NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2009

A wave of cold air swept the West Coast on Friday, plunging temperatures by seven degrees in less than 24 hours.

ROME -- Another Canadian swimmer has reached the podium at the world championships.

An evacuation alert for people in Lillooet, B.C. has been expanded to cover all 2,300 residents in the district because of the danger of a nearby forest fire.

It may soon be much harder to catch a close-up view of killer whales, as authorities in the U.S. and Canada are considering new rules that would keep whale-watching boats substantially further away from the endangered mammals.

Corazon Aquino, the former Philippines president whose "people power" revolt in 1986 ended the repressive 20-year regime of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, has died. She was 76.

TransLink is warning the public to be prepared for increased taxes or deep cuts to transit service as it grapples with a huge cash crunch.

There's one bit of good news for the pilot who crashed his firefighting water bomber in B.C.'s Okanagan Lake: he won't have to pay $260 for losing the keys to his rental car.

With all eyes on the flamboyant Bruce for his Tiger-Cats debut, Cobb stole the show, running for a pair of touchdowns and racking up 194 yards from scrimmage in Hamilton's 30-18 win over the B.C. Lions

A puck hurtling through the air or a competitor closing in on the track is enough pressure, but new research suggests female athletes are still apologizing for smashing stereotypes while they pursue their sports.

It is the end of an era for transportation in B.C.'s Greater Vancouver area.

Nearly 3,000 residents have been alerted to be ready to leave their Lillooet, B.C., homes at a moment's notice as the premier warned the province's wildfire risk has reach a critical level heading into the long weekend

Edmonton, AL (Sports Network) - The National Hockey League is reportedly investigating Marian Hossa's new 12-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks amid allegations that it circumvents the collective bargaining agreement.

CALGARY - The Alberta government unveiled today new guidelines for Tasers that will require all police agencies in the province to annually test the stun guns.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - You don't have to curb your enthusiasm much longer -- the seventh season of Larry David's HBO comedy will premiere Sept. 20.

The life's work of Oscar-winning Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren has been added to an exclusive United Nations repository of globally significant documents, along with copies of Anne Frank's diaries and the Magna Carta.

HALIFAX -- Defence Minister Peter MacKay says the Canadian government is closely watching Russian plans to drop paratroopers in the Arctic next April.

TORONTO -- A report from Scotia Economics says the beleaguered auto industry is starting to recover after months of declines inflicted by the worldwide recession.

A Saskatchewan doctor says his decision to post the famous Rorschach ink blot tests on the Wikipedia website was done as a public service. But many in the psychology world are livid, saying the move will destroy the integrity of the test.

WHITEHORSE, Yukon - The Yukon Supreme Court is to hear its first capital case in living memory when a judge decides the fate of a dog who supporters say stands unjustly accused.

A 21-year-old Winnipeg man who fell ill in the United States died in a Colorado hospital because there was no room for him in Manitoba, his family said.

A spot of rain Thursday night helped dampen a quickly spreading forest fire on Blackcomb Mountain at the Whistler ski resort north of Vancouver, but the fire is still burning out of control.

Friends and family of former Montreal boxing champion Arturo Gatti refuse to believe he committed suicide.

Canadian Julie Payette returns to Earth after 16 days in space

Take about a nude awakening.

Rina Kaur Chawla wept with relief Thursday and declared it a miracle when a fireman carried out the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, unscathed from the ashes of a fire that destroyed Vancouver's Khalsa School and the small temple in which the book w

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff turned hawkish Wednesday and gave every indication that he wants to bring down the Harper government in the fall.

Airplanes, including small general aviation airplanes, have always played a very prominent role in the development of Canada as we know it today. Without airplanes, our modern presence in the Arctic could never be possible.

CANBERRA, Australia - A wild wallaby sighted in eastern Australia has a rare predicament for a marsupial mother - she is carrying twins in her pouch.

Friends, family and community members gathered at Manitoba's Legislature in Winnipeg Thursday to remember the life of Tim McLean, who was brutally killed a year ago onboard a Greyhound bus as it sped along a highway.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In what might embarrass less adventurous souls, astronaut Koichi Wakata is returning to Earth with the underwear he kept on for a solid month during his space station stay and scientists will check them out.

Phoenix Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes has challenged Jerry Reinsdorf's NHL-approved bid to buy the financially troubled team.

Canada's Annamay Pierse became an even bigger player on the international stage Thursday, shattering the world record in the women's 200-metre breaststroke

The Montreal Alouettes' vaunted offence vanished, and with it their perfect record.

Some fish stocks that were on the verge of collapse are showing signs of recovery due largely to intensive management practices, according to new research that suggests limits on overfishing are saving imperilled fisheries

Hundreds of thousands of people turned out to watch the third night of fireworks on the shores of Vancouver's English Bay on Wednesday night, but some local politicians say it's time for visitors to use trash cans more and stop leaving garbage behind.

