NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2008

As fuel prices skyrocket, the navy is actually planning on burning more of the increasingly precious substance.

On the same night the NHL handed out its awards, SportsCentre hands out the TSN NHL awards.

Former Canadian World Juniors and Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds head coach Craig Hartsburg was introduced as the new bench boss of the Ottawa Senators today, signing a three-year agreement with the club

A Calgary couple claims they were beaten up by several bouncers outside a downtown bar last week. "I'm 120 pounds. I could have easily been restrained," Laura Rumboldt told CBC News, adding that she and husband Patrick Tomren were punched and kicked

Criminal charges have been laid against 13 people and 11 companies accused of fixing the price of gas in Quebec, the federal Competition Bureau said Thursday.

An Ontario judge is expected to rule Friday on whether to grant an injunction to end the blockade at General Motors of Canada's Oshawa headquarters.

The federal government tabled legislation on Thursday that it claims will see individuals fined a maximum of $500 if they are caught downloading copyrighted files.

A judge has ruled that a chronic drunk driver who killed four people will not be jailed indefinitely as a dangerous offender.

VANCOUVER -- Tax freedom day -- the day average Canadians have paid off the year's tax load and begin working for themselves -- arrives Saturday, according to the Fraser Institute.

Although gasoline retailers in four Quebec regions have been accused of price fixing, Liberal MP Dan McTeague says it's unlikely the problem is more widespread.

The B.C. government has given the go-ahead to the Port Mann Bridge/Highway 1 expansion project.

John Polson delivered a happy ending from a sad situation Saturday when he saved the lives of two unborn fawns from a dead doe in an impromptu emergency operation in a roadway ditch

OTTAWA - The Canadian Council on Learning painted a discouraging picture of future literacy levels in a report released Thursday that predicts nearly half the Canadian population will have low literacy skills by 2031.

As NASA's Phoenix Lander is searching for signs of life on Mars, there is already a search for ancient life taking place here on Earth. Pavilion Lake, B.C. to be exact.

Where there's smoke there's not always fire thanks to a high-tech twist on cigarettes that's being used by Canadians hoping to dodge widespread smoking bans.

Two white ravens have taken up summer residence in Qualicum along with their three black siblings, says bird expert and author Mike Yip of Nanoose Bay.

Just two weeks after the five Arctic Ocean countries, including Canada, pledged to tone down the rhetoric over their competing territorial claims in the polar region, a high-ranking Russian defence official has announced plans to bolster his nation's mil

If you believe Gene Simmons there will soon be a Kiss Idol reality show to search for the four new members of KISS as Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Whatshisface McGillicuddy, and whoever else is behind the make-up right now are set to retire.

After a 20-year career, Canucks forward Trevor Linden announced his retirement Wednesday afternoon.

A search and rescue operation is underway in Iowa after a powerful tornado ripped through a Boy Scout camp, killing four and injuring 48.

CALGARY -- Coldplay has suddenly left Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg out in the cold.

VANCOUVER -- Virgin Festival organizers are promising a successful event in Calgary this month despite a series of problems that have plagued the festival in other Canadian cities.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre is under fire over comments he made suggesting that native people need to learn the value of hard work more than they need financial compensation.

After 15 months of pregnancy, Qila the Vancouver Aquarium's 12-year-old beluga whale has given birth to her first calf. The birth was captured live by television cameras. Qila was the first beluga whale to be conceived and born in a Canadian aqua

A previously unknown species of dinosaur may have been discovered after a new study of seven bones found in northern B.C. nearly 40 years ago revealed a "mystery" about the creature's identity

LITTLE SIOUX, Iowa - An apparent tornado struck a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa on Wednesday, and local media reported four deaths at the camp, as well as many injuries.

For the past 17 years, "Zino" has lived a seemingly ordinary life in Saskatoon, Nanaimo and Victoria. By the age of 40, he had bought houses, opened bank accounts and collected credit cards

Two local residents drove their minivan all the way from Princeton to Port Alberni before learning the squeaking noise coming from their engine compartment was actually a hitchhiking yellow-bellied marmot.

