NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2018

The cryptocurrency's 2018 crash may help cement its place in the bubble record books

The people covered by private plans will bill those plans first and the government will cover the remaining eligible costs of prescriptions

REVELSTOKE, B.C.; An Austalian man underwent full and partial limb amputations after falling from a train in Revelstoke, B.C.RCMP say they responded to reports of a trespasser on the CP Rail tracks at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday morning.

Nigel Stringer, 67, defended himself against a gang allegedly armed with a gun, knife, crossbow and metal bar at home near Norwich last year. He was arrested and the suspects let go.

Kayla Speer, 23, of West Burlington, Iowa, wanted to surprise her long-distance boyfriend of three months with a Jimmy John's sandwich delivered to him while he was 'studying'.

He told reporters aboard Air Force One that he could interview two of them this weekend at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The man imprisoned for committing the biggest immigration scam in Canadian history was released on early parole even though he refused to pay more than $900,000 in fines and "minimized his criminal behaviour," according to a Parole Board of Canada decisio

The manager had worked at the popular restaurant for about 18 months.

Three men are being hailed as heroes after rescuing a blind man who fell onto the train tracks at a Toronto subway station.

The sweeping Canadian retaliation against Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs has been carefully crafted in hopes of hitting the U.S. president where it hurts.

Refusing to provide a breath sample after a fatal crash is just as grave a crime as impaired driving causing death, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. But bad legal advice and vigilante justice can be considered factors for a more lenient sentence, ac

Tainted irrigation water appears to be the source of a national food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce, U.S. health officials said.

Why is it common knowledge that we saved runaway slaves from the United States, but few know that Africans and Indigenous peoples were bought, sold and exploited, right here? Contributor Kyle G. Brown asks how slavery was allowed to continue for some 200

Starting yesterday, there have been numerous reports of people being infected with something called "All-Radio 4.27 Portable".

Omar Kromah was one of a group of men who gang raped a young teen in a darkened bathroom, a judge ruled Tuesday.Kromah, 24, showed no emotion as Court of Queen's Bench Justice Jim Eamon convicted him of sexual assault and sexual interference for the crime

Jarrod Ramos, 38, has been identified as the gunman who opened fire on the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland., on Thursday afternoon, killing five and injuring several others.

In a series of tweets Tuesday, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel accused the Toronto Star and other media of unfairly labeling her part;Trump North and of falsely accusing Conservatives of spreading fake news, because we question Liberal dogma.

Police said the premature deaths, which occurred at the company the man worked for, included a 'remarkably high number of heart attacks and cancers'

The multi-million pound deal to build nine frigates marks a sea-change for British naval exports.

James Fields Jr is accused of deliberately ramming his car into a crowd and killing a protester.

It was argued in court that keeping parents out of the loop on their children's activities violates their charter rights, including freedom of religion and expression.

Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance has ordered the permanent removal of Vice Admiral Mark Norman from his job as vice chief of the defence staff.

A German man is feared to have killed 21 of his own colleagues since the year 2000 after he was caught poisoning his co-worker's lunch.

The top US court's Anthony Kennedy, the second oldest justice, says he will retire in July.

The thousands of criminals caught sneaking into the U.S. included 505 confirmed members of violent groups MS-13, 18th Street gang, a man jailed for 32 years for murder, and a convicted pedophile.

Khill admitted he fired the two, close-range shotgun blasts that killed the 29-year-old man from Oshweken, Ont., on the night of Feb. 4, 2016 but maintained he acted in self-defence.

The Alberta Wheat Commission says South Korea has resumed imports of Canadian wheat after suspending trade last week due to concerns about a small number of genetically modified plants.

The steady footsteps heard coming from the physiotherapy room at Philadelphia's Shriners hospital belong to paralyzed Humboldt Broncos hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a 32-year-old man died shortly after a violent arrest last week in Barrie, Ont., part of which was filmed by witnesses.

