NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2015

Julien Levasseur, 23, has been charged in the random attack that left an elderly woman dead in New Westminster, B.C., on Wednesday.

Anita Sutherland woke up to the sound of her truck honking Thursday morning, only to find a bear cub trapped inside.

In what may be the peak Vancouver moment, the city's Burrard Street Bridge will be closed on June 21 for some mass downward-dogging.

Strange-looking fish, identified as Arctic lamprey, are being found in odd locations on land in the community, such as the Value Village parking lot.

Global sustainable fishery policies could raise profits in the sector by $51 billion a year, boost the numbers of fish in the oceans and provide more food for the world's people, research showed on Thursday.

A fan whose head was bloodied by a broken bat that flew into the stands during a Red Sox game at Fenway Park in Boston was in the hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.

Letters home from Canadian combat cameraman Sgt. Hugh McCaughey are at the heart of a collection donated recently to the Canadian War Museum. They reveal both the profound and the deeply personal stories of life during the Second World War.

The Ontario government passed new legislation this week aimed at making roads safer. Along with tougher fines for distracted driving and driving under the influence, the law also focuses on making roads safer for cyclists.

The country's labour force received a boost of 58,900 additional jobs last month thanks to a surge in private-sector work.

Tim Hortons has yanked ads from Enbridge from its in-store television screens, the company announced on Twitter Thursday. And now it's being both applauded and criticized.

Canada would never agree to allow Russia back into the G7 as long as Vladimir Putin is president, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.

A WestJet plane slipped off the runway while landing at Montreal's Trudeau airport this afternoon.

Over the past two decades, a new strain of Fusarium wilt - called Panama disease Tropical Race 4 - has emerged to threaten banana crops

Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death as part of the regime that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, has died in a hospit

While some celebrity moms swear by it and have made it trendy, doctors and scientists say consuming the placenta after birth offers women and their babies no benefit.

U.S. employers added a robust 280,000 jobs in May, showing that the economy has regained momentum after starting 2015 in a deep slump.

American bank JP Morgan has decided to get rid of voice mail for many employees, and an MIT professor thinks it's a sign the service's days are numbered.

The growth of a rat forelimb grown in the lab offers hope that one day amputees may receive fully functional, biological replacement limbs

The government's decision this week to back an opposition motion to rein in banking fees suggests anti-bank sentiment is so strong right now that it even crosses party lines.

For more than a decade and at a cost of nearly a million dollars, a man has been held in an immigration detention centre in an Ontario city. The lengthy detention has been complicated by questions about identity, including the possibility that the mystery

A Pakistani court has freed eight out of 10 people charged with organizing the shooting of Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, police said on Friday.

The Office of Personnel Management, the government agency that manages federal employees, announced Thursday that its network was breached in December 2014, potentially compromising the personal records of approximately 4 million former and current employ

By drawing just a single drop of blood, doctors may soon be able to test their patients to see if they've ever contracted more than 1,000 strains of viruses.

An apparent slowdown in the pace of global warming in recent years may be an illusion based on skewed data, according to a study on Thursday that found no break in a trend of rising temperatures.

About 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over th

Kerri Hughes said she was told her son, nine, Atticus could take a male relative to the event at Blean Primary School in Canterbury, Kent, pictured, but that neither she nor her partner, were allowed.

Anonymous users of secret-sharing app, Whisper, have revealed the most outrageous reasons they've got the sack; from seemingly undeserving acts to resounding all-out fails.

Spencer Inglis who is being detained at Belmarsh Prison, said he couldn't believe he would have to share a cell with two other inmates and says he's constantly exposed to violence.

Ergonomist David Antle thinks it's a good idea to discourage too much sedentary behaviour at the office but telling people to work standing up isn't necessarily the solution. He says it's movement that matters. Here's what he had to say about staying heal

Eight-year-old Christian McPhilamy has spent the last two years growing out his hair, despite pressure from peers and even coaches to cut it off prematurely.

Sy Montgomery, author of 'The Soul of an Octopus', says the animal "changed my way of thinking ... changed my way of living on the planet."

Relief could be on the way for Ontarians fed up with being sold energy contracts on their doorsteps.

Even Canada's top doctor had trouble recognizing when he was having a stroke, a critical step in getting care to reduce the risk of death and ensuring the best possible recovery, the Heart and Stroke Foundation says.

A woman who was mauled to death by a lioness in South Africa was a Vancouver-based visual effects editor on a volunteer mission to protect wildlife, her family says.

