NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2018

The 552-carat yellow gem was found at the Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories, and is almost three times the size of the next largest ever found in Canada

Police forces in major cities across Canada are investigating multiple bomb threats, as authorities in the U.S. say similar threats sent to dozens of locations appear to be a hoax.

Leanne Mill had a sex change in Hove, East Sussex aged 34. She is speaking out to 'warn others of the reality of being a transsexual' but says she doesn't regret her surgery.

Canada's top court has quashed a mandatory victim surcharge, overturning a Conservative law that made the fees compulsory.

Canadian Don Sadoway, a professor of materials chemistry at MIT, has captured the attention of the world with his quest to build a better battery.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have finally outlined in recent media interviews what Canada’s carbon pricing/tax policy will look like if the Liberals win next year’s election.

Oregon Public Broadcasting reports a bill approved by the House Tuesday changes the Marine Mammal Protection Act to lift some of the restrictions on killing sea lions to protect salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River and its tributaries.

Andile Mngxitama says for every one black person killed we will kill five whites. The BLM president threatened to kill cats and dogs owned by whites at the rally over the weekend.

At least one person is heard cheering in the background after he slammed down the phone

Ottawa has lost contact with a Canadian citizen in China who reached out to federal officials to say they were being questioned by Chinese authorities, Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday.

A jury recommended life in prison plus 419 years on Tuesday for a man convicted of killing a woman and injuring dozens when he drove his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.

Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that the Damascus government must help resolve, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday.

Arctic air temperatures for the past five years are the hottest they've been since record keeping started in 1900, and that's being blamed for abnormal weather across North America, Europe and Asia.

Microsoft baffles Windows 10 users by apparently collecting data about recently opened websites and apps when users have opted against sharing that information.

HMCS Calgary is the first Canadian military vessel to deploy to the region to help enforce sanctions against North Korea in response to the country's continued nuclear and ballistic missile tests.

The federal government isn't expecting to see many more foreign fighters return to Canada in the coming years, but prosecuting those who already have returned remains a challenge, according to the latest public terrorist threat report.

Police in the Greater Toronto Area say they have dismantled a major weapons trafficking operation responsible for manufacturing and selling at least 120 untraceable guns. Twenty-three people are facing 156 charges in connection with an alleged crime ri

Citing audience input, CBC has reversed its decision to remove the holiday track Baby, It's Cold Outside from seasonal playlists. "Last week, we decided to press pause to consider the different points of view on playing Baby, It's Cold Outside. Because

In case you needed another reason to be skeptical of trendy diets and cleanses, the YouTube medical channel Chubbyemu has described the case of a 39-year-o

The Fearless Girl statue has been moved to her new permanent home in front of the New York Stock Exchange.

BlackBerry Inc. is making a play to integrate itself into smart cities and vehicles, announcing Monday that it has built a new service to provide infrastructure for vehicles and traffic lights to exchange information securely.

Debt collectors are demanding Sears customers continue to pay for extended warranties even though the department store has gone out of business and will not honour them.

China raised the pressure on the United States and Canada as a bail hearing for a top Chinese technology executive resumed Monday in Vancouver. A headline in a Communist Party newspaper called Canada's treatment of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial off

Alberta's finance minister says Quebec's resistance to a pipeline carrying western Canadian oil across its territory shows the provincial premier's lack of understanding about the Alberta energy industry.

Vibrations off Madagascar baffled experts but now they believe they have the answer

Surveys show that Canadians don't correspond nationalism with white supremacy, but with being connected to the country.

Pace is being sold to Canadians as having a buzz similar to alcohol, but without calories or a hangover. Health Canada says it's illegal. But the company disagrees.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his Liberal government is doubling down on deficit spending, a move contrary to his campaign promise of balanced budgets, because he believes it has proven to work.

China raised the pressure on the United States and Canada as a bail hearing for a top Chinese technology executive was set to resume today in Vancouver.

A 'Siberian Express' was barreling up from the Southeast to the Midwest and the East Coast bringing 100 record lows across the region, according to forecasters.

Police in Texas say they arrested a 31-year-old protester who told children that Santa Claus was not real.

James Wan's Aquaman made a giant splash in its China two weeks ahead of its U.S. launch, grossing $93.6 million to land the top opening ever for a DC comic book adaptation

The federal Conservative party would win a majority is an election was held today, a new poll shows.In a recent random sampling, 43% said they would vote conservative, while 34% would cast a Liberal ballot.

Justin Trudeau has a new headache, one with a dollar sign at the front and a lot of zeros at the end.Ontario and Quebec are demanding half a billion dollars from the Trudeau government to cover their costs for his bungled border policies and the illegal c

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is threatening to sue the City of Toronto and Astral Media for removing anti-Canada Goose ads.

