NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2016

After two days of storms, Vancouver Island the South Coast may not be out of the woods yet. The remnants of Super Typhoon Songda are expected to hit the west coast late Saturday afternoon.

The coffee shop employee cooperated with demands and the suspect "fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash money," according to police.

On Saturday, 11-year-old Euan MacDonald gets to live out his dream, and take a flight in the historic four-engine bomber at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.

Corey Kluber and two other Indians pitchers combined on a shutout and Francisco Lindor's two-run homer lifted Cleveland to a 2-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series.

A 15-year-old boy has died after being pinned by a falling tree that police say may have been downed by high winds.

A tugboat that ran aground and spilled diesel fuel near the ecologically sensitive Great Bear Rainforest has reignited arguments against tanker traffic. Meanwhile, cleanup is being complicated by severe weather.

A fierce windstorm knocked out power to thousands of residents on Vancouver Island, the Lower Mainland and the southern Interior - and another may hit the region tomorrow.

A notorious cannibal has reportedly been treating other prisoners in a Venezuelan jail as his own personal buffet.

The Belgian fortress city of Namur, besieged by European armies down the centuries, issued a declaration of war on the global economic order on Friday with a vote to reject a planned EU-Canada free trade agreement.

Paedophiles can be chemically castrated or executed under tough new Indonesian laws prompted by the gang rape and murder of a girl, 14. It applies to killers, repeat and incest offenders.

A magnitude 7.0 crustal earthquake, with an epicentre very close to Victoria and Vancouver, has a one in five chance of occuring in the next 50 years.

After years of the idea being floated, consultation on a potential fixed link between the Sunshine Coast and the Lower Mainland will begin in earnest this month.

Canada's federal immigration minister says the government was surprised by the number of Syrian refugee children they admitted in the last year. The large number of children poses challenges for schools and finding appropriate housing, said John McCallum.

Crenshanda Williams, 43, who used to work as an operator at the Houston Emergency Center, is facing a misdemeanor charge of interference with an emergency phone call.

Ranked as the greatest songwriter of all time by Rolling Stone, and awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, Bob Dylan can make a solid claim for the crown as music's top poet and storyteller.

First Nations on B.C.'s Central Coast are worried about environmental damage after a tug boat that left Alaska with nearly 200,000 litres of diesel fuel ran aground early Thursday morning near Bella Bella.

The 2016-17 season will be the fifth campaign since the Canucks won the Presidents' Trophy and came within a game of winning the Stanley Cup. A lot can change in five years.

There is more high wind and heavy rain for the South Coast of B.C. on Thursday evening when a second in a series of fall storms is forecast to hit the region.

The Cleveland Indians are the only thing standing between the Toronto Blue Jays and the World Series. While that alone could earn the ire of most baseball-loving Canadians, many find their very name offensive.

Data specialist Mark Rittman spent an entire day attempting to set up his new appliance so that it would boil on command

The Edmonton Oilers announced Wednesday that Wayne Gretzky is joining the Oilers Entertainment Group as a partner and vice chair.

​An expert in freedom of information law says he has never seen such disrespectful behaviour toward a provincial FOIP commissioner as has been displayed by Alberta Justice in a long-running inquiry.

Racist graffiti was found at the scene of a deadly fire that burned a central Alberta motel to the ground this weekend, RCMP have now confirmed.

Pacific walrus by the thousands in recent years have come ashore in early fall near the Inupiat village of Point Lay, including about 6,000 last week, and people have dropped in, hoping to see a marine mammal phenomenon brought on by climate change.

A Calgary police officer who was accused of smuggling guns across the border and later cleared wants the Canadian Border Services Agency to investigate its own.

As coming-out parties go, the young Edmonton Oilers presented the full-throated, full-house at Rogers Place, which included Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier on the guest list, with the new generation's gift that keeps on giving.New captain and teenager Conn

Former immigration minister Chris Alexander has confirmed he plans to run for the Conservative leadership and that a key plank of his campaign will be a proposal to sharply increase the intake of immigrants to 400,000 every year, including 40,000 refugees

OTTAWA (Reuters) - European Parliament member and anti-globalization activist Jose Bove has been told to leave Canada by Wednesday, preventing him from speaking at an event opposing a planned EU-Canada

Conservative leadership contender Tony Clement is dropping out of the race to replace Stephen Harper.

It's hard to think of a worse time for Canada to reopen softwood lumber talks with the U.S. Trump has made it popular to think the U.S. is losing out on trade, and in this case, a low loonie is a liability.

A 20-year-old woman from Drayton Valley, Alta., has returned to Syria to fight ISIS militants.

'Buffy' was 16 when she participated in the horrific sexual assault and murder of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte. The youngest of the five convicted attackers, Buffy was the only one to be sentenced as a youth. Her sentence ends next month. On Tuesday she m

Anglers are urged to start fishing off the Danish coast after a ship crashed into a fish farm, releasing up to 80,000 rainbow trout.

