NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2017

For decades, a confessional in a church in Lithuania's capital Vilnius kept a precious secret: a trove of documents offering an unprecedented glimpse into Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during the Holocaust.

Little remains of the wreckage from Angie Thorne's home after a wildfire tore through her reserve in central British Columbia earlier this year. Months have passed since emergency crews doused the flames of B.C.'s precedent-setting wildfire season, but so

A deer trying to cross Highway 401 at Avenue Road was safely caught by police and motorists on Friday morning and has already been released into the wild.

For Canadians dreaming of a white Christmas, Mother Nature might have the answer as some potentially troublesome weather is expected in the days leading up to the holiday.

New numbers posted by the Ontario Energy Board paint a painful picture of how hydro customers have fared under Kathleen Wynne's government.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions called for a review of a program targeting drug trafficking by Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group.

Thousands of visitors pause to reflect on the photograph at London's National Archives, which is captioned: 'East African slaves taken aboard HMS Daphne from a dhow, 1 November 1868.'

One aardvark - named as nine-year-old Misha (pictured) - died after the 6am inferno, which began in the Animal Adventure section of London Zoo before spreading to a gift shop and cafe.

Making a safe opioid available in vending machines may be the next harm reduction tool to fight the deadly overdose epidemic, says the executive medical director of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

The figure for the pro-democracy killings in Beijing in 1989 comes from newly-released UK cables.

Ottawa and Britain have been in formal talks since May 2016 over transferring ownership of the Franklin expedition wrecks to Canada. A deal seemed imminent in October but an agreement is still being negotiated, with talks partly hung up on the issue of mo

Toronto police Const. James Forcillo, who was convicted of attempted murder in the 2013 shooting death of Sammy Yatim, has been charged with perjury and attempting to obstruct justice, according to investigators.

Canada's half-century-old Sea King helicopters will take one step toward retirement next month with the end of East Coast operations. Sea Kings will still be flown on the West Coast until the end of 2018.

The Brooks project is the first of several renewable energy projects to be constructed in Alberta as the province shifts away from coal power plants.

The renowned archeological sites in southern Yukon are among eight significant places newly added to Canada's list of candidates for a UNESCO designation.

Canada's federal procurement minister isn't ruling out the possibility of asking Irving Shipbuilding to build more Arctic patrol vessels to address a looming gap in the construction of two new fleets of naval vessels in Halifax.

The fuzzy covering on reindeer antlers could hold the key to scar-free, speedy healing for severe human skin injuries and burns, say researchers in southern Alberta.

'We're going to take action,' said Public Works Minister Richard Mostyn. 'Mother Nature is sort of a fickle mistress, and we're going to help her create an ice bridge across the Yukon River.'

After two straight balmy Olympics where some might have wondered if it was even winter, athletes and visitors alike will finally experience a serious chill in their bones during the Games in mountainous Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The high arctic bird is known for its thick body, long tail and shades of white, gray and dark brown. According to bird expert Alain Clavette, the white morph gyrfalcon is native to the high arctic. "It is one of the top predators up there," he said.

Hayley Wickenheiser, regarded as one of the best female hockey players in the world, thinks it's "crap" girls at an arena in Ridgetown, Ont., got bumped out of their dressing room to make room for an all-boys team.

The Canadian Coast Guard will be back on the Great Lakes to ensure shipping vessels coming in and out of ports and harbours travel safely and efficiently through the ice this winter. Icebreaking on St.Mary's, St. Lawrence rivers beginning on Dec. 21

The family of a 78-year-old First Nations elder says he was humiliated when an employee searched him at a Canadian Tire store in Saskatchewan earlier this week.

It's like nothing we've ever seen: a bizarrely shaped rock ejected from another stellar system, just passing through ours. It's even had some scientists listening for alien signals. Now researchers reveal some more details about this interstellar visitor.

A species of Mexican fish amasses in reproductive orgies so loud they can deafen other sea animals, awed scientists said Wednesday, calling for preservation of the "spectacle" threatened by overfishing.

This winter's mass migration of snowy owls is a chance for researchers to fit some of them with transmitters to help study a long-misunderstood species. Instead of 300,000 snowy owls worldwide, as long believed, researchers say the population likely is cl

A man who has already been convicted of three murders in the Ottawa area has been handed two more life sentences for the attempted murder and robbery of a 101-year-old war veteran.

