NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2008

The union representing about 8,900 operating and maintenance employees with the TTC voted down the tentative settlement by 65 per cent.

Differences in everything from sea ice to permafrost show the Arctic climate is changing even more rapidly than scientists had predicted, says a new summary of the most recent research.

OTTAWA - The federal government dipped into its special fund for troubled Canadians abroad and loaned Brenda Martin money to pay a fine for her fraud conviction in Mexico.

OTTAWA - Canada could double the food aid money it has provided so far this year to the World Food Program in response to an urgent plea from the United Nations.

WASHINGTON -- The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.

federal committee has repeated its declaration that the Canadian polar bear is a species "of special concern."

ACOA Minister Peter MacKay, left, was in Summerisde today to announce $2 million in federal funding over three years for the Wind Energy Institute of Canada at Holland College in Slemon Park. Joining MacKay were Michael O'Grady, centre, vice president of

Ignatieff's organization stuck a fork in Dion a long time ago. But on Thursday night they welcomed everyone into the kitchen to peek in the oven and confirm that the entree is cooked. If you have any doubt in your mind, consider this: at the end of the e

They never knew, until recently, that Terry's van was driven for many years in London, Ont., and later became the touring vehicle for a Vancouver heavy metal rock band.

The officers' account of what happened in the brief, lethal chaos outside the club was more credible than the story told by Bell's friends and witnesses

While the Canadian government does not pay fines from public funds, we are prepared to advance Ms. Martin the money necessary from DFAIT's 'Distressed Canadian Fund'

It started with a generous gesture by David Beckham, who handed over his game-used soccer jersey to two young boys after a game at Aloha Stadium.

A man suspected of having links to al-Qaeda managed to secure a visa to live in Canada and was later arrested at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, CBC's French-language service Radio-Canada reported Thursday evening.

Montreal Canadiens fans spilled onto the streets following the team's 4-3 overtime win against the Philadelphia Flyers Thursday night, but there were no immediate reports of incidents.

DETROIT - Johan Franzen's name is not at the top of scouting reports for Detroit Red Wings' opponents. It might be now.

Just when it looked like the Philadelphia Flyers would steal the series opener, Alex Kovalev and Tom Kostopoulos sparked the Montreal Canadiens to a comeback win on Thursday night.

Before the next election, voters will have to decide if they want a government focused on Canada's economy or national unity battles, he said.

Like Icarus flying against his father's wishes, is the modern woman trying to soar too high in today's towering platform stilettos?

Two British Columbia fault lines running south of Abbotsford and south of Victoria could potentially cause earthquakes measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, according to a new study released by U.S. seismologists.

The head of Canada's army, a top contenders to replace Rick Hillier as chief of defence staff, is facing a grilling from defence lawyers this week during the war crimes trial of a former Croatian general in The Hague, Netherlands

Sounds like a joke, but it's quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.

Team Canada will be sporting a new look when it hits the ice at next month's men's world championship in Halifax and Quebec City.

Rogers says scientists believe that three earthquakes have occurred near that fault over the past 10,000 years. They can't predict when the next quake will occur, but chances are it won't likely be any time soon.

Hockey Canada made more additions to its world championship roster today, adding a blend of youth and experience, depth and front-line firepower.

Climate change spurred by man-made greenhouse gas emissions has increased precipitation in the North, according to a study to be published Friday.

The central bank had initially predicted an economic upswing this quarter but now says Canada won't see a growing economy until the second half of the year, when the growth rate is predicted to average 1.8 per cent.

The Kanata closure follows the Jan. 31 announcement that Dell would shut its Edmonton call centre by May at a cost of 900 jobs.

A highly decorated Canadian soldier, touted as one of the possible successors to Gen. Rick Hillier, testified against a former top Croatian general at The Hague Wednesday, saying the shelling of Serbian rebels in a small town in 1995 left mostly civilians

Mike Gillis was introduced Wednesday as the new general manager of the Vancouver Canucks. Gillis, a former player agent, signed a five-year contract with the Canucks.

