NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2015

The Crown wants a prison sentence of two-and-a-half to three years for a Calgary man who taped the mouths of a dog and a cat shut and left them to die.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Israel's Arab citizens on Monday for remarks he made during last week's parliament election that offended members of the community.

A five-month police investigation into an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia, described in graphic detail in a Rolling Stone article, produced no evidence of the attack and was stymied by the accuser's unwillingness to co-operate, authorities

Farmers are paying for genetic research aimed at developing gluten-free wheat that can be eaten by people with celiac disease and other consumers spending millions a year on gluten-free products.

It's very rare that visitors can be found at the Hibernia oil platform, but a four-legged guest was all the talk Monday.

Canadian actress Alberta Watson has died after a long battle with cancer.

Nora Fitzgerald, who had her sealskin purse confiscated by border control, says she'll think twice before accessorizing in the United States again.

Ontario-based soldier Pte. Jeremiah Cross, his wife, and infant child were killed in a fiery crash on Interstate 95 in South Carolina on Saturday night.

As many as 100 people may have fallen for a scam involving deeply discounted airline tickets from Toronto to Las Vegas for an upcoming conference.

An Arizona woman who spent more than two decades on death row in her 4-year-old son's killing was exonerated Monday, bringing an end to a controversial case that relied almost entirely on the work of a detective with a long history of misconduct.

Twenty-five years ago, Norway chose to bank the returns from its oil resources, and it has paid off handsomely - to the tune of $1 trillion. Alberta can only look on with envy, writes Susan Ormiston.

The UK will no longer tolerate the behaviour of Islamist extremists who

A man killed at a Canada-U.S. border crossing in B.C. earlier this week was wanted in connection to the murder of an 18-year-old in Calgary, police said Sunday.

The federal government will help bolster the development of next-generation surveillance technology with a $75 million investment in Burlington, Ont.-based L-3 Wescam.

The federal government needs to take action to assess how escalating phone, internet and television bills are affecting Canadians, especially those earning the least income, a new study on affordability says.

Top-secret documents obtained by the CBC show Canada's electronic spy agency is using a vast arsenal of cyberwarfare tools to hack into computers and phones in many parts of the world, including in friendly trade countries like Mexico and hotspots like th

Retirement Concepts, a large company that runs private seniors' residences, is under fire from relatives forced to pay $1,000 monthly fees long after their loved ones have died or moved out.

Dignitaries and descendants paid tribute Sunday to King Richard III, whose remains were discovered more than 500 years after his death in a 15th-century battle.

The U.K. couple detained after a manhunt when they took their son out of the country to seek specialized treatment for a brain tumour says the boy is free of cancer.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield has commanded the International Space Station, made three flights into space and orbited the globe more than 2,300 times.

There is something powerful lurking behind the message of ISIS. More than 3,400 people from the West have left their homes to live in a war zone, and there is debate about how to dereadicalize them.

The cost of providing medical marijuana to the country's injured soldiers under a Veterans Affairs program jumped to more than $4.3 million this fiscal year, an increase of 10 times what was spent last year.

Six men are arrested after a group forced its way into a synagogue in north London in an attack treated by police as "anti-Semitic".

Anti-UKIP protesters invade a pub in south London where the party leader is having lunch with his family.

The first day of spring is coming, whether nature allows it or not....

A group of Commonwealth residents advocating for free movement among the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, has collected 35,000 signatures.

Nine British medical students and doctors are feared to have travelled to Syria to work in areas controlled by Islamic State militants.

Scientists affixed custom-made cameras to the shells of 26 leatherback sea turtles off the northern coast of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia.

Residents in Bridgewater, N.S. are growing increasingly concerned after a former Royal Canadian Navy ship docked in the town's harbour tilted over due to heavy ice and snow.

Victoria's Steve Nash is calling it a career. The 41-year-old guard announced his retirement from basketball Saturday on his Twitter account.

The City of Kitchener has closed part of Stauffer Drive so that a colony of endangered Jefferson salamanders can cross safely from one side of the street to the other.

When Pierre Cloutier's longtime girlfriend broke up with him, he decided to leave Quebec and head to British Columbia's Okanagan Valley in the the same way pioneers once travelled west dreaming of a better life.