Death threats, hundreds of angry comments laced with curse words, even a penis put-down from the wife of a former prime minister. All after the host of an outdoor television show posted photos of himself holding a huge male cougar he shot.

New Brunswick couple Herbert and Audrey Goodine have barely spent any time apart during their 69-year marriage, but just a week before Christmas, he has been forced to move from the special-care home they shared following a health assessment. 'It's emotio

When 66 dogs were seized last year from a breeder in Langley, B.C., the SPCA called it one of the biggest puppy mill seizures in provincial history.

After an unexpectedly bright 14-10-4 start to the season, the Canucks have surrendered an NHL-high 36 goals while suffering regulation losses in six of their last seven games.

New research released by the federal government says there are minimal risks of farmed Atlantic salmon from B.C.'s Discovery Islands transferring a deadly viral disease to wild sockeye making their way to the Fraser River.

Raging wildfires that scorched 1.2 million hectares of land in British Columbia, a heatwave across parts of the prairies and widespread flooding in Ontario and Quebec topped Environment Canada's list of the Top 10 Weather Stories for 2017.

The Bolton-born former boxer, who is a practicing Muslim, posted a photo of the tree on Instagram yesterday night, saying his three-year-old would like it when she woke up.

More than a dozen pedestrians, including a toddler, have been injured after a car ploughed into rush hour crowds at Melbourne's busy Flinders Street at 4.41pm Thursday.

The discovery of the first Allied submarine lost in WW1 solves Australia's oldest naval mystery.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has slightly lowered the massive duties it plans to impose on imports of Bombardier C Series commercial jets.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated some provisions of the Conflict of Interest Act when he vacationed on a private island owned by the Aga Khan last Christmas, Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson has ruled.

Grocery giant Loblaw Cos. Ltd. has admitted to participating in a scheme to increase packaged bread prices for more than 14 years, saying it will co-operate with a Competition Bureau investigation into the industry.

Calgary is expanding its use of beet juice as an anti-icing agent on roads.

The UN independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar says she has been barred from visiting the country for the rest of her tenure.

The province has released another draft of its overdue plan to protect the 15 ranges of threatened woodland caribou in Alberta.

Weeks before he was elected as Newfoundland and Labrador's 13th premier two years ago, Dwight Ball was facing personal turmoil that included harassment by an accused drug dealer, slashed tires, and tens of thousands of dollars in unauthorized charges to h

B.C. is ending the grizzly bear hunt throughout the entire province. First Nations will still be able to harvest grizzly bears pursuant to Aboriginal rights for food, social, or ceremonial purposes, or treaty rights.

A New York cosmetics executive who publicly alleged Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s repeatedly solicited the future president to become his campaign makeup artist

It's taken almost two decades, but Nunavut is finally getting a spot on the Centennial Flame monument. The government will unveil the updated monument today and reignite the flame.

It is a sad commentary on our culture that few people care what happens to men falsely charged with sex crimes

Calgary-based Inter Pipeline Ltd. says it has decided to go ahead with a $3.5-billion petrochemical project in an industrial area north of Edmonton.

Members of the Toronto synagogue Adath Israel opened a plain envelope to find a swastika and the words "Jewry must perish" on Monday. Human rights organization B'nai Brith said synagogues in Canada receive hate mail like this almost every day.

Seven of the country's so-called Big 8 pension funds, representing more than 25 million workers, have used tax havens as they invest Canadians' retirement savings, a CBC investigation reveals.

Israel-hating feminist firebrand Linda Sarsour is under fire for allegedly bullying an underling to cover-up exploding sexual abuse charges in her Brooklyn office.According to the Daily Caller, the controversial Sarsour blew off the allegations.

I, Tonya star-producer Margot Robbie had a soft spot for the real-life person that inspired the dark comedy.The 27-year-old Aussie actress met with Tonya Harding, now 47, before she donned numerous prosthetics and wigs to play the disgraced American figur

Strathmore-Brooks MLA Derek Fildebrandt was found guilty Monday in Edmonton traffic court of leaving a hit-and-run. He was fined $402.

A man shot at by an Edmonton police officer after his truck backed into a police bicycle says the August collision was an accident.

