NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2017

Ken Drake owns a retirement home in Florida. He can't get to it anymore, as he has been barred from the U.S. over a 47-year-old conviction for stealing floral prints.

The Arctic has a serious litter problem: in just ten years, the concentration of marine litter at a deep-sea station in the Arctic Ocean has risen 20-fold.

The European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday approved the Canada-EU trade agreement, with roughly 58 per cent voting to ratify it, after a noisy and sometimes emotional debate.

It took a while for the Edmonton Oilers to wake up, but once they emerged from a sluggish first period they wasted no time turning the lights out on the Arizona Coyotes.

Russia has deployed a new cruise missile despite complaints by U.S. officials that it violates an arms control treaty banning ground-based U.S. and Russian intermediate-range missiles, a senior Trump administration official said on Tuesday.

Anaheim Ducks centre Antoine Vermette could be facing a suspension after being ejected from Tuesday's game against the Minnesota Wild for abuse of an official.

That peninsula under all the white stuff? That's Nova Scotia. A ruler becomes a key part of your weather forecast!

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it is investigating an incident involving a single-engine private plane that flew over an American Airlines Boeing 737 jet in Santa Ana, Calif.

A rockslide has cut off a highway in southwestern British Columbia, stranding vehicles and stopping train traffic. The road is blocked, but no vehicles were hit in the slide and no injuries have been reported.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned North Korea's latest missile launch as "absolutely intolerable" and President Donald Trump assured Japan that the U.S. stands behind it "100 per cent."

The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was assassinated at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, telling medical workers before he died en route to a hospital that he had been attacked with a chemical spray, a Malaysian official said Tuesday.

Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki say an unexploded World War II bomb found under a gas station was defused Sunday and safely taken to an army firing range outside the city, paving the way for over 70,000 people to return home.

Shrimp-like creatures living in the deepest parts of the oceans contain high levels of man-made toxins, scientists said on Monday. In one sample, PCB levels were 50 times higher than in crabs in one of China's most polluted rivers.

Researchers aren't saying they've found a monster, but they do say they believe something big is lurking in a small lake on Vancouver Island.

A woman in Thunder Bay, Ont. says an edited, one minute video she shot depicting two lynx shadowing each other, then engaging in a brief scrap has received a lot of attention.

For now at least, we do have freedom of speech in Canada.

The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under way in New Zealand Tuesday, with the beach closed over fears the bodies will fill with gas and explode as they decompose.

Air pollution is the leading environmental cause of death on the planet and 92 percent of the global population is living in areas where the air is unhealthy, according to a new report.

A Winnipeg Transit driver is dead after being stabbed at the University of Manitoba Tuesday.

A large majority of immigrants to Alberta integrate into the workforce within a few years of landing, new data from Statistics Canada show.

Donald Trump's pick for EU ambassador Ted Malloch claimed senior Greek economists are looking into taking on the American banknotes if the country turns its back on the European currency.

French's far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen blamed the recent social unrest following an assault on a black youth worker in Paris on the 'politicians who have governed us for years'.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump found common ground on boosting the economy, securing the border and empowering women business leaders. But the two leaders are at odds over immigration policies.

Locals say most buildings in Uarbry are destroyed, as 80 fires burn across New South Wales.

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A study, led by Newcastle University's Dr Alan Jamieson, has uncovered the first evidence that man-made pollutants have now reached the farthest corners of our earth.

In 2016, there were 412 reported incidents involving Notley, 26 of which were forwarded to police as they approached a criminal threshold

The Syrian jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham has merged with four smaller factions and formed a new alliance called Tahrir al-Sham.

A Mexican citizen living in Texas was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison for voting illegally in elections in 2012 and 2014.

Thirty-four troops across the Armed Forces are having medical treatment to change gender, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The figure has emerged from a Freedom of Information request.

After a string of muggings and beatings involving online buyers and sellers, Montreal police are warning people that it may not be as safe as they think, even if they meet in a public place.

Saul Betesh, who's spent four decades behind bars for the high-profile 1977 killing of a Toronto shoeshine boy, has joined a matchmaking website that helps lonesome prisoners find companionship beyond the jailhouse walls.

Officials have ordered residents near the Oroville Dam in Northern California to flee the area, saying a "hazardous situation is developing" after an emergency spillway severely eroded.

Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki say an unexploded World War II bomb found under a gas station was defused Sunday and safely taken to an army firing range outside the city, paving the way for over 70,000 people to return home.

After winning nine of 13 games in 23 days before the January all-star break, the Oilers got four full days off and promptly lost three of four. Then they had the five-day break that every NHL team gets once a season, and they got pounded 5-1 Saturday by t

North Korea reportedly fired a ballistic missile early Sunday in what would be its first such test of the year and an implicit challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump's new administration.