OTTAWA - Conservative and Liberal senators cast doubt Wednesday that Canada will be able to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 2011 as planned.

VANCOUVER - Surrounded by friends and family and it seemed nearly every media member in Vancouver, Canuck icon Trevor Linden confirmed his retirement Wednesday during a packed, televised press conference.

Some of the startling revelations by the report include satellite images of Mount Kilimanjaro's glaciers which have been disappearing since the beginning of the 20th century.

"It was supposed to be this week," said one senior Liberal insider. "It's been put off. It may be next week, but there is enough resistance around some aspects that they [the Liberal Leader's officials] are going to push it back."

The Colbert Report {Tues. June 10, 2008) "... punching beavers in the face!"

WINNIPEG - Tyrone Jones, the colourful and outspoken linebacker who helped the Winnipeg Blue Bombers capture two Grey Cup titles during his eight-year tenure with the CFL club, has died. He was 46

In the war against Toronto's illegal handguns, chalk up 37 for the good guys.

After some backlash over his recent hockey comments, Tiger Woods insists it was just a joke.

The Canadian Auto Workers union says it's not surprised that it was handed a legal injunction to stop a blockade around General Motors headquarters but union officials say they were shocked when they found out the company would also be seeking $1.5 milli

NEW YORK -- For one Canadian tribe's members, the history they found at the museum was their own.

More than 200,000 Quebec homes and businesses remain without power today after Tuesday's severe thunderstorms.

The lawyer for a Toronto man cleared in a 1990 murder thinks a newly-released video shows the police did a "dreadful" job of interviewing sex killer Paul Bernardo.

The federal government's headache over former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier's relationship with his ex-girlfriend Julie Couillard, who has ties to organized crime, just got a little more painful.

Ever since the U.S banned horse slaughter for human consumption in 2006, the industry headed north to Canada.

OTTAWA - For three decades, Willie Blackwater suppressed the pain. At age 39, he released his torment when a compassionate RCMP officer named Al Franczak asked if he'd ever been sexually abused.

HALIFAX - Canada's top soldier is defending the right of a father whose son died in Afghanistan last weekend to criticize the overseas mission.

OTTAWA - The RCMP has acknowledged for the first time that Julie Couillard was known to the force before news of her controversial relationship with Maxime Bernier became front-page news.

A CBC News investigation into the horse slaughter industry in Canada, including hidden-camera footage from one slaughterhouse in Saskatchewan, is raising questions about how horses are being killed.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Conservative government plans to make the refurbishment and expansion of a dam bordering a sapphire-coloured lake in northern Kandahar the jewel of Canada's development effort in the war-torn region.

Rogers Communications Inc. is defending its control over the flow of internet traffic as necessary but light-handed, amid growing complaints from users and the threat of intervention by regulators.

Qila, the Vancouver Aquarium's 12-year-old beluga whale, gave birth to her first calf in front of an excited crowd of 300 visitors on Tuesday

More restaurants and retailers in Canada and the U.S. are clearing their stocks of tomatoes suspected of triggering a salmonella outbreak in the U.S. that has sickened 167 people.

Trevor Linden will announce his retirement at a news conference in Vancouver on Wednesday. Linden hangs up his skates after 18 seasons in the NHL, mostly with the Vancouver Canucks, where he was a fan favourite.

The Los Angeles Kings have fired head coach Marc Crawford.

The company, which owns the My Organic Baby business, said it expects to reach 1,250 stores in Canada by the end of the year.

Government procurement officials are trying to cope with the latest setbacks in the two major projects to purchase gear for the Canadian Forces.

Canadians may still love a good brew, but over the course of a decade, market share for beer has dipped while wine has been on the rise, according to new statistics. And insiders say the changes are likely linked to an emerging sophistication in consumer

Bob Weeks takes a light hearted look at Tiger Woods comments earlier in the week about the NHL

VANCOUVER - The Coast Salish people have finally been acknowledged at the totem pole site in Stanley Park, a first nations elder said Monday morning.

