NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2017

Fishermen in Nova Scotia's snow crab industry say there's no need to wait for new government regulations to make changes that will save North Atlantic right whales.

When Sithara Fernando stared into the bright yellow eyes of an injured snowy owl, flapping furiously in the dirt, she immediately thought of Hedwig, Harry Potter's magical, mail-delivering companion.

The tiny sport plane Roy Halladay was flying when he fatally crashed into the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday was made for entry-level pilots like him, though the plane's chief designer and test pilot died while flying one earlier this year, officials and exper

In a galaxy far, far away lies a puzzling star, one that seems to be dying multiple deaths, leaving astronomers to rethink the way these beacons of the sky end their lives.

Kidnapping charges are pending against three people arrested after a collision Monday morning in Nisku.

A female correctional officer says she will not be "silenced by a gag order" after she was subjected to "hazing and sexual discrimination" at a training camp where she feared for her safety.

Members of the public and at least one MLA have called into question some statistics used by N.W.T. Premier Bob McLeod last week, after he issued a 'red alert' about the future of the territory.

Sudbury Police are investigating after 16 poppy donation boxes were reported stolen over a three day period.

Researchers at the University of New Brunswick are hoping that hunters will bring them the hearts of game birds that could allow them to better understand how a disease is spreading in New Brunswick.

​The U.N.'s weather and climate agency says 2017 is set to become the hottest year on record aside from those impacted by the El Nino phenomenon.

U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a sharp warning to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday, telling him the weapons he's acquiring "are not making you safer. They are putting your regime in grave danger."

NATO is set to agree on Thursday to increase its Afghanistan training mission by some 3,000 troops, alliance officials said, after the United States switched tack in long-running efforts to defeat Taliban militants and end the conflict.

The World Health Organization is urging farmers to stop using antibiotics to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals because the practice fuels dangerous drug-resistant superbug infections in people.

As Canadians prepare to mark Remembrance Day, a new survey by Statistics Canada suggests a growing number of veterans are having a hard time adjusting to post-military life.

If you're paying more for local and organic groceries because you care about the environment, here's some bad news: science shows your efforts won't have much impact on your carbon emissions. The good news is that scientists have calculated which dietary

A 16-year-old girl has died one week after she was in a collision that killed two people and injured 14 others on Halloween.

Harry Macdonald didn't like talking about his experiences in the Second World War, but, after he died, the mystery of a wartime photo led to to an amazing discovery by his daughter.

Civil liberties advocates are challenging the constitutionality of Quebec's face-covering ban, arguing it "directly infringes on the freedom of religion of individuals."

A team of investigators headed out to waters off the coast of El Salvador after hundreds of endangered sea turtles were found dead under mysterious circumstances.

Want to name a mysterious object on the edge of the solar system? NASA wants suggestions for a new nickname for 2014 MU69, the next destination of the New Horizons spacecraft.

Roy Halladay, one of the best pitchers to wear a Toronto Blue Jays uniform, was killed Tuesday when his small plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico. He was 40.

British-Canadian couple John Letts and Sally Lane are pleading with the Canadian and British governments to get their son out of prison in northern Syria. When they last spoke with him in July, they say, he told them he was being tortured.

An Edmonton elementary school student with diphtheria exposed a small group of people to the potentially life-threatening bacterial infection.

Ryan Headlee was stopped in his truck when a cougar attacked a nearby deer on the road in front of him.

Despite decades of meetings, summits and action plans created by provincial, federal and First Nations authorities, steelhead numbers continue to decline to dangerously low levels.

Canada Post has unveiled a new stamp designed by a Halifax firm that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion.

One police officer is dead after a shooting in Abbotsford, B.C., shortly after noon PT on Monday.

The provincial government wants to designate distracted driving as a high-risk driving behaviour under the ICBC Driver Risk Premium program.

The U2 star used a company based in low-tax Malta to buy a shopping centre in Lithuania, the freshly-leaked Paradise Papers documents reveal.

The Justice Department moved Monday to strip citizenship from four Somali immigrants who prosecutors say lied about being a family, and managed to defraud the Diversity Visa Lottery program that Republicans are aiming to nix.

The Senators acquired centre Matt Duchene from the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday in a three-team deal that involved Ottawa also dealing forward Kyle Turris to the Nashville Predators.

Singh drew a standing ovation when he said the New Democrats would decriminalize personal possession of all drugs, not just marijuana.

