NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2010

Initial efforts to free a tour boat stuck on a sand bar on the Red River north of Winnipeg are not working out. The MS River Rouge has been stuck since Thursday morning.

The Netherlands is ending its military involvement in Afghanistan, after four years in which its 1,950 troops have won praise for their effectiveness.

In the isolated town of Stoneville, N.L., population less than 500, residents are starting to wonder what to do about an eight-year-old boy whose behaviour has long concerned them, but has now grown violent.

Police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for an inmate they describe as violent, who was mistakenly released from a Winnipeg prison several days ago.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders took control in the third quarter on Saturday at Mosaic Stadium to down the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 37-24.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A nationwide campaign of terror against Afghan civilians this summer will backfire on the Taliban, a senior Canadian military official predicted Saturday.

Researchers say they have identified rocks that could hold four-billion-year-old evidence of life on Mars. According to a scientific article published Friday, scrutiny of clay-carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars points to possible evidence o

Floodwaters in northwest Pakistan are now blamed for the deaths of more than 800 people this week, a government official said Saturday.

More than 240 wildfires that broke out across the province on Wednesday and Thursday continued to burn Saturday, and officials warn there's no end in sight to the hot, dry conditions fuelling the flames

Several violent incidents are under investigation in Winnipeg to start the long holiday weekend. Police said Saturday they were called to stabbings, armed robberies and a home invasion from about midnight to 5 a.m.

MONTREAL -- The federal Greens are hoping a former NHL tough guy will help beef up the party's presence in Quebec.

It turns out that a win over the B.C. Lions on Friday night was not enough to save the job of Danny Maciocia.

President Nicolas Sarkozy said French nationality should be stripped from anyone of foreign origin who threatened the life of a police officer.

Ricky Ray and Andre Talbot helped the Edmonton Eskimos narrowly avoid another disaster on Friday, hooking up for a late touchdown in a 28-25 win over the B.C. Lions

Amateur sailors are setting course for the legendary Northwest Passage, but some are ill-equipped and unprepared for the challenges of sailing in the North, Canadian Coast Guard authorities say.

The Vancouver Police Department has apologized to the families of women murdered by Robert Pickton for not catching the serial killer sooner. Following Supreme Court of Canada's rejection of a new trial for Pickton, the Vancouver Police Department offered

The Ministry of Defence says it is prepared to intercept a migrant ship, reportedly carrying about 200 suspected Sri Lankan asylum seekers, that is due to arrive on B.C.'s coast in the next few weeks.

A procedure aimed at permanently plugging BP's damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico has been delayed because of debris in the relief well, a U.S. official says.

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation could see a spike in Pro Line picks Friday given the over-under listing of 53.5 for the Lions-Eskimos CFL game.

The M.S. River Rouge tour boat remains lodged on a sandbar, just north of Winnipeg, and officials are trying to figure out how to free it.

Two days after Canadian fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a pair of Russian bombers off the coast of Newfoundland, Defence Minister Peter MacKay says any future incursions can expect the same swift response.

The remainder of the performances by the Canadian Forces CF-18 demonstration team were cancelled Friday, one week after one of the jets crashed in Alberta and its pilot was injured.

A tornado touched down near Sundre, northwest of Calgary, on Friday afternoon.

Broadcast Date: July 30, 1980 The Manitoba legislature has an amusing tradition. On the last day of a session, members of the legislative assembly and reporters in the press gallery have a big paper fight to blow off a little steam. Normally it's just ha

SANTA FE, New Mexico -- The showdown between frontier lawman Pat Garrett and notorious outlaw Billy the Kid has fascinated the American public for nearly 130 years with its classic, Old West storyline.

Playing before 35,000 fans inside the CFL team�s home stadium on Wednesday, the American rocker donned a Roughriders hat for his band�s final bow, made a reference to being �in Rider country� and, during back-to-back versions of a new tune called

Ottawa - Dennis Pacitti, 43, was charged with driving 149 km/h in a 100 km/h zone; based on guesstimate. He now faces third trial for the ticket after city won't back down.

Const. Harinderpal "Bob" Mamak has seven days to resign from the Ottawa police or he'll be dismissed, a disciplinary tribunal ruled Thursday morning; Kevin Hall, a former constable who admitted to stealing crack cocaine to feed his drug addiction, was dis

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A dead whale was discovered pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises luxury liner near Juneau, the third such incident involving the company's Alaska fleet in a decade

The wreckage of a small plane that had been missing since Saturday was found Thursday morning southeast of Norman Wells, N.W.T., a Canadian Forces spokesman has confirmed.

Parks Canada archeologists who found HMS Investigator, a British naval ship that was stranded in the Northwest Passage 155 years ago, are equally pleased to have discovered the graves of three of the ship's crew.

The battle for top spot in the East wasn't exactly a close one.

A B.C. provincial court judge has found three Vancouver Island men guilty of assault in an attack on a black man, the video of which was posted on YouTube last year.

OTTAWA - Call them super-CSI, but in a flak vest and helmet. The Canadian army is dramatically upping the ante in training expert soldiers to fight networks that plant roadside bombs and booby traps in Afghanistan.

