NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2011

OTTAWA - Members of the international brotherhood of paratroopers are defending the disbanded Canadian Airborne Regiment.

Vancouver Canucks centre Manny Malhotra's inspirational comeback was put on hold Tuesday, raising questions about whether he will be able to compete in the Stanley Cup finals against the Boston Bruins.

Vancouver police were forced to chase and tackle a sword-wielding man in the city's core Monday afternoon after rubber bullets and a Taser failed to subdue the suspect during a standoff.

The Winnipeg NHL watch continues with reports that the Atlanta Thrashers' sale could be complete this week, possibly as early as Tuesday.

Canada Post's urban workers could go on strike late Thursday night if the Crown corporation declines to accept its latest offer, as seven months of heated negotiations between the two sides appears ready to come to a head.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday that Deputy Auditor General John Wiersema will take over from outgoing Auditor General Sheila Fraser Tuesday until a full-time replacement has been found.

Now, internal government documents obtained by The Canadian Press show that civil servants were being ordered by minister's offices to use the term, and that they were "obligated to do so if asked."

A UN envoy confirmed Monday that a video allegedly depicting Sri Lanka troops executing Tamil Tigers was authentic, and that the action were "definitive war crimes".

A large-scale plan of the Titanic, prepared for the official inquiry into the ship's sinking, has fetched 220,000 pounds ($363,000) in a British auction.

Environmental and funding concerns are adding years to the construction of an Arctic naval port considered crucial to enforcing Canadian control of the Northwest Passage.

Ratko Mladic -- charged with genocide by a UN war crimes court -- claims he did not order the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica when it fell during the 1992-1995 war, his son said Sunday.

Dermatologists are kicking sand in the face of two reports that claim two common sunscreen ingredients aren't safe for use.

Outgoing Auditor General Sheila Fraser says it is "incumbent" upon her office to speak out about dismal conditions on First Nations reserves, which, despite billions of dollars in federal funding, still suffer crushing social and economic hardships.

The astronauts on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight floated out of the International Space Station on Sunday and then closed the hatch behind them, after one final round of warm wishes and embraces.

U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Joplin, Missouri, on Sunday, a week after a deadly tornado killed more than 130 people and devastated one third of the city.

RCMP arson investigators are combing over the scenes of three suspicious fires doused in Port Coquitlam overnight, including one at the infamous Pickton farm.

Homicide police are investigating a murder in Hope, B.C. at the same motel where reality TV star Ryan Jenkins took his own life.

The waste services manager for an Alberta town ravaged by fire says his workers are racing against the clock to deal with refrigerators that are being dumped by returning residents.

The Canadian dollar could be under additional pressure on commodity markets this week after the Bank of Canada delivers its next announcement on interest rates on Tuesday.

Canada's prime minister is usually the focus of attention when he travels abroad, but the excitement around Stephen Harper's trip Sunday had more to do with someone who came with him.

A major defence contractor says it sustained a "significant and tenacious" cyber attack but kept its secrets safe.

Fourteen women and children are dead after a NATO airstrike flattened two homes in southwestern Afghanistan, a government official said Sunday -- an incident that stands to add to the strain between alliance and Afghan officials over civilian deaths.

Canada appears to have prevented the G8 from endorsing U.S. President Barack Obama's plan for a Palestinian state based on Israel's 1967 borders, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office denies it was at the behest of the Israeli government.

The American software freedom activist Richard Stallman has cancelled a lecture that he was scheduled to give at Tel Aviv University due to pressure from the Palestinian Authority.

At first, the responses to the questionnaire about the trauma of the war in Libya were predictable, if tragic: 10,000 people suffering post-traumatic stress, 4,000 children with psychological problems. Then came the unexpected: 259 women said they had bee

A Portland, Ore., mailman still has a job with the U.S. Postal Service despite making a stinky delivery on his route.

In light of Finance Minister Kevin Falcon's announced cut to the Harmonized Sales Tax, a new poll finds the controversial levy supported by a narrow majority of British Columbians.