TORONTO - Parched U.S. states could start "water wars" in the years ahead and fight for access to Great Lakes resources as they become more desperate to meet growing needs, Canadian and American experts said Wednesday at a water conference.

The Olympic torch made its way through the Australian capital Canberra on Thursday amid tight security and protesters in the final leg of its beleaguered journey around the globe to Beijing

MONTREAL - A noise-making device that drives away rowdy youth with an irritating high-pitched squeal has quietly landed on Canadian shores after a raucous European debut.

The Air Force provided vital air support earlier this spring to Operation Nunalivut 08, a joint sovereignty operation in the High Arctic.

After a thrilling first round that featured three seven-game series, the matchups are set for the second phase of the NHL playoffs, with CBC's Hockey Night in Canada providing coverage of both Eastern Conference semifinals.

Construction crews will soon be digging trenches and laying a major oil pipeline along the scenic route through Mount Robson Provincial Park, which covers 224,866 hectares through the B.C. portion of the Rocky Mountains.

The mountain pine beetle's infestation in western Canada is turning forests into a new source of greenhouse gases, according to new research to be published Thursday in the journal Nature

Calgary's famous 17th Avenue, dubbed "the Red Mile" back in the successful spring of 2004, had almost more police officers present than fans.

Montrealers' pride at the Habs' first-round playoff win Monday was marred by a postgame riot that degenerated into looting, setting cruisers on fire and recriminations over whether police were caught off guard.

KAZAN, Russia - Jordan Eberle scored two first-period goals as Canada overpowered Russia 8-0 to capture gold at the world under-18 hockey championship.

Mr. Harper said he did not want to reopen NAFTA, but he is not the first Canadian politician to link opening the free-trade deal and energy. International Trade Minister David Emerson did so in February after Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton criticized NAFTA. Th

Flaherty said Canada "will be affected" by slower U.S. growth, but added that "we have a different situation." "Our banks are well capitalized, they have good balance sheets, we have not had a housing bubble and our homeowners have got good balanc

"These are the games where careers are made," he said, "where identities are defined."

Former Canadian Hockey League and Western Hockey League president Ed Chynoweth has passed away Tuesday

Rescuers scoured the waters off Brazil's southern Atlantic Coast yesterday looking for a Roman Catholic priest who disappeared after floating into the sky strapped to hundreds of helium-filled party balloons

Canadian Brenda Martin was devastated after a judge found her guilty yesterday of participating in an online investment scheme masterminded by her former boss.

Notorious sex killer denied murdering Bain, but witnesses saw man fitting his description

Sales among North-American built car models fell for the fourth time in five years.

He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C. "This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Dr Chapman writes in The Australian to

Jeremy Roenick, who never met a spotlight he didn't like, danced on centre stage - and on the Calgary Flames' grave - as he led the Sharks to a 5-3 Game 7 victory.

This is awful. It's probably going to kill her," Martin's mother, Marjorie Bletcher, told CTV News from her home in Trenton, Ont.

A healthy scratch in Game 6, Jeremy Roenick stole the spotlight and, ultimately, the series for the San Jose Sharks with a sensational performance in Game 7.

While arsonists torched police cars and vandals smashed store windows after Montreal's NHL playoff victory on Monday, hundreds of young people milled about the riot zone shooting their own footage.

WASHINGTON - The Philadelphia Flyers finally figured out how to put away the Washington Capitals. Joffrey Lupul put in a rebound during a power play 6:06 into overtime in Game 7 to lift Philadelphia past Alex Ovechkin and Washington 3-2 on Tuesday nigh

Mike Gillis will be introduced Wednesday as the new general manager of the Vancouver Canucks, according to a report on Global Television.

Very large companies remain the main target for hackers and 20 percent detect hundreds of significant attempts to break into their network every day.

Canadian Brenda Martin has been found guilty by a Mexican judge of accepting funds from an Internet scam and sentenced to five years in prison.