The federal department is inviting firms from across the country to submit bids on a contract to cultivate and distribute medical marijuana for the next seven years, with options for two one-year extensions.

Canada's summer tornado season was in full force Monday as Environment Canada issued a series of alerts for regions south of Winnipeg where numerous funnel clouds were spotted

OWEN SOUND, Ont. - A restaurant owner in Owen Sound, Ont., has now apologized for telling a waitress who shaved her head for a cancer charity event to take the summer off.

Raw video:June 08/08:Dartmouth,Canada,people film a street robbery from their living room window....Commentary is more explanatory

Honourary Colonel Charley Fox, 88, is the heroic recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar, but until now he had never been awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration (CD)

Police have achieved a breakthrough in the search for the Haida art pieces which went missing from a museum at the University of British Columbia on May 24.

BERN, Switzerland - The Netherlands stunned Italy 3-0 in their European Championship opener Monday, leaving the World Cup champions fighting to avoid elimination from the first round.

Toronto, ON - CTV Inc., together with Copyright Music & Visuals, today announced that CTV Inc. has acquired all rights to 'The Hockey Theme' in perpetuity, preserving the song's legacy and ensuring it will be heard on national television for years to c

Controversial proposals to overhaul Canada's immigration system get a third and final reading in Parliament on Monday, with the Liberal Opposition debating whether to allow the bill to pass or defeat it and spark a summer federal election

Dominik Hasek, one of the most intimidating and unusual goaltenders in the history of the game, retired Monday after an outstanding NHL and international career

Hundreds of people, some pushing shopping carts with their belongings, lined up on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on Saturday morning hoping to enter a photography contest

When Ontario passed new street racing laws last fall, they were hailed as the toughest in North America

It starts with a bloody ambush deep in the Saudi Arabian desert. A tent city, set up amid miles of sand dunes, is attacked by gun-wielding assassins. Geologists are gunned down in a flurry of sudden violence. So begins the filmed-in-Calgary TV minis

One person killed in crash of homebuilt airplane at Springbank Airport near Calgary

From The TimesJune 9, 2008 Global warming turning sea into acid bath Image :1 of 3 Mark Henderson, Science Editor Increasing carbon dioxide emissions could leave species such as coral and sea urchins struggling to survive by the end of the centur

Women who flew planes, trained officers and directed air traffic for the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War have been recognized for their contributions, with a new plaque on the roof of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year's supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported on Monday.

Professor who exposed Afghan detainee torture made request to test limits of secrecy at DND

Race and ethnicity still top the list of Canada's most common motivators of hate crimes, according to a Statistics Canada report released Monday that shows blacks as the main target

TORONTO - CBC is making a last-ditch effort to rescue the beloved theme song to Hockey Night in Canada.

MONTREAL -- Ballooning fuel prices and recruitment problems kept Canadian navy vessels docked for much of last year, Sun Media has learned.

People in southwestern Ontario are cleaning up debris and repairing damage Monday after severe storms, fuelled by intense heat and humidity, battered a swath of territory between Windsor and Toronto.

This much is clear: A RCMP officer was dispatched to a rural road in B.C. on Aug. 13, 2006, after a nearby resident complained of a man camping in the woods.

Few other G8 governments would be as lax on the security of classified documents as Ottawa, says a national security expert.

A famous Bible with a typographical error has made its way back to Nova Scotia after almost 300 years.

The Canadian Forces main counter-terrorism unit should start moving out of its Dwyer Hill base as early as 2012 but the process could stretch on for several more years after that

Once among the country's best warships, a steam-powered destroyer will become an underwater tourist attraction off the coast near Vancouver

ATHENS, Greece - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 struck southwestern Greece on Sunday, killing at least two people, injuring 90 and levelling dozens of homes, authorities said.

