NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2010

Ontario plans to launch a new tracking system to curb the abuse of the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone and other prescription drugs.

Quarterback Anthony Calvillo won't be ready to return from a bruised sternum when the Alouettes play host to the B.C. Lions next week.

Michelle Wie kept her three-shot lead intact after her second round at the CN Canadian Women's Open in Winnipeg, with only a few golfers still on the course Friday afternoon

Workers at a housing project in Sheshatshiu, central Labrador, have uncovered 3,000-year-old artifacts, including tools and weapons.

Astronauts visiting Mars in the future may be able to look forward to a fresh salad when they arrive, thanks to Canadian research. Lettuce, radishes and beets have been planted in a remote Arctic greenhouse, where researchers are learning how to grow crop

WHITEHORSE - He stood astride an ice flow, F-18 jets roaring overhead for a perfect photograph, reannounced feel-good government initiatives and gave a rousing speech to party faithful warning of the evils of an opposition coalition.

OTTAWA - Hundreds of government workers who handle employment insurance claims are about to join the ranks of the unemployed, The Canadian Press has learned. In a bid to balance its budget, Service Canada is cutting 600 employees across the country on top

OTTAWA - A fourth member of an alleged Ottawa terror cell was taken into custody Friday as authorities continued to dismantle what they say is a plot that reached from the nation's capital to the battlefields of Afghanistan and beyond.

A former Vancouver private school teacher and a resident of Kelowna, B.C., have been linked by police to an international child pornography ring that operated through Facebook.

It sounds strange that a team tied for the worst record in the CFL would feel good about itself, but that's the attitude the Lions (1-6) are taking into their game against the Calgary Stampeders (6-1) Friday night at Empire Field in Vancouver.

Goaltender Roberto Luongo is the only player who can truly say if being captain of the Vancouver Canucks is a burden that has affected his performance.

Scientists are puzzling over why they didn't see the mammoth Fraser River sockeye run coming, while hinting that estimates could go even higher on Friday.

This year the CH-146 Griffon helicopter took part in Operation Nanook for the first time, providing a tremendous boost to the air component of this annual Canadian Forces (CF) northern sovereignty operation.

Nine days into the search for missing hiker Tyler Wright, new clues that he could still be alive continue to turn up. The latest signs -- a campfire, ski pole tracks and distinctively large footprints -- have turned up just west of Bull Creek, near Squa

At least three people have been injured in what police described as a shootout in northwest Toronto, the latest episode in what has been a bloody 48 hours in the city.

The Hawaii native drove in the second hole-in-one of her pro career on the way to a 7-under-par 65 that made her the first-round leader at the CN Canadian Women's Open in Winnipeg.

Homeless people camping on a downtown Victoria boulevard pose a health risk, B.C.'s provincial health officer says.

CHANGCHUN, China - Mystery surrounded North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il on his strangely timed visit to China while former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was in North Korea winning the release of an imprisoned American

Three Ontario men accused of taking part in a domestic terrorist plot and possessing plans and materials to create makeshift bombs had allegedly selected specific targets in Canada

For decades, people on Vancouver Island have been swapping stories about the monster in Cameron Lake. It's been described as a long, black, eel-like creature, with big bumps on its back, and it dwells in the small lake along the highway in the centre of t

Cooler, damper weather is permitting fire officials in B.C. to lift several campfire bans this week and lift all remaining evacuation orders as the risk of wildfire continues to decrease.

Two men have been arrested at a three-hectare opium poppy field in Chilliwack, B.C., the largest operation of its kind ever discovered in Canada, according to the RCMP.

The boy's mother told the Connecticut Post that her son was paid $1 to make the video titled �Swearing Kid�

Source indicates former MLB players union boss on the verge of move to top hockey PA job

In 2008, a �malicious code� was spread through Pentagon systems: �a rogue program poised to deliver plans into the hands of an unknown adversary�

Sony Corp. is working on 3-D televisions that don't need special glasses, joining a race with rival Toshiba Corp., but sees cost and technological hurdles to overcome before they can go on sale.

Col. Russell Williams, the former commander of CFB Trenton facing murder and sex assault charges, is due to appear in an Ontario court today.

An airplane that vanished earlier this month during a flight through British Columbia's Interior has been found after a massive search operation.

The Edmonton man who rented out a room to a suspect now at the centre of a bizarre case of torture and captivity is stunned by the allegations against his former tenant.

Two families in northern Nova Scotia claim that wild animals, possibly cougars, attacked their horses this week. The claims challenge the government's official position that cougars do not exist in the province

The colossal black holes at the centres of galaxies probably formed shortly after the Big Bang, a study suggests. Some of these behemoths are billions of times more massive than our Sun.

At least four alligators have been seen in northern US cities in recent weeks, far from their usual southern habitat.

New research proposes that as many as 150 million people could be affected as ocean levels increases by 30cm to 70cm by the end of this century.

