NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2017

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will personally reveal today what Canada has offered to provide the United Nations in terms of troops and military equipment for peacekeeping missions.

The rise of Donald Trump has broken bonds on all sides. But for people of color the stakes are different.

A Facebook page using Nathan Cirillo's name and photos has been used to lure and trick women into romantic relationships online. The profile has since been banned, after unrelated complaints about the page were made to Facebook.

Toronto police arrested Const. James Forcillo on Wednesday for breaching his bail conditions, the Special Investigations Unit said in a news release.

The image provided by the Russian defense ministry was damning: three Islamic State trucks led by an armored vehicle on their way to a key battlefield in eastern Syria, allowed safe passage by the United States.

A team of government, industry and academic officials successfully demonstrated that a commercial aircraft could be remotely hacked in a non-laboratory setting last year, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said Wednesday at the 2017 Cyb

Caracas faced the first of what could be a cascade of defaults on its enormous foreign debt Tuesday as financial experts declared the South American country in 'selective default'.

Sven Baertschi scored the tiebreaking goal on a power play early in the third period and the Vancouver Canucks wrapped up a four-game road trip by sending the Los Angeles Kings to their third consecutive loss, 3-2 on Tuesday night.

Officers of the B.C. Legislature are proposing the construction of a new building, based on old drawings by architect Francis Rattenbury.

A B.C. man who received national media coverage for pledging $7.5 million to the Kimberley Dynamiters' Junior B hockey team has yet to make good on his promise.

The Percy Walkus Hatchery catches the big fish as part of its conservation program. The Percy Walkus Hatchery caught the massive chinook along the Wannock River, about 80 kilometres southwest of Bella Coola. It weighed more than 50 pounds.

BC Ferries has rerouted a number of sailings between the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island as a windstorm struck the South Coast late Tuesday. Earlier in the day, a class of 70 kindergarteners was temporarily stuck on Grouse Mountain after high winds cl

Officials in the James Bay community of Waskaganish have called off the search for two hunters who have been missing since mid-October. The bodies of two other hunters have been found.

When the Ontario Liberals tried to discredit PC Leader Patrick Brown by calling into question the fighting record of one of his candidates, former NHL player Troy Crowder, it backfired and put the Liberals on defence. Crowder's opponent, Energy Minister G

A battle over beavers is brewing on South Pender Island, B.C., where residents are vowing to save the animals from being destroyed.

Four North Korean soldiers fired about 40 rounds at a comrade fleeing into South Korea and hit him five times in the first shooting at the jointly controlled area of the heavily fortified border in more than 30 years, the South's military said Tuesday.

Tampa police blockaded a neighbourhood and searched with a SWAT team and dogs for a possible serial killer Tuesday after a fourth person was shot dead for no apparent reason.

A British doctor said on Tuesday he punched a shark on the nose to escape its jaws while surfing off the Australian coast. Charlie Fry, 25, was left with superficial puncture wounds on his right shoulder and upper arm after the attack on Monday afternoon

If Canadians are known around the world for being nice, the staff at a local Tim Hortons certainly lived up to that reputation when they returned $3,000 in forgotten cash to its rightful owner.

An anonymous corporate donor is offering to equip some canine members of Toronto's police force with armoured vests designed to protect them from sharp weapons.

A Nova Scotia dog owner says she felt overwhelmed with support after she sought a blood donation for her beloved pet online and had five potential matches step up.

Iraqi security forces have found mass graves in an area recently retaken from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria that could contain up to 400 bodies, an Iraqi official says.

A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday, killing 207 people and injuring over 2,500 in the mountainous region of Iran alone, Iranian media reported.

Doll company Barbie has unveiled its first hijab-wearing doll to honour an American Olympic fencer, as the traditional Islamic headscarf goes mainstream through catwalks, magazine covers and emoji smartphone symbols.

American regulators have approved the first drug with a sensor that can track whether patients have taken their medicine.

Canada is launching a challenge under the North American Free Trade Agreement against recently announced U.S. duties against Canadian softwood lumber imports.