More than half a million prescriptions drugs are stolen from pharmacies each year, with the majority being highly addictive opioid painkillers that end up on the street, according to an analysis of Health Canada data done by CBC News.

Ticks capable of spreading Lyme disease have spread to another area of New Brunswick, according to the chief medical officer of health.

A member of a violent Central American gang was taken down by U.S. border agents over the weekend shortly after entering the country via the Canadian border.

In a few weeks, 800 migrants in college dorms must give way to students. But city shelters are full and the system is at a breaking point, mayor John Tory says

The 1964 classic will be aired at Folkestone's Silver Screen Cinema, in Kent, on Saturday to raise cash for armed forces charity SSAFA. But a group of 28 protesters want the movie pulled from the event.

The Liberals are facing calls to revoke funding granted through the Canada Summer Jobs program to an Islamic organization whose leader Conservatives have accused of spreading "hatred" by calling for Israeli soldiers in Gaza to be sent home in "body bags."

Canada's first major peacekeeping deployment under the Trudeau Liberals will fall slightly short of the United Nations goal in terms of the participation of women, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries.

A California federal judge has rejected the efforts of municipal officials who teamed with private lawyers to seek to hold the energy industry liable for the alleged future effects of climate change.

Mi'kmaq chiefs from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are voicing concerns after a mechanical failure on a BP Canada drilling rig resulted in 136,000 litres of synthetic-based "drilling mud" being spilled into waters off the coast of Nova Scotia.

Albertans will no longer be able to buy the Russian vodka Hammer + Sickle in the province after complaints linked the brand's logo to the genocide of millions of Ukrainians.

U.S. health regulator approved GW Pharmaceuticals Plc's epilepsy treatment on Monday, making it the first cannabis-based drug to win approval in the U.S. and opening floodgates for more research into the medicinal properties of cannabis.

Many of the threats we know are associated with climate change are slow moving. Gradually rising seas, a steady uptick in extreme weather events, and more all mean that change will come gradually to much of the globe. But we also recognize that there can

A proposed law in Europe could spell the end of internet humour as we know it, by forcing social-media platforms to censor copyrighted images frequently used to create memes.

Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the Sahara Desert over the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, expelling them without food or water and forcing them to walk, sometimes at gunpoint, under a blistering sun. Some never mak

In the face of a growing number of calls for Canada to match recent U.S. corporate tax cuts, Finance Minister Bill Morneau has embarked on a "listening" tour of Canadian businesses and is mulling new pro-business measures which could come as early as the

Butchers in France have written to the country's interior ministry to ask for protection after claims they are facing threats of violence and intimidation from extreme vegan campaigners.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is set to be removed from a major children's book award after concerns were raised about the Little House on the Prairie author's depiction of certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.

These fortress-like AT&T buildings are central to a secret NSA program that has monitored billions of communications, documents and sources reveal.

An Arctic fox generally isn't part of a crab fishing boat's bycatch, but one crew from southern Labrador managed just that last week.

A freight train from Alberta derailed in northwest Iowa on Friday, leaking crude oil into flooded fields flanking the tracks and raising concerns about the possible contamination of residential water supplies downstream, officials say.

A $352 million collection program launched by the Liberals has not stopped the growth in the tax debt - the amount of taxes Canadians acknowledge owing to Ottawa but have not paid. The tax debt hit a record $44 billion in March and is set to rise to more

Harley-Davidson, facing rising costs from new tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles heading for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas.

The Blood Tribe, the largest First Nation in Canada, is seeking a major land claim in southern Alberta that would cover a much bigger swath of prairie landscape, including the town of Cardston and part of Waterton Lakes National Park.

A Virginia restaurant owner refused to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and her party.

Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, both 16, have both begun hormone treatment and identify as girls. They were both born male but now identify as female in their native Connecticut.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan sat in stony silence as he listened to the complaints of his citizens.

OTTAWA; As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to attend the upcoming NATO summit in Brussels, U.S. President Donald Trump is calling on Canada to meet the alliance's defence spending targets.

