the past year, report finds

In the wake of a massive spill from a one-year-old pipeline in Alberta, one veteran investigator says that newer technology doesn't always prevent spills. And that public confidence takes a big hit when it fails.

A suspected suicide attack kills at least 27 people and injures nearly 100 others in the Turkish town of Suruc, near the Syrian border.

Security services think the area in Bosnia is used for ISIS training camps and could be a base for devastating terror attacks on the West

Uber may drive a stake through the heart of the cab business and it's about time.

A police-involved shooting in Dawson Creek has sparked a backlash on Twitter from the international activist group Anonymous.

Photographs of a Montreal caleche horse who slipped and fell on a metal plate this week have renewed the debate around the ethics of the city's horse-drawn carriage industry.

Defence minister Julian Fantino was in Nanisivik, Nunavut, this week to break ground on the federal government's Arctic naval facility.

The province's police watchdog has been called to South Surrey, B.C. after RCMP officers fatally shot a man early Saturday morning.

The photo series called 'Old One Two' by photographer Devin Yalkin captures the raw and gritty nature of the illegal fight clubs which take place in venues across New York city.

Judge Robert Maranger argued it was possible for the mother of convicted drug dealer Aissa El-Zein to save the money over the years without being involved in her son's operations

The space rock named UW-158 has attracted the attention of asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, because of its 90 million tonne core of platinum.

Residents in Treviso in northern Italy set mattresses on fire Friday in a bid to stop the local government from housing a hundred immigrants, media reported.

An engineer with a Vancouver logging company thought he was going to die as a mother grizzly bear tore the flesh of his arm and back, and tried to throw him in the air.

The family of Jules Bianchi says the French Formula One driver has died from head injuries sustained in a crash at last year's Japanese Grand Prix.

Rookie A.C. Leonard caught two touchdown passes from Travis Lulay and the B.C. Lions handed the hometown Saskatchewan Roughriders a 27-24 loss on Friday, their fourth consecutive defeat to start the season.

Fans can meet the famous feline at Hello Kitty's Supercute Friendship Festival in Vancouver.

On any given day in Canada, there are more innocent people in prison than guilty ones.

An engineer with a Vancouver logging company is in hospital after being attacked by a grizzly bear near Bella Bella, B.C.

The federal government is set to release its plan to respond to the Supreme Court of Canada ruling on doctor-assisted dying, CBC News has learned.

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik wins place to study political science at Oslo University.

Telling the public to, in effect, "trust us" on why no charges were laid in February's double fatal shooting by a security guard violates basic principles.

A new spat of laser pointer attacks on airplanes has prompted a reminder from Transport Canada that shining bright lights at aircrafts is both dangerous and illegal.

estiny Moreno, who is 17, drove to a Sally Beauty Supply near her Seattle home last September with a newly hatched plan. She peppered a grandmotherly employee with questions about hair bleaches, developers and dyes, and the woman asked matter-of-factly if

The Egyptian military said earlier a coastguard vessel had exchanged shots with militants just two miles off the coast of northern Sinai, an area bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip.

A mouse triggered panic and a crush in a Casablanca mosque has left more than 80 injured, mostly women, the Moroccan news agency MAP reported.

Polar bears are unable to adapt their behaviour to cope with the food losses associated with warmer summers in the Arctic.

And automakers are using those economies of scale to jump into stationary storage.

The Law Society of Alberta has issued citations against lawyer and media personality Ezra Levant relating to remarks he made about the province's human rights commission.

As opposition lawmakers walked out in protest, Japan's lower house of parliament approved legislation on Thursday that sharply changes the country's postwar defence policy by allowing an expanded role for the military.

A retired member of the Canadian military with a mental illness lay dead in his Conception Bay South, N.L., home for four months before he was discovered, says his sister.

John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas -- they are Canadian comedy icons. And a newly-found video shows they weren't really great ball players.

