NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2009

The mother of two children seized by social workers after her daughter went to school with white supremacist symbols on her body pleaded with the court on Friday to let her kids stay in foster care.

A tractor-trailer slammed into a line of cars stopped on a northeastern Oklahoma turnpike Friday afternoon, killing at least eight people, authorities said.

Physicist Stephen Hawking has been making a good recovery since falling seriously ill in April and might make a visit to Canada this fall, says the head of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

It's the second consecutive year that Canada Day is failing to trigger a long weekend and while some communities are shifting celebration dates you can bet there's one that doesn't bend on the nation's birthday.

A plan to return the black-footed ferret to its once familiar southwest Saskatchewan habitat has been approved, with about 40 critters to set up home once they've been pre-conditioned at a Colorado boot camp for ferrets.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) released video Friday of its officers rescuing a juvenile humpback whale after it became tangled in at least 50 prawn traps on June 10 in Knight Inlet, off the central B.C. coast

Likely wanting to stake out its own territory, a moose led fish and wildlife officers on a wild chase through the southwest community of Haysboro for several hours yesterday

JACKSONVILLE, Florida -- The Navy believes sonar in a planned training range for submarine warfare off the coast of north Florida will not disturb calving by endangered North Atlantic right whales, it said in an environmental impact statement Friday.

SYDNEY, N.S. -- Cpl. Matthew Wilcox held his dying friend in his arms and apologized as Cpl. Kevin Megeney slumped to the floor of their shared tent in Afghanistan, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest

General manager Garth Snow ended weeks of silence about the New York Islanders' draft plans at 7:18 p.m. ET Friday, selecting London Knights centre John Tavares with the first overall pick at the NHL entry draft in Montreal.

A plume of smoke, ash and steam soars five miles into the sky from an erupting volcano.

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Police are looking for Michael Jackson's personal physician but have been unable to contact him, they said Friday.

League sources say NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told Tampa owners Oren Koules and Len Barrie during a meeting earlier this week that if they want to sell the team, they should hold on to their superstar.

Province increases drilling aid programs to $3-billion from $1.5-billion, extends them by one year to 2011

A relection of the Canadian flag is seen as Prime Minister Stephen Harper takes a drink of water while announcing Halifax's Pier 21 has been named a national museum, in Halifax on June 25, 2009. PM posits that Ignatieff saw the light about Canadians not

Pop superstar Michael Jackson died Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest. The popular celebrity website TMZ said when paramedics arrived, the 50-year-old King of Pop had no vital signs. Emergency workers were unable to revive the singer, they repor

Entertainer Michael Jackson was taken to a hospital on Thursday, CNN affiliate KTLA reported, citing a Los Angeles Fire Department official. Asked specifics of the patient's condition, the spokesman said he could not discuss them because of federal privac

Economic Development and Trade Minister Sandra Pupatello has apologized for calling Torontonians a "bunch of babies" in their response to the garbage strike. At a news conference promoting a cabinet shuffle yesterday morning, Pupatello, who hails from

A Canadian soldier charged with fatally shooting a fellow reservist in Afghanistan was playing a game with a loaded weapon when the firearm went off and killed his comrade, the lead prosecutor in a court martial told a military panel Thursday.

A Hong Kong bartender-turned-feng shui master who is fighting for the 13 billion dollar estate of Nina Wang said in court that he and the eccentric tycoon burned money for fun. On the second day of his testimony in the epic court battle over Wang's wi

Struggling British Airways on Thursday said 800 staff had agreed to unpaid work and thousands more to pay cuts, helping the group save up to 10 million pounds. After diving into a financial loss, the airline last month asked staff to work for free, wh

Lin Zongxiu, from the southwestern province of Sichuan, heard in 2008 that soup made with a man�s head could help cure her daughter who had suffered from psychiatric problems for years, the Chengdu Commercial newspaper reported.

Police in suburban Philadelphia say a man fed up of children playing in his cul-de-sac blared a pornographic soundtrack to chase them off.

Wallabies snacking in Tasmania's legally grown opium poppy fields are getting "high as a kite" and hopping around in circles, trampling the crops, a state official said.