"This can't just be about hockey. It has to be symbolic of something else. There has to be some other source, some other feeling of dissatisfaction that can't be expressed in an everyday way. It's a form of dissent."

why on earth investigators would have gone all the way to Toronto to get a judge to sign a warrant...

A postal worker is credited with saving an infant's life by catching the one-year-old after she fell out of a second-storey window in Albany, N.Y.

A Conservative MP claims Elections Canada is showing bias towards his party in its handling of the current election advertising scandal.

A jury has acquitted Robert Baltovich of murdering his college sweetheart Elizabeth Bain, 18 years after she disappeared.

"Now because the ice is thinner you can have a chain reaction of runaway melting with a reduction in cloud cover," she said.

More than 500 people, each paying between $400 and $500, are to attend the event at the Fairmont Royal York - expected to be the largest gathering of Liberals since the 2006 leadership convention in Montreal.

At the same time, greenhouse gases emitted per unit of economic activity declined 18 per cent, while the population grew 17 per cent, and energy use increased 23 per cent.

With Price's brilliant work in goal holding off the Bruins, Montreal team finally finds its best stride

The UN Security Council is to hold a closed-door meeting to discuss Georgia's call for the body to address Russia's alleged "military aggression" against the breakaway region of Abkhazia.

A shipment of arms headed for Zimbabwe may be recalled to China, Beijing's foreign ministry said today.

By Monday afternoon, temperatures in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan had dipped to well below zero. Calgarians were coping with a temperature of -8 C, while in Saskatoon it was -6 C.

MONTREAL -- Montreal's downtown was shrouded in smoke early this morning as vandals sprinted to one police car after another setting them aflame.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Call it the oversight that wiped Newfoundland off the map. It's a bureaucratic blunder that can be traced to December 2001 when the province of Newfoundland officially changed its name to Newfoundland and Labrador - meaning that th

OTTAWA - Canadian Forces personnel learned to operate Canada's newest military plane, the giant Boeing C-17, by training on American jets, including flying those planes into Iraq in support of the U.S. war, according to a memo written by Canada's top ge

The Vezina Trophy will go this year to one of New Jersey's Martin Brodeur, Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers or San Jose's Evgeni Nabokov.

The bright young forwards of the Washington Capitals scored as the club roared back from a 2-0 deficit on Monday night to force a seventh game in their Eastern Conference quarter-final with the Philadelphia Flyers.

The Montreal Canadiens needed their keynote players, Alex Kovalev and rookie Carey Price, to outperform Boston's best, Zdeno Chara and Tim Thomas, in Game 7. Both Kovalev and Price were brilliant and helped send the Bruins packing.

WASHINGTON -- Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?''

Scientists are gathering data to help Canada stake a claim over an area of the Arctic Ocean, but they say ice conditions are adding challenges to their work.

The federal government has awarded contracts worth $900 million to companies in Victoria and Halifax to refit the navy's entire fleet of frigates

The world's tallest mountain isn't the only obstacle between a Canadian team of climbers and their goal -- the Chinese government has banned them from leaving the Mount Everest base camp until the Olympic torch has reached the summit.

TORONTO - Author Margaret Atwood and other prominent Canadians have co-signed a letter calling for the release of seven jailed aboriginal leaders.

What a bargain it would be, to serve just over two years behind bars for the drowning of your mother.

Ontario Provincial Police laid a total of 58 charges provincewide under Ontario's tough, new anti-street racing laws over the weekend.

About 75 aboriginal protesters have sealed off a main street through Deseronto, Ont., due to a land dispute with a Kingston-based developer. Nibourg Developments had said it would begin clearing brush today on property it owns in the community southwes

KAZAN, Russia - Taylor Hall scored two power-play goals to help Canada to a 3-2 semifinal victory over Sweden on Monday at the under-18 world hockey championship.

OTTAWA -- Canada Post launched a project last year that tracked the burgeoning number of free mailouts enjoyed by members of Parliament to help bolster the corporation's claims for a bigger government subsidy.

