NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2017

A Vancouver business is suing its strata for refusing to allow the opening of a Moby Dick fish and chips franchise in part because, according to a lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the name contains an 'offensive term.'

The dawn of the new year has unsurprisingly witnessed global media turn toward the incoming U.S. administration with an intensity bordering on the obsessive. Meanwhile, events of arguably equal or greater importance are sacrificed in favor of the story of

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused Tuesday to respond in English to several questions put to him in English in Sherbrooke, Que., telling the town hall meeting that because he was in Quebec he would speak French.

Yukon Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale has delivered a strongly-worded 'wake up call' to Canadian taxpayers, who are now on the hook for another expensive mine cleanup in Yukon - the abandoned Mount Nansen site.

A power blackout in Ukraine's capital Kiev last month was caused by a cyber attack and investigators are trying to trace other potentially infected computers and establish the source of the breach, utility Ukrenergo told Reuters on Wednesday.

The RCMP are investigating a claim that Canada's second-highest military commander leaked classified data involving the navy's requirements for new frigates to the shipbuilding industry, according to several defence sources. Vice-Admiral Mark Norman was r

Environment Minister Shannon Phillips says energy efficiency programs to help Albertans save money are now in the final stages and will be launched as early as March.

Canadian oil industry leaders are trying to get a better idea what the impact of a new import tax in the United States would be on Canada's energy sector if the Trump administration embraces it.

A CIBC research report predicts that new technologies will greatly reduce the cost and environmental impact of building new oilsands projects over the next five years.

Calgary Police Association president Les Kaminski has been criminally charged with perjury and assault with a weapon, while Const. Brant Derrick has been charged with assault causing bodily harm.

Bracing for uncertainty under the new U.S. administration, British Columbia's lumber producers are working out ways to Trump-proof the industry.

Commerce secretary pick Wilbur Ross lists rules of origin, independent dispute tribunals as priorities

It's finally official: Kevin O'Leary will run to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. After months of flirting with the idea, he picked the morning after the French leadership debate and used a video on his Facebook page to declare his candi

The man, who has not yet been identified, said the act was in protest of the President-elect's looming inauguration. Witnesses said he yelled 'Trump' as flames 'ran up his back' shortly before 9.30pm.

With Trans-Pacific Partnership on its deathbed, preliminary talks with China carry symbolic weight

Retired lieutenant-general Andrew Leslie will be named to the cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations

Through successive years of slow economic growth, the debt-to-disposable-income ratio has been stuck at or near record levels

The Canadian Border Services Agency is announcing yet another drug discovery at Vancouver's International Mail...

One person was taken into custody in connection with fires at several buildings in Milltown and Bay d'Espoir on Newfoundland's south coast this morning.

He spent his life challenging young people to eclipse his NASA legacy and put fresh footprints on the moon. He died without knowing when -- or if -- that will happen.

Canada's middle class has the feeling it's being left behind. But Oxfam's measure of inequality, but those figures don't tell the whole story about the Canadian situation, critics say.

There are games a team hopes to win, games it needs to win, games it should win and games it better win or else the roof will fall in. Monday night at Rogers Place featured all four, as the lowly Arizona Coyotes moved into the Edmonton Oilers' crosshairs.

The FBI on Monday arrested the wife of the gunman in the Pulse Nightclub massacre on charges connected to the shooting rampage, law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News.

The deputy commander of the Canadian military has been ordered replaced on a temporary basis. Vice-Admiral Mark Norman was relieved of his post Monday morning, but officials at National Defence are refusing to explain.

The "secret order" that authorized Canada's first warrantless domestic wiretapping program at the dawn of the Cold War threatened five years in prison to anyone who revealed the dragnet's existence, the newly released document shows.

How do we consistently and fairly define perceptions of bias or hate as a catalyst for criminal violence?

The two richest Canadians have the same amount of wealth as the poorest 30 per cent of the country combined, according to a new report from a group of international aid organizations.

Donald Trump struck a chord when he seized on Americans' distaste for political journalists during last year's U.S. presidential election campaign, says the author of Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus.

President-elect Donald Trump's team could move the White House press briefing room from the West Wing to another location that accommodates more media from around the country, incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said on Sunday. Meanwhile th

Donald Trump struck a chord when he seized on Americans' distaste for political journalists during last year's U.S. presidential election campaign, says the author of Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has evolved the use of drones to release explosive devices which they are dropping on civilians in districts of Mosul.

A school system employee in Maryland who had a lighthearted quarrel with a student on Twitter has been fired. Katie Nash who acted as the media services coordinator since November 2016.

The critique follows a Canadian study finding that it was easier to spot courtroom liars when they wore niqabs

A RUSSIAN ambassador has been shot and killed in Yemen, according to unconfirmed reports in Saudi Arabian media.

Justin Trudeau was confronted by the tearful pleas of an Ontario woman upset about the cost of her hydro bill during a town hall forum in Peterborough, Ontario.