Vancouver police are asking for witnesses to two violent and apparently random attacks in Stanley Park that severely injured one man and left another dead on the beach.

Veterans Affairs Canada agrees with Canada's veterans ombudsman that veterans need better access to long-term care beds, and says the department has already taken steps to that goal.

Building the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway was only half the battle. Keeping it in one piece with the freeze and thaw of its underlying permafrost, and in the face of the threat of global warming, will be a big task as well.

Devon Maher, 10, gave his father a message in a bottle to drop into the North Atlantic during a crab fishing trip in May 2016. It was found months later, on the other side of the ocean.

Aiden Serr was alone in the vehicle when it flipped after skidding off the road in Maple Ridge. The 19-year-old was rushed to hospital but died a short time later.

The City of Brossard, Que., is defending its decision to ban nudity in municipal sports facilities, saying the move was in response to citizen complaints.

The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Hudson returned to Halifax Monday afternoon sporting a new red and white paint job and nearly six months behind schedule, but many questions remain about the delays.

The federal government has filed a lawsuit against the owner of the washed out railway to Churchill. A spokesperson for Omnitrax said no one was available Tuesday for an interview about the notice of intent.

A gunman killed four people and wounded a number of others at random Tuesday at multiple locations in rural Northern California, including an elementary school, before police shot him dead, authorities said.

Bruce never goes for a stroll without his best friend: a tiny duck named Cashew, who waddles along beside him. The big black beast and the fluffy brown duck are the ultimate odd couple.

The most recent example of mixing electricity liabilities with taxpayer liabilities comes in Ontario. The province recently passed the Fair Hydro Act, which will see it issue as much as $26.2 billion in debt over the next decade to finance temporary rebat

A report by staff at Canada's largest school board recommends eliminating a controversial program that placed police officers in certain Toronto schools after finding the scheme left some students feeling intimidated or uncomfortable.

Artist Jackie Charley from Denholm in the Scottish Borders was hoping sell them through her Facebook shop but the social media giant claimed the images were 'adult' and 'sexual'.

A photo of a woman in a hijab 'paying no mind' to a terror victim in London has been exposed as an example of 'weaponized information'

France considers setting the minimum age of sexual consent at 15 after a jury acquitted a suspect accused of raping an 11-year-old girl.

Archeologists from Canada are among a team of researchers who say they've unearthed the earliest evidence of winemaking in the world, dating the origin of the practice back hundreds of years earlier than previously believed.

John Chappell, 60, of Bristol, was convicted of sexually abusing three girls, two of whom were aged under 14. A judge handed him a suspended sentence for the offences because of his bad back.

The hall of fame will welcome its newest inductees Monday, but notably absent again this year is the humble inventor of the famous ice-resurfacing machine that bears his name.

New research has found that women suffering cardiac arrest in public were not given CPR as often as men were.

Caroline Ouellette and Julie Chu, the former captains of the Canadian and U.S. women's hockey teams, respectively, welcomed their first child on Nov. 5.

Over 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth.

Just as Remembrance Day ceremonies got underway Saturday morning, a war memorial was defaced in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent.

An anonymous group of "anti-colonial anti-racists" have taken credit for spray-painting the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Place du Canada early Sunday.

While a dozen non-Canadians were deported for security reasons in 2013, that dropped to nine in 2014 and five in both 2015 and 2016. So far, there have been just three security-related deportations in 2017.

The signs have been there for a while, but this year's Remembrance Sunday ceremony in the British capital offered one of the most obvious and high-profile signals yet of the gradual changes unfolding in the upper echelons of the House of Windsor.

Alberta wildlife officials are investigating the discovery of close to 100 dead geese apparently dumped on a family's farm.

At 6 a.m. on Wednesday, in the arctic cold and darkness of the Mackenzie Delta, officials will open Canada's first permanent road link to its Arctic coast.

Ratner, who has been accused of sexual harassment by six women in recent days, helped finance the summer blockbuster, and took home a sizable stake of the $412million gross.

A family in Brooks, Alta. were happy to be reunited with their missing dog after he was found in Steinbach, Man., more than 1,200 kilometres away.