These are astonishing repercussions given that Greg Elliott's chief sin appears to have been that he dared to disagree with the two young feminists and activists

Over the course of his 15-year career, the hockey star gave Phil Kenner millions of dollars for what he thought were real estate developments and a debit card business

A Calgary couple is warning other Canadians after losing nearly $20,000 to a fraudster who electronically transferred money out of their bank account.

Rupert Darwin, 59, kept a 12 foot alligator tied and blindfold for the last month, sexually assaulting the reptile multiple times a day.

A record-low snow pack, paltry rainfall, and soaring temperatures have pushed British Columbia's most heavily populated region to the highest alert level on the province's drought scale.

The time is right for hiking fuel taxes and tolling roads to pay down the deficit and fund transit, says Trent University prof.

Reports from Germany indicate that cult activity may have been involved - possibly linked to Murnau's association with the vampire genre

Two recent reports warning that global warming is threatening polar bear populations across the world, but the warnings in those reports obscure the reality.

These days, Laura Poitras is known as the Oscar-winning director of the Ed Snowden documentary CITIZENFOUR, and with it, one of the reporters who helped break Snowden's story in the first place.

This isn't the first time that a story about sunspots has turned into a story about climate change skepticism.

A political buffet offering everything but science.

Montreal's Osheaga music festival says wearing a First Nations-style headdress is a fashion don't - it wants festivalgoers to do away with the inappropriate "accessory."

Canada's central bank lowers its benchmark interest rate to 0.5 per cent from 0.75, the second time this year it has dropped the rate to stimulate the economy, after holding it steady for about four years.

AN EQUAL rights campaigner has blasted a flag designed by a 12-year-old girl as 'RACIST'.

Now that Greece has agreed to wide-ranging reforms in order to secure a third bailout from the eurogroup, it is facing a strict timetable to implement those changes. Here's a look at the specifics of the deal.

U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to the NAACP about legislative action to reduce unduly harsh sentences, eliminate disparities in the way justice is applied and lessen taxpayer costs to house prisoners.

Italian Chiara Frisco was held hostage by a fanatic yelling 'Allah is great' and 'It is God that sends me' in front of hundreds of visitors to the famous landmark.

The Boy Scouts of America unanimously approves a resolution to end the organisation's ban on gay adults working as leaders.

New undercover footage shows Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, describing how Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted fetuses, and admitting she uses partial-birth abortions to

Mozilla has blocked the Flash multimedia player add-on on its Firefox browser following a security alert from the player's maker Adobe.

When Checker Tomkins went off to war, he took with him a top-secret weapon the Germans knew nothing about.

Data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) outside Geneva appears to have proved the existence of particles made of five quarks, solving a 50-year-old puzzle about the building blocks of matter.

Deepan Budlakoti, who was born in Canada but is not a citizen, appealed to the Immigration and Refugee Board on Monday to ease bail restrictions while he fights to stay in Canada.

Yes, there is much to criticize about the U.S., Neil Macdonald writes, and readers know he certainly has. But as he takes his leave from Washington, he also says there are many American values that countries like Canada could learn a few things from.

World powers and Iran struck a landmark deal Tuesday to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions. "This deal offers an opportunity to move in a new direction," President Barack Obama said.

An open letter in which a French family says it is leaving for Canada because of France's attitude towards entrepreneurs has gone viral

The rapper and businessman files for bankruptcy days after being told to pay $5m in damages over a sex tape lawsuit

President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 46 drug offenders, saying in a video posted online Monday that the men and women were not "hardened criminals" and their punishments didn't match the crimes they committed.

The United States, frustrated over the lack of progress with Canada over new rules for agriculture trade, is weighing "contingencies" that could include completing a Pacific Rim trade pact that excludes Canada, according to two sources familiar with the i

The Harper government has quietly pulled the plug on a $55-million deal to provide mobile radar units to Canada's CF-18 bases. Public Works won't say why the contract, signed in 2010, went bust, but it's the latest procurement project to go sour.

Excusez-moi? Many Fredericton drivers can be excused if they are a bit confused by some road construction signs popping up across the city.

Contrary to expectations, plutonium won't stick to a magnet. Now, researchers have discovered why.