NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2017

A 1-year-old boy is in extremely critical condition at a Tennessee hospital after police say he was thrown from a vehicle during a fight between his parents.

Careless drivers in Ontario causing death could soon be fined up to $50,000 as the government plans to introduce tougher penalties that will also crack down on distracted driving.

A pet parrot managed to place an online shopping order by mimicking its owner on a voice-controlled smart speaker, a British newspaper reported Wednesday.

An investigation into a series of dangerous motorcycle stunts that snarled traffic on major highways in and around the Toronto area this summer has led to 48 charges, provincial police announced Wednesday.

A Calgary woman is heading to court over two speeding tickets she received in the span of 10 seconds from two different photo radar cameras located only 250 metres apart in Edmonton.

Police say the body of a hiker who fell from an Oregon cliff more than a week ago has washed ashore. The father-of-two from Vancouver was hiking on a bluff overlooking Devil's Cauldron when police said he slipped.

Two new subsidized bus routes on B.C.'s Highway 16 aim to reduce hitchhiking and provide safe, affordable transit along the notorious stretch known as the Highway of Tears, where more than a dozen women have gone missing or been murdered.

Police in Colorado are looking for a jogger they say is repeatedly interrupting her runs to defecate in public in one neighbourhood. Police Sgt. Johnathan Sharketti calls the case "uncharted territory."

The relationship between China and North Korea, longtime allies, has gone from special to strained. Last week at the United Nations Security Council, China agreed on a package of tough new sanctions that includes a cap on oil exports to North Korea result

Facebook is apologizing for letting advertisers use phrases like "Jew-haters" as a targeting criteria and for not noticing it until it was pointed out.

A delicate effort to reach a young girl buried in the rubble of her school stretched into a daylong vigil for Mexico, much of it broadcast across the nation as rescue workers still struggled in rain and darkness early Thursday trying to pick away unstable

The soft soil that lines the ancient lake bed that Mexico City is built on amplified the shaking from Tuesday's earthquake and increased its destructive force, seismologists say.

Scientists have discovered a new species of hermit crab off the coast of Japan that roams the ocean floor with coral on its back.

Saturn's moon Titan has oceans made of methane. What would it be like to explore them, and how would we do it? CBC's Bob McDonald looks into the possibilities.

BC Ferries introduces interim schedule changes to the Langdale and Bowen Island sailings from West Vancouver's Horseshoe Bay.

Adriane Carr says her biggest concern is the impact that 50,000 high paying jobs would have on housing and rental prices, if Amazon decides to set up a second headquarters in Vancouver.

Parts of southern Alberta can expect some of the fluffy white stuff overnight; daring to make its appearance outside of the mountains before the calendar even flips to autumn.

The NHL is hoping the two-game preseason series, its first ever games in China, will boost hockey interest in its largest untapped market. While the pre-season series is an NHL initiative, it's also a chance for the Canucks to win over new fans.

More than 1,0000 steelhead, coho and pink salmon have been transported over the 2014 rock slide since the installation of a fish fence. The waterway could be restored as early as next year.

View the interactive map to see the seismic risk for individual Lower Mainland schools.

The strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in over 80 years tore off roofs and doors, knocked out power across the entire island and unleashed heavy flooding Wednesday in an onslaught that could plunge the U.S. territory deeper into financial crisis.

Members of Black Lives Matter- Toronto blocked traffic at a busy downtown intersection during rush hour this morning to protest the deportation of a new mother.

A town in southwestern Ontario is grieving the death of a famous rodent resident, prognosticating groundhog Wiarton Willie. Willie was 13 years young and is believed to have died from natural causes.

Six NASA-backed research subjects who have been cooped up in a Mars-like habitat on a remote Hawaii volcano since January emerged from isolation Sunday. They devoured fresh-picked tropical fruits, vegetables and a fluffy egg strata after eating mostly fre

Experiment to understand what causes the sky's brightest lights to take place Thursday night. If conditions are clear, people in Whitehorse and Dawson City, Yukon, will have a good chance of snapping photos of the artificial aurora.

The millions of black-and-orange butterflies that have carpeted flower beds across the Montreal area in recent days are waiting for winds to carry them south to warmer weather, according to an expert at the Montreal Insectarium.

A new study shows sea turtles are lumbering back from the brink of extinction. There are seven different species of sea turtles, all but one endangered. The slow creatures live for several decades.

Scientists calculate that Arctic sea ice this summer dropped to its eighth lowest level on record. That's far below average, but considerably above the record low set five years ago.

In a remote, rugged valley overlooking the Pacific Ocean, researchers closely monitor an endangered icon: the California condor. One of the world's largest birds with a wingspan up to 10 feet, the condor once patrolled the sky from Mexico to British Colum

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says there are no reports of Canadian casualties following a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that killed dozens in Mexico.

U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to "totally destroy" North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear standoff.