Activists in four states were arrested after they cut padlocks and chains and entered remote flow stations to turn off valves in an attempt to stop crude moving through lines that carry as much as 15 percent of daily U.S. oil consumption. The group posted

Voter registration systems in 20 different states may have been hacked, after a variety of "scanning activities" have been detected...

What was shaping up to be a good yield for Alberta farmers came, at least temporarily, to an abrupt halt when snow blanketed the province over the Thanksgiving weekend.

A court martial will be held in Ottawa today for Canada's top special forces soldier after he accidentally fired his weapon.

EU trade ministers to vote in a week on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, which requires unanimous support to enter force

The death of a mentally ill woman who was accused of being a child predator in a viral video put out by the Creep Catcher group has some members speaking out about the darker side of vigilante justice.

The suspect, Jaber Albakr, is accused of planning a bomb attack and having possible ties to the Islamic State. Police in Leipzig found him after refugees recognized him from wanted posters

The sudden escalation puts the relationship back into the deep freeze it was in at the peak of the crisis over Ukraine in 2014, which also sparked a wave of hostility in state media

Samsung urges owners of the Galaxy Note 7 to turn off the phone while it investigates reports of devices it had deemed safe catching fire.

TWO bungling asylum seekers fled in horror from the home they had broken into after witnessing what they thought was a ghost floating down the stairs.

About 14 pioneer Amish families from southwestern Ontario have bought farms in Prince Edward Island this year, lured by low land prices, and settled in the communities of Dundas and Summerville. Many more families are expected.

The Pittsburgh Penguins say captain Sidney Crosby has been diagnosed with a concussion.

Douglas Muir, who teaches at the University of Virginia, commented on Facebook that he believed that Black Lives Matter was the 'biggest' racist organization to appear on the scene since the KKK.

The Hussaini Association of Calgary will hold a peace march Sunday afternoon, hoping to send a strong message days after anti-Muslim posters were plastered over the University of Calgary's main campus.

4chan is an imageboard Internet site that allows users to post anonymously.

In the minutes before three Palm Springs, Calif., officers were shot, two fatally, the suspected gunman's father told a neighbour his son was armed, "acting crazy" and wanted to shoot police.

A University of Waterloo student group is scrambling to figure out how it will continue projects that tackle issues...

Dire predictions that the Arctic would be devoid of sea ice by September this year have proven to be unfounded after latest satellite images showed there is far more now than in 2012.

Belarusian police say a teenager attacked two girls in a shopping centre in the capital of Minsk with a chain saw and an axe, killing one of them.

Completed in 1916, the Trans-Siberian railway stretches more than 5,700 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok, and crosses two continents, 80 towns and cities, 16 large rivers and eight time zones.

An improperly inserted tag may have caused the death of a southern resident killer whale in B.C. waters this year, U.S. researchers have concluded.

Conference Board of Canada study urges immigration hike to support economic growth as the population ages.

Two residents of Squamish, B.C., were left with cuts and bruises after a black bear attacked them while they were sitting on the steps of their home.

Travellers headed to or from the Central Interior appeared to be getting the worst of the action on Saturday, with flurries piling up on the Coquihalla Highway.

Officers are surrounding a home in Chemnitz and the force tweeted: 'At the moment we have a static threat situation in the Fritz-Heckert area in Chemnitz, C0810 and with strong forces on the ground.'

Militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it has killed six Christians in north-eastern Kenya in an attack aimed at forcing them out of the region.

Another ancient bison kill and butchering site has been unearthed by the 2013 flood in a popular recreational and fishing area southeast of Calgary.

The first big fall storm hit B.C.'s South Coast last night, knocking out power to up to 50,000 customers across the Vancouver Island, Sunshine Coast and Metro Vancouver areas at the peak of the storm.

Shariff Adam isn't sure exactly how he managed to get out of the plane: perhaps through a broken window, perhaps through the door. Either way, he was lucky enough to be wearing a lifejacket and floated to the surface.

Six Atlantic white-sided dolphins have been herded to open water by fishery officers and experts from Marine Animal Response Society.

Increasingly common tools that allow police to conduct real-time social media surveillance during protests are drawing criticism from American civil liberties advocates.

Alberta's unemployment rate remained relatively unchanged at 8.5 per cent in September, while Calgary's climbed to 9.5 per cent, which is the highest of 33 metropolitan areas studied by Statistics Canada.

A Liberal backbencher's bill to modernize Canada's antiquated animal cruelty laws has been mauled, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers joining forces with the Conservatives to vote it down.

A B.C. woman whose children were abducted by her ex-husband to Iran says she was shocked at the Foreign Affairs Minister's response to her ordeal

Hundreds of people in Mumbai, India have been detained in relation to a massive telephone scam where fake callers "from the IRS" targeted Americans. In said calls, scammers tried to convince recipients that they were from the IRS in order to con victims i

The group, eight of whom are white, chained themselves to the runway at London's City Airport in a protest at what they called a 'racist climate crisis'.

An 18-year-old has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon. The suspect is an international student from Saudi Arabia.

