NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2016

The factors that once made TransCanada's proposed Energy East pipeline an attractive conduit for Alberta's heavy oil are now largely gone, according to an internal finance department memo obtained by CBC News.

A mother and her civil partner who murdered her two-year-old son looked up whether they could stay together in prison rather than get the little boy to hospital.

The 36-year-old Iraqi was arrested after the attack on the schoolgirl in the changing rooms of the public swimming pool in the Huetteldorf area of Vienna, Austria last year.

The bank robbery suspect shot dead by an off-duty Cincinnati police officer entered the bank with a gun obscured by a grocery bag, leapt over a service counter and appears to have attempted to shoot the officer before he was killed.

RCMP have laid terror charges against Ayanle Hassan Ali, who is already facing nine charges in connection with a stabbing at a Toronto military recruitment centre in March.

Video of a disagreement over a parking spot that led to a brawl outside a Costco this past weekend in Mississauga, Ont., has prompted an investigation by Peel Regional Police.

An Ottawa bus driver is "overwhelmed" by the thanks and praise he's receiving online for coming to the defence of a student wearing a niqab after another passenger yelled Islamophobic taunts at her.

Presale tickets sold out quickly for the Tragically Hip's farewell tour, only to show up minutes later on resale sites.

Child psychiatrist Dr Aaron Voon, from Perth in Western Australia, has allegedly been caught filming a young boy in movie cinema toilets in Canada and now faces child pornogrphy charges.

Wildlife officials in Thailand have begun removing some of the 137 tigers held at a Buddhist temple following accusations that the monks were involved in illegal breeding and trafficking of the animals.

The owner was leaving a church concert around 10 p.m. Sunday when he was allegedly mugged.

Sharon Heinrich and Helen Salter were cycling on the Riesling Trail in Clare Valley last Wednesday when the animal sprang from a ledge, knocking them both to the ground (file image).

MANKIND'S burning of fossil fuels may not be the primary cause of global warming, according to the shock results of a new study by scientists behind the Large Hadron Collider (LCH).

Mars is at the tail-end of an ice age that would have seen large swathes of the dusty red planet covered with ice, reveals a detailed analysis of ice layers within the Red Planet's north polar ice cap.

As mass bleaching sweeps the world heritage site, scientists also find an average of 35% of coral dead or dying in the northern and central sections of the reef

Sydney biologist has a Facebook page dedicated to the colourful arachnids, which he says behave more like cats and dogs

For the first time in at least 130 years, young adults are more likely to be living at home with their parents than in any other living arrangement.

It is feasible to clean up some of the decades-old mercury contamination in Ontario's English-Wabigoon River system near Grassy Narrows First Nation, according to new research by three experts in the field.

ustin Trudeau made two applications to bring foreign nannies into Canada to look after his children, before he became leader of the Liberal Party and a vocal critic of the temporary foreign worker program, which he blames for driving down wages and displa

The Council of Islamic Ideology, led by Chairman Muhammad Khan Sheeran, is a constitutional body of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, but can only advise and not make laws.

Police arrest 2 Arabs, hunt 3rd, after they were documented committing horrific rape of mentally disabled girl while shouting racist slurs.

Former Liberal interim leader Bob Rae has apologized for a gagging gesture he made at the party's weekend convention, his reaction to the prime minister's praise of Conservative predecessor Stephen Harper.

The Cincinnati Zoo has temporarily closed its gorilla exhibit after a special zoo response team shot and killed a 17-year-old gorilla that grabbed and dragged a 4-year-old boy who fell into a moat.

Richard Daniel Wolfe, a founder of the notorious street gang Indian Posse, died Friday after being found in need of medical attention at the Prince Albert Penitentiary where he was serving time, according to prison officials.

A disfiguring tropical disease that had been contained to Syria has now spread across the Middle East as millions are displaced from the war-torn region.

An asylum seeker who jokingly wore a T-shirt saying 'I'm Muslim, don't panic' was so savagely beaten by his fellow refugees that he had to be rushed to hospital.

Teenage students were filmed getting lap dances from a stripper they hired for their classroom graduation party - after telling teachers she was coming in to give a lecture about equal rights.

The firmness of Justin Trudeau's grip on the reins of the ruling party will be put to the test today as grassroots Liberals decide whether to embrace his vision for transforming the party from an exclusive club into a modern political movement.

Conservatives will vote today on a motion to delete existing parts of the party's policy that oppose same sex marriage.

PC Amar Tasaddiq Hussain, 29, sent West Midlands Police into 'overdrive' after phoning through an anonymous warning that a terrorist was planning to kidnap a Muslim policeman.