Two lion cubs brought home by one Palestinian family play cheerfully with small children in a Gaza refugee camp

Strip clubs are an endangered species being killed off by lack of demand, says the Adult Entertainment Association of Canada, as B.C.'s Cheetah Lounge closes its doors.

A supertide turned France's famed Mont Saint-Michel back into a true island and then retreated out of sight, delighting thousands of visitors who came to see the rare phenomenon.

An unusual victim in the attack on the National Bardo Museum in Tunisia's capital city last Wednesday is getting a lot of attention.

Dozens of aging U.S. veterans, many in their early 90s and some in wheelchairs, gathered on the tiny, barren island of Iwo Jima on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most iconic battles of World War II.

A fire that tore through a home in a heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighbourhood, leaving seven children dead and two other people in critical condition, may have been caused by a malfunctioning hotplate left on during the Sabbath, the city's fire commissioner

For the indigenous nomadic Nenets people, Reindeer Herders' Day offers a chance to show their prowess in wrestling, high jumps and other traditional local sports, but, above all, in reindeer races.

The lowest tides along the Somerset coast for 200 years will enable a glimpse of rarely seen marine species during the weekend, nature experts say.

Alaska wildlife officials are preparing to release North America's largest land mammal into its native U.S. habitat for the first time in more than a century.

Than Jung is one of 19 people in the 6633 Ultra, a foot race from Eagle Plains, Yukon to Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., that follows the Dempster Highway and the ice road to Tuk.

Authorities in Varennes, Que., are asking some residents to stay inside after a titanium tetrachloride leak at the Kronos chemical-producing plant.

A North Korean envoy says his country has developed nuclear missiles and is prepared to use them at any time. North Korean Ambassador to Britain Hyun Hak Bong said in a recent interview with British broadcaster Sky News that his government would use the m

A Vancouver woman claims F--k Cancer celebrity activists Yael Cohen and Julie Greenbaum are infringing on her trademark. In a B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit, Susan Fiedler says she started using the term first.

One person is dead and two police officers are in hospital following a shooting in Mississauga. The province's Special Investigations Unit has been notified, Peel Regional Police said.

A six-year-old B.C. boy wants to be a secret agent so badly, he wrote to CSIS to ask it to set up a spy club for kids.

Police have charged an Edmonton woman after they say they found street drugs beside her baby in a stroller. Officers were responding to a shoplifting call involving a woman with a stroller in the downtown City Centre Mall.

A one-year-old puppy in Winnipeg is being hailed a hero after its barks drew attention to a house fire and triggered rescue efforts for the people sleeping inside.

Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier, two men accused of plotting to derail a Via passenger train travelling between Canada and the U.S., have been found guilty of a series of terror-related charges.

A report by more than 60 Canadian scientists points to a realistic, clean, sustainable future for our country, one that won't destroy the economy, writes Bob McDonald.

The 17-year-old was charged by the RCMP on March 8 with trying to leave the country to fight with the Islamic State, a terrorist organization that controls a vast tract of territory in Syria and northern Iraq and has become infamous for its cruelty.

Terrorist attacks, shootings and stories of radicalized youth have shaken many Canadians. What does that mean for the everyday lives of Muslims in this country?

Former Mountie Benjamin (Monty) Robinson was convicted of perjury on Friday for his testimony at a public inquiry into the Taser death of Robert Dziekanski.

Former Montreal Canadiens player and coach Mario Tremblay tried to pull rank to dodge a drunk-driving arrest, a police officer told a preliminary hearing.

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel (above) said this week in Homburg that the U.S. government threatened to cease sharing intelligence with Germany if Berlin offered asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden or otherwise arranged for him to travel to

The ​facial recognition pilot program launched last week by US Customs and Border Protection, which civil liberties advocates say could lead to new potentially privacy-invading programs, is just the first of three biometric experiments that the feds

Triple suicide bombers hit a pair of mosques crowded with worshippers in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Friday, killing 46 and injuring 100 others.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man Thursday afternoon near Sumas, Wash., close to the border with British Columbia.

An 18-year-old cat was able to survive for 40 days under a snow-covered deck, much to the amazement of her P.E.I. owners.

The March equinox is around March 20-21 and night and day are nearly the same length. It's the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere and fall equinox in the south.