QINGLIAN, China - A magnitude 5.0 aftershock shook a brimming, earthquake-formed lake Sunday and sent landslides tumbling down surrounding mountains, underscoring the persistent threat of flooding to more than one million weary refugees downstream.

Grizzly bear deaths caused by human activity in Banff National Park are pushing the species toward dangerously low levels, according to a new Parks Canada report.

MONTREAL - Robert Kubica, who survived a spectacular crash a year ago at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, posted his first Formula One victory at the Canadian Grand Prix in his Sauber BMW on Sunday.

A Canadian soldier died Saturday night after falling into a well during a night-time patrol west of Kandahar, a military commander said

It's like telling a teenage smoker they can keep smoking as long as they give a donation to the Lung Association. It doesn't work," Kenney maintained. "I don't think Canadians will be fooled."

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Marine archeologists have salvaged ancient wine vases piled on the hull of a 2,350-year-old cargo ship lying on the seabed off Cyprus' southern shore

Broadcaster Jim McKay, whose defining moment as a legendary sportscaster came in his coverage of the 1972 Munich Massacre, has died of natural causes in Maryland

For years, federal authorities have tried to kick alleged gangster Yi Feng Wu out of Canada. They say the Vancouver man is a heroin trafficker, cocaine smuggler, money launderer and marijuana producer.

It pays to fight on ice. By as much as $18,135, to be exact.

The network confirmed plans to conduct a nationwide search for a new song, awarding $100,000 to whoever can come up with the best theme as decided by fans and experts.

VANCOUVER -- As the mountain pine beetle munches a devastating path through B.C. forests, another blow for the down and out forestry industry, governments and corporations are working on better ways to use the dead wood in everything from furniture to ene

Outgoing Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Rick Hillier and his replacement, Lt.-Gen. Walter Natynczyk, inspected the guard on Parliament Hill at the 125th anniversary parade of the Royal Canadian Dragoons.

Gasoline prices jumped overnight in some Canadian markets as energy-consuming nations meeting in Japan urged oil producers to step up output.

Some of the world's top athletes had to seek medical attention after competing in what may have been the coldest swim in World Championship Triathlon history in downtown Vancouver.

It didn't take long for the Stanley Cup to take another bashing.

Winnipeg police Chief Keith McCaskill has apologized to rapper Robert Wilson, who performs under the moniker Fresh I.E., after Wilson was mistakenly pulled out of his car at gunpoint by officers.

For much of this year, Canadians have looked on as tornado after tornado has hit the U.S. But now, weather experts say residents here may need to prepare for twisters as well.

TORONTO - A woman calling herself Canada's most famous dominatrix says the best years of her life were spent spanking and tying up clients in her north Toronto bondage hotel

From the sublime halls of Parliament to the ridiculous - yet hilarious - lyrics of a Calgary radio station, Canadians poured out their hearts Friday in a rah-rah requiem for their beloved hockey anthem.

Three peregrine falcons chicks hatched on a downtown Winnipeg hotel late last month have died, despite a dramatic rescue attempt by the city's fire department Friday morning.

Canada's Shania Twain is thanking her fans for their support amid her split with Robert (Mutt) Lange, admitting she is broken-hearted and in pain after the sudden breakup of her 14-year marriage.

Negotiations to keep the Hockey Night in Canada theme song have collapsed, meaning the CBC program is now in search of another anthem.

Residents across the Lower Mainland shivered in their flip-flops Thursday as wet, wintry weather brought one of the coldest June days on record.

OTTAWA - The government's selection of Lt.-Gen. Walter Natynczyk as the new chief of the defence staff signals a determination to stay the course in Afghanistan, while muting some of the outspoken cheerleading that characterized his predecessor, Gen. Ric

Canada's military mission in Afghanistan will be granted the use of two of Poland's helicopters this summer, a Polish minister says

Thousands of thirtysomethings who left school before a second measles-mumps-rubella booster shot was introduced remain at risk of contracting measles, public health officials warn.

A veteran of the Second World War has had his medals stolen from the Royal Canadian Legion in Burlington.