NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2008

The Conservative government has quietly released the details of its extensive plan to beef up the military, including spending $490 billion over the next 20 years to ensure Canadian soldiers are well-equipped, well-trained and highly active.

Mr. Durfy did, however, reiterate WestJet's promise to increase its fleet by 16% in 2008, despite the sizable capacity cuts and layoffs announced by its domestic rival, Air Canada, this week.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have laid fraud charges against three executives formerly with Toronto-based telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks.

Madam Justice Suzanne Tessier of the Quebec Superior Court ruled on Friday that the father couldn't discipline his daughter by barring her from the school trip.

Teachers were thrilled when students at a Brooklyn high school sweetly offered them slices of homemade cake last week.

Researcher looks at why we listen to music that makes us feel badly

It wasn't the prospect of being nude all summer that bothered Nikki Lafrance, but rather the subtleties of applying for a job at Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park.

In a stunning turn of events, a Crown prosecutor yesterday accused his star witness in the Toronto 18 terror case of fabricating some of the evidence about a so-called terrorist training camp.

The NHL Board of Governors unanimously approved the sale of the Edmonton Oilers to billionaire Daryl Katz and the Tampa Bay Lightning to a group of investors led by Oren Koules and Len Barrie on Wednesday

Despite a massive letter-writing campaign, a Web site to help their cause and public outcry over their deportation order, time is quickly running out for a Brazilian family ordered to leave Canada next month.

Tiger Woods is done for the year, but not without one last major that he said might have been his best ever.

Canadians would pay a steep price for carbon pollution, including at the gasoline pumps, but receive income tax breaks to counter the costs under an environmental plan released Wednesday by Green party Leader Elizabeth May.

The Alberta government will spend $356 million to renovate Edmonton's long-closed Federal Building to provide new office space and underground parking for its employees.

Canada is among countries evolving their armies into forces of futuristic soldiers, with laser-sighted rifles, GPS-equipped units directed via computer and equipment that lets them see and kill the enemy in all conditions, day or night.

Efforts to resolve British Columbia's missing foot mystery are focused on the relatives of four people who died in a plane crash off B.C.'s south coast three years ago.

An Ontario mother is demanding an apology from her local school board after the Children's Aid Society began an investigation into sexual abuse allegations formulated from an educational assistant's visit to a psychic.

A doctor in Winnipeg has agreed to treat a dying 84-year-old man amid a legal and medical row between his family and physicians who say keeping him alive is unethical, a published report said Wednesday.

Daughter went to court after being punished for not staying off the Internet

The Liberals also changed their version of the wording mid-day. The party sent reporters the text of the motion, which advocated studying "the negative effects of a carbon tax or broad-based environment tax." Minutes later, the party released a revised

For the first time in 30 years, the number of nurses graduating in Canada has exceeded 9,000, but the total still falls short of the number needed to meet current and future demand, says a new report.

TORONTO -- A new report from Statistics Canada says an estimated 4.1 million Canadians aged 12 or older are without a family doctor.

Sex for money may be recession resistant but it\'s not recession proof. \"Business is in a lower slump than I\'ve ever seen it before,\"

Scarborough's Mike Myers delights in putting "messages to home" in his movies: sly Canuck references like the doughnut shop named for hockey great Stan Mikita in Wayne's World.

The Ontario government is resisting long-awaited minimum standards of care for nursing home residents despite a new report that highlights the need for guidelines focusing on the daily attention that elderly residents receive.

Dave de Sylva has nothing against coffee and burger restaurants: "I sign all kinds of real estate deals at Tim Hortons," says the Markham developer.

The fourth deadliest road in the world for turtles just got a little safer

Homicide investigators in Metro Vancouver are not confirming reports that they have recommended no charges be laid against any police officers in the death of a Polish immigrant in a Taser incident at Vancouver International Airport last year.

Calgary police are investigating the discovery of several Improvised Explosive Devices found Monday night near LRT and railway tracks in the city's southwest. At around 7:30 p.m., police were called to check on some devices found by a Calgary Transit emp

The same-sex weddings that have begun in California have provoked neither euphoria nor great outrage overseas, where gays and lesbians face a patchwork of laws governing their unions and live with attitudes ranging from acceptance to hostility that can le

Hot on the heels of a major blaze that displaced almost 5,000 people and destroyed two homes, Premier Rodney MacDonald says Nova Scotia has all the equipment it needs to fight large fires.

TORONTO -- Many in Canada's Tamil community are angry with Ottawa's move to label one of its organizations a terrorist group.

Mexican authorities have made an arrest in the killing of a Canadian tourist at a popular beach resort.

...a spokesperson for the Washington Attorney General's Office said Washington state will not recognize same sex couples married in California.

Air Canada will cut up to 2,000 jobs at the end of this year as it sharply reduces capacity to deal with the rising cost of fuel and is warning there are likely more cutbacks to come.