The death toll from the monster tornado last week in Missouri has risen by three to at least 142, Joplin City Manager Mark Rohr said during a news conference Saturday. That makes this the deadliest year for tornadoes since 1950, based on an assessment of

Environment Canada says "conditions are favourable" for funnel clouds or tornadoes to develop over the city of Winnipeg and surrounding areas Saturday with little or no warning.

Egypt lifted a 4-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, greatly easing travel restrictions on the 1.5 million residents of the Palestinian territory in a move that bolstered the Hamas government while dealing a setback to Israel's attempts to is

Quebec Premier Jean Charest appealed for people to get themselves to safety as forecasts called for more high winds and rising levels in the Richelieu Valley, south of Montreal.

As efforts continue to rebuild the Town of Slave Lake, officials are working to find longer-term housing for displaced residents whose homes were destroyed or damaged in the wildfires.

With electric cars soon to hit the local market, Manitoba Hydro is planning for its role as the 'filling station' of the future.

An evacuation order has been issued for a rural area just outside the town of Smithers in northwest British Columbia because of flooding along the Bulkley River and its tributaries.

This year is now the deadliest year for tornadoes in the U.S. since 1950.

A Canadian soldier was found dead in Afghanistan on Friday, following what military officials are calling a "non-hostile" incident.

Nathan Horton scored with 7:33 left in Game 7, sending the Boston Bruins to the Stanley Cup finals for the first time in more than two decades with a 1-0 win over the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference final on Friday night.

The union executive for urban workers at Canada Post said it would meet with its bargaining committee on the weekend to plan their next move as there was a pause in talks aimed at averting a strike.

One of the giants of the movie rental business is liquidating inventory at 146 Canadian stores slated for closure next month.

Surging water levels in the Bulkley River have triggered a flood warning for parts of northwest B.C. The B.C. River Forecast Centre says the river has been rising sharply in the last 24 hours because of heavy rain and melting snow, and some areas will be

Pavel Bure didn't make it back to Vancouver for a reunion of the 1994 Canucks team earlier this week, but he's well aware of the excitement that is gripping the city. The Russian Rocket lived it himself 17 years ago and is hoping the current version of th

Three Vancouver police officers and a police dog were injured Thursday night in Yaletown when an arrest turned violent.

Staff at an animal rescue centre on Vancouver Island says a government policy designed to help save baby bears has stretched its resources to the breaking point.

A trapper has shot and killed the wolf-dog cross that had been stalking pets and livestock on Bowen Island, just north of Vancouver.

The City of Surrey is looking at opening up the Central City plaza in Whalley to show Canucks games and host post-game celebrations.

Dieticians are warning Canucks fans overindulging during the long run to the Stanley Cup Finals could be hazardous to their waistlines.

The Boston Bruins thought they excised the specter of last season's postseason collapse when they finished off the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference semifinals this year. Yet here they are again, one round later, trying to turn back another co

Heavy rain has caused flooding in southern Alberta, where some roads are submerged and dozens of people in the town of High River have been forced from their riverside homes.

The Taliban tried to crash a Canadian Forces party in Afghanistan on Friday.

Archeologists recovered the first anchor from what's believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship off the North Carolina coast on Friday, a move that might change plans about how to save the rest of the almost 300-year-old artifacts from t

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is planning to extend the Canadian military mission in Libya, saying that although progress has been made against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, more needs to be done.

Vancouver Canucks centre Manny Malhotra has been cleared for light contact in practice but general manager Mike Gillis still isn't sure if he can play in the Stanley Cup final, which begins Wednesday night (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 4:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. ET) at

Fishermen in Port au Port Bay, in western Newfoundland, say a large white mammal has been a constant companion while they set their lobster traps this spring.

A U.S. Marine who died in a flurry of bullets during a drug raid near Tucson never fired on the SWAT team that stormed his house, a report by the Pima County Sheriff's Department shows.