Canadian negotiators are pushing for three key changes to the original Trans-Pacific Partnership as leaders of the remaining countries interested in reviving the controversial treaty prepare to meet this week.

An Algerian man is set to sue the federal government for the abuses he says he suffered at the hands of American security forces after he left Canada 15 years ago.

The destruction of two essential local news websites by a union-busting billionaire has all the elements of class warfare.

Martin Luther King had a string of affairs and was secretly a Marxist, a buried FBI dossier alleges.

A massive leak of data from an offshore law firm has revealed that Stephen Bronfman and his Montreal-based investment company were key players linked to a $60-million US offshore trust in the Cayman Islands that may have cost Canadians millions of dollars

A ground invasion of North Korea is the only way to locate and destroy, with complete certainty, all components of leader Kim Jong Un's nuclear weapons program, according to a Pentagon official.

A Victoria Cross, awarded to 24-year-old Cpl. Colin Barron for his actions at Passchendaele exactly 100 years ago Monday, is set to go up for auction on Dec. 5.

Canadian soldiers played an instrumental role in the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium one hundred years ago and, this weekend, officers from the Seaforth Highlanders are commemorating the battle that helped secure an Allied victory during World War I.

New exhibit at the Atwater Library in Montreal traces Passchendaele's fall from grace among Canada's First World War battle honours.

At least 20 people have been killed in a church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, according to Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt.

An Alberta environmental education group and the president of Alberta school boards are calling on the province to make teaching about climate change a greater priority in schools.

At a unique zoo in Hesse, visitors can get up close and personal with deadly reptiles such as crocodiles and alligators. But on Thursday a court judge denied the zoo's appeal to be allowed to continue with these practices for children.

Yemen's Houthi rebels, who are battling a Saudi-led coalition, say they were behind the launch.

Kentucky State Police said in a news release Saturday that Paul suffered a minor injury when 59-year-old Rene Boucher assaulted him at his Warren County home on Friday afternoon.

A single tweet that seemed to show the government buying luxury vehicles ignited a small firestorm of social media outrage this week

Rookie forward Brock Boeser scored the first hat trick of his NHL career and also added an assist as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 on Saturday.

RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia arrested 11 princes, including a prominent billionaire, and dozens of current and former ministers, reports said, in a sweeping crackdown as the kingdom's young crown prince consolidates power.

Some snow collecting on the top of Mosaic Stadium has prompted some sections to be closed as a precaution.

The topic of Cape Breton autonomy has been raised again, this time by well-respected Sen. Dan Christmas. "The hard and the fundamentally tragic reality is that Cape Breton is dying," said Christmas, who predicted the trend will continue unless something c

Parks Canada's annual elk cull started early this season, after the decision was made to kill four males that were "persistently and consistently" coming into the Banff townsite.

A full Beaver Moon will light up the weekend skies starting Thursday night, shining at its fullest, most luminous glow by Friday at 10:22 pm PT, and continuing through to Sunday.

Parts of the Coquihalla and Highway 3 expected heavy snow Thursday night. Regional snowfall warnings have been issued for the Boundary, Nicola, Okanagan Valley, Shuswap, Similkameen, South Thompson and Kootenay areas.

Snow blanketed several parts of Richmond, Burnaby, Surrey and into the Fraser Valley early Friday morning.

This is the weekend most Canadians will gain an hour of sleep as they switch from daylight saving time to standard time.

Approval of a ski resort in a region held sacred by Indigenous people does not violate their constitutional right to freedom of religion, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday.

Former Bear Stearns trader Howie Rubin, 62, is accused of raping and beating three women in the basement of a Midtown apartment which he rigged with BDSM equipment.

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been spared prison time for endangering fellow troops when he deserted his post in Afghanistan in 2009, but a military judge ordered he should be dishonorably discharged from the service.

Elena Berkova from the city of Murmansk in northwest Russia, who also stood for mayor of Sochi, posted a video on Instagram outlining her plans including banning long skirts.

EXCLUSIVE: The World Health Organization now states there are 1,801 suspected cases - significantly higher than the 1,309 it reported last Thursday.

As other runners visibly struggled to choke down their brews, the Canadian smoothly chugged his four bottles of amber ale without a twinge of discomfort

The new GOP tax overhaul would strip illegal immigrants of the ability to claim several major tax credits, saving the government $23.1 billion over the next decade, according to the bill's authors.

A newly released trove of documents recovered from Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound have revealed secret dealings between Iran and al-Qaeda.