A celibate monk has set up a website telling Catholic couples how to have better sex.

AN Italian man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping his ex-girlfriend and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash his dishes.

The Metro Vancouver Board is suing the B.C. government over a land claim settlement that gives a section of parkland in Vancouver's priciest neighbourhood to an area native band.

MONTREAL - For the past 50 years, a massive power dam about 100 kilometres southwest of Montreal has used the force of the St. Lawrence River to produce electricity for Ontario and New York state. The length of 10 football fields, it produces enough power

OTTAWA - A Supposedly quick, straightforward purchase of commercial trucks for the army has gone off the rails after the multimillion-dollar program received only one firm bid, which the government determined didn't meet its requirements.

TOKYO - Japan on Tuesday executed three people including notorious serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, a fetishist convicted of murdering four little girls and eating some of their bodies, officials said.

VANCOUVER - Even the general manager's walls are tough. Two months after he was hired to run the Vancouver Canucks, Mike Gillis's office walls are blank, austere and stark. He isn't big on decoration or frivolity.

Crews are trying to clean up a spill of crude oil that's left an oily sheen on a popular central Alberta lake.

It's the fifth human foot that police have found in the province in less than a year...

"Canadian housing market activity continued to slide in May, confirming that the six-year housing boom has, indeed, fizzled, and the poor winter results were not just weather- and holiday-related," Bank of Montreal economic analyst Robert Kavcic said in

CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially but quietly "reclassified" as toxic dump sites for mines. The lakes include prime wilderness fishing lakes from B.C. to Newfoundland.

METRO VANCOUVER - The use of medical marijuana to relieve pain and other disease symptoms can cause a huge range of adverse effects, says an analysis of safety studies co-authored by University of B.C. and McGill University researchers.

KANDAHAR CITY, Afghanistan - A nervous quiet descended over Kandahar City on Monday night after hundreds of Taliban fighters moved into an adjacent district and took control of a number of villages

Did you or someone you know live through the Battle of Britain? Do you have relatives who served in the bombing campaign? If so, the Air Force needs your help.

For decades it was the island every resident dreamed of escaping from. Now the managers of Alcatraz island, home to one of the world's most notorious prisons, are hoping to cash in on tourists' enduring fascination with it.

A new survey about the founding of Canada shows an enduringly sharp divide between French- and English-speaking Canadians over who deserves the most credit for the nation's existence

'For too long," says Defence Minister Peter MacKay, Canada treated its soldiers returning from raw combat duty with the attitude of "suck it up, soldier."

Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been ordered by commanding officers "to ignore" incidents of sexual assault among the civilian population

WASHINGTON - It's been less than a month since U.S. authorities declared polar bears a threatened species because of global warming.

TORONTO - A non-profit group supporting the Tamil Tigers has been added to Canada's list of known terrorism groups and banks have been instructed to seize its assets

A new report on Pacific salmon stocks warns that the number of fish returning to British Columbia rivers could be at their lowest levels in 50 years.

LONDON -- The British government says it will send more troops to southern Afghanistan to fight the resurgent Taliban

Ontario will build its first new nuclear reactor in 15 years at the existing, provincially-owned Darlington site east of Toronto on Lake Ontario.

Tiger Woods finally set aside the challenge of Rocco Mediate on the first hole of sudden death Monday afternoon to win the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego.

Hundreds of Taliban fighters took over several villages in southern Afghanistan on Monday just outside the region's largest city, and NATO and Afghan forces were redeploying to meet the threat, officials said.

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs hired Al Coates as their player-personnel director Monday. The move will serve to further fuel speculation that Anaheim Ducks general manager Brian Burke will become the Leafs' GM once his deal with the Ducks expires

HALIFAX - One hundred and five extreme athletes from around the world have begun unicycling their way across Nova Scotia in a unique event called Ride the Lobster.

A Fort McMurray mom's decision to get a free boob job through a controversial website wasn't a bust at all.

The mother of a slain 12-year-old Nova Scotia girl made a brief appearance in court Monday, where she was arraigned on one charge of first-degree murder.

Quebec provincial police say they are investigating the death of a 75-year-old woman who died after being struck in the head by a fire hose. Anita Maskin, a Boisbriand resident, died June 10 while watching a house fire in the Montreal suburb

Detroit Red Wings star Daniel Cleary is making good on a promise to bring the Stanley Cup home to the eastern Newfoundland town where he grew up.

The young man went missing after leaving a local pub to head home to his basement apartment. The jacket he wore to the pub that night was found in the suite, according to his roommate Tyler Beith, but Bouchard did not report to work on Tuesday.