Vancouver's controversial Howe Street homeless shelter under the Granville Street Bridge will be shut down, the province has announced.

Coast guard officials say a cruise ship has admitted responsibility for an oil spill spotted on the waters of Vancouver harbour near Canada Place on Thursday morning.

Weather-weary Canadians longing for summer heat this year should look far north to the Yukon, where people are enjoying record hot temperatures and sunny skies.

A laptop and money given in support of a terminally ill P.E.I. teenager were stolen last week, but the community has rallied behind him.

Another all-time temperature record has fallen in Vancouver's heat wave as the mercury hit 34.4 C Thursday, beating the old mark set just the day before.

The mountains of garbage that have accumulated around Toronto over the past month will start to disappear on Friday as the city begins cleaning up the streets after a six-week strike by municipal employees.

A wildfire on Blackcomb Mountain has exploded in size, growing to 75 hectares from four hectares in 90 minutes and forcing the evacuation of Blackcomb Mountain and Whistler Mountain.

Hoping for a job at the 2010 Winter Olympics? You might have a better chance if you already have employment somewhere else.

Controversial reggae star Elephant Man, widely criticized for his songs urging violence against gays and lesbians, has been dropped from a concert during the final weekend of Toronto's Caribana Festival.

Three Courtenay, B.C. men who face assault charges in connection with an allegedly racially motivated fight that showed up on YouTube say they are being victimized.

The new breed of bathing suits worn by world-class swimmers are going too far because they change the very nature of the sport, says Olympic gold medallist Mark Tewksbury.

An Audi sedan written off by an elderly German woman as stolen two years ago has resurfaced - in her neighbour's garage beneath a thick layer of dust.

CALGARY -- An oil and gas company is offering one of the largest rewards in Canadian history for information leading to the prosecution of anyone responsible for a series of pipeline bombings.

SYDNEY, N.S. -- A Canadian reservist was found guilty Thursday of criminal negligence causing death in the shooting of a fellow soldier he shared a tent with in Afghanistan.

EDMONTON -- A city cop was allegedly choked by an 18-year-old he was arresting for public drunkenness.

TORONTO -- It is chilling enough to know that Melissa Todorovic coolly ordered the execution of Stefanie Rengel without a tinge of concern.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Canadian boxer Arturo Gatti's death was ruled a suicide by police Thursday and a judge ordered the release of his wife, who was once suspected of killing the former champion.

July 26/09 (Montreal, Canada) - Cop gets involved with a michael jackson flashmob...He really shows his moves towards the end of the clip

A �moon the balloon� protest is planned against a giant balloon equipped with a surveillance camera aimed at Sarnia, Ont., and hovering across the border in Port Huron, Mich.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. - The decades-long mystery of the disappearance of American aviator Amelia Earhart might finally be solved next year with the help of two Thunder Bay, Ont., labs.

LONDON, Ont. -- One of the world's biggest telescopes has captured a vast plume of gas and a mammoth boiling bubble on a red supergiant star set to explode in "the blink of an eye," astronomically speaking.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The large number of NATO deaths this month in southern Afghanistan has prompted renewed debate in western nations over the future of the mission

Victoria swimmer Ryan Cochrane won a bronze medal in the men's 800-metre freestyle event at the world aquatics championships in Rome on Wednesday.

The NHL's board of governors unanimously rejected Jim Balsillie's application to become owner of the Phoenix Coyotes on Wednesday, while unanimously approving a bid by Jerry Reinsdorf.

360 hours is unrealistic.

Unprecedented violence against NATO troops in Afghanistan this month is linked to the Aug. 20 elections there, but will be remedied with a surge in United States troops in the country, Defence Minister Peter MacKay says.

Few salmon, more restrictions could signal the end of a way of life for the Sto:lo on the lower part of the Fraser

The tragedy that befell Gilles Blackburn and his wife during a disastrous backcountry ski venture in the B.C. Interior was their own fault, according to those implicated in a lawsuit launched by Mr. Blackburn and his two children.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Three moderate earthquakes, ranging in magnitude from 5.0 to 5.1, struck southern New Zealand early Thursday - the latest of hundreds of aftershocks since a 7.8-magnitude quake in mid-July, seismologists reported.

OTTAWA - Submariners who survived the deadly electrical fire aboard HMCS Chicoutimi almost five years ago will be the subject of a long-term health study.

Wednesday was the hottest day ever recorded in Vancouver, according to CBC meteorologist Claire Martin.

Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Official Press Release

The top five executives at BC Ferries earned a combined total of more than $3 million last year, according to a disclosure statement released by the company Wednesday.

A Tim Hortons restaurant in southern Alberta hit by a thief has a new autographed photo of hockey star Sidney Crosby.