Christopher Steele, the one-time British spy who compiled a dossier on president-elect Donald Trump, is a well-regarded operative who wouldn't make up stories to satisfy his clients, according to diplomatic and intelligence experts who know him.

William Happer has argued that the "benefits that more [carbon dioxide] brings from increased agricultural yields and modest warming far outweigh any harm."

The sprawling probe was launched amid an outcry over video of a white officer shooting a black teenager.

Walmart Canada and four of its senior managers are facing 174 charges under the Public Health Act related to the sale of food contaminated during a wildfire that engulfed Fort McMurray, Alta., last May.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised Thursday to ensure transgender inmates can serve their sentences in prisons based on their gender identity, just as a new Correctional Service Canada policy bars the practice.

York South-Weston Liberal MP Ahmed Hussen has broken another barrier: he's been appointed as immigration minister.

Chicago police have violated the constitutional rights of residents for years, permitting racial bias against blacks, using excessive force and shooting people who did not pose immediate threats, the U.S. Justice Department said after a yearlong investiga

In less than two years, ISIS has gone from a terror start-up overseas to what FBI Director James Comey calls a chaotic spider web in the US with the usage of social media to lure recruits.

President Barack Obama surprised an emotional Vice President Joe Biden Thursday by presenting him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, during a White House ceremony.

A brave schoolgirl managed to escape the clutches of a refugee sex attacker by pledging that she would meet him the following day of her own free will.

Over 200 maritime workers gathered in Vancouver, Victoria and Prince Rupert Thursday to protest what they view as "an attack on jobs" from the federal Liberal government.

The country's highest court is set to rule on whether Canadians have the right to sue energy regulators. The case stems from Alberta landowner Jessica Ernst, who says hydraulic fracking severely contaminated her well and water supply with toxic chemicals.

Fort McMurray #468 First Nation is distancing itself from Jane Fonda's tour of the oilsands and one of its members who supports the Hollywood actress's message.

The Edmonton Oilers were underachieving on home ice and losing in the third period to a bottom-feeding opponent. If they were were trying to make Taylor Hall felt right at home in his first visit to Rogers Place since being traded last summer, it worked.

A family friend was bitten by Sunny, the First Family's 4-year-old dog.

Billionaire hedge-fund manager George Soros lost nearly $1 billion as a result of the stock-market rally spurred by Donald Trump's surprise presidential election.

A 42-year-old Dutch woman recently had her Swiss citizenship application rejected by the people with the sole reason being her annoying lifestyle.

I can't tell if this is news or just pure bullshit.

A man who went to jail after using natural remedies to treat his son's meningitis is going to Prince George, B.C., to promote nutritional supplements sold by his family's business, sparking controversy online.

Death and taxes may be the only certain things in life, but even the dead can't escape the new carbon tax in Alberta.

Salacious and unproven allegations that U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is vulnerable to blackmail by the Russian government will be his burden to disprove. Whether true or not, the claims may have already wrought damage.

Actress and activist Jane Fonda blasts Canada's prime minister at a panel discussion in Edmonton on Alberta's oilsands, accusing him of betraying his government's commitments made at the Paris climate talks.

A BULL mounted a female matador after knocking her to the ground during a fight in Spain.

John McCain had admitted passing the dirty dossier claiming Moscow had a secret file on Donald Trump to the FBI. He claimed that was his only involvement in the affair.

A glimpse of the rarely seen bunkers, air-raid sirens and government pamphlets from the hair-trigger madness of the Cold War

The president-elect will hold his first news conference today since winning the election.

There's an idea, widely accepted by many in the military, by veterans and by the civilian public that the Conservatives are the party of the CAF, and the Liberals are not. It's a myth.

Donald Trump is demanding an even larger naval fleet than what he had promoted on the campaign trail. The 355-ship proposal could require an additional $5bn to $5.5bn in spending.

Not everyone in Hollywood is a fan of Meryl Streep.

Democratic lawmakers plan to rehang a controversial painting on Capitol Hill that angered law enforcement groups with its depiction of police officers as pigs, after Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter personally took down the picture last week.

The roughly 100-foot-long space rock was about the same size of the meteorite that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013.

Before Jeff Sessions even got a chance to speak, several protesters dressed like members of the Ku Klux Klan made their viewpoint known as they shouted 'Jefferson Bearegard' and called the senator a 'racist.'

Vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy says he accepted Trump's offer to chair panel on vaccine safety

A rural community in southern Manitoba is reporting a spike in illegal immigrants seeking asylum from deportation in the United States.

New edition of the Wastebook compiled by staff researchers for Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona exposed hundreds of tax-funded studies that confirmed the obvious.

At least 70 Mexicans claimed refugee status in Canada in the first month after the federal government lifted a visa requirement for travellers from Mexico, according to figures provided by the Canada Border Services Agency.