MONTREAL - Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe took time out from St-Jean-Baptiste Day festivities to liken his federalist rivals to "rednecks" in their treatment of the French language

Hoping to close Saskatchewan's oldest cold case, Saskatoon police have released a facial reconstruction of the mysterious "woman in the well" murdered a century ago.

RCMP and Nova Scotia SPCA officers seized 89 cats and dogs Wednesday from two Guysborough County homes owned by a mother and daughter after receiving dozens of complaints.

Mike Babcock posed with his Team Canada No.10 jersey and told a throng of media in Montreal what it feels like to finally be officially named the coach of Canada's 2010 men's Olympic hockey team.

In the same week that the United Nations named Canada as a major supplier of illegal drugs, Alberta passed a law allowing police officers to seize armoured vehicles used by gang members.

Following months of planning by the Canadian Blood Services, four people with severe kidney failure received new kidneys from living donors in simultaneous operations in three cities Wednesday.

The B.C. Court of Appeal will rule today on the six second-degree murder convictions of serial killer Robert Pickton.

Canada's ruling Conservatives have regained the lead in public support after a showdown that put the main opposition Liberal Party on the defensive, according to a poll released on Thursday. A weekly Ekos survey for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp put

A new survey shows Calgary has the second-highest monthly downtown parking rates in North America, right behind New York City and not by much. The Colliers International global parking survey was released on Wednesday just two days after Calgary city c

Johnny Depp has previously said that money isn't the key to happiness. But during a visit to a Chicago restaurant, the star certainly brought joy to one unsuspecting waiter with a reported sizable tip.

TORONTO -- A search that spanned close to half the globe looking for the family of a First World War veteran has ended with the location of a niece in B.C.

EDMONTON -- A family whose house police mistakenly barged into during a drug investigation on the Enoch Reserve say the terrifying ordeal has left them with lasting emotional scars

CALGARY -- City police are predicting increasingly violent gang wars driven by cocaine, whose Calgary wholesale value has doubled in the past four years.

Sometimes, miracles do happen. Baby Lillian O'Connor -- the child at the centre of a heart-wrenching transplant drama -- has reportedly finally received the infant heart she has desperately needed since she was born 15 weeks ago.

CALGARY -- Wielding a steel bar and a baseball bat, residents rushed to the aid of a man and two girls who were attacked by a pair of dogs running wild through their neighbourhood last night.

WINNIPEG -- A 15-year-old girl who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the beating death of Spence Street resident Audrey Cooper has been released from custody and ordered to live in a group home for troubled youth.

SEOUL, South Korea -- Tens of thousands of North Koreans shouted slogans to denounce international sanctions at a rally in central Pyongyang on Thursday, as the communist country vowed to enlarge its atomic arsenal and warned of a "fire shower of nuclear

British Columbia may become the seventh province in Canada to restrict the use of cell phones while driving.

B.C. First Nation has filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court to stop the proposed development of a gold and copper mine in the central Interior of the province.

OTTAWA - The Canadian military will launch a campaign Thursday to bring the suffering of mental illness - particularly post-traumatic stress disorder - out of the shadows.

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs has declared a state of emergency in Manitoba First Nations over the swine flu pandemic.

Protesters opposed to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver said police are using intimidation tactics to keep them quiet, and they are threatening to take the police to court to put a stop to it.

n Quebec City Wednesday for St-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations, Prime Minister Stephen Harper seized the occasion to announce that he wants to settle a dispute with the province.

A complaint has been filed against the RCMP after an 11-year-old girl in Fort Resolution, N.W.T., was handcuffed and put in a jail cell, according to the girl's mother.

Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden assumed command of the Canadian Navy this morning at a formal ceremony held in Ottawa at the Cartier Square Drill Hall.

OTTAWA - The company that lost a multibillion-dollar submarine maintenance contract is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to allow its legal challenge of the deal to proceed.

BANDUNG, Indonesia - Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton of a prehistoric giant elephant ever found in the tropics

BC Ferries officials unveiled a dramatic security upgrade for their fleet Tuesday, from security cameras to bomb-sniffing dogs.