Black and Indigenous Canadians are working to keep alive the legacies of soldiers who faced racial discrimination despite serving their country with honour.

For the past 70 years the Haber family believed the military medals of their relative Frank Angus McKinnon, who fought in the First World War, were lost.

One hundred years since Passchendaele, Alex Decoteau is being remembered for his decorated past.

Just as Remembrance Day ceremonies got underway Saturday morning, a war memorial was defaced in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent.

Sarah Lockyer, 31, is the tiny program's co-ordinator and lone forensic anthropologist. She travels twice a year to France to study the remains of Canadians uncovered by construction workers or farmers in old battlefields increasingly invaded by modern-da

Punjab DGP Suresh Arora claimed on Friday that the handlers of the ISI-backed terror module behind targeted killings of religious leaders in the state were based in Italy, the UK and Canada.

Delegates attending the World Climate Change Conference in Bonn this month are being asked to consider the contribution that livestock make to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). As they digest food, livestock emit methane gases contribute an estimated 15 per

The church says it's known as the "Most Upbeat Church in Upstate New York."

Explosive confessions made by accused killer Joshua Frank will not be allowed into evidence at the triple first-degree murder trial because RCMP denied him a bathroom break during his interrogation.

The naked people charged in a kidnapping that ended in a two-vehicle car crash in Nisku Monday morning may have consumed a hallucinogenic tea, a man who knows them told CTV News.

Police investigating a murder attempt in Japan have one unusual suspect: a stray cat.

A new paper published in Science may completely reverse the way search engine algorithms are designed after mimicking the effective search strategy of the fruit fly brain, science columnist Torah Kachur reports.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the light echos of a distant supernova bouncing off a dust cloud in a distant galaxy.

A hunter who set out to kill a bison in the Yukon got more than he bargained for when he became the one hunted that day.

On the eve of Remembrance Day, a 100-year-old Second World War veteran -- who is Canada's oldest and longest serving officer -- says today's soldiers are as good as the ones of his generation.

John Hillerman, who played stuffed-shirt Higgins to Tom Selleck's freewheeling detective Thomas Magnum in the 1980s TV series Magnum, P.I. has died, his nephew said Thursday. Hillerman was 84.

Library and Archives digital imaging specialist Timothy Shawn Hack uncovered documents from his two great-grandfathers who fought on opposite sides during the First World War.

A First World War veteran claimed to have found long-lost jugs of rum in Belgium more than four decades after he buried them.

Diana Abel's son, Cpl. Michael David Abel, was killed in an accident while serving with the Airborne in Somalia in 1993.

A Montreal homeless shelter is trying to help veterans, including Daniel Lalonger, get off the street. According to a study published in 2016, there are roughly 2,250 veterans in Canada who are homeless.

An official Government of Canada delegation is in Ypres, Belgium, from Nov. 7 to 12 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. The delegation includes veterans, descendants of veterans and youth wanting to learn more about a defining mo

A congressional committee led by evangelical Christians has voted to ban abortion in Brazil in all situations, including cases of rape and where the mother's life is in danger.

It was a scene straight out of Looney Tunes as Mona Giles of Pine Lake, Alta., watched a wily coyote with a hankering for some fruit get really creative.

A father in Florida is being credited with thwarting an attempted kidnapping of his 17-year-old daughter, firing shots as four teen suspects tried to break into...

Ottawa will order boats to give right whales a 100-metre buffer zone as it looks at every possible option to protect the endangered mammals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, says Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc.

A prominent climate scientist says Canada has fallen behind on its commitment to scientific research in the Arctic and that has an effect on its sovereignty in the North.

A massive beaver jaw preserved underground for about 50,000 years is believed to be from an ancient relative roughly the size of a bear or large football player that weighed as much as 300 pounds.

Forecasters say La Nina, the cool flip side to El Nino, is returning for a second straight winter. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said a weak La Nina has formed and is expected to stick around for several months.

