NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2009

Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic and was the last survivor of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, died Sunday at age 97

Stanley Cup finals often produce a surprising hero, but no one could have seen Justin Abdelkader coming.

Students and instructors from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology are working to restore a full-scale model of Canada's legendary Avro Arrow fighter jet.

KABUL -- Afghan and NATO troops killed 18 Taliban militants Sunday after insurgents attacked a joint patrol, while four police were killed in a separate militant ambush, officials said.

Standing on a stage in Toronto in a navy blue suit and sharp baby blue tie, former U.S. president George Walker Bush looked younger, more confident and sounded more relaxed than he had in years.

According to the Global Language Monitor, a group that tracks new additions to the lexicon, it will hit one million words at 5:22 a.m. ET on June 10.

Tough new border regulations come into effect Monday, requiring anyone entering the U.S. to carry a passport or equivalent identification.

Skills learned in warfare are deployed in 'love IEDs' after men have had romantic advances spurned

Police have recovered the body of a York University student who vanished more than two weeks ago, in Lake Ontario close to where he was last seen.

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban ``never lie.'' So says one of the insurgent group's usual spokesmen, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, speaking via cellphone recently from an undisclosed location.

Spy satellites have captured images that appear to show North Korea making preparations to move a long-range missile from a weapons factory to a launch pad in the country's northeast, a South Korean official said Saturday

NEW YORK - When experts sketch out nightmare hurricane scenarios, a New York City strike tends to be high on the list.

The Detroit Red Wings literally used home ice to their advantage against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final.

Inuit leaders want to capitalize on the promotional bonanza offered by images broadcast around the world of Canada's vice-regal munching on a raw slice of seal heart.

Regular car-free Sundays could be coming to four Vancouver neighbourhoods this summer.

Two young men who had never been in trouble with the law say they were beaten and Tasered as many as 24 times by York cops after innocently ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

PITTSBURGH - A former Pennsylvania Senate staffer has been arrested on charges he wanted to engage in sex acts with a 15-year-old boy while dressed in a panda costume, state Attorney General Tom Corbett said.

WASHINGTON - Some are convinced he's the Antichrist. Others have made jokes about watermelon and fried chicken, and sent emails containing racist slurs. And now a personal ad in a Pennsylvania newspaper has called for his assassination.

IQALUIT, Nunavut -- It may have bombed in Brussels, but Michaelle Jean's seal-skinning performance has earned her rock-star status on the tundra.

WINNIPEG -- The public will find out after all whether the man who decapitated a fellow Greyhound passenger and then mutilated his body will be kept in an institution or granted a conditional release.

Former record producer Phil Spector has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of Lana Clarkson.

He has championed youth achievement and the conservation of wildlife. Now the Duke of Edinburgh has turned his thoughts to solving the global food crisis.

LONDON - Defiantly low-tech yet accurate to the second, Big Ben is having its 150th birthday Sunday, its Victorian chimes carrying the sound of Britain into the 21st century.

YEONPYEONG, South Korea - North Korea warned Friday it would act in "self-defence" if provoked by the UN Security Council, which is considering tough sanctions over the communist country's nuclear test, and followed the threat with the test launch of anot

Manslaughter ruling puts contact sports on hot seat

Keanu Reeves doesn't even know her, his spokeswoman says

The owner of the German shepherd that police shot this afternoon is relieved to know her dog has been found but angry with the officer who shot 6-year-old Coco

Socialite left red-faced after her cocktail 'slip' is exposed

The city of Vancouver is prepared to go to court to fight against delinquent landlords who failed to repair mouldy bathrooms, water leaks, cabinets falling off the walls and, worse of all, sewage backing up into suites.

The forbidding landscape of the Arctic contains 13 per cent of the world's remaining undiscovered oil and as much as 30 per cent of its natural gas deposits, a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey says.

Canada Post awarded a five-year contract worth more than $100-million last year to fly its mail, without going to tenders, in a move reminiscent of the sole-sourced advertising contracts that got it into hot water at the Gomery inquiry.

A mass extinction some 260 million years ago may have been caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now China, new research suggests.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - He was tall and stunningly good looking, a guy who could appear pensive and serious one moment and then, with smoke from an unfiltered cigarette swirling around his face, morph into the hippest looking dude this side of James Dean

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba girl at the heart of a custody dispute told a social worker her stepfather was a skinhead who drank up to 10 beers a day

Canadian travellers heading to the U.S. on trains, boats and automobiles will need valid passports starting June 1 as part of increased U.S. border security.

The heads of the Canada Pension Plan are slated to take home millions in bonus payouts this year, even as the fund struggles and the economy slips deeper into recession.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The bread basket of Afghanistan remains decidedly frayed - and signs of Canada's almost year-old promise to help restore at least some of its former glory remain conspicuously scant.