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il doled out foreign-made cars to senior intelligence officials to ensure their loyalty to his youngest son when he put the 26-year-old in charge of the country's powerful spy agency, a report said Wednes

Metro Vancouver is looking for public input into a plan to build six new waste-to-energy plants around the Lower Mainland to deal with the growing problem of too much garbage and not enough landfill space.

A conservation officer in Prince George, B.C., used his CPR training to save a bear's life after it was tranquillized.

CHARLOTTETOWN - The red sand of P.E.I. may make for stunning postcards, but it doesn't measure up when it comes to the exacting standards of international beach volleyball.

The deepest global recession in over 60 years is close to bottoming out, but recovery will be weak unless governments take further action to remove uncertainty over banks' balance sheets

North Korea threatened on Wednesday to "wipe out" the United States in the event of a new war on the Korean Peninsula

A Halifax-area teenager who helped rescue a Quebec tourist swept into the sea at Peggys Cove said he just did what anyone would do.

A woman who gave birth in a Wal-Mart washroom in Prince Albert, Sask., and left the baby behind has been found not guilty of child abandonment, a judge has ruled.

Romeo LeBlanc, the former Governor General, has died in his home in southeastern New Brunswick after a lengthy illness

Flunking a spelling test has landed a wanted man on the lam for nearly three years back in police custody yesterday

A former Edmonton school teacher's assistant and volunteer with Kids Kottage, who is facing jail on child pornography charges, is a pedophile and a sex addict.

WASHINGTON - Canada is the leading supplier of the drug ecstasy in North America and a growing producer of methamphetamine for markets around the world, a new United Nations report has found.

McGuinty will stick by embattled Health Minister David Caplan, according to sources, who keeps his job amid a spending scandal at an agency under his portfolio.

Canadian police were on the search on Monday for a brazen thief who snatched a take-away meal while making a naked run past a fast food restaurant's drive-though window.

In the critical days after dozens of Manitoba aboriginals fell severely ill with swine flu, Health Canada hesitated in sending desperately needed hand sanitizer to native towns because of concerns that people would ingest the alcohol-based gel.

The man was working on cutting a door through a 18-centimetre-thick cement wall at a job site at 8825 51st Ave. when the slab fell on him,

Lorne Schnell, COO of the Morsky Group of Companies, explains the Shotrods Hy-Speed Soil Nailing technology used to stabilize soil.

Another stretch of the Canada-U.S. border is now being patrolled by an unmanned Predator B drone, another step in Homeland Security's plan to have the planes eventually flying over the longest undefended border in the world.

OTTAWA -- Ontario liquor stores were teeming with customers Tuesday morning, stocking up in the event that employees go on strike at 12:01 a.m Wednesday.

An attempt to drown out an anglophone band's St. Jean Baptiste concert fizzled last night as the separatist protesters proved no match for the feel-good music of guitars, banjo, mandolin and washtub bass.

Canada's aboriginal communities have been hit hard by swine flu, but there is no consistent approach to the disease across the country, a Senate committee was told Tuesday.

The provincial government may have destroyed all cabinet e-mails between 2001 and 2005, opening a huge gap in the official record despite a law that electronic files must be kept for at least seven years, the Supreme Court of British Columbia has learned.

METRO VANCOUVER -- They were prisoner rights activists, convicted killers and man and wife. Now Tom Elton is back behind bars and a suspect in the bloody murder Monday of his wife Brenda Blondell. Elton was charged with murder today after Blondell

Hull, Leetch, Robitaille and Yzerman joined by builder Lamoriello in the induction class of 2009

Premier Jean Charest's governing Liberals won two provincial byelections on Monday, including one in a riding that had been an Action democratique du Quebec stronghold since 1994 because of Mario Dumont.

Democracy Watch, a citizens group that monitors ethics in government, is scheduled to argue before the court on Sept. 8 that Mr. Harper violated his own legislation by calling the election before he'd served four years in office.

Ali Karimi, Mehdi Mahdavikia and two others are 'retired' after sporting green wristbands in World Cup qualifier in Seoul

Police say a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of beer overturned in Vermont and closed a highway for several hours.

Microsoft launched a beta version of its forthcoming free antivirus software on Tuesday, aiming to protect users who, for one reason or another, have not installed security applications on their computers from other providers.

