Shelley Jordan

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Forget about a million-dollar jackpot. A British Columbia police detective says he's won the lottery on life after one of his supervisors volunteered to give him a kidney. Det. Roy McBeth of the Abbotsford Police Department is gearing up for transplant surgery on Wednesday alongside his coworker and organ donor Insp. Kevin...

TORONTO – In the new film "Still Alice," Julianne Moore plays a linguistics professor in the prime of her professional and personal life who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease after she begins forgetting words, misplacing items around the house and getting lost while out jogging.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Monday denounced the religious fundamentalism that inspired the Paris massacres and ongoing Mideast conflicts, saying the attackers were enslaved by "deviant forms of religion" that used God as a mere ideological pretext to perpetuate mass killings. In his annual foreign policy address to Vatican-based ambassadors, Francis called for a...

PEMBERTON, B.C. – Three ice climbers have been found dead near Whistler, B.C., north of Vancouver.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – The Golden Globes gave awards not just to A-List celebrities, but to the edgier productions that unequivocally deserved recognition, including "Boyhood," ''The Grand Budapest Hotel," and "Birdman."

NEWARK, N.J. – In the 1989 sequel to "Back to the Future," Michael J. Fox's character uses his flying time machine to travel to a 2015 filled with flying skateboards, automated dog-walkers and self-drying jackets.

VANCOUVER - A B.C. astronomer helped uncover some of the secrets of a rare and mysterious occupant of our universe — a binary pulsar system — before it disappeared from view for the next 160 years. Ingrid Stairs, a professor of astrophysics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia, spent the last decade examining...

GATINEAU, Que. – The Canadian Museum of History has acquired what it believes is the world's oldest known hockey stick.

The first clinical trial designed to see if two experimental Ebola vaccines actually work may begin in late January and two others are slated to start in February in West Africa, the World Health Organization said Friday.

EDMONTON – Press "enter," dealer — scientists have taught a computer how to play unbeatable poker.

VANCOUVER – Scientists were fairly certain that a matron killer whale from an endangered pod off British Columbia's coast had given birth to the newest calf — then new evidence made them change that opinion.

KITCHENER, Ont. – Bill Cosby received a warm standing ovation Wednesday night at his first Canadian show, but outside the theatre protesters braved bone-chilling temperatures to express their opposition to the controversy-ridden comedian who faces mounting allegations of sexual abuse.

OTTAWA – The man hailed as a hero for stopping an attack on Parliament Hill has been named Canadian ambassador to Ireland.

KITCHENER, Ont. – Bill Cosby was greeted with cheering and applause as he walked on stage Wednesday night in Kitchener, Ont., wearing a grey sweatshirt with the phrase "hello friend."

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Seven Californians and two people in Utah have confirmed cases of measles likely contracted on trips last month to Disney theme parks in California, state officials said Wednesday.

A new study says most of Canada's oilsands will have to be left in the ground if the world gets serious about climate change.

For many years, "sketch" was a word that would get you thrown out of a TV network's boardroom.