Premier John Horgan's NDP government asked the commission to review the economic viability of the $8.8-billion project after taking office. The submission says demand for electricity is growing and without the dam, the province would hit an energy shortfa

Jake LaMotta, the iron-chinned brawler whose exploits in and out of the ring during boxing's heyday served as the basis for the Oscar-winning Raging Bull, has died at 95 after a bout with pneumonia.

The conditions were less than ideal for the Vancouver Canucks at their first practice in China, but the thick layer of fog sitting over the ice sure made for pretty pictures.

Highway 3 between Paulson Summit to Kootenay Pass is expected to get significant accumulations. Snow is anticipated at high elevations around Nicola, Kootenay Lake, the Okanagan Valley, and Columbia-Shuswap.

The 16-year-old Iraqi refugee found thousands of euros in a handbag on the subway.

Two unidentified men opened fire on Anthony 'Fif' Soares in the lobby of a building in Toronto just before 3am last Thursday.

Scientists recently announced they had found an Earth-like planet in the star system next door. What will it take to send spacecraft there? And how close are we?

Doctors at Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital came across something highly illogical when they tried to put an arterial line into a patient about to undergo surgery: his blood was dark green.

After slightly slowing for the past 15 years, global warming is once again rising more quickly due to a decade-long weather pattern that warms and cools the Pacific, Britain's meteorological office said Monday.

The head of a Newfoundland whale-rescue group says a moratorium on freeing whales from fishing gear is "ludicrous." Groups must check with DFO before trying to rescue entangled whale, following fisherman's death

123 birds that flew into a Suncor oilsands mine have died or been euthanized after they were discovered Sunday. The 123 deaths reported Tuesday are the latest in a series of bird fatalities at Alberta oilsands operations.

With grizzly bears dying from train strikes at an alarming rate in the rail corridor between Banff and Yoho national parks since 2000, researchers have been studying why. Now there are signs that measures being taken by researchers, Parks Canada and the r

This is the moment a man claiming to have supernatural control over crocodiles died after one of the reptiles appeared to drag the shaman under water in Kartanegara, Indonesia.

Canada's privacy czar says Canadians should be "very concerned" about their cellphones, computers and other electronic devices being searched by U.S. border agents.

because beekeeping is a big business and without bees, billions of dollars of farm crops would go unpollinated.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is dropping the gloves in his fight with Boeing, saying his government won't do business with a company that he's accusing of attacking Canadian industry and trying to put aerospace employees out of work.

An inquiry is launched after Scout Schultz is killed confronting officers with a knife.

Inmates at a prison for terrorists branded 'Jihadi Jail' have been passing mobiles between cells by flushing them through sewage pipes at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.

A strengthening Hurricane Maria swirled toward the eastern Caribbean early Monday, with forecasters warning it probably would be a major storm by the time it passed through the already battered Leeward Islands later in the day.

The pet bird escaped her owners' home through a faulty screen door in Victoria, B.C. on Friday.

Peter Wheaton says he couldn't just stand by and let a baby squirrel get attacked by a murder of crows.

A drunk man tried to live high off the hog, but instead the boar was sent to the pen, say Brandon police.

A First Nations chief is calling on the British Columbia government to halt the moose hunt this year, arguing the historic wildfire season has caused enough trauma to the species.

The Marseille prosecutor's office says four young female U.S. tourists have been attacked with acid in Marseille's main train station by a woman who has been arrested.

Lori Mushanski knew something was wrong the minute she pulled into her driveway after work.

Nigel and Sally Rowe removed their son from his Church of England primary school on the Isle of Wight after a classmate began asking to be treated as a girl one day and a boy the next.

The province says wildfires continue to rage across B.C. and those in affected communities should remain prepared.

Sandy and Rod Haines were in a dead sleep in their rural Fruitvale B.C., home south of Castlegar on Wednesday, when there was an "odd thud" in the basement around 3 a.m.

Two people have been fined after pulling the claws off crabs and throwing their legless bodies back into the ocean in White Rock, B.C., last week.

Universities known for being hotbeds of campus protest and liberal activism are struggling with declining enrollments and budget shortfalls, and higher education analysts say that's no coincidence.

Nearly 20 years ago, four seniors vanished in Ontario's cottage country. Was it murder?

The highest-ranking Canadian officer at Norad has demolished a long-held political assumption by telling a parliamentary committee the U.S. is under no obligation to defend Canada in the event of a ballistic missile attack.

Jason Stockley has been found not guilty of first-degree murder.

The chain of a dozen hunting, fishing and camping supply stores in Western Canada is shutting down after 30 years in business.

An oilsands company is defending the Alberta NDP government, after a United Conservative Party candidate accused Premier Rachel Notley of wanting to shut down the industry.

Equifax Canada is facing intensifying calls for transparency on its massive cyberhack as the Canadian Automobile Association informs thousands of its members that their data may have been compromised

Hundreds of London police embarked on a massive manhunt Friday, racing to find out who placed a homemade bomb on a packed London subway train during the morning rush hour. The explosion wounded 22 people and ignited a panicked stampede to safety.

