NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2011

New York Ranger Sean Avery's support for same-sex marriage has drawn fire from a hockey agent.

An overcrowded ship carrying up to 600 people trying to flee Libya sank just outside the port of Tripoli, the UN refugee agency said Monday, citing witness accounts.

The CN Tower will add a new attraction this year that could make bungee jumping look like a walk in the park.

Rebels battled Moammar Gadhafi's forces on a deadlocked front line in eastern Libya, and NATO warplanes struck Tripoli early Tuesday in the heaviest bombing of the Libyan capital in weeks.

The restoration of Nova Scotia's most famous sailing ship will enter a new phase of construction Monday.

Gas prices in the Greater Toronto Area are set to jump overnight Monday, with the average price going up by more than six cents a litre to an all-time high of almost $1.40.

OTTAWA - If you haven't heard, the world ends May 21.

Montreal police have revealed that they located the remains of 10-year-old Jolene Riendeau last September but kept the discovery quiet until late last week.

A worrying new study has found that taking some commonly prescribed painkillers for even a short while might increase the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke.

UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has asked all sides in the fighting in Libya for a pause in hostilities to allow food, water, medical supplies and other aid to be delivered to needy populations.

NDP Leader Jack Layton returned Sunday to the popular Quebec talk show that helped jumpstart his rise in the province and vowed to defend the interests of Quebecers in Parliament.

These were not the high-flying Vancouver Canucks from the regular season, but thanks to a superhuman performance from Ryan Kesler the Presidents Trophy winners have escaped another close call in the playoffs.

The Syrian government reportedly widened its lethal crackdown on dissidents on Monday, with heavy gunfire being heard in a Damascus suburb.

Pakistan's prime minister has rejected allegations that officials in his country were complicit in harbouring Osama bin Laden after the United States questioned how the al-Qaeda leader could live undetected there for several years without some support.

Charges have been filed against a man accused of threatening B.C. New Democrat MLA Jenny Kwan and her family.

The Military Police Complaints Commission in Ottawa is launching a public interest investigation into the handling of Cpl. Stuart Langridge's suicide.

Manitoba declared a state of emergency across several municipalities Monday afternoon as the flood threat rose in the southern areas of the province.

A young widow of a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan is demanding that the federal government stop taxing compensation for survivors.

University of Calgary researchers have developed an iPhone application that allows doctors to diagnose a stroke in a patient thousands of kilometres away.

Rescuers aided a large whale stuck in the shallow waters of a Nova Scotia river on Monday, the second time in as many days.

The inadvertent spread of zebra mussels, an invasive species known for upsetting the ecological balance of waterways, is a growing menace in the Outaouais, say biologists.

The Nashville Predators are reminding the Vancouver Canucks that it's never over till it's really over.

Rick Nash and his Canadian teammates have earned an early date with Russia at the world hockey championship in Kosice, Slovakia.

Alberta's environment minister says the oil from a pipeline spill in the northern part of the province is 25 per cent recovered.

The Vancouver Canucks head coach felt it was unfair the twins, who have scored only an empty-net goal between them in the second-round series against the Nashville Predators, were disparaged for being a combined minus-seven in Game 5 on Saturday.

Canadian troops will be dispatched to Manitoba as the flood threat from the Assiniboine River continues to grow, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Sunday.

The Detroit Red Wings are coming home with a chance to take a step toward history.

(Reuters) - The Taliban released a video on Sunday of a Canadian man captured this year in a volatile province of central Afghanistan and said he would be put on trial for spying unless Canada's government accepted unspecified demands for his release.

Can a prison possibly justify treating its inmates with saunas, sunbeds and deckchairs if that prison has the lowest reoffending rate in Europe? Live reports from Norway on the penal system that runs contrary to all our instincts - but achieves everythin

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called Friday for American government investigators and regulators to be on alert for instances of fraud and manipulation that keep retail gasoline prices artificially high.

An apology from Alberta's Environment Minister Saturday for taking so long to inform the public about the provinces biggest oil spill in three decades. He now vows for more transparency.

Premier Christy Clark said at a town-hall meeting on Friday night that her chief rival in the Vancouver-Point Grey byelection, David Eby, is simply too radical, and not the kind of change British Columbians are looking for.

The Prince Edward Island government now says it has no plans to move foreign workers out of eastern P.E.I. to make room for displaced Ocean Choice workers.

Federal Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis has promised federal support for flood victims while touring the Richelieu River valley, hours after the province handed out $770,000 to 234 families.

A five-year-old boy pleaded with his father to stop stabbing him as the blows kept raining down, but the man continued until the child was dead, the final Crown witness at Guy Turcotte's trial testified Friday.

Questions are being asked by parishioners at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Ottawa after it was discovered that one of the priests at their church is a convicted sex offender.

The city of Brandon and other communities in Manitoba's southwest are in a race against time to shore up protective dikes in anticipation of a surge of water expected in the next few days, local officials say.

Former high-school counsellor and child protection worker Jason Keough was sentenced Friday to 27 months in prison for exploiting three young couples for sexual purposes.

A suspected outbreak of the norovirus at Chateau Lake Louise has the resort hotel on alert.

The MLA for the area near a pipeline spill in northern Alberta is calling on the company responsible to speak directly to the residents affected.

A 32-year-old Surrey man is in police custody in connection with a string of violent robberies believed to have been committed by one man in Vancouver, North Vancouver, Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam on Thursday and early Friday.

The Glendale City Council is scheduled to vote next week on a plan to pay the NHL up to $25 million US to buy more time to find a buyer for the Phoenix Coyotes.

Moammar Gadhafi's forces rocketed the main fuel depot in Misrata on Saturday, intensifying a two-month siege on the rebel-held city that has claimed many civilian lives and prompted warnings of a humanitarian crisis.