CALGARY - Calgary Stampeders receiver Ken-Yon Rambo's season is over. Rambo suffered a knee injury in what looked like an illegal, but unflagged, horse-collar tackle against the B.C. Lions last Friday.

n a planned mission that echoes Russia's controversial 2007 flag-planting on the seabed at the North Pole, a team of Russian paratroopers is reportedly preparing for a symbolic landing there next spring to mark the 60th anniversary of a Cold War achieveme

ROME -- Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher is making a comeback for Ferrari to replace injured driver Felipe Massa.

Organic food lovers may insist their produce, meat and milk are fresher, tastier, and better for the environment. But a new study suggests they aren't any more nutritious.

A new study suggests most of the guns used to commit crimes in Canada have been smuggled in from the United States. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, found that the best available data suggests that abou

The mother of an 11-year-old Wisconsin girl who died of untreated diabetes says sickness is caused by sin and can be cured by God.

The Arland Bruce saga appears to be over as the Toronto Argonauts have shipped the disgruntled receiver to their cross-province rivals the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

There have been virtually no asylum claims from Czech or Mexican nationals in the two weeks since the federal government required them to obtain travel visas before visiting Canada, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling Chrysler and GM Canada's refusal to reveal their executives' salaries "deplorable."

The Canadian Forces base that will be shut down in Ottawa's east end on Friday won't be able to hold its own farewell party, says the Department of National Defence.

Police are hunting for man who forced a 13-year-old girl off a city bus and sexually assaulted her in an East Vancouver back alley early Tuesday morning.

The Devil made him do it?

Police say a driver blamed a car crash in Hartford, Conn., on two pet baby snakes that he said escaped from his pants pockets as he was driving.

EDMONTON -- A triple murder-suicide that left a child dead was fuelled by financial troubles, says her heartbroken dad.

OTTAWA -- The strange light in the sky Monday night could have been a meteorite, a Manitoba UFO researcher says

EDMONTON -- A Spruce Grove junior high school teacher has admitted having sexual encounters with a 14-year-old student who was smitten with him, including having sex in a classroom.

KINGSTON -- A Montreal mother, father and son accused of murdering four family members were attacked and subjected to death threats within hours of arriving at a detention centre in Napanee, Sun Media has learned

Police probing illegal access of information on 179,000 customers

Leaf change in 1967 signalled start of Cup drought

Plans to spin windfall into 'a little coffee shop'

Tanning beds are as deadly as mustard gas, arsenic, plutonium and other known carcinogens, international cancer experts have ruled.

NEW YORK � Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Barack Obama is a racist.

As temperatures continue to soar, the extreme fire danger in public parks has led to bans on smoking and charcoal barbecuing -- but you might be surprised at how little can be done to enforce those bans.

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin -- Hundreds of earthlings turned their faces to the sky Monday to see an airplane built to launch a ship into space, watching the gleaming white craft soar overhead.

Police officers working in downtown Calgary will soon sport a distinctly western fashion accessory: cowboy hats.

British Columbia's three fast ferries have been sold to Abu Dhabi Mar, a yacht-building company based in the United Arab Emirates

A month after suspending operations, search and rescue teams in Golden, B.C., are once again ready to save lost or injured hikers.

WASHINGTON -- Defence Secretary Robert Gates announced Monday that the size of the U.S. Army is being increased temporarily by 22,000 soldiers to help meet the needs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other missions around the world.

Search crews were scouring the waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday, searching for survivors of an overloaded sailboat that hit a reef and capsized.

The European Union said Tuesday it will defend its ban on seal products based on scientific evidence and legislative guidelines that should withstand Canada's challenge of the ban at the World Trade Organization.

An ancestor of mammals first took to the trees before the age of dinosaurs, evolving the first known opposable thumbs on the way, a group of Toronto researchers reports.

An aviation company from the United States was in Edmonton on Tuesday to show off what it calls the world's largest water bomber, in hopes of attracting attention from the Alberta government.

High temperatures scorching B.C. will reach 40 C in some areas of Vancouver Island on Tuesday, and go into the low to mid-30s elsewhere in the south of the province for most of the week.

Forest firefighting crews in B.C. are not likely to get much rest this week as lightning storms continue to spark hundreds of small fires and hot dry conditions blanket the province.

The formal announcement Tuesday of a joint Canada-U.S. survey of Arctic waters, intended to showcase bi-national co-operation in the mapping and potential ownership of large swaths of ocean floor in the Beaufort Sea, has also highlighted simmering jurisdi

KHARTOUM - A Sudanese journalist is preparing to be flogged 40 times in Khartoum on Wednesday for wearing "indecent" clothes, with 10 women already whipped for similar offences against Islamic law.

Almost as soon as news broke that the murders of three Afghan-Canadian teenage sisters and their father's first wife in Kingston, were possible "honour killings," some in the Muslim community reacted in the most predictable fashion: defensiveness and deni

Debate about health care reform in the U.S. has been overtaken by frivolous tales of doom and disaster.

The big new traffic-safety issue is DWT: Driving While Texting. Should driving while texting be a crime?