FREDERICTON - An accidental discovery along the eroding Bay of Fundy shoreline in New Brunswick is giving scientists insight into the evolution of life on earth.

The controversial chemical bisphenol A has been found in 40 per cent of receipts collected by the U.S. organization Environmental Working Group.

Some Canadian charities are wasting time and money getting rid of piles of garbage and unusable goods left in donation bins and outside thrift store outlets.

Just months after sending two new judges to Nunavut, the federal government is considering appointing another two members of the bench to help deal with the Arctic territory's soaring rate of violent crime.

Google Inc. said Thursday that its search engine and other services were abruptly cut off from mainland China, raising more questions about the Internet company's ability to operate in the country while trying to work around the government's online censor

U.S. President Barack Obama spent some time on the couch Thursday, but he wasn't relaxing. Instead, Obama sat on the custard-coloured couch seen by millions each day on the set of the daytime talk show "The View."

B.C.'s minister of children and family development has ordered a permanent end to a controversial sex testing program for young offenders after learning one of its government technicians was recently charged with sexual assault.

A helicopter crashed Thursday while fighting one of several fires roaring through British Columbia, highlighting the dangers that fire crews face while battling blazes during one of the driest months of July the province has ever seen.

Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted a video edited in a way that made her appear racist.

Chemicals are likely to blame for the feminization of fish in two southern Alberta rivers, say researchers at the University of Calgary

The Manitoba government has temporarily seized a Hells Angels clubhouse in Winnipeg and is seeking court permission to take it over permanently.

Ford Motor Co. will lay off nearly 400 workers at its engine plant in Windsor, Ont. The news comes just one day after General Motors closed its transmission plant, pulling out of the city after 90 years.

Lightning strikes caused an estimated 165 new wildfires in B.C.'s Interior overnight Wednesday, prompting officials to issue two new evacuation orders and call in aerial reinforcements as hot, dry weather continued to blanket the province.

Cleanup crews in southern Michigan are trying to prevent oil that spilled from an Enbridge pipeline into a local waterway from reaching Lake Michigan.

Canadian researchers hope to stem the global IT industry's rampant output of greenhouse gas emissions by perfecting a way to host the Internet's content purely on green power.

A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill -- described as the teeth that saved the world -- sold at auction Thursday for 15,200 pounds (US$23,723).

For the Chandler family in Nova Scotia, the discovery of a 3-metre blue shark on the shore of the same waters they swim in was quite the shock.

A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.

Yesterday morning, Deb Freele woke up face-to-face with a bear. It had broken into her tent and was moments from attacking her.

Canadians need to break their addiction to sodium, says a panel of experts that released on Thursday its recommendations on how government and industry can do just that.

Adult-entertainment companies rush to develop video-sex chat services to exploit FaceTime videoconference feature

A man listed as the oldest living male in Tokyo in fact died some 30 years ago, city officials said after his body was found mummified in his bed.

The newest submarine of the Virginia Class, the Missouri, has completed its second and final round of at-sea testing and is preparing for a Saturday commissioning ceremony in Groton, Conn.

OTTAWA � There were at least 22 children at the Orl�ans home daycare where a two-year-old boy drowned Wednesday morning. They might have thought Jeremy Audet was in the small wading pool, not the big above-ground pool about six metres away, but the

Ottawa � Defence Department computers in Ottawa have been used to alter information on a Wikipedia page critical of the Conservative government�s decision to spend billions on a new stealth fighter. Nine attempts have been made to change the online

A plane has crashed near Elmendorf Air Force Base. According to the Associated Press, the Army National Guard has confirmed that the plane was a C-17. A large cloud of smoke was visible spewing above the base before 6:00. Witnesses said the smoke and fla

Ocean warming such as that due to climate change may rearrange the distribution of marine life, harming some species, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Dalhousie University in Halifax

March 19, 2010 was an historic day for the Canadian Air Force over the skies of Afghanistan. That night was the first time that all the air platforms of Task Force Silver Dart, Joint Task Force Afghanistan (JTF-Afg) Air Wing supported a single operation

With their military having spent the better part of a decade amongst insurgents, improvised explosive devices and suicide bombers, Canadians have arguably become accustomed to the idea that future wars will largely consist of low-intensity counterinsurgen

B.C. Lions quarterback Casey Printers seemed genuinely surprised Wednesday when asked about a report that said his CFL season was finished due to a knee injury.

It probably won't come as a surprise to anyone who's filled up their vehicle in Vancouver lately to see why a recent study shows the city has highest gas prices in all of Canada

General Motors workers in Windsor, Ont., punched out for the last time Wednesday as the automaker closed its only remaining plant in the border city. The closure of the transmission plant puts 500 people out of work and ends GM's 90-year relationship with

WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief claims his organization doesn't know who sent it tens of thousands of secret U.S. military documents, telling journalists that the website was set up to hide the source of data from those who receive it.

Microscopic marine algae called phytoplankton that produce half the world's oxygen and support most ocean life have been declining dramatically over the past centur.

A WOMAN stuck in a real life Groundhog Day has lived the same 24 hours on repeat for 16 YEARS � because her memory constantly resets itself.