A woman who was arrested for allegedly firing a gun during an argument with her husband wore a 'stop domestic violence' T-shirt for her police mugshot .

More than 100 leading scientists say the Rio Olympics should be moved or postponed due to the Zika outbreak, in a letter to the World Health Organization.

Shadow IT for pushy execs is a time-honored tradition, laws be damned.

Facebook will now display ads to web users who are not members of its social network, the company announced Thursday, in a bid to significantly expand its online ad network. As The Wall Street...

Ken Starr, who zealously pursued charges against a sitting U.S. president in a White House sex scandal, was stripped of his job as president of Baylor University on Thursday after a scathing review found that under his leadership, the school did little to

Brazilian police say they are hunting for more than 30 men suspected of participating in the gang rape of a 16-year-old over the weekend.

The 96-year-old Cincinnati surgeon credited with developing his namesake Heimlich manoeuvre recently used the emergency technique for the first time himself to save a woman choking on food at his senior living centre.

Procurement Minister Judy Foote says the Liberal government will not release the cost of the navy's new frigate replacements until it has a signed contract with Irving Shipbuilding.

U.S. health officials on Thursday reported the first case in the country of a patient with an infection resistant to all known antibiotics, and expressed grave concern that the superbug could pose serious danger for routine infections if it spreads.

The Royal Canadian Navy is giving Canadians a glimpse of what life is like deep in Atlantic waters.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne came to Alberta to talk environment but instead found herself publicly ridiculed on the floor of the legislature as the leader of a failed, debt-ridden enterprise.

More than 4,000 would-be refugees were rescued at sea Thursday in one of the busiest days of the Mediterranean migrant crisis, and at least 20 died trying to reach Europe as Libyan-based smugglers took advantage of calmer seas to send desperate migrants n

The crow is known to police and has a dedicated social-media following

The worrying forecast could threaten jobs at the fast food franchise, a former CEO of the company warns

Dr. Mohannad al-Zubn helped a woman give birth in the King Fahd Medical City in the Saudi capital of Riyadh last month. According to Al-Araby, the father went to the hospital in order to "thank" the doctor, only to pull out a gun and shoot him at close ra

Joanna Palani, 23, who is now back in Copenhagen studying politics and philosophy, has said ISIS soldiers are 'very easy to kill' compared to President Assad's 'specialist killing machines.'

Canada's ambassador to Ireland, and the onetime sergeant-at-arms who shot Ottawa gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau after he stormed Parliament Hill in 2014, has tackled a protester at a ceremony in Dublin this morning.

A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a rare visit to a subsea cable landing site.

A Calgary student has literally just reinvented the wheel, and it's paid off in the form of a university entrance scholarship.

A grand plan to relocate the Canadian embassy in Moscow to a modern building has stalled yet again, as "corrupt" Russian bureaucrats withhold permits and approvals. The delay has stuck Ottawa with a rent bill of at least $25 million for a building left un

Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips received a tweet from a man who said his boot "would look nice" on her face. "Several times in fact."

Some provincial governments, it appears, are now well into the wonderfully lucrative business model of grabbing private property. Civil forfeiture laws are supposed to target drug dealers and other criminals, but that's not always the case, Neil Macdonald

What started out as an awesome American road trip has turned into an odyssey of internet shame for three Canadians accused of disrespecting U.S. natural treasures from Yellowstone to the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Cancer death rates increased in many countries as unemployment rose during the global economic crisis but universal health coverage such as Canada's provided a buffer, according to a large international study.

More than one-fifth of the money paid to veterans by the federal government for prescribed drugs in the fiscal year 2015-16 went toward medical cannabis. The data, obtained by CBC News through an Access to Information request, shows the effect medical mar

After Birmingham Police received a number of calls about kids playing soccer in the parking lot of a tractor equipment company on Messer Highway, they decided to join in.

"Eat, drink and be merry," quantified.

A man is facing child pornography charges after an incident in the men's washroom at West Edmonton Mall's Scotiabank Theatre Sunday.

The seven-time Formula One world champion suffered traumatic injuries after hitting his head against a rock while skiing in Meribel, France in December 2013.

After almost two years of captivity in Russia, Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko, 35, is finally back at home.

Apple supplier Foxconn cut 60,000 jobs at a single factory, work that is now being completed by robots. As many as 600 companies in Kunshan may follow suit.

Tells Fox Business a "$35,000 robotic arm" is cheaper than hiring, training mortals.