French engineers have begun an operation to drain a lake under a glacier on Mont Blanc which threatens to flood the Saint Gervais valley.

Tens of thousands of faulty railway cars may be hauling dangerous goods across Canada, the Transportation Safety Board says.

The Vancouver Canucks signed Raffi Torres to a one-year deal on Wednesday, the team announced.

Defenceman Willie Mitchell has agreed to terms with the Los Angeles Kings, the team announced Wednesday

Fishermen at the mouth of B.C.'s Fraser River are preparing for one of the biggest runs of sockeye salmon in nearly 100 years, but it's unclear what will happen to all the unexpected fish

Searchers have found a missing plane that disappeared more than a week ago with four people aboard in a mountainous area of B.C.'s southern Interior.

OTTAWA - There's a lot of hot air and hype over Russia's Arctic posture, but the old adversary's northern policy interests are almost the same as those of Canada, says a briefing note prepared for Defence Minister Peter MacKay.

RESOLUTE, Nunavut - For navy diver Leading Seaman Dierdre Doiron, water is water. It doesn't make much difference to the Prince Edward Island native whether she's going under outside Halifax or in the waters of Allen Bay in Resolute.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has resumed his Arctic odyssey, finally reaching Resolute, Nunavut.

NORAD is downplaying an incident on Tuesday that saw two CF-18s shadow a pair of Russian military aircraft as they flew within 56 kilometres of Canadian soil.

A Kiwi man who was caught riding his motorbike along the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne with a barbecue strapped to his body was fined A$800 (NZ$1007) today and lost his licence for one month.

"DEA's position is, it's a language form we have a need for," Sanders said. "I think it's a language form that DEA recognizes a need to have someone versed in to conduct investigations."

B.C. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are criticizing video game-maker Electronic Arts for a new game that allows gamers to play as members of the Taliban and kill allied forces.

A North Preston man has been sentenced as an adult to 14 years in prison for shooting Michael Patriquen Jr. and leaving him paralyzed. Mykel Smith, 19, was sentenced Tuesday for attempted murder.

Work was expected to begin Tuesday to reconnect rainstorm-swept Meat Cove with the rest of Nova Scotia. The province's Emergency Management Office said construction will begin once bridge parts arrive. Officials said it will take approximately one week to

The Correctional Service of Canada has started an internal investigation into how the Official Languages Act was renamed the "Quebec Nazi Act" on Wikipedia.

Mike Weir won't have the chance to try and salvage one of the worst seasons of his PGA Tour career. The left-hander from Bright's Grove, Ont., has a partially torn ligament in his right elbow and likely won't hit another competitive golf shot until 2011.

A high-ranking sports doctor and the head coach of a hard-nosed NHL team have renewed the call to delay the introduction of body-checking into minor hockey, saying player safety is more important than knowing "whether or not they're going to know how to c

Montreal running back Brandon Whitaker, making the most of an opportunity to shine in the absence of the injured Avon Cobourne, has been named CFL offensive player of the week.

It's prime time for mushroom pickers in Saskatchewan's northern forests. They're busy searching for chanterelles, bright orange mushrooms that are a delicacy in gourmet kitchens all over the world.

The B.C. man who dragged a Maple Ridge gas station attendant to his death under a car in 2005 has been sent back to Matsqui prison for violating the terms of his release

There were some strong words from Rene Fasel, the president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, during the second day of the World Hockey Summit Tuesday in Toronto.

A West Vancouver man has been charged in a police sting after allegedly using the internet to lure a young teenage girl for sex, police say.

Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says the B.C. government is paying a heavy political price for the HST partly because of the way it introduced the harmonized sales tax.

Figures from a mass of G20-related court appearances show the Crown withdrew charges against 58 people.

Bad weather has grounded Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Churchill, Man., on the second day of his five-day northern tour

Canadian naval ships will be built on the North Shore for the first time in decades if the Liberals form the next federal government, according to party leader Michael Ignatieff.

In a strange twist, police say that evidence taken from a B.C. marijuana grow-op famous for its tame bears was stolen from an RCMP detachment and later discovered at a home filled with weapons and explosives.

Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy PLC reported Tuesday that it had discovered "early indications of a working hydrocarbon system" after drilling on the seabed off western Greenland.

A Canadian man who was killed along with two of his children in a hostage-taking aboard a tour bus in the Philippines on Monday died trying to save other passengers, his wife says.

A large parcel of ice has fractured from a massive ice shelf on Ellesmere Island, marking the third known case of Arctic ice loss this summer alone.

About 1.7 million workers and pensioners will be affected by a major overhaul to Ontario's pension system that will be debated this fall, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said Tuesday.

Ford workers have voted to accept wage concessions in a bid to keep the Nemak Essex Aluminum Plant open.

People in the Camrose, Alta., area are being warned to be on the lookout for roaming herds of bison that escaped from a farm Monday night.

The number of sockeye salmon returning to the Fraser River are expected to hit levels not seen in nearly 100 years, the Pacific Salmon Commission says.