For decades, the winners of the Super Bowl have visited the White House to celebrate with the president. But this year, several New England Patriots are expected to skip.

Canadian troops critical to the fight against ISIS have lost a major tax break that had saved them more than $9,000 each over the course of a six-month tour.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's first face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday will set the tone for their relationship, former diplomats are advising him.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook says fake news is "killing minds."

Police say a 29-year-old woman plunged about 30 feet to her death off an escalator inside the famed World Trade Center Oculus.

Billionaire businessman Mike Ilitch, who founded the Little Caesars pizza empire before buying the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers, has died. He was 87.

Two New Brunswick men have been arrested after allegedly going through a McDonald's drive-thru on a couch. It is illegal to tow a couch through a drive-thru, but the two men were wearing helmets. "So obviously safety was somewhat important,"

Algae was exposed to extreme heat and cold on the outside of the International Space Station and survived.

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has apologized to New Democrat Leader John Horgan over her accusations that the Opposition was involved in criminal hacking of her Liberal party's website.

Residents of the New Mexico village of Tularosa have long said those living near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test in 1945 weren't told about the dangers or compensated for their resulting health problems.

The man who killed and beheaded a fellow bus passenger has been granted an absolute discharge, eight years after he was found not criminally responsible for the murder.

More than 400 whales have swum aground along a remote New Zealand beach. Hundreds of farmers, tourists and teenagers are racing to keep the surviving 100 or so whales alive in one of the worst whale strandings in the nation's history.

A textbook has sparked outrage in India for instructing fourth-graders to suffocate a kitten to learn that living beings need air.

Johnny Manziel is on the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' negotiation list, which is why the CFL is investigating a report alleging the Saskatchewan Roughriders recently worked out the QB.

The rusty patched bumblebee was once common across the East Coast and much of the Midwest but its numbers have plummeted since the late 1990s

A long-time member of Alberta's Progressive Conservatives has filed a complaint, calling on the party to disqualify Jason Kenney from its leadership race.

A 24-hour period of freezing rain across the South Coast has led to the closure of every B.C. highway headling into the Lower Mainland and stranded hundreds of drivers, also causing power outages impacting thousands of BC Hydro customers.

Kidney disease is sometimes referred to as a 'silent killer' because approximately 90 per cent of BC residents with early stage kidney disease show no symptoms. The two leading causes of kidney disease are high blood pressure and diabetes. The BC Renal Ag

Rona Ambrose vacationed on a yacht owned by businessman Murray Edwards, whose company Magellan Aerospace Corp., benefited from tens of millions in federal funds during her tenure in cabinet

A group of students at the University of Victoria has created a club that dines on leftover food in the cafeteria. Vulture Culture members say french fries are the gateway food to 'tray-raiding.'

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At least two federal New Democrat MPs don't find all the conjecture about Sarah Palin becoming U.S. ambassador to Canada very funny.

Millions of foreigners visiting China annually will have their fingerprints collected starting this week, China's Ministry of Public Security announced Thursday.

Dutch prosecutors on Thursday sought the maximum possible sentence -- nearly 11 years -- for a man charged with cyberbullying dozens of young girls and gay men and who is also accused in Canada of sexually extorting Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old girl who lat

It's been part of the fabric of our lives for more than a century, but what you might not know about rayon is the dangerous process used to make its silky smooth fibres is killing many industry workers.

"The world is going through an enormous change," Tim Cook said, adding that consumers need to be more wary of what they read and hear.

The federal government's attempt to close the gap in health care outcomes for First Nations children is progressing at a snail's pace in some provinces because Ottawa has only spent a fraction of the money it set aside for treatments, according to documen

A leading Halifax-based researcher of lithium-ion batteries has won the prestigious Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.

The first wild bison to roam Banff National Park in more than a century have been transported to a remote valley in a "historic homecoming" aimed at re-establishing a thriving herd.

RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson says there's reason to be concerned about the effect poisonous political debate is having on those who are easily influenced in the wake of last week's deadly mosque attack and other incidents of extremism.

The aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CVN 65), was decommissioned during a ceremony held in the ship's hangar bay, Feb. 3rd.

Richard Hatch, best known for playing Captain Apollo on "Battlestar Galactica" TV series, has died.

WATCH: Vince Li - who now goes by the name Will Baker - was given approval to live in Winnipeg in 2015 The man...

The bean counters have been hard at work

More than half of IRS employees found to have intentionally cheated on their taxes last year were allowed to keep their jobs, according to numbers released by the inspector general that suggest the agency is still reluctant to punish its own staffers for

To her ancestors, it was the Promised Land. To Myrna Wisdom, it was home. Though few traces of Amber Valley still exist, the forgotten town about 100 km north of Edmonton was once a thriving all-black settlement of homesteaders.

Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and other tech companies filed an amicus brief tonight voicing opposition to President Trump's executive order on immigration on the grounds that it is discriminatory and has a negative impact on business.

Yellowknife's David Yau shot a video of the aurora this past week that he described as 'like a dragon was coming down to my face.' We got some explanations.

Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O'Leary says there's no problem with him spending almost all of the first week of his campaign in the United States.

THE next US ambassador to the EU has laid down the gauntlet to Brussels warning that Donald Trump will refuse to accept any 'bulls**t'.

The tale of the strangers aboard a New York subway car who teamed up this weekend to scrub away neo-Nazi graffiti went viral on Sunday, in an incident that highlighted a recent rise in hate and bias crimes reported around the country.

A cat named Pooh has been given a new lease of life in Bulgaria, becoming the country's first 'bionic cat' with a pair of prosthetic hind legs.

A northern Ontario cat is receiving international attention for her role in the rescue of a trapped man.

The family of Toronto filmmaker Rob Stewart says his body was "found peacefully in the ocean" Friday after he disappeared Tuesday while diving in the Florida Keys.

Newly released home movies show the creepy relationship Yaser Abdel Said had with his two daughters he is accused of murdering in a motel parking lot.

The debate was re-opened last week when NHL referee Frederick L'Ecuyer was caught swearing at a player with an open microphone on during a Nashville Predators-Columbus Blue Jackets game on Jan. 26.

The four top stakeholders in the discussion over whether NHL players will participate in the Winter Olympics in South Korea next year met without resolution Friday, with one warning that time is running short to make a decision.

Ciaran Maxwell, of Exminster, Devon, was accused buying chemicals and parts for bombs which were stored alongside a pistol and ammunition in 12 caches in England and Northern Ireland.

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Walter McCormick, described by the Crown as a 'high-level drug trafficker,' is facing an unprecedented sentence.

A full week has passed since President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order opening a Justice Department investigation into his unsubstantiated claim that millions of people voted illegally in November.

An autopsy carried out on Thursday on a beached whale, which was found on the island of Sotra near Bergen last weekend, showed it had 30 plastic bags in its stomach as well as other plastic items.

Popular weight-loss aids containing green tea extract could be dangerous to your liver, an investigation by CBC's Marketplace reveals, with dozens of reports of liver damage being tied to the supplements.

A knife-wielding man shouting "Allahu akbar" attacked French soldiers on patrol near the Louvre Museum Friday in what officials described as a suspected terror attack. The soldiers first tried to fight off the attacker and then opened fire, shooting him f

Neil Gorsuch, who is the president's Supreme Court pick, set up a paper when he was a Columbia University student. In it he bashed liberals and the left as 'whining children'.

French presidential candidate Francois Fillon got his wife and two of his children jobs that paid nearly one million euros ($1.1 million), according to new claims in the Canard Enchaine newspaper on Tuesday. It comes as police investigating the "Penelo

The 'SELFLY' drone phone case was invented by ex-Israeli orthodontist, Hagay Klein. Utilising smart camera technology SELFLY uses high end stabilisation allowing it to autonomously fly.

Fanatics trained up a group of children from its stronghold in western Mosul to fight against advancing Iraqi troops.

The Facebook page of one of the apparent front runners in the Conservative leadership race posted a video of Kevin O'Leary at a Miami shooting range moments before public funerals got underway for three of the six victims killed by a gunman at a Quebec Ci

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia refuses to take any Syrian refugees, even though the KSA is much closer to the war stricken area than Europe or the United States. Moving refugees to Saudi Arabia would be far less dangerous than risking death in overcrowded bo

Cameco Corp. says a Japanese electrical utility's justification for abandoning a uranium sales contract worth an estimated $1.3 billion over the next 11 years is without merit, and it will pursue legal action to recover the lost revenue.

I have studied the climate of the Arctic since the early 1980s. In that time, I�ve had a front row seat from which to observe the radical transformation of the region as I�ve been involved in research on the Arctic�s atmosphere, sea ice, ocean circu

Toronto Police busted a residential robbery gang and recovered $500,000 worth of stolen property - from expensive jewelry to cheap straw hats.

Imam Husham Al-Hussainy, leader of the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in Dearborn, says Mike Hager's mom did not pass away this weekend after being barred from traveling to the United States. The...

There are concerns Alberta could lose out on top medical talent if the number of physicians is capped, which is one of the options the province is considering as it tries to curb health-care spending.

Donald Trump's closest advisor thinks that the US will be at war with China in the next few years. The far-right figure, who has been given unprecedented power in the White House and has suggested in the past that he supports white supremacy, suggested th