Three Hastings schoolboys rescued a 12-year-old girl by threatening to attack two men who were trying to drag her away.

Campers investigating a rotten smell on the long weekend stumbled across two human skulls and another bone, all partially buried under leaves near Grand Prairie, Alta.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper called Thursday for Yemen's embattled president to quit, but refused at the G8 Summit here to pledge major new money to help the region transform from dictatorship to democracy.

Residents of Slave Lake, Alta., who didn't lose their houses in the May 15 wildfire can go home Friday.

A new social-media website that catalogues missing children across Canada and links national police forces could prove invaluable for helping to reunite families.

The capital's dozen royal swans, descendents of a flock donated some 40 years ago by Queen Elizabeth II, must find a new winter home, Ottawa city officials said.

There are four fluffy new falcons chicks in Winnipeg, taking in their first rays on sunlight on the rooftop of the downtown Radisson Hotel.

Arctic reindeer can see beyond the "visible" light spectrum into the ultra-violet region, according to new research by an international team.

An analysis of sediments brought back by the Apollo 17 mission has shown that the Moon's interior holds far more water than previously thought.

Canadian and U.S. forces safely recovered a downed Canadian Forces CH-147 Chinook helicopter during a tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel mission in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, May 17.

NASA has approved an $800-million proposal to land an unmanned probe on a distant asteroid that's hurtling towards this planet. The mission would employ three high-precision, Canadianbuilt lasers to help guide the lander and bring samples of the space roc

Drivers in Metro Vancouver are paying the highest gasoline taxes in Canada, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

EDMONTON - The body of a missing soldier has been found nearly a month after he seemingly vanished during a run in the river valley.

The long popular lake, home to migrating flamingos, pelicans and gulls, has shrunken by 60 per cent and could disappear entirely in just a few years, experts say -- drained by drought, misguided irrigation policies, development and the damming of rivers t

Canada will provide $30 million in funding to help complete safety and stabilization work at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed on Thursday.

Russia's ambassador-at-large for Arctic issues, Anton Vasiliev, fired back Thursday at the frequent complaints that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his cabinet ministers have levelled at Russia for what they see as provocative behaviour in the Arctic.

Ontario could be the first province in Canada to force inmates to earn their keep by picking up garbage along highways and clean graffiti from city walls if the Progressive Conservatives take the reins of power.

After exorcizing their demons against the Chicago Blackhawks, putting away the Nashville Predators and eliminating the San Jose Sharks, the city of Vancouver is off to its third Stanley Cup Final in their 40-year history.

Four people are dead after their car collided with a school bus carrying 16 children in Manitoba Thursday.

A Newfoundland and Labrador clothing company has found itself at the middle of an international controversy, involving the BBC television show Doctor Who.

Seven scientists and other experts were indicted on manslaughter charges Wednesday for allegedly failing to sufficiently warn residents before a devastating earthquake that killed more than 300 people in central Italy in 2009.

Officials with the City of Cranbrook, B.C., say they expect localized flooding in the city within the next 24 hours after a flood watch for the region was issued on Thursday morning.

A jury has found 54-year-old Kim Walker of Yorkton, Sask., guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of his daughter's boyfriend eight years ago.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada and the U.S will have a plan in place by the summer for a North American security perimeter agreement.

The Vancouver Canucks, who will be playing in the Stanley Cup final for the first time in 17 years, begin their quest for hockey's grand prize on home ice next Wednesday night (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET).

An 18-year-old high school student remains in critical condition after he was injured in an explosion at an Ottawa high school autoshop. The 18-year-old critically injured in an explosion Thursday at an Ottawa high school has died from his injuries

After more than a decade of calculations and observations, a team of astronomers has revealed a monstrous 3D map of the stars. Covering a distance of 380 million light-years, it's the most complete 3D atlas of the local universe ever made.

Wildlife rescue workers are trying to arrange safe passage home for a yellow-bellied marmot who hitched a ride at a truck stop and wound up hundreds of kilometres away in the big city.