After a Sunday showdown between evangelists and an unwilling audience, residents of a Leslieville street have sworn to defend their neighbours against what some see as a deliberate targeting of a gay couple with fire-and-brimstone sermons.

Northern politicians are split on Canada's new Arctic policy statement, with some hoping it will mean positive changes for northerners but others remaining skeptical.

A New Brunswick company has put 13 islands in the Bay of Fundy up for sale, with prices ranging from $65,000 to more than $3 million.

Salmon-farming technology research in B.C. got a boost from the federal government this week

A hamlet on the Northwest Passage has been chosen as the home for Canada's High Arctic Research Station, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Tuesday. The western Nunavut community of Cambridge Bay has been chosen over Resolute Bay and Pond Inlet to th

Liberal MPs are accusing the Harper government of handing out hundreds of patronage appointments over the past two years to people who have been contributors to the Conservative party.

Chinese state media says 42 people are dead after a Henan Airlines plane with 91 people on board overshot a runway and burst into flames in northeast China.

A Canadian and two of his children were among those killed in a hostage-taking aboard a tour bus in the Philippines on Monday.

A U.K. woman filmed throwing a cat into a garbage bin now has police officers stationed outside her house.

The wife of Canadian actor and comedian Martin Short has died. Actress Nancy Dolman died at the age of 58, Short's manager Marc Gurvitz said Monday, but he didn't provide a cause of death or any additional information.

A senior astronomer has said that the hunt for alien life should take into account alien "sentient machines".

It proposes that Charles Darwin may have been wrong when he argued that competition was the major driving force of evolution.

Manila police said Rolando Mendoza, a former police officer upset at having lost his job, took hostage a busload of tourists from Hong Kong on Sunday and killed eight of them before being shot dead.

The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, has wrapped up his participation in Operation Nanook 10, the centrepiece of three major sovereignty operations conducted every year by the Canadian Forces (CF) in Canada's North.

AMSTERDAM - A giant chestnut tree that comforted Dutch diarist Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic during the Second World War collapsed in heavy wind and rain on Monday.

They cut short Canada Day celebrations here this year. It was simply too hot to play outdoors. That might not be unusual in the soaking humidity of Canadian cities in the summer, but tiny Sachs Harbour clings to a shoreline more than 500 kilometres north

Gun registry math by Aaron Wherry on Monday, August 23, 2010 12:32pm When Bill c-391, an act to repeal the long-gun registry, came to a vote on second reading last November, it was passed by a count of 164-137. Those 164 votes in favour included 143 C

Vancouver Canucks defenceman Sami Salo and forward Alexandre Burrows will open the 2010-11 season on injured reserve. Salo suffered a torn Achilles tendon this summer during a training session and is not expected to be back in the lineup until at least Ja

An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation.

Thousands of spectators are expected to flock to the St. Charles Country Club in Winnipeg this week where many of the world's best women golfers will compete in the LPGA CN Canadian Women's Open.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper embarked on a five-day tour of the Arctic region Monday, a trip that has become an annual event for the prime minister to demonstrate Canada's sovereignty there.

The discovery of dinosaur bones found by city drainage crews digging a sewer tunnel in Edmonton were hailed Monday as a significant find.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be touring Canada's three territories next week, as part of his government's efforts to assert the country's sovereignty in the Far North.

Cooler conditions are helping crews fight wildfires in some parts of B.C., but a massive fire in the northern part of the province continues to burn.

Astronomers used the way that light from distant stars was distorted by a huge galactic cluster known as Abell 1689 to work out the amount of dark energy in the cosmos.

Thirty-three miners who have been trapped underground in a Chilean mine for the past 17 days are all alive, President Sebastian Pinera has said.

Having fought in wars, Canadian veterans should not have to fight bureaucrats. Judging by the litany of complaints being levelled by former soldiers, from difficulties getting paid for hearing aids to compensation for serious afflictions, something is dra

Scientists have discovered how the artist managed to achieve his trademark smoky effect, known as sfumato, on the painting; by applying up to 40 layers of extremely thin glaze thought to have been smeared on with his fingers.

If there's clear weather this coming week, possibly on the very day Prime Minister Stephen Harper drops in for a visit, whale hunters from this economically depressed Arctic Ocean outpost could watch their former and future prosperity being towed off to A

OTTAWA - A secret government survey reveals the majority of successful Tamil refugees travel back to Sri Lanka, raising questions about the legitimacy of their refugee status.

A British Columbia criminologist and former London police officer said Mounties are trained to believe they are Canada's top cops, while considering other provincial and municipal officers as below standard.

Lucas Soper pitched all six innings and scored two runs to lead Canada over Panama 4-2 at the Little League World Series on Saturday.

Ryan Cochrane had another golden moment for Canada at the Pan Pacific championships Saturday. The Victoria native led all the way in winning the men's 800-metre freestyle to top the podium for the second time this week.