WINNIPEG -- The mystery surrounding a triple homicide in rural Manitoba three years ago has deepened with two more deaths.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will head to New Orleans Monday for the fourth annual so-called Three Amigos Summit, where he'll spend the next two days meeting with his U.S. and Mexican counterparts.

Gold medals will abound at this year's Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame gala dinner and induction ceremony, to be held in Calgary.

A search warrant that led to last week's raid of Conservative Party headquarters will be released Monday by an Ontario court, but it was made public Sunday to some media by the Tories, the CBC's Keith Boag reported.

The smell of pot was in the air as thousands assembled on the lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery for a collective toke.

Inuit hunters are bracing for another showdown this week with government wildlife scientists, this time over how many polar bears they'll be allowed to kill from one of Canada's largest populations of the iconic predator.

NEW YORK - Danny Federici, the longtime keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen whose stylish work helped define the E Street Band's sound on hits from "Hungry Heart" through "The Rising," died Thursday. He was 58.

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ELY, Nev. - A dog that ran off during a road-trip rest stop apparently made her way nearly 135 kilometres across Nevada's high desert and two mountain ranges to return home a week later.

HONOLULU - A U.S. Army sergeant accused of shooting an unarmed Iraqi then ordering a comrade to "finish him" faces court martial in Hawaii this week.

EDMONTON - Alberta's new finance minister delivers her first budget Tuesday amid marketplace concerns the province is abandoning its long-standing pledge to stay out of the business of business.

Ontario smokers will soon have to thumb through a binder to pick the brand of their choice at convenience stores as the province ushers in a ban on cigarette displays which the government says is necessary to save lives despite growing concern among store

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays parted ways with designated hitter Frank Thomas on Sunday, a day after the slumping slugger reacted angrily to being benched

KING CITY -- A man and woman were killed after a massive tailgate from a dump truck flew through the windshield of their pickup travelling in the opposite direction on Hwy. 400 yesterday.

The suicide rate among Canada's soldiers doubled from 2006 to 2007, rising to a rate triple that of the general population, according to data obtained through access to information requests.

Transportation officials were warning motorists in southern Alberta to stay off the roads Sunday morning as a harsh snowstorm continued to sweep across the region. The spring storm has dumped about 20 centimetres of snow on Calgary since Friday and mor

An official Chinese Communist Party newspaper urged China's citizens to express patriotism in a rational way as anti-Western protests spread.

MONTREAL -- Georges St. Pierre reclaimed his welterweight title Saturday night, dominating Matt Serra in a second-round TKO before a hometown crowd at UFC 83 as the UFC landed in Canada with a bang.

TORONTO -- Toronto stock market investors have reason to feel pleased following a blowout week where higher commodity stocks were largely responsible for a four per cent gain, sending the TSX to its highest levels since early November last year.

Dozens of residents of a small Saskatchewan community are waiting to return to their homes, after a massive natural gas explosion killed two people, destroyed several buildings and prompted an evacuation order.

What would you do if you were diagnosed with a terminal illness, told you had just weeks to live and every remaining moment was precious? Would you travel, go skydiving, or learn to paint with watercolours? Would you eat great food with people you lov

Prince William has touched down in some controversy after a British tabloid reported Sunday that he landed an air force chopper at his girlfriend's parents' home.

Archeologists have just wrapped up a two-week excavation at Stonehenge which they believe will help solve the mystery of why the prehistoric landmark was built.

TOFINO, B.C. - The tiny blue bars pinned above rows of gold and silver medals speak to the horrors this ever-shrinking group of Korean War veterans experienced 57 years ago this week

LOS ANGELES -- Tuesday's fourth-season premiere of Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch opens during a raging nighttime storm in the Bering Sea. Mammoth waves smash an Alaskan crab fishing boat called the Wizard, sending large swells crashing over its de

A bird in the hand, if it happens to be a burrowing owl, fits there nicely. It is all of the size of a can of Coke. It weighs half as much. For a small bird, it produces a lot of noises, and can hiss, coo or rattle like a rattlesnake, depending on the occ