Canada is expected to increase security measures placed on incoming travellers from countries that require visas by introducing a series of biometric tests, CTV News has learned.

The government is indicating it will wait until the larger version of the final report is released later this year before providing a response

When he cut off his right arm with a "very sharp power tool," a man who now calls himself One Hand Jason let everyone believe it was an accident

More than 100 people have been arrested in a large-scale, two-county operation that targeted cyber crimes and prostitution, authorities said Tuesday.

Hidden away in an Italian encampment four years ago, Canada's preparation for the 2011 Women's World Cup looked much different than it does today. There wasn't barbed wire or armed guards.

Toronto police say it may be a Facebook hoax like many other events planned this summer.

There will soon be stricter limits on what police record checks can disclose in Ontario.

A Fargo man who admitted being drunk while operating a Zamboni during a high school hockey game was convicted Tuesday after the judge rejected his lawyer's argument that the machine didn't meet the definition of a vehicle under city code.

A 32-year-old man is facing multiple charges including kidnapping and aggravated assault in connection with a violent abduction and beating in January.

As the government's proposed anti-terror bill heads towards the legislative finish line, some of its more conservative-minded critics are warning Prime Minister Stephen Harper that its passage could carry a heavy cost for his party when they hit the campa

Remember back in the day when those Dianetics commercials first started airing (with the volcano??) and Scientology was all crazy mysterious (as oppos...

Jihadis operating in the group's 'Euphrates province', which stretches from Anbar in Iraq to Dier ez Zour in Syria, told pigeon breeders they had one week to stop the practice or face flogging.

Abdi Hersy, a high profile imam wanted in the U.S. on outstanding criminal charges, will be fighting to keep his refugee status at a hearing in Calgary Tuesday.

Full coverage of the Fifa media conference in Zurich after Fifa's president stands down after 17 years following the latest corruption scandal

Remember when scientists discovered that thunderstorms can produce powerful gamma rays? Now, those same scientists have found something even stranger - a mysterious source of antimatter lurking inside these storms.

Comments about the weight of Health Minister Sarah Hoffman show sexism is still an issue for women in Alberta politics, a gender studies lecturer says.

Live anthrax samples were shipped to three laboratories in Canada by a U.S. military lab, USA Today reported on Monday, following disclosures last week that samples of the bacteria were mistakenly sent to 11 U.S. states and two other countries.

When Nara Pech, 28, called family in Canada for the last time he said he was stuck at the Laos airport.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay joins a growing list of Conservative MPs who have decided not to reoffer in the October federal election, avoiding pension changes that will triple the amount they must contribute and force them to wait an extra 10 years to c

Jacques Parizeau, the man who nearly led Quebec to sovereignty in 1995, died Monday night. He was 84.

Beef prices are at an all-time high as grilling season fires into high gear this summer, and at least one analyst says it will likely stay that way for another three to four years.

BEIJING (AP) -- Restaurant operator KFC said Monday it filed a lawsuit against three companies in China whose social media accounts spread false claims about its food, including that its chickens have eight legs.

Their inspiration may be exotic -- the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Rome's Colosseum -- but rabbi Natan Alexander's vibrators have a distinctly domestic goal: giving Orthodox Jewish couples gratification without the guilt. Alexander, 34, was born

An American woman has been killed by a lion that jumped into a car and attacked her at a nature park in South Africa, according to reports.

Gemma Wale, of Birmingham, is given a two-week prison sentence after annoying a neighbour with her 'screaming and shouting whilst having sex'

With relatively little notice, the world passed a modern milestone recently, Brian Stewart writes: The global jobless total passed 200 million, with only one in four have anything like a stable job. Is it any wonder so many places are in turmoil?

Allegations that B.C. government staffers are deleting emails confirm suspicions of advocates who say freedom of information laws are proving a poor match for the cunning of secretive bureaucrats.

Next week, the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be back in action, taking data for the accelerator's second run. The detectors were shut down two years ago for; maintenance and refurbishment in preparation for collisions at the higher e

Known as 'Kremlin trolls,' men and women work 12-hour shifts around the clock, flooding the Internet with propaganda aimed at stamping President Vladimir Putin's world vision on Russia, and the world.

Joe Biden, whose wife and daughter died in 1972, has borne his latest grief stoically as cancer claimed son Beau.

More than 30 years ago 40 per cent of the British population identified themselves as Church of England or Anglican, but now this figure has dropped to just 17 per cent.

Support is growing within the Church of England to rewrite its official liturgy to refer to God as female following the selection of the first women bishops