The country's biggest Internet service providers and advertising industry lobby groups are fighting to stop a proposed California law that would protect the privacy of broadband customers.

Terrified commuters have 'run for their lives' after an explosion on a London Underground train. People fled in panic as a fireball reportedly left passengers with burns in Parsons Green.

A North Korean state agency threatened on Thursday to use nuclear weapons to "sink" Japan and reduce the United States to "ashes and darkness" for supporting a UN Security Council resolution and sanctions over its latest nuclear test.

There are more than 800 Canadians who could have fake degrees, a Marketplace investigation has revealed, and former Toronto mayoral candidate Erwin Sniedzins is one of them.

Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman says Conservative Senator Lynn Beyak should resign for suggesting Indigenous Canadians are not citizens.

The Invictus flag is travelling through Quebec this week in advance of the games that begin next week in Toronto.

Despite Canada's vast wilderness, populations of half its vertebrate species are shrinking, a new World Wildlife Fund report finds. And endangered species like woodland caribou and St. Lawrence beluga whales continue to disappear even after becoming prote

The public will never find out what kind of pornography titillated Osama bin Laden as he whiled away his last days in a Pakistan hideaway.

Winter is coming, with white stuff blanketing mountain communities. Communities along the edge of the Alberta Rockies were walloped with the first snowfall of the season Wednesday.

Oddsmakers don't have high hopes for the Canucks this season, but that didn't stop loyal fans from coming out to watch an open practise on Wednesday.

As It Happens host Carol Off touches base with the Fleming family of Ballymacelligott, Ireland, whose efforts to rid their kitchen of a rogue bat have gone viral.

The CFL is eliminating full-contact padded practices during the season and extending its schedule to 21 weeks to help reduce the risk of injury.

For the past week, the sun has produced a flurry of unusual activity, which bodes well for those who want to catch a glimpse of the northern lights.

After vowing to take the summer months to consult with Indigenous people, Conservative Senator Lynn Beyak says she now believes all First Nations should renounce their Indigenous rights and integrate into Canadian society.

When a wolf swam after a mighty buck in the depths of a northern Alberta lake, David Smith was there to capture the struggle, frame by frame.

The death of RCMP Cpl. Trevor O'Keefe on Monday has cast a deep sadness over the entire force in this province, say fellow officers who served alongside the well-known Mountie.

Erik Vogel is hoping to spark a wider conversation about giving new life to used emergency equipment.

More than 100 people, holding hands and singing gathered at a park to offer support to the family of an 8-year-old biracial boy who was nearly hanged by a group of teenagers.

North Korea appears to be stepping up efforts to secure bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which could be used to avoid trade restrictions including new sanctions approved by the United Nations Security Council.

The Calgary Flames are no longer looking for a new arena in their home city.

How much alcohol is safe for a pregnant woman to drink? For a question that affects so many people, surprisingly little research has been done, health experts who reviewed the scant evidence said Tuesday.

Dozens of Canadian power crews, including from Nova Scotia and Ontario, are heading to Florida to help restore power to millions of people affected by Hurricane Irma.

A fatberg the length of two Wembley Stadium football pitches has been found blocking a sewer in Whitechapel, east London. The 250-metre long solid mass of wet wipes, nappies, fat and oil, weighs the same as 11 double-decker buses.

In addition to creating fake Americans on Facebook as a way to generate anti-Clinton buzz online during the 2016 presidential campaign, it now appears that those accounts also organized and promoted real-world political protests using Facebook pages.

Alberta farmers are asking the province to change policies around fusarium graminearum as the destructive plant fungus spreads west across Canada, infecting fields in its path.

Blueborne exploit works against unpatched devices running Android, Linux, or Windows.

Britain and France have both sent extra police resources and the Netherlands have sent troops to the region amid reports of looting in the wake of the devastating 185mph storm.

In early 2014, a young Toronto man who went by the jihadi nom de guerre "Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi" (Abu Huzaifa the Canadian) cleaned out his bank account and left to join the ranks of ISIS.

It seems bobcats are popping up in yards all over Calgary these days. Here's some suggestions on how to handle them.

A Toronto family wants answers after Air Canada barred them from their flight, forcing them to spend an extra $4,000 on new tickets to take the same flight the following day.

In first full school year of the Trump era, more U.S. classes are focusing on media literacy and fake news: "Canada is far better in terms of sensing when there is BS," says a UCLA education professor who uses Canadian material.

Kushi and her sister made a living selling cheap scarves outside NATO's Kabul headquarters. Then, one day in 2012, an al-Qaeda suicide bomber made it into the green zone. Until Kushi's murder, Charlie had held it together.

Nissa Scott started at Amazon last year but she has moved onto a new and interesting role at the online giant - babysitting robots.

An acclaimed British conductor has been fired from a prestigious American music festival after a seemingly innocent joke he made to a black friend was labelled racist.