The Government of Ontario has followed through on one of its key election promises in announcing the repeal of the Green Energy Act, 2009,

It took 30 minutes for Ayubulo Mohammad-Daud to exact deadly revenge against Steven Doyle for beating him and stealing his watch in a Regent Park street fight by running him over in a stolen van.

Cops near tourist beach resorts are accused of shaking down Canadians for bribe money to avoid bogus charges for not carrying their passports

Canadian special operations troops have been accompanying Iraqi forces on security operations as the last pockets of Islamic State resistance are mopped up, Canada's top military commander said today.

CN Rail is developing a product that essentially transforms crude oil into a solid product, which they say would be safer for the environment and more cost friendly compared to traditional oil shipping by train.

The average Canadian family will pay about $400 more for groceries and roughly $150 more for dining out next year, an annual food price report predicts.Food prices will rise between 1.5 to 3.

Nyala Lounge has had its business licence pulled again, 10 weeks after Edmonton city officials reversed the initial decision to shut down the local shisha bar. But the owner is questioning the fairness of the city's most recent action.

Nobody talks much about acid rain anymore. But the one-time scourge of North American lakes and forests got a mention yesterday at the funeral of former U.S. president George H.W. Bush.

After several years of little growth, global emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide experienced their largest jump in seven years, discouraging scientists.

Passengers on a ferry between Nanaimo and Horseshoe Bay were treated to an incredible sight on Tuesday.

A growing trend at some Surrey schools has administrators stepping in to clamp down on food delivery services like SkipTheDishes.

Passengers on a ferry between Nanaimo and Horseshoe Bay were treated to an incredible sight on Tuesday. "It was nothing like I had ever seen. Two hundred dolphins just having so much fun, jumping, racing."

More than 400 people illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas on Dec. 3 and surrendered to U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso.

Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass." If you were to push a negative

Alberta RCMP have recovered a "substantial amount" of explosives and detonators, including some dating back to the Second World War.

A former Alberta trade envoy to Washington D.C. believes United States President Donald Trump could hit the province with counter measures for its decision to impose mandatory oil production cuts.

At a weekend workshop in Maryland, physicists from the LIGO and Virgo collaboration reported four previously unannounced detections of gravitational waves from merging black holes, including the biggest-known black-hole collision to date, roughly 5 billio

The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife In Canada reported Monday that of Canada's 16 chinook populations, eight are endangered, four are threatened and one is considered of special concern.

A newly discovered cave in a remote valley in British Columbia might be the country's largest. It was spotted in the northeastern area of Wells Gray Provincial Park by a helicopter crew conducting a caribou census.

The RCMP admitted that it made a mistake when it failed to inform Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's protective detail that would-be political assassin Jaspal Atwal was planning to join the prime minister during his official visit to India earlier this year,

The automaker will eliminate shifts at factories in Michigan and Kentucky and transfer about 1,150 workers to other plants to support stronger-selling models, a spokeswoman said.

The tiny, energy-rich Arab nation of Qatar announced on Monday it will withdraw from OPEC in January, meeting its aspirations to increase production outside of the cartel's constraints and slighting the Saudis who are currently boycotting Doha.

Since May, Jennifer Steber has expensed flights, taxi trips and other costs to go to work at the Alberta Energy Regulator from her residence in B.C.

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques is making his way to the International Space Station with two other astronauts after a Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from Kazakhstan this morning.

For the first time in 18 months, tourists are riding the rails to Churchill, Man. When Douglas Belcher heard the train was returning, he decided to buy a ticket and take the two-day ride.

Farmers across Canada left thousands of acres of potato crops unharvested after a slew of bad weather created challenging conditions, setting the stage for a possible shortage of the starchy dinner table staple.

Harvard student Leyla Pirnie, 24, was advised to move out of her apartment in Massachusetts after roommates said they felt uncomfortable with her legally owning guns she kept in her bedroom.

Fox News' Griff Jenkins sat down with Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum to discuss the humanitarian crisis in the Mexican border town, as thousands of migrants have arrived in hopes of crossing into the U.S.

The combined costs to process the aspiring refugees crossing illegally into Canada via Roxham Road and elsewhere over a three year period will exceed $1.1 billion next year, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

The once-mighty PDVSA is polluting waterways and farmland, unable to clean up its messes after years of neglect, scant investment and corruption scandals.

Dr. Katelyn Allers (top right), a Bucknell University physics professor, and Ashley Watson (bottom right), a former assistant, say Neil deGrasse Tyson made inappropriate advances.