With oil prices slated to remain stable, consumers can be assured that the cost of gas this summer won't approach last year's record highs, says Canada's national energy regulator.

Aspirin and ASA are generally recommended to prevent non-fatal heart attacks among people who already had a heart attack or stroke. But the value of its long-term use by healthy people is uncertain, given the increased risk of internal bleeding.

South Korean and U.S. troops raised their alert Thursday to the highest level since 2006 after North Korea renounced its truce with the allied forces and threatened to strike any ships trying to intercept its vessels.

A Canadian National train derailment that killed two people near Lillooet, B.C., in 2006 was caused by an inadequate braking system used in the steep mountain canyon, according to a federal report released Thursday.

Watching fellow Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk blast off into space Wednesday for a trip to the International Space Station brought back memories for Julie Payette who made her first space flight 10 years ago.

First a sewage treatment plant failed, and now the Halifax Regional Municipality is giving up on attempts to screen out solids from flowing into the harbour

The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia has identified three privacy breaches involving claim histories of jurors being inappropriately accessed by outside lawyers representing it during court proceedings.

When it comes to Senate reform, the Conservative government is applying the old adage: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. On Thursday, the government reintroduced for the third time legislation that would force senators to retire after serving

Vancouver police say they have concerns about a sailboat decorated with Nazi symbols that is anchored off Jericho Beach.

(CNN) -- A Singapore man undergoing treatment for cancer was detained for four hours by U.S. immigration officials after the drug he was taking caused his fingerprints to disappear.

Police have identified the man gunned down in Burnaby, B.C., on Tuesday night and said he is a well-known gang member.

Canada continues to lag behind the rest of the world in the use of renewable energy and could fall further, warns a senior policy and technical analyst with the Pembina Institute in Ottawa.

Premier faces pressure from fellow Liberals to embed blended levy in prices next year

It's the most popular item this season and two local designers have sales buttoned up

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean and U.S. troops facing North Korea boosted their alert level Thursday to the highest category since 2006, after the North threatened military strikes on allied troops in escalating tension over its nuclear test.

The airing of Stephane Dion's false starts from an interview with CTV anchor Steve Murphy last October violated broadcasting codes and ethics, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled

Both military buffs and protesters converged on Ottawa's Lansdowne Park on Wednesday for the opening of Canada's largest military trade show.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has "lost credibility" after announcing Canada's deficit will soar to a record level, Liberal finance critic John McCallum said Wednesday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean's gutting of a seal before eating a piece of its raw heart has inflamed an emotional debate, with animal welfare groups accusing her of using the Inuit subsistence hunt to legitimize Canada's commercial seal tra

EDMONTON -- A high-risk convict called the "most difficult" inmate in the Edmonton Remand Centre wants out on bail on charges of starting a fire in his cell and assaulting two guards.

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk is on his way to a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station.

The Ontario Provincial Police said it will be conducting a review of the province's Amber Alert system after more than 20,000 people signed a petition calling for changes.

B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal has lost his provincial seat in an electoral recount to Independent challenger Vicki Huntington, a stunning result which has dethroned one of the province's most famous politicians.

General Motors Corp.'s offer to bondholders to swap their debt for company stock has failed, which means the ailing automaker is likely headed for bankruptcy protection.

Canada's Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan said cyber security is the new "arms race" as the government fights to protect its information systems from nefarious threats around the world.

The Toronto-area father who brought Magdalene Gordo to Canada to care for his four children plans to tell a news conference today that the Filipina nanny, one of two caregivers alleging Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla mistreated them, abruptly walked off the job i

One of Canada's top Arctic archeologists says the remnants of a stone-and-sod wall unearthed on southern Baffin Island may be traces of a shelter built more than 700 years ago by Norse seafarers, a stunning find that would be just the second location in t

WINNIPEG -- This city is going to sizzle tonight. And we're not talking about the weather.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's military says it considers South Korea's participation in a U.S.-led program to intercept ships suspected of spreading weapons of mass destruction tantamount to a declaration of war against the North.

The Pittsburgh Penguins punched their ticket to the Stanley Cup final on Tuesday, and booked a spot in the record books as well

Former NHL player Peter Zezel passed away at a Toronto hospital on Tuesday, after a long battle with a blood disorder.

Montpelier, Vt. -- PETA will launch an international boycott of Canadian maple syrup on Tuesday to protest Canada's annual seal massacre

WINNIPEG - The public may never know if a man who beheaded a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus will be kept in an institution or given a conditional release.

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- Russia's space agency Tuesday gave the go-ahead for this week's launch of a rocket carrying three astronauts, including a Canadian, to the International Space Station.