Former NFL football star Tommy Kane, now in prison for killing his wife, has been ordered to pay $590,000 to his children and their guardian for the pain and suffering he's caused.

Serial killer Robert Pickton will find out Friday whether the country's highest court will grant him a new trial.

Southern Michigan residents are learning that devastating oil spills aren't limited to the Gulf Coast.

A former Nazi death camp guard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews and other crimes during the Third Reich, German prosecutors said Wednesday.

A packed bus hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 people aboard, as NATO announced another U.S. death in a rapidly rising monthly death toll.

A sandstorm downed an Iraqi military helicopter Wednesday, killing its five-man crew, while a midmorning Baghdad bombing claimed the lives of six people, officials said.

Canadian and United States government experts met quietly in Ottawa last week to begin trying to resolve a long-standing boundary dispute in the Beaufort Sea, a Canadian diplomat revealed yesterday.

A Canadian Hercules transport was hit with a powerful anti-aircraft weapon during takeoff in May 2009, according to one of the secret U.S. documents released on the website WikiLeaks.

The minister of veterans affairs says the department's head office will stay in Charlottetown, but it will require some changes.

Thousands of Canadians who fought in the Korean War were finally honoured Tuesday with their own day of remembrance.

The telling bit in the WikiLeak painted as the most damning Canadian-related entry in the already infamous Afghan War Logs isn�t that the information was absolutely wrong.

Oil is spewing from a damaged well north of a bay where officials have been fighting the spill from the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Facing surgery? You could receive blood that's been stored for a week, or three weeks, or nearly six -- and there's growing concern that people who get the older blood might not fare as well.

Two Russian cosmonauts on Tuesday completed a nearly 7-hour-long spacewalk to replace a video camera and improve cable connections to the orbiting laboratory's newest module.

For years, Geri Brin saw matchmaking for her son as a hobby. Now, the 63-year-old New Yorker has turned parents' urge to set up their kids into a business.

It's now up to a military judge to decide if Capt. Robert Semrau gets busted down in rank with a hard slap on the wrist, or gets booted from the Canadian Forces and thrown in jail.

The sister of a man RCMP have questioned about the disappearance of an Alberta couple says he showed up at her Edmonton home "tired and sick" the day after Lyle and Marie McCann vanished.

Canada has an entry on the list of the 10 happiest places on the planet -- no small feat considering the rundown included Happy, Texas, the self-proclaimed "town without a frown."

One of two U.S. sailors missing in Afghanistan since last week -- a 30-year-old father of two -- has been confirmed dead and his body recovered, a NATO spokesman said.

A woman charged with manslaughter in the death of a toddler at a licensed day home in Medicine Hat, Alta., was granted bail Tuesday.

The father of a slain Canadian soldier isn't putting much stock in a leaked U.S. military document that suggests his son was killed by friendly fire.

The Canadian Coast Guard says it would lead the federal response to a "significant" oil spill "in a comparable coordinated manner," if needed and if it were to drift into Canadian waters from another country.

An internal review of the United Nations' ability to investigate itself has been launched and a Canadian woman who was chief auditor for the World Bank has been nominated to take over the internal watchdog agency, senior UN officials said Monday.

Senior RCMP members have complained about Commissioner William Elliott to some of the highest levels of the federal government on two separate occasions in the past seven days

The Canadian military is rejecting a report released by WikiLeaks that suggests four Canadian soldiers who died in September 2006 in Afghanistan were killed by friendly fire from U.S. forces. The military maintains the four soldiers died in combat with th

Researchers in East Timor have unearthed the bones of the largest rat that ever lived.

A convicted sex offender has filed a $1-million lawsuit that alleges three police officers stood by while a pair of inmates jumped him and beat him up inside a prison van.

Sheyla Hershey is "doing fine" but still receiving treatment after she got a staph infection in both breasts following a breast reduction.

The United Arab Emirates has declared BlackBerry smartphones made by Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion a potential threat to national security, saying the devices operate beyond the jurisdiction of national laws and are open to misuse.

Elliptical trainers have been a longtime presence in gyms and fitness facilities and a go-to piece of equipment for those looking to get their cardio fix.

Fans at this year's Big Valley Jamboree will see some changes to the main stage. After a massive storm ripped through and plowed the stage last year, crews are now ensuring a new, stronger stage is constructed.

An 89-year-old Alzheimer's patient has avoided eviction from a Vancouver nursing home after the facility agreed to a treatment plan that doesn't involve sedatives.

As the Davie Village gears up to host Vancouver's annual Pride week, local leaders are asking police for more beat cops to protect parade-goers after recent suspected gay bashings downtown.

Police have charged a 24-year-old female caregiver with manslaughter in connection with the death of a toddler in Medicine Hat, Alta.

A classified document that was part of a torrent of secret files released to the WikiLeaks website suggests four Canadian soldiers died from friendly fire, not a Taliban attack, in a 2006 incident.

New Westminster police made a surprise arrest early Saturday morning after a man cut ahead of them in line at Starbucks and then allegedly attempted to rob the coffee shop.