B.C. police have smashed a major drug ring they say was operating so-called "super labs" to churn out methamphetamines and ecstasy at several locations, including Kamloops and Surrey.

Fractured human remains found on a German river bank could provide the first compelling evidence of a major Bronze Age battle.

Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt.

Shots have been fired at UN helicopters in the disputed Sudanese region of Abyei, the UN says.

A cataclysmic explosion of a huge star near the edge of the observable Universe may be the most distant single object yet spied by a telescope.

SALMON, Idaho - Michelle Feldstein was prepared to provide special accommodations for the blind horse she recently added to the flightless ducks, clawless cats and homeless llamas inhabiting her animal shelter in Montana.

Trappers killed more than 2,600 coyotes during the first year of Nova Scotia's pay-per-pelt program, which is intended to make the animals fear humans.

Astronomers have discovered a massive new superstar in a nearby galaxy that is three million times brighter than the sun.

Vancouver police say they will significantly increase the number of officers on patrol downtown during the Stanley Cup playoffs.

About a fifth of Canadian households, many among the poorest in the country, still had no internet access in 2010, a survey suggests.

The sunken remains of a ship belonging to famed Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen could be lifted out of Canadian waters and returned to Norway if a group of investors has its way.

The Tampa Bay Lightning are once again hitching their hopes of blocking Boston's path to the Stanley Cup finals on goaltender Dwayne Roloson.

Virtually everyone agrees a deal to move the Atlanta Thrashers to the Manitoba capital is all but done as talks between True North Sports and Entertainment and the Thrashers quietly continue. The only question now is when will it be made official so celeb

The websites of the Montreal Gazette and Victoria Times Colonist newspapers will no longer be free to all visitors as parent company Postmedia is testing a new subscription-based model.

The U.S. Midwest, already reeling from deadly tornadoes and brutal weather, was hit with more violent storms on Wednesday.

A New Zealand truck driver said he blew up like a balloon when he fell onto the fitting of a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock and forced air into his body at 100 pounds a square inch.

The Vancouver Canucks will open up Rogers Arena for fans to watch road games on the giant screens during the upcoming Stanley Cup final, the team has confirmed.

Canadian warplanes have dropped 240 laser-guided bombs on Libya so far in the NATO-led mission, according to the military.

The government will reduce the HST by one percentage point in July of next year and then another point in July of 2014, cutting the tax from 12 to 10 per cent, if the tax survives the referendum, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon announced on Wednesday mornin

Fans of the Vancouver Canucks are rejoicing as the club is headed to its first Stanley Cup final in 17 years.

The Vancouver Canucks repeated history. They found a dramatic way to celebrate the 17th anniversary of the last time they won the Western Conference final with a 3-2 double overtime to dispose of the San Jose Sharks amid a festive atmosphere before a capa

They've already snagged an Oscar. Now Voltage Pictures, makers of the 2010 Best Picture, The Hurt Locker, have another milestone in their crosshairs: the biggest file-sharing lawsuit of all time. Voltage Pictures is trying to recoup money it says it lo

The B.C. government has brought in legislation to cap fare increases on BC Ferries next year and block the ferry company from reducing service until a review of fares is completed.

In a report to be released Tuesday, the group singled out Canada as the only G7 country that has been stuck at the bottom of bribery-fighting rankings since TI began issuing its reports in 2005.

Canadians make more, work less, are happier with their lives and better educated than most residents of the 34 countries that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a new index suggests.

The infamous black bears of Christina Lake, B.C., appear to be weaning themselves off dog food, according to the man who once fed them $100 worth of kibbles a day.

Canada is imposing sanctions against the Syrian government and its president, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced late Tuesday afternoon.

It was 17 years ago tonight the Canucks were at home with a 3-1 series lead in the Western Conference final and successfully closed out the Toronto Maple Leafs to earn a trip to the Stanley Cup final.