The picture of a crying young Honduran girl in a pink jacket and jeans became a powerful image to illustrate the controversial policy of separating children from parents arrested for crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. It has since been learned that this

Sally Moyer, 44, who was named as the FBI agent who traded anti-Trump texts, was seen leaving her Washington D.C. home for the first time since her identity was revealed.

Thousands of women will take the wheel tomorrow as the conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia tears up its decades-long rule.

Transportation Minister Marc Garneau announced measures to help in the protection of the southern resident killer whale, the North Atlantic right whale and the St. Lawrence Estuary beluga.

A Newfoundland man learned the hard way that cars with advanced driver-assistance systems should have the system's cameras recalibrated after a windshield replacement.

All charges have been dropped against a rural Alberta homeowner accused of shooting a trespasser on his property near Okotoks.

They will only see Italy on a postcard': Country's interior minister refuses to let rescue ship carrying 224 migrants dock, a week after turning away vessel with 630 people on board

Cedella Roman says she was jogging along the beach in White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it. Then, she was detained.

A study published in The Lancet Thursday found that police killings of unarmed black Americans harm the mental health of the wider black American population, largely because the killings are perceived as a symptom of systemic racism.

The parents of the man who killed six people inside a Quebec City mosque say the Crown 'demonized' Alexandre Bissonnette in sentencing arguments and failed to take into account how bullying had left their son with severe mental health problems.

U.K.-based Expert Market says Toronto is the worst in North America when it comes to commuting times and sixth worst in the world.

Denis Javier Varela Hernandez said that he had not heard from his wife for a month until he saw the image of her and their daughter being apprehended in Texas.

As supplies of carbon dioxide run low, the food and drink industry asks the government to take "urgent action".

Many of the almost 700,000 undocumented immigrants would qualify for federal and provincial immigration programs, Ottawa briefing note says.

University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson is taking legal action against Wilfrid Laurier University after a T.A. was criticized for showing a YouTube clip of him.

Earlier this year, China stopped taking much of the world's recyclable plastic waste. Now a new study suggests that by the year 2030, an estimated 111 million tonnes of plastic waste will be "displaced" as a result of the policy.

Chemicals that were used to make non-stick pans and fire-suppressing foam are no longer part of U.S. manufacturing process, but water sampling has found contamination.

A Bell Island, N.L., woman who made headlines around the world after a photo showing her gagged and bound to an office chair went viral last month alleges she suffered a decade of workplace abuse.

The move confirms a tit-for-tat dispute that could escalate into a full trade war.

Sources close to Premier Scott Moe say he will put forward a plan to make the formula "more fair and equitable for all provinces."

An American family has been found safe in northern B.C., days after they went missing and their car was found abandoned in the province.

The Twitter account of Occupy Wall Street published a cartoon Monday promoting the murder of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

For the second time, Vancouver's Henrik Sedin won the King Clancy Trophy. But this year, brother and teammate Daniel Sedin joined in the honours. The Sedin twins shared the honour bestowed upon a player for leadership and humanitarian contributions to hoc

Two armed civilians in the parking lot confronted the suspect, one of whom shot the man dead

The video is only seconds long. It captures the last moments of Dr. Alphonsus Hui's life before Ken Chung slammed into him at 119 km/h.

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The city held a naming ceremony Monday that included members of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations, who helped the city come up with the names.

Public Health Wales reported the last human case of cowpox was 10 to 15 years ago, making it incredibly rare.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau wasn't in a conflict of interest when he introduced a pension bill in the House of Commons while he still owned shares in his family's pension company, according to the ethics commissioner.

Sentiment among U.S. homebuilders fell in June to match the lowest level this year, reflecting sharply elevated lumber costs, according to a report Monday from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo.