Five German shepherd puppies cloned from a dog named Trakr have been delivered to owner James Symington, a former police officer in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who now lives in Los Angeles.

CALGARY - One of JoJuan Armour's last acts as a Calgary Stampeder took place Saturday night at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse when the veteran middle linebacker accepted his Grey Cup ring.

CALGARY - A Calgary provincial court judge says he's concerned some police officers are too quick to Taser suspects.

DEH-E BAGH, Afghanistan - Canada has taken the wraps off its "model village" project in southern Afghanistan.

A fire station in Montreal removed a politically charged symbol from its flagpole Tuesday morning after CBC News reported it had been flying there for about a month.

Extra policing requirements for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver could end up hindering court cases in Calgary and smaller communities in Alberta.

Probe finds 'no major fraud or breach'

OTTAWA -- Federal lawyers are appealing a court ruling that ordered the government to seek Omar Khadr's return from Guantanamo Bay.

It's only day two of a municipal strike in Toronto but there are already signs of illegal garbage dumping throughout the city.

ELMVALE -- This small community northwest of Barrie was in shock last night after a "beloved" neighbour, a mentally challenged man, was shot several times by police.

OTTAWA � Today marks 24 years since a Delhi-bound Air India flight left Toronto and Montreal and exploded over the Atlantic Ocean. And families of 329 victims yearn to know the story behind Canada's worst terror attack. Yet, three years after the fed

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson accused the Liberals of being soft on crime yesterday, saying the Senate is stalling legislation needed to protect Canadians. "Liberal softness on crime is demonstrated again and again by gutting our crime legislation, t

Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Canadian the government was told to bring home after years of forced exile, is a senior al-Qaeda operative personally acquainted with Osama bin Laden and a key member of a Montreal terrorist cell, the United Nations Security Coun

Disturbing. Disappointing. Harmful. Infuriating. These are just some of the adjectives used by rookie MPs to describe their first impressions of Canada's Parliament.

June 22, 2009 Ken Peters The Hamilton Spectator The NHL has asked for four days to find a local owner committed to keeping the Phoenix Coyotes in their desert den of Glendale, Arizona.

President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday that the burka was not welcome in secular France, condemning the head-to-toe cover as a symbol of subjugation rather than the Muslim faith. "We cannot accept to have in our country women who are prisoners behind

Nokia Siemens Networks says it will hang onto about 830 Canadian employees of Nortel Networks Corp. as part of the plan to buy a major portion of the former technology giant's wireless business. Simon Beresford-Wylie, chief executive officer of Nokia S

A video of a blood-drenched young woman, purportedly killed in the Tehran protests, has become an Internet symbol of the demonstrations and heightened pressure on Iran in its battle with foreign media.

94 people in Kandahar Afghanistan spent father's day running or walking in memory of Calgary Soldier Cpl Nathan Hornburg. National Defence says Over $5600 was raised and will be donated to the Nathan Hornburg Foundation. Cpl Hornburg was killed in Afghani

EDMONTON -- Messages a Tory MLA posted on his public Twitter account during the city's pride parade have Edmonton's gay community calling for an apology.

For six years Buddy has been tracking salmon poachers, illegal anglers and people digging clams in prohibited areas, but the Department of Fisheries and Oceans believes the German shepherd is the first to be able to detect lobster eggs.

Inuit in Northern Labrador say they are being hit hard by the European Union's ban on the importation of seal hunt products, even though seal products from Inuit hunters are exempt from the EU legislation.

The number of Canadians on Employment Insurance is still rising, but the jobless rate shows signs of slowing, according to a new report from Statistics Canada.

CALGARY - As a crowd of Calgarians completed a charity run in honour of Cpl. Nathan Hornburg, the fallen soldier's sister said the silver memorial cross she clasped on her Support the Troops sweatshirt Sunday will always remind her of her brother.

CALGARY - The longest day of the year proved even longer for some Calgary police officers stuck dealing with a rash of mischief from a group of skateboarders on Sunday.

Federal immigration officials are being called on to "absorb" $38 million in travel and medical loans given to refugees who settled in Canada.

A 27-year-old man is dead and a second man is fighting for his life after being stabbed in a brawl that erupted in the parking lot next to a docked cruise ship yesterday.