An internal document seen by the BBC says globalisation "may have led to rising wage inequality" as the head of the World Bank says more needs to be done to help those who have lost their jobs.

A staggering 80.6 per cent of people aged 15 to 29 years old in Italy now live at home, a study has found. This compares to 66.6 per cent and 52.4 in the U.S. and UK respectively.

Andrey Ostanin trained his cat Graf to withstand alpine conditions and they set off together to reach Mount Elbrus's 18,510 feet summit in Russia.

Cst. James Othen, who was charged on Wednesday with assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm, had been suspended by the Calgary Police Service for allegedly stalking his ex-girlfriend, according to court documents.

A new report by a group of economists says it's time to end expensive federal and provincial government subsidies of the ethanol industry.

Reports of demonic clowns trying to lure children into the woods have spiked dramatically, to dozens in the past few days from a normal baseline of zero

Norway's right-wing government on Wednesday announced plans to ban the full-face Islamic veil from classrooms and university lecture halls (file photo)

Nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who was infected with the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone in 2014, has been taken to hospital in Glasgow under police escort, sources said.

The tank commanders are in their camp at La Lovie, near the Belgian town of Poperinge, where they could try to forget their forays into the notorious killing zone known as the Ypres Salient.

MEDDLING Brussels has said the British press should not report when terrorists are Muslims in a slew of demands to the Government to crack down on the media.

Government must decide how to respond to the Federal Court application made by civial liberties advocates by Wednesday

A sign playing on the Black Lives Matter slogan produced "outrage" and "backlash" across a Canadian college campus, according to a school leader.

Charges are pending against three Calgary police officers who are accused of participating in a violent arrest that left a 34-year-old with a collapsed lung and broken ribs, CBC News has learned.

The events leading up to the discovery of Sir John Franklin's second ship in Nunavut waters are being investigated by the territorial and federal governments to determine if the search was conducted legally.

Two police officers were stabbed on a busy main road in Schaerbeek as one of Belgium's busiest train stations was evacuated due to a bomb scare.

Photographer Jacques Nelles has captured life of a poor white community living in the Munsieville township, near Johannesburg, South Africa, in a series of depressing images.

Danney Williams, 30, of Little Rock, Arkansas, claims he is the biological son of former President Bill Clinton.

Little Isaac Armitage, of Effingham, Surrey., was told by the driver: 'Someone needs to take you to one side and have a word with you, you can't be a fairy, you should be a superhero.'

Last year, three people a day were killed in the name of "honor" in Pakistan: a total of 1,096 women and 88 men, according to the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, which says the true figure is likely higher because many such crimes go unre

31-year-old has come forward to describe why she left her marriage to Tasha Brown and justifying the reasons for leaving their home in Canada with their two-year-old daughter Kaydance and her baby son.

A major battle is underway for control over hundreds of millions of network-connected digital video recorders, cameras, and other so-called Internet of Things devices. As Ars has chronicled over the past two weeks, hackers are corralling them into network

A new Angus Reid Institute/CBC poll released this week contained some potentially surprising data about Canadians' views on immigration and diversity. Pollster Angus Reid expects the debates around those issues will likely intensify in the years ahead.

A treaty signed by more than 50 aboriginal groups who oppose oilsands project and pipeline developments is based on misinformation, says a northern Alberta chief whose First Nation does extensive business with oilsands companies.

The justice system has now cleared the name of a man who was charged for something he did during a medical episode.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, an outspoken critic of Liberal climate-change policy, lashed out Monday at Justin Trudeau for "unilaterally" imposing a carbon price on provinces and territories.

An Alabama teenager's pro-cop message on Facebook last week resulted in an assault so bad that he had to be airlifted to a local hospital.

Meals prepared for the ISIS leader and three other commanders of the terrorist organisation were allegedly poisoned in the Be'aaj district, southwest of Nineveh.

A Montreal junior college is trying to accommodate a female student who was prevented from taking an exam because she wouldn't temporarily remove her hijab.

A woman who gave cool water to hot pigs on their way to slaughter last year is expected to take the stand in her own defence today.

Kim Kardashian fled Paris on a private jet on Monday morning after being robbed at gunpoint while staying at a luxury apartment. She was tied up and locked in a bathroom.

A man who survived two grizzly bear attacks with mostly flesh wounds has captured the Internet's attention, with a Facebook video showing the bloody injuries he sustained during his frightening ordeal.

Earl Commodore worked for years as a longshoreman, making the long commute from the Soowahlie First Nation's reserve in Cultus Lake, near Chilliwack, to Vancouver's Burrard Inlet. Commodore was hard-working and ambitious, said those who knew him.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is leading parliamentary debate on the Paris climate change agreement today. His speech in the House of Commons is began at noon ET, and CBCNews.ca is carrying it live.

Human rights group Amnesty International is raising concerns that Canada's spy agency is using controversial powers under the C-51 anti-terrorism legislation to gather intelligence from Canadians held in foreign prisons.

The Alberta government is going ahead with its plan to restore habitat in two swaths of caribou rangeland that were previously disturbed by decades of industrial use.