As the bus approached an agricultural checkpoint at the Nevada state line, Ms. Smalls said the driver made an unusual announcement: �We are being boarded by Border Patrol. Please be prepared to show your documentation upon request.�

Just as with the free trade election of 1988, we could be set up for a single-issue tilt that settles the question of the day once and for all

People living along the Gaza border reportedly got fed up with the increasing number of kites and balloons designed to create fires being flown into Israel.

Samen Kondorura, 40, died when pallbearers lost their footing carrying the coffin up a bamboo ladder in the Parinding valley in North Toraja district of Indonesia.

On a record hot June day 30 years ago, NASA'S chief climate scientist warned that global warming was here and worsening. Today, he wishes his words had been heeded and more action had been taken.

A leaked letter reveals the Onion Lake Cree Nation has launched a fraud risk assessment over "rumours of kickbacks," African diamond mine investments and an aborted embassy. A band mamber says a recent legal decision stating the band must release its fina

It was late in the evening of August 16th, 1971, and twenty-two-year-old Douglas Korpi, a slim, short-statured Berkeley graduate with a mop of pale, shaggy hair, was locked in a dark closet in the basement of the Stanford psychology department, naked bene

As the U.S. looks to crack open the Canadian dairy industry, is it possible to protect farmers and still allow better butter over the border?

A mosque in Edson, Alta., was set on fire late Saturday night shortly after a small group of people left the building following evening prayers.

A 46-year-old woman strangled a rabid bobcat to death after the animal attacked her in her front yard in northeast Georgia.

After 50 Canada geese were found dead floating in the St. Lawrence River outside Montreal earlier this week, veterinarians are saying they may have died from a lightning strike.

Caught in the mouth of a bear, Casadi Schroeder was prepared to die. The bear had clamped its teeth around her leg, and it felt like he was ripping her skin to the bone, when Schroeder felt a sense of peace overcome her terror.

VANCOUVER; Transport Canada says a substance that fell from the sky and onto vehicles and people in two British Columbia communities was not human feces from aircraft, but one woman believes the foul-smelling material that landed in her eyes had to be exc

On a day when legal experts and LGBTQ advocates across Canada were talking about Trinity Western University, the campus at the centre of the storm was quiet.With school out for the summer, a handful of students walked between brick buildings on their way

JAKARTA, Indonesia; A 7-meter-long (23-foot-long) python has swallowed a woman in central Indonesia, a village official said Saturday.The victim, 54-year-old Wa Tiba, went missing while checking her vegetable garden near her village on Muna island in Sout

Langley's John D. Gunther got an early Father's Day gift when the horse his daughter bred, Justify, won the Triple Crown last Satturday, June 9, 2018, in Elmont, N.Y.

Harvard University is discriminating against Asian-American applicants, a non-profit group suing the flagship US academic institution has claimed.

With scenes of unveiled women and mixed-sex musical soirees, a new Saudi Arabian soap opera, set in the 1970s, is evoking nostalgia about the kingdom's modern past, before the rise of religious fundamentalism.

Should Canada threaten to start the world's first trade war in intellectual property? Some legal experts argue that targeting pharmaceutical patents could give Canada an edge in the current trade dispute with the U.S.

Police have made an arrest in the brazen shooting of two young sisters at a playground in the east end of Toronto earlier this week.

The findings of a draft report prompted the Minneapolis Police Department to tell officers that it's not their role to encourage sedation.

Many rural voters say local concerns about green energy projects were ignored by the Liberals and now they hope Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives follow through on promises to review wind and solar projects still in the pipeline.

The city is placing bulletproof glass and high walls around the tower to guard against terrorism.

A 33-year-old Ontario mother has been charged with reckless driving, after allowing her toddler to steer her car on a highway, police said. Neither she nor the child had any seatbelts or safety restraints.

Stephen Hawking has taken his place among Britain's greatest scientists with the burial of his ashes in Westminster Abbey, between the graves of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton.

A Quebec man was sentenced to four months in the community after forcing his eight-year-old daughter to sit at the dinner table for 13 hours over an uneaten serving of brussels sprouts.