An Amtrak train derailed on a bridge over a highway in Pierce County on Monday south of Seattle, Wash., prompting an an emergency response, with one report saying there are "some fatalities."

Homicide detectives have now taken over the investigation into the deaths of two pharmaceutical billionaires that police have deemed "suspicious."

U.S. President Donald Trump is outlining a new national security strategy that refocuses the United States' relationship with the rest of the world, essentially implementing Trump's "America First" mantra on a global scale.

Skyrocketing rents and dwindling affordable-housing units in Vancouver are driving seniors to the brink of homelessness, forcing some to couch surf, seek roommates or even live in cars, advocates say.

Over 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth. It comes 25 years after the first notice in 1992 when a mere 1,500 scientists issued a similar warning.

From the iconic Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York to a reindeer sleigh in the sky to a scuba diving Santa, jolly old St. Nick has been popping up all over the world as the holidays approach.

Vancouver Canucks forward Brock Boeser took a shot of his left foot early in the second period of Sunday's game against the Calgary Flames and did not return.

Perseverance pays off is the lesson Victoria students learned this month after they completed the search for family members of a soldier who fought in World War One.

An emergency landing in Gander could have gone much worse if not for the pilot's skill, says the airport authority's CEO. "He walked away from the aircraft, apparently without injury, and really accomplished an astonishing feat today in what he did,"

Not everyone is a fan of the man in red. Just because he's jolly and delivers toys doesn't make everyone an automatic fan of Santa Claus.

Three Indigenous communities in northern Ontario picked up close to 40,000 pounds of donated food that was shipped free of charge to their airports Friday as part of CBC's Sounds of the Seasons.

Strong winds and heavy snow caused treacherous driving on roads, numerous cancellations, closures and power outages through Saturday.

A bear cub found alone on the side of the highway near Dawson Creek after a resident took it home to her dog pen was killed by the Conservation Officer Service in 2016. Now, B.C's top court has ruled the officer who shot the bear did not break the law.

An expansion of powers granted to U.S. officials by Canada's federal government put workers and travellers at risk, according to protesters and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

Lawmakers in Peru initiated proceedings Friday to oust President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who refuses to resign after being accused of failing to disclose decade-old payments from a Brazilian company embroiled in Latin America's biggest corruption scandal.

Residents pile into cars and flee as surging winds drive one of the biggest fires in California's history toward the wealthy coastal enclave of Montecito, northwest of Los Angeles.

Crowds of flower-bearing North Koreans have streamed passed statues and portraits of their leaders to pay respects on the sixth anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Un's father, Kim Jong Il.

Provincial police say a homeowner is in shock after a deer carcass was tied to a mailbox in the southwestern Ontario community of Windham. The deer's head was removed and left in the driveway.

Dozens of protesters are taking a stand against mining projects on a Cape Breton mountain that is sacred to the Mi'kmaq.

Trevor Sanderson has 15 hams, 150 boxes of stuffing and 200 pounds of potatoes, and he's giving it all away for free at a massive community dinner at Winnipeg`s Thunderbird House Saturday night.

Many repatriated Indigenous artifacts have become spiritual and artistic inspirations to the descendants of those who made them. "(This museum) actually phoned the tribe and said, 'Can somebody come and pick this up? Our staff are hearing animal sounds in

Canadian sliders made several trips to the podium at the luge World Cup event in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Saturday as Alex Gough led the way with two silver medals.

Lewis Irving now has a podium finish to add to his resume after scoring a bronze medal in aerials at the World Cup event in Secret Garden, China, on Saturday.

Canada took a silver of medal at a bobsleigh World Cup stop at the Igls track in Innsbruck, Austria, on Saturday, with Justin Kripps and Jesse Lumsden staking claim to the second-place spot.

Irene Gyselinck's discovery that she never became Canadian has sent her life into a tailspin, leaving her unable to acquire valid ID and at risk of losing her health insurance.

Fraser River sockeye and chinook salmon pass through some of the most dense fish farming areas and were found to have high rates of infection compared to wild salmon in the north where fish farms are not a factor.

On a weekend celebrating the game of hockey in the nation's capital, Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk put a damper on the festivities. Melnyk denied rumours the team was for sale, but did insinuate relocation could be considered.

Christopher Tanev has been added to the Vancouver Canucks' mounting injury list. Head coach Travis Green said after Friday's morning skate that the defenceman will be out two to three weeks with a groin strain.