If you're a hockey fan, you know the quote that comes quickly after a squad goes down 3-0 in a series:

Thousands of Canadian workers who purchased stock options from their employers before the market downturn are expected to pay millions of dollars in taxes on income they haven't received because the shares have lost their value.

OTTAWA - Fulfilling the Manley commission's conditions to extend Canada's combat mission in Afghanistan to 2011 will cost more than $1.1 billion, say federal budget documents.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean's public gutting of a seal in an Inuit community was a repugnant attempt to legitimize the sealing trade, an opponent of Canada's commercial hunt said Tuesday

A Maine-based fishing captain famous for her books and her role in the book and movie The Perfect Storm, told a St. John's courtroom Tuesday she accidentally ended up in Canadian waters because another boat cut her fishing gear during the night.

Independent candidate Vicki Huntington has defeated high-profile B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Wally Oppal in the riding of Delta South in one of two provincial election recounts concluded on Tuesday.

May 25, 2009 - The Hamilton Spectator - CALEDONIA (May 25, 2009) A man was subdued by police during an attempt by a Caledonia group to raise the Canadian flag across from Douglas Creek Estates yesterday.

City council backs removal of centre lane as critics predict backlash by voters

North Korea launched tests today of two more short-range missiles a day after detonating a nuclear bomb underground, a news report said, pushing the regime's confrontation with world powers further despite the threat of UN Security Council action.

"You, too, my darling, can be a star one day." Besides those reassuring words, mothers of fame-struck children can now console their offspring by pointing to Britain's Got Talent sensations Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, two people as ordinary as a Wal-Ma

Clothing program helps high school grads feel like princesses at the prom

Militant Protestant supporters of a Scottish soccer team beat to death a Roman Catholic man in the latest sign of how sports rivalries inspire sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland, police and politicians said yesterday.

A new "self-order kiosk" was set up at my neighbourhood Tim Hortons and I was eager to try it.

Spending `spiralling' out of control, accountants warn

As seismologists confirmed it had had the power of a 4.5 quake, the US president said North Korea's programme posed a "grave threat" to world peace.

Mapping flights enter territory claimed by Russia as part of a high-stakes drive by several countries to establish clear title to the polar region and its seabed riches

OTTAWA -- The Canadian military plans to acquire a "family" of aerial drones over the next decade to complete "dull, dirty and dangerous" missions against a range of threats at home and abroad, including terrorism and failed or failing states, newly relea

The brilliant, haunting phenomenon known as the Northern Lights can also be a potentially deadly source of energy in outer space

General Motors workers in Southern Ontario have voted to approve a labour concession package tonight, with 86 per cent supporting the plan.

Rapid climate change is forcing scientists to consider for the first time whether to help wildlife relocate to places where they are not currently found, says a group of international researchers who have created a tool for evaluating such relocations

Almost 30,000 right whales cruised the coasts of New Zealand while sharks were so plentiful they darkened waters off England 200 years ago, according to an ambitious project that has traced the history and worrisome decline of several marine species.

The new Golden Ears Bridge east of Vancouver will open about two weeks ahead of schedule, officials with TransLink confirmed Monday.

OTTAWA - Atomic Energy of Canada's chief rival to build a nuclear power plant in Ontario has offered to help the federal government through the shutdown of the Chalk River reactor

RANKIN INLET, Nunavut - On the first day of her trip to the Arctic Michaelle Jean gutted a freshly slaughtered seal, pulled out its raw heart, and ate it.

Police have arrested a young man after as many as six people were injured Monday afternoon when someone hiding in bushes near a Burnaby, B.C., school fired a pellet gun at people standing at a bus stop, police said.

Fears that a Victoria Cross medal belonging to a Canadian war hero would be auctioned off to a private collector were allayed Monday evening when the Canadian War Museum bought it for $240,000.

Canada has an unprecedented track record around the world for its successful integration of immigrants, says expert

After years of delay and hundreds of millions of dollars in preparations, Customs and Border Protection officials said new security measures would go into effect on June 1, requiring Americans entering the country by land or sea to show government-approve

Canada's minority Conservative government unveiled an expansion of jobless benefits on Monday but rejected demands from opposition parties to relax current eligibility rules or risk facing an election over the issue.

Rash of cancelled or postponed projects plus resurgent economic demand may have set the stage for crude rebound

Toronto's Catholic school board is being accused of wilfully neglecting a historical building so it can get approval to tear it down.

Surprise singing sensation hits another high note by making it to the finals on Britain's Got Talent

The hell of treatment gives cancer survivors insight into Hauser's decision to flee

'Litter guy' pays rent by filling up to 80 garbage bags a day in several city neighbourhoods

North Korea claims it has successfully conducted a second nuclear weapons test, defying international warnings and drastically escalating tensions with the country

City plan for $70 million in cycling infrastructure needs to be cohesive to work, commuters say