Greenpeace says it has brokered an agreement between two major fishing groups and a number of major fish processors and retailers to prevent fishing for cod in a part of the Arctic Ocean where it has not been sourced from previously.

Protests outside a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico turned violent Tuesday night as demonstrators threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, overturned trash cans and knocked down barricades.

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Police in Abbotsford have arrested a woman with a history of sex offences against children for breaching a probation order forbidding her from using the internet.

Turkey has been accused of sending on to Europe many 'serious medical cases' among Syrian refugees but excluding the most qualified. A Turkish official said they had the right to 'choose'.

Burt Kwouk, who was best known for playing Inspector Clouseau's manservant Cato in the Pink Panther films, dies aged 85.

Analysts fear Islamic State could increase its terror attacks on civilians as it loses ground on the battlefields of Iraq and Syria.

Anger is brewing, as stones are deliberately aimed at women and children.

Bomb threats close 26 schools across Britain on GCSE exam day as one chilling call warns 'shrapnel will take children's heads off'

Gord Downie, the lead singer and lyricist of the iconic Canadian rock band the Tragically Hip, announced this morning he has terminal brain cancer, but still plans to join his bandmates of more than 30 years for a summer tour.

A Toronto elementary school is offering a "sanitized" version of Ontario's sex-ed curriculum as a way to stop parents who oppose the lessons from pulling their kids from class.

Alexander Van der Bellen is elected Austria's president, as Norbert Hofer narrowly fails in his bid to become the EU's first far-right head of state.

A Baltimore officer has been found not guilty of assault and other charges in the arrest of Freddie Gray, dealing prosecutors a significant blow in their attempt to hold police in the city accountable for the young black man's death from injuries he suffe

CTVNews.ca examines how Hillary Clinton's views on trade, Keystone XL, climate change and gender parity could impact her Canadian neighbours if she becomes the next U.S. president.

Retired Montreal police officer Marc Brisebois remembers always being grateful for any gun-related information that popped up on his screen whenever he was on patrol and called to a house.

The 34-year-old was a finance lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne. Earlier this year she told how she wanted to prove vegans were 'not weak or malnourished' by taking on the climb.

Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood claims that young actors in Hollywood are being sexually abused by predatory high-powered 'vipers' working in the industry..

Charles Wade, a prominent Black Lives Matter organizer and co-founder of Operation Help or Hush, was arrested last month and charged with human trafficking and prostitution.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT. Witnesses reported that the 20-year-old man (pictured) was making religious proclamations as he entered the Santiago Zoo lion enclosure.

As government data tracks a spike of fentanyl across Canada, people who use illicit drugs in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside say there is virtually no heroin left on the street after it has been pushed out by the cheaper and more potent fentanyl.

The beginning of the end of MMA as a boys' club came eight years ago when Ronda Rousey, at the time an Olympic judo star who took a bronze medal in Beijing, found a new direction in the combat sport.

An Islamic State group spokesman has urged sympathizers in Europe and the U.S. to launch attacks on civilians there if they are unable to travel to the group's self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

A video posted of a mom erupting in laughter over a Chewbacca mask has taken the internet by storm being Facebook's most popular live post.

With their habitat destroyed, black bears are entering fire-ravaged Fort McMurray to scavenge for food

While parts of eastern Canada are enjoying summer-like temperatures this long weekend, residents of Calgary are dealing with even more snow.

Former Montreal Canadiens enforcer Georges Laraque was among those who helped foil a kidnapping attempt in Jeanne-Mance Park Saturday.

A school has reportedly banned whistles from being blown at the end of playtime over fears the sound they make is "too aggressive"

A feared viral disease proven deadly in Norwegian fish farms has been confirmed for the first time by federal scientists studying farmed salmon in B.C.

Canada has won its second straight gold medal at the world hockey championship after posting a 2-0 victory over Finland in the tournament final.

RCMP are asking for the public's help finding 17-year-old Jasmine Kaye-Masuskapeo of the Ahtahkakoop First Nation.

State Rep. Kenny Havard insists he wasn't serious about his amendment to a bill meant to combat human trafficking

A vicious wildfire nicknamed "the beast" hasn't caused too much trouble for nearly 200 beasts that roam a reclaimed oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alta.

Feeding stations atop downtown buildings include a contraceptive feed. It's aimed at lowering reproduction in the birds that leave droppings on sidewalks, awnings and park benches.

There's a new option for Calgarians in need, especially those with religious dietary restrictions.

Honolulu has agreed to pay $80,000 to settle a lawsuit from two gay women who allege a police officer wrongfully arrested them after seeing them kissing in a grocery store.