Lexa Developments is charged with four offences following the removal of two tall trees without the District of West Vancouver's consent.

People on Quadra Island, B.C., are concerned that leeches may be killing salmon in a spawning creek. Several dozen chum salmon that had not yet spawned have been found dead by residents.

Twenty-five Canadians chosen by Hockey Canada for this week's Channel One Cup tournament in Moscow are being sized up by general manager Sean Burke and head coach Willie Desjardins for the team that will go to the Winter Games in Pyeongchang.

A meteorologist with Environment Canada says the first "major" snowstorm of the season in Newfoundland and Labrador has covered part of the province in a thick layer of snow.

Windsor police have arrested a 52-year-old man in connection with the Islamic-themed spray-painted messages that appeared this week on the Windsor Star as well as other media outlets and Ouellette Avenue bus shelters.

Students were exposed to a picture of female genitalia when the teacher used his laptop while attempting to project education materials.

Residents and supporters of the Sugar Mountain tent city in Vancouver doubled down on a vow to remain camped on city-owned land Friday during a news conference that turned violent after a tense quarrel with a passing critic.

After months of bottle-feedings and curfews, a pair of moose calves rescued in northern B.C. are thriving and giving hope for other orphaned wildlife in the region.Roy Rea, an instructor at the University of Northern B.C.

As Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens in theatres, Christober Wiebe, a professor at the University of Winnipeg and Canada Research Chair in quantum materials discovery, looked into a phenomenon in modern physics that resembles 'the Force.'

Sam Gagner scored at 4:34 of overtime as the Vancouver Canucks snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Friday night.

Sebastian Kurz, 31, has joined leaders from eastern and central Europe in pushing back against the scheme, which was designed to help Italy and Greece deal with 160,000 migrants.

Dramatic footage shows four armed officers running through the Dutch capital's Schiphol Airport towards a Starbucks Coffee outlet as shots are fired.

Chris Epp speaks with small business owners who say they are struggling to survive as they face new taxes and higher wages.

Alberta filed a trade injunction Thursday after Saskatchewan ignored its ultimatum in a spat over licence plates, said Economic Development Minister Deron Bilous.

65-year old boxing coach Leo Marsh was found not guilty by a Court of Queen's Bench Justice on charges of sexual assault and sexual exploitation.

Alberta on Wednesday auctioned off 595 megawatts of renewable energy capacity to be built, positioned as a continuation of the province's lead in energy

In a presentation that echoes assertions by another administration that Iraq was concealing weapons of mass destruction, US officials have created a display of evidence that the Trump administration hopes will trigger further action against Iran. In a pre

CBC News has learned the man charged in connection with a baseball bat attack on an immigrant family is a Toronto personal injury lawyer and the great-grandson of former Toronto mayor Nathan Phillips.

The price gap between the price of Canada's oil benchmark versus its U.S. equivalent, West Texas Intermediate, has widened to its biggest difference in almost four years, with Canadian crude is now selling at a $25 discount.

With doubts being cast on allegations that a Montreal mosque asked that female workers not be visible at the nearby construction site on Fridays, those who attend the mosque say the damage is already done.

Nearly 50 years ago, the Federal Communications Commission issued one of the most important Orders in its history, a ruling that went unnoticed by most news sources at the time.

Anti-Israel students at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada have published multiple social media posts praising Adolf Hitler, demonizing Jews, and glorifying terrorist organizations, The Algemeiner has learned.

The bill introduced by a Tory senator and adopted by the Liberal government seeks a nationwide ban on food and drink marketing aimed at children

A security vendor has discovered a huge list of easily searchable stolen credentials in cleartext on the dark web which it fears could lead to a new wave of cyber attacks.

The man who says he acted as a �go-between� last year to inform Sen. John McCain about the controversial �dossier� containing salacious allegations about then-candidate Donald Trump is speaking out, revealing how the ex-British spy who researched

Results for the U.S. Senate special election between Roy S. Moore, a Republican, and Doug Jones, a Democrat.

Shyma, who was filmed eating a banana while in her underwear, is convicted of inciting debauchery.

When wildfires burn forests to the ground, some are no longer growing back, new research shows. The findings add to growing evidence that climate change and forest fires are permanently altering forest ecosystems across North America.