Chrystia Freeland will be appointed Canada's new foreign affairs minister in a shakeup. of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet. Freeland replaces Stephane Dion, whose future is unclear.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer says while federal government spending is higher for the first half of 2016, Ottawa is struggling to get its promised infrastructure money out the door, meaning the much-hoped-for related economic activity will be delayed.

An intense coal bunker fire that likely reached 1,000 degrees Celsius accelerated the sinking of the Titanic more than 100 years ago, an Irish journalist claims in a new documentary.

Clare Hollingworth, a British war correspondent who was the first to report the Nazi invasion of Poland that marked the beginning of the Second World War, died in Hong Kong on Tuesday. She was 105.

The wife of a New York man who died in last year's terror attack in Brussels is suing Twitter in a new lawsuit that calls the social media giant a "tool and a weapon of terrorism."

While details are vague, language used in newly released records is similar to that of programs embraced by controversial U.S., British agencies

Women in politics seem to be speaking out about their experiences like never before. That's good. But we need to remember that not all women experience sexism and misogyny in the same way.

There may be a remedy for the winter doldrums in another land of snow and sleet - Denmark.

A team of University of Alberta physicists has deciphered a scientific mystery that evaded computer whizzes for decades, resulting in a discovery potentially worth billions of dollars to the technology industry.

Martin McGuinness steps down over the handling of a botched heating scheme, likely sparking a snap election.

Two and a half years into the oil price downturn, Alberta is still in a rut, by most measures. Now some oilpatch players have a new idea to get people back to work, and they're looking for help from Ottawa.

Anarchist groups have threatened to shut down Republican Donald Trump's swearing-in as U.S. president, but police in Washington said on Friday they believe the thousands of security officers assigned to the event will be able to head off any disruption.

Pakistani man indicted in Germany planned to kill prominent Israel supporters on behalf of Iran if Israel bombed Iranian nuclear facilities; one of his targets was Reinhold Robbe, a member of the Social Democratic Party and former president of the German-

Reports that the gunman in a mass shooting at a Florida airport pulled his gun from a checked bag before opening fire are raising questions about how someone could possibly transport a weapon on a commercial flight and use it against fellow travellers.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia tried to interfere in the American presidential election, his incoming White House Chief of staff said Sunday.

An attacker rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers who were disembarking from a bus in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 15 others, Israeli police and rescue services said.

Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Palestinian attacker who mowed down and killed four Israeli soldiers and wounded 15 in Jerusalem was an ISIS terrorist.

Despite overwhelming New Jersey with a relentless barrage of rubber, the Oilers spent most of the night being rope-a-doped off the scoresheet and needed a dramatic overtime finish to escape a hopelessly unfair loss.

Markus Granlund had two goals and an assist, Ryan Miller made 44 saves, and the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Calgary Flames 4-2 for their sixth straight victory on Friday night.

Quebec provincial police say a major Canada-U.S. border crossing has been closed after a threat.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family spent their Bahamas vacation on a private island belonging to the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, Trudeau's office confirmed Friday.

A county official says the Fort Lauderdale airport shooter pulled a gun out of a checked bag, loaded in a bathroom and started shooting, killing five people and wounding at least eight.

The average Canadian has at least 18 apps on their mobile device according to research group Catalyst Canada: everything from fitness to social sharing to shopping and games. But is the fun and convenience worth all the personal information you could be g

A controversial Canadian program that gives a regulated, hourly dose of wine to alcoholics to help manage their addiction and keep them safe has caught the attention of health care researchers in Australia.

A pair of refugees from Ghana are recovering in hospital after getting frostbite while trying to get to Winnipeg on Christmas Eve after fleeing the United States.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates says the contract is expected to be worth $100-million when finalized

But most impressive of all, it�s running without subsidies.

Hockey fans at a southeast recreation centre are being advised to bundle up and bring blankets to games as the non-profit facility looks at ways to cope with Alberta's new carbon tax. Les Turner, general manager of Cardel Rec South in Shawnessy, said t

The next stage of Alberta's carbon plan is under way, with carbon tax rebate cheques arriving to low and middle-income families.

Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau has written to all commercial air carriers to say he is "very concerned" about an incident in Calgary in which a Sunwing Airlines pilot is accused of being so drunk he passed out in the cockpit.

Hate crime and battery charges have been filed against four black suspects accused of beating a mentally disabled white man and broadcasting the attack live on Facebook.

It's a new year, but Canadians in their 20s and 30s continue to face the same daunting financial problems: precarious employment, rising house prices and a struggle to save for a secure retirement.

Anthony Cirelli had a goal and an assist and subbed-in goalie Carter Hart made 28 saves as Canada downed Sweden 5-2 in a semifinal at the world junior hockey championship on Wednesday night.

A new study released on Wednesday says that the idea that Alberta is the lowest taxed region in the continent is no longer true.