Die-hard eclipse junkies from around the world are expected to brave polar bears and frostbite in the Arctic on Friday to savour three minutes of total darkness when the moon totally blocks the sun.

A Czech tourist suffered minor injuries when a polar bear attacked the tent he was sleeping in on the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norwegian authorities said Thursday.

Marcus Johnson Jr.'s parents figured a sunny day at a city park was just what their son, a 6-year-old kindergartner, needed while recovering from heart surgery the previous week and a doctor's visit that same day.

A recreational hockey player who broke another player's jaw in retaliation for a high-sticking remains on the hook for damages even though he went bankrupt, Ontario's top court has decided.

Legend has it that the Greek mathematician Archimedes had the first Eureka! moment of inspiration 2,200 years ago. CBC Radio's Ideas explores the neuroscience behind Eureka! moments and provides tips on how to make your own.

A biologist is suggesting rapidly rising rates of mercury contamination may be behind the dramatic population drop of an endangered Arctic gull.

A Vaughan, Ont., woman is celebrating her 107th birthday on Thursday. It's a milestone that has seen her receive well-wishes from people around the globe.

A homeless woman from northern Ontario plans to move into the home she built herself after the provincial government withdrew its charges against her in court on Thursday.

When she's working in the field, U of S researcher Christy Morrissey says she is hearing fewer of the tiny chirps and trills of the songbirds she's studying.

It was the warmest of winters, it was the coldest of winters. British Columbians jogged shirtless while East Coasters shivered through storm after storm. On this last day of winter, we reflect back on the season that was in Canada.

A "warm blob" of water - which originated in the Gulf of Alaska - is moving south along the Pacific Coast, and scientists are warning it could hurt marine life in B.C.

Illegal immigrants are being smuggled out of the UK via Dover to evade deportation then smuggled back, a BBC investigation has found.

The CRTC is expected to announce today that cable subscribers will soon be able to purchase a basic $25 a month package and have pick-and-pay options.

Is there such a thing as Canadian cuisine? If so, Kraft Dinner might be on the menu. Kraft Foods is recalling about 6.5 million boxes of original flavour Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, but for now it seems the beloved food staple is safe in Canada.

Ontario will have the highest minimum wage in Canada as of October, after the province announced Thurssday it will boost the baseline wage this fall.

The government of Alberta could be facing a long-term deficit situation for reasons beyond the temporary plunge in oil prices, TD Bank said in a report Thursday.

Target has pocketed a $1.6-billion US writeoff on its American taxes as a result of the retailer's failed expansion into Canada, a new regulatory filing shows.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Quebec infringed on the religious freedom of a Catholic high school in Montreal by requiring it to teach the province's ethics and religious culture program.

The spring equinox, solar eclipse and supermoon are sure to keep celestial watchers busy on Friday. The heavens have aligned to usher in spring with a rare burst of activity.

Defying a White House veto threat, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved two mostly Republican-backed bills that would change how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses scientific data and advice in writing its regulations. The bills, clo

U.S. federal records show that this winter and the first two months of 2015 were the hottest on record globally.

An island in eastern Prince Edward Island is now protected after being acquired by the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

The Amazon rainforest's ability to soak up greenhouse gases from the air has fallen sharply, possibly because climate change and droughts mean more trees are dying, an international team of scientists said on Wednesday.

The Russian military has proven its capability to quickly deploy large forces to far-flung areas during massive war games that have spread from the nation's western border to the Pacific, the defence minister said Wednesday.

A judge ruled in a Lethbridge court that April Dawn Irving, can't own, possess or control any animals. Irving is charged with animal cruelty.

Penticton's wild horses have recently been spotted closer than ever to the city's downtown core.

A late-winter storm is steadily dropping lots of snow on much Atlantic Canada this morning, while parts of the Maritimes remain under a winter storm warning.

Prosecutors in the state of Baja California Sur said a 50-year-old Canadian man appeared to have been beaten with a blunt object in the resort of Los Cabos. The prosecutors' office said the cause of death was severe head trauma and a skull fracture.

The cane has evolved little over the millennia that humans have used sticks to aid with walking woes, but a New Brunswick developer is giving the walking stick an upgrade.