B.C. rock band Hedley was the big winner at Sunday's MuchMusic Video Awards while Rihanna's monster hit "Umbrella" was named most watched video on MuchMusic.com - an apt honour considering fans and celebrities alike frequently ducked for cover during

The red carpet swiftly turned into a red river, but we knew it would take more than a soggy strip of flooring material to put a damper on the MuchMusic Video Awards.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- There's a sequence in Get Smart where Steve Carell drops from an aircraft onto a moving vehicle and lunges through the car window to wage battle with the villainous driver. This leaves the car virtually driverless, bouncing off g

OTTAWA - Hundreds of Korean War veterans were on hand to lay wreaths at the National War Memorial to mark the 55th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice on Sunday.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Western powers are warning Iran of more sanctions if it rejects an incentives offer and presses on with sensitive nuclear work, but the Islamic Republic is showing no sign of backing down

Most of the 5,000 people who left homes east of Halifax to escape a large forest fire were being allowed to return to their properties Sunday evening after firefighters made significant progress.

OTTAWA -- An environmental group will argue in court this week that the federal government has run afoul of the law by flouting its obligations to reduce greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol.

For five centuries, Venezuela has been run by a minority of very white people, pure-blood descendants of the Spanish conquistadors. To most of the 80 percent of Venezuelans who are brown, Hugo Chavez is their Nelson Mandela, the man who will smash the eco

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia plans to increase its oil production by 200,000 barrels a day next month

WASHINGTON - An international smuggling ring may have secretly shared blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon with Iran, North Korea and other rogue countries

KABUL, Afghanistan - The girl was 11 when she was molested by a man with no legs.

VANCOUVER -- Rodney Watson signed up for the U.S. army four years ago in Kansas City. He wanted to be a cook. One year later, he was in Iraq.

VANCOUVER -- Quitting time was approaching for dozens of ironworkers as they toiled 40 metres above Burrard Inlet, building the new Second Narrows Bridge.

Canada should double the size of its navy as well as beef up the coast guard with 3,000 more people manning armed ships, the chairman of the Senate committee on national security and defence said Thursday in Halifax.

Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide 'renewable petroleum'

A group trying to save a hollow, thousand-year-old cedar in Vancouver's Stanley Park has set up a website, lobbied local politicians and started a fundraising campaign they hope will raise tens of thousands of dollars.

Canadian soldiers joined U.S. marines in Kandahar Saturday as they went door to door, searching for men who escaped from the city's largest prison during a bold, multi-pronged attack.

The Ontario home where Lucy Maud Montgomery penned Anne of Green Gables has been anointed a national historic site.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - It happens in the stillness of night when no one is around. The granite plates just appear, seemingly out of nowhere.

CALGARY - The violent prison break in Kandahar that freed hundreds of Taliban fighters does not represent a massive breakdown in NATO's intelligence gathering network

Canadian soldiers are helping to catch hundreds of Taliban fighters who escaped from a massive Afghan prison, but a top general says the setback may still lead to problems for troops in the field.

A schizophrenic Edmonton man was put behind bars yesterday for inadvertently burning his mother's house down after getting mad at his brother for sleeping in his bed.

A federal prisoner serving a life sentence for killing an Ottawa cop will receive an award for advocacy work to stop the spread of deadly diseases behind bars.

OTTAWA -- One of Canada's top audio experts says someone hired him to analyze the explosive recording at the heart of the Chuck Cadman affair.

VANCOUVER -- A B.C. court says a child's right to life trumps a parent's charter right to guide their medical treatment in the case of four sextuplets taken from their Jehovah's Witness parents.

About 100 firefighters are desperately working to keep a brush fire in Nova Scotia from spreading.

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. -- Police in Nova Scotia say they have made an arrest in the case of Karissa Boudreau

What appears to have been a typical vehicle break-in at the parking lot of a St. Catharines golf club has netted thieves some irreplaceable pieces of hockey history.

At least 19 police shell case markers covered a street in downtown Toronto where two men were shot and killed early Friday.

TORONTO - "Always Fresh" apparently has its price, as doughnut king Tim Hortons is finding out the hard way.

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring at least eight others, a government spokesman said.

Archeologists at a dig near the southern shore community of Ferryland have unearthed the first whole gold coin ever found in Newfoundland.

The 10-day-long blockade at General Motors of Canada's Oshawa, Ont., headquarters by members of the Canadian Auto Workers union must end by Monday morning, a judge ruled Friday

Intact 80-foot sloop is oldest ever found in the Great Lakes A 22-gun British warship that sank during the American Revolution and has long been regarded as one of the "Holy Grail" shipwrecks in the Great Lakes has been discovered at the bottom of La

B.C. has the most contaminated sites on federal land of any province in Canada, figures just released by the Treasury Board reveal. B.C. has 4,088 contaminated sites on federal land, while the next-closest province, Ontario, has 3,799. Quebec came thir