NASA says the ozone hole over Antarctica shrank to its smallest peak since 1988. This year's maximum hole is more than twice as big as the United States, but it's 1.3 million square miles less than last year and 3.3 million square miles smaller than 2015.

Astronomers thought they knew how planets formed, but a new discovery of a massive planet around an unlikely star is giving them pause.

The province is conducting what it is calling an "urgent intervention" to keep B.C.'s South Selkirk mountain caribou population alive.

The district voted this week to seek a name change. By a four-to-three vote last week, directors approved asking the province to change the name to qathet Regional District, which means "working together."

On Thursday, Environment Canada said southern interior highway passes could see up to 30 centimetres of snow before the weather tapers off around midnight. At least 10 centimetres are expected in the eastern regions.

One month into her new job as Canada's Governor General, Julie Payette is taking on fake news and bogus science.

A picturesque part of the Rideau Canal running through downtown Ottawa is now on a list of contaminated federal sites, Parks Canada announced Thursday.

Jack Letts, the middle-class Muslim convert from Oxford who escaped the former ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria only to become a prisoner of a Kurdish militia, claims he has been tortured.

Benjamin Netanyahu is London today where he has held talks with Theresa May in No10 ahead of a formal dinner tonight.

When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign.

Ukraine's prime minister says U.S. authorities have not approached his government in the investigation related to Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's campaign chairman. But Volodymyr Groysman says his government is willing to provide whatever informat

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that building a massive ski resort on lands considered sacred to an Indigenous group does not breach its religious rights.

Think before you leap: that's the lesson the city's chief economist wants council to keep in mind going into budget deliberations in mid-November.

George Springer and the Houston Astros rocketed to the top of the baseball galaxy Wednesday night, winning the first World Series championship in franchise history by romping past the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in Game 7.

An incident involving a rented Home Depot track is the latest in a series of vehicle ramming attacks, which have killed dozens around the world this year. Experts say they are becoming the weapon of choice for attacks because they are cheap, easy to organ

A caribou restoration project in northeast B.C. has suffered a major setback after somebody illegally restored a road that had been deactivated to help protect calves from wolves and other predators.

Environment Canada says an arctic front will arrive to much of B.C. on Thursday bringing cooler air. Whistler could see up to 10 centimetres of snow.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry says a cougar found dead northwest of Thunder Bay last March was not part of a resident Ontario population.

Alphabet Inc's self-driving car unit has stopped developing features that required drivers to take control in dangerous situations, its chief executive said Monday.

Scientists and researchers have spent years trying to eradicate rats from islands in Haida Gwaii, B.C., and for a time they were successful, but the unwelcome rodents have returned.

British Columbia is taking steps to protect big game animals that survived summer wildfires in the southeastern part of the province.

The Canadian Prairies top a newly developed index of places where wildfires could create freshwater supply risks.

The Liberal government will release its 2018 immigration plan today, and it will break from the tradition of a one-year plan in favour of a multi-year forecast.

Torstar Corp.'s national and local print advertising continued to fall in the third quarter but cost-cutting efforts have been successful in maintaining the company's cash balances and dividend at an acceptable level, executives said Wednesday.

Andrew Scheer swiftly dropped Morneau Shepell as the sponsor of an upcoming speech in Toronto. The Conservative leader has spent weeks invoking the firm's name as he hammers the Liberal finance minister for continuing to own shares in the company.

Investors in major Canadian grocers appear unfazed today after the Competition Bureau raided the offices of certain companies in a criminal probe tied to alleged price fixing of some packaged bread products.

The articles began appearing in late August, mostly in conservative publications such as Town Hall, Breitbart, and the Daily Caller and have since continued to trickle out through October. All of the dozen or so Web commentaries, variously styled as op-ed

Unlike political parties, PACs, or third-party advertisers, can still accept donations from unions and corporations, without any limits outside an election period. The Alberta Liberals want the government to introduce legislation to restrict PACs this ses

A stretch of Highway 400 about an hour north of downtown Toronto is closed in both directions this morning, after it was turned into a pile of "tangled, twisted metal" from a fatal pileup and subsequent fire that consumed some 14 vehicles.

Global demand for cobalt and nickel, two of the essential elements in electric car batteries, has never been higher. But where do all those metals come from? And do we even have enough for our electrified future? The answers to those questions are getting

News: Verizon was one of several giant ISPs that paid lobbied the GOP and Trump administration to gut consumer broadband privacy rules earlier this year.