From the slow-paced, tree-lined streets of downtown Charlottetown to the modern, western architecture of metro Vancouver, Canada's urban waterfronts are a beacon for condo developers, tourists and everyone in between.

A group of men posing as "merb'ys" to raise cash for a Newfoundland therapy service has become a global hit. Increasing orders for their 2018 calendar of photos by the sea, at a barber shop and in a pumpkin patch are coming in from around the world.

Veterans and other Vancouverites gathered at Victory Square on Wednesday morning in recognition of the thousands of Indigenous men and women who served in the military.

Researchers from the University of Calgary have found remnants of a meteorite that flashed across the sky in early September.

New discoveries about the demise of the ice sheet that covered Western Canada at the end of the last ice age offer a preview of what we can expect as Greenland melts due to human-caused climate change.

Between 1916 and 1918, three different Canadian photographers produced nearly 8,000 images, about 4,500 of them taken on the Western Front.

Conservation officers are investigating after a deer was shot in the head by someone with a crossbow. Patricia Burley with the B.C. Conservation Officers Service said reports of a deer in Elkford, B.C., with an arrow through it's head first came in on Tue

A retired reservist who served in Afghanistan says he's being denied the opportunity to buy back pension benefits from his teaching job.

One year after giving Winnipeg a warm embrace, Mother Nature has turned a bitterly cold shoulder to the city.

First responders joined members of the public on overpasses and along Highway 1 to pay tribute to fallen Const. John Davidson as his funeral motorcade headed toward Abbotsford.

A popular fundraising partnership between Telus and Wounded Warriors Canada was commandeered by the Royal Canadian Legion this week because it included an image of a poppy, which the legion claims as a trademark symbol.

Passchendaele was one of the deadliest battles in Canadian history, but a new poll released exactly 100 years later finds that only 35 per cent of Canadians can correctly identify which war it was part of.

As the powerful comedian found success by talking about his hang-ups, he was also asking female comics and co-workers to watch him masturbate.

In 2011, a tsunami disabled the cooling of three nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, setting off a disaster. Now, more than six years later, 845 Saskatchewan jobs are absorbing the economic shockwave.

The number of positive tests for fentanyl in samples of street drugs seized by law enforcement agencies across Canada has grown at a rate of more than 2,000 per cent over five years, according to exclusive data obtained by CBC News.

The Indian capital declared a pollution emergency on Thursday as toxic smog hung over the city for a third day and air quality worsened by the hour.

A Toronto businessman accused of pocketing millions in fraudulent mortgages, marketed to Muslims, emptied his accounts and led investigators on "a treasure hunt" to find nearly $2 million in gold bars, a federal prosecutor told a jury Tuesday. Six years l

The California NAACP is urging The Star-Spangled Banner be removed as the national anthem.

An inherited disease called epidermolysis bullosa destroyed the 7-year-old's skin. Scientists grew new skin in the lab without the genetic flaw, and replaced 80 percent of his skin. He is thriving.

Nigerian asylum seekers in Canada are making so many similar claims based on sexual orientation that the agency in charge of funding their legal representation is worried some claims may be fabricated.

A judge will have to decide if a startling confession from accused killer Joshua Frank should be admitted into evidence at a triple first-degree murder trial. Frank's lawyer argues it should be excluded because he was under psychological pressure and was

Canadian government departments have blocked nearly 22,000 Facebook and Twitter users with Global Affairs accounting for nearly 20,000 of the blocked accounts, CBC News has learned. Moreover, nearly 1,500 posts have been quietly deleted from various gover

The outbreak, which has been described as the 'worst in 50 years' and deemed to be at 'crisis' point, has now infected 1,947 people in the country off the coast of Africa.

Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman says he has told his Edmonton counterpart the Edmonton Eskimos could have a more inclusive name.

Canada's high Arctic research station is being given at least a two-year reprieve as the federal government steps up with new funding.

A seabird known as the brown booby is nesting for the first time in California's Channel Islands National Park.

The Global Skills Strategy, a fast-track immigration program designed to bring high-tech talent to Canada, has hooked more than 1,600 people in its first two and a half months, according to numbers obtained by CBC News.