Type 2 diabetics could benefit from a drug that's already on the market. Dextromethorphan (DXM) is a cough suppressant found in Vick's NyQuil Cold & Flu Relief, Triaminic Multi-Symptom Fever, Dimetapp Children's Multi-Symptom Cold & Flu, Tylenol Cold Mult

Prosecutors on Wednesday made Serbia's first arrests of people suspected of carrying out killings in the Srebrenica massacre, The Associated Press has learned. It is a milestone in healing the wounds of Europe's worst civilian slaughter since the Second W

A majority of workers at a new Microsoft Canada training centre in Vancouver would be drawn from the ranks of foreigners, according to documents obtained under British Columbia's freedom of information laws.

Political correctness, that scourge of the '90s, seems to be getting a new foothold on American college campuses especially, Neil Macdonald writes. "Free speech zones" aren't necessarily what the name implies.

A rare Lancaster bomber, one of the few remaining in the world, will come home to Edmonton after spending 50 years on the other side of the country.

At least seven foreign tourists and a Tunisian have been killed after gunmen targeted a museum in the the Tunisian capital, officials say.

Almost 500 children across the West Midlands were victims of, or at risk of, sexual exploitation in the first half of last year, figures reveal.

Alexandre Burrows scored goals 17 seconds apart in the third period Tuesday as the Vancouver Canucks downed the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1.

Benoit Pouliot had a pair of goals and Jordan Eberle had a goal and two assists as the Edmonton Oilers came away with a 4-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday in a game featuring a pair of struggling squads.

Vancouver celebrated St. Patrick's day this year with a special tribute to former Canucks coach and Canadian hockey icon Pat Quinn. Throngs of green and blue-clad fans cheered outside Rogers Arena in downtown Vancouver for the unveiling of Pat Quinn Way o

A Nevada senator has introduced a bill that would allow pets to use pot if a veterinarian certifies that the animal has an illness that might be alleviated by marijuana.

A Newfoundland woman and her two children who spent 21 hours in their truck stranded in a fierce blizzard are thanking rescuers who reached them on snowmobiles north of Burgeo on Monday evening.

Starving sea lion pups and seabirds up and down the U.S. West Coast this year may be part of a large-scale shift of the Pacific Ocean to warmer and less productive conditions, according to a new federal fisheries report.

Judi Dench and Michael Caine were among the stars who gathered Tuesday in London's Westminster Abbey to remember the film icon who died last August at age 90.

Gov. Gen. David Johnston will be front and centre during Canada's upcoming 150th birthday celebrations, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced on Tuesday.

Microsoft confirmed this week that Internet Explorer will soon be replaced by its new Project Spartan web browser.

A Kitchener man has been found guilty of animal cruelty after the Kitchener-Waterloo Humane Society found a deceased dog at his home.

A veteran Richmond FC elite soccer coach is facing allegations of verbally and physically abusing his teenaged players.

A group of scouts from central Newfoundland is learning more than they expected about winter survival at a camp this week near Terra Nova National Park.

A March blizzard hammers most of Newfoundland, with warnings issued for the Avalon Peninsula in the east all the way to Port aux Basques on the southwest coast.

Vancouver is the best place to live in North America, according to Mercer's latest Quality of Living Rankings.

The Stanley Cup has been on show in Smithers, B.C., today, but the famed trophy nearly didn't make it on the flight until passengers stepped up to create some space.

Marine Atlantic says the MV Highlanders encountered heavy ice around 8 p.m. Monday, after leaving North Sydney, N.S., for Port aux Basques, N.L.

St. Patrick's Day began in Ireland as a serious religious event, but Irish immigrants in the U.S. helped transform it into a celebration of Irish culture that is now marked everywhere from Tokyo to Toronto.

Miguel de Cervantes's tomb has been found in a Madrid convent, scientists announced Tuesday, solving the 400-year-old mystery of the whereabouts the Spanish literary giant's remains.

While the West fixates on the nuclear negotiations with Iran, Russia's Vladimir Putin has been openly talking about putting his nuclear arsenal on alert. Must we go back to living with the bomb?

Just days after announcing that reservists would soon be able to receive the same support as full-time soldiers, Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O'Toole will unveil still more benefits for veterans and their families during a visit to HMCS Discovery in Van