Syrian security troops in tanks have entered a Mediterranean coastal town after a deadly day of nationwide protests demanding regime change, while three women were shot dead at a nearby rally, according to activists.

Gunmen launched a series of brazen daylight attacks Saturday on several locations in Kandahar City, a former Taliban stronghold where international and Afghan forces are trying to establish security and government.

Home videos of Osama bin Laden's time holed up in Pakistan show the al-Qaeda leader watching news coverage of himself on television and rehearsing for his propaganda recordings.

Rita Chretien's family is "overjoyed' that the Penticton, B.C., woman was found alive in remote Nevada after she and her husband disappeared on a road trip in March, her daughter-in-law said Saturday.

Former NDP leader Ed Broadbent says his party's success in Monday's election will bring an end to talk of a merger with the Liberals.

Another 100 soldiers went to work Saturday to help victims of a massive flood south of Montreal.

A rookie NDP MP who won a seat in Quebec despite being largely invisible during the five-week campaign admits she has never set foot in her riding.

Canada seems to have found its top line at the IIHF World Hockey Championship. And the timing couldn't be much better.

Seve Ballesteros was a genius with a golf club in his hands, an inspiration to everyone who saw him create shots that didn't seem possible. The Spaniard's passion and pride revived European golf and made the Ryder Cup one of the game's most compelling eve

Vince Cable has lashed out at the Conservatives for being "ruthless, calculating and thoroughly tribal", after the Lib Dems' massive defeats in Thursday's elections and the AV referendum

Milan Lucic scored twice, Johnny Boychuk got the go-ahead goal, and the Boston Bruins stopped any chance of another historic comeback by the Philadelphia Flyers with a 5-1 win Friday night that completed a sweep of the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

A B.C. woman who went missing in Oregon seven weeks ago has been found alive in Nevada, but there's still no sign of her husband.

If you time it right, you can see a planetary spectacle just by looking upwards during the month of May. For the first time in more than a century, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune will all be grouped together in a straight line, and most

Darren Helm scored with 1:27 left in the third period, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to an elimination-avoiding 4-3 win over the San Jose Sharks in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal series on Friday night.

Two teenaged girls have been reported missing in New Brunswick in the past week.

The St. John River is now flooding several areas.

A church once destined for demolition in Nova Scotia has a new lease on life now that it has been floated several kilometres down the Avon River.

A case of tuberculosis has been diagnosed at a St. John's school, according to Eastern Health's medical officer of health.

The mayor of a small island community off Newfoundland says a new ferry that started service on Friday is a godsend.

The four Mounties involved in the Taser death of Robert Dziekanski in October 2007 will face criminal charges.

Col. Moammar Gadhafi and his troops may have committed war crimes against civilian residents of Misrata, one of the main rebel strongholds in Libya, said Amnesty International on Friday.

Police in B.C.'s Fraser Valley have executed a search warrant at the home where a toddler was found dead in the hopes of finding out exactly how he perished.

A man who shot and killed his ex-boss at a Vancouver Christmas party three years ago has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years.

A B.C. man convicted of murdering his friend's mother and grandmother in a scheme to secure millions in inheritance money has been denied parole.

As many as 26 black bears face a possible death sentence if conservation officers find they're still reliant on the dog food a Christina Lake man fed them for a decade, B.C.'s environment minister says.

Research suggests Canadian farmers seem to be dodging the worst impacts of climate change and may even benefit from it as crop prices increase.

The Ontario Hockey Federation's decision to ban bodychecking will likely draw more players to the game and keep others from dropping out, experts say.

Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy tells KTTV-TV in Los Angeles that his plan to fly over the Grand Canyon in a jet-propelled wing suit Friday morning has been called off because he didn't have enough time to train.

Police officers went door to door Friday urging Memphis residents to leave nearly 1,000 homes expected to be inundated by a near-record flood of the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

Al-Qaeda confirmed Friday the killing of Osama bin Laden and warned of retaliation, saying Americans' "happiness will turn to sadness."

A new report from the B.C. government is warning builders and developers to plan for a one metre rise in the sea level within the next 90 years.

The fossil of a gigantic ant, similar to ones that lived 50 million years ago in Europe, has been found for the first time in North America.

At the end of a tough afternoon James Reimer was thankful for another opportunity to contribute to the Canadian cause.

Police, military and search and rescue crews combed an area of Edmonton's river valley Thursday in hopes of finding a soldier who went missing during a run earlier in the day. Master Cpl. Richard Curnow, 25, was part of a group of nine soldiers who met

Japan's many dialects originate in a migration of farmers from the Korean Peninsula some 2,200 years ago, a groundbreaking study borrowing the tools of evolutionary genetics reported Wednesday

Ryan Kesler's power-play goal at 7:28 of the third period sent the Vancouver Canucks on their way to a 4-2 victory over the Predators Thursday night in Nashville, Tenn.

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is critical of the company behind one of the biggest oil spills in the province's history.

Six men are in custody following a dramatic police takedown on a busy roadway following a Lower Mainland jewelry store robbery Thursday.

The suspected impaired driver involved in a Surrey traffic fatality Tuesday has been fired from her job for driving a company vehicle involved in the accident without authorization.

Some of the first information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates al-Qaeda considered attacking U.S. trains on the upcoming anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Workers re-entered Japan's damaged Fukoshima nuclear plant Thursday for the first time since a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11, triggering an explosion at the facility.

A spike in recent lethal drug overdoses is being blamed on a batch of ultra potent heroin makings its way around British Columbia.

Several frigid hours gave five young bicyclists a chance to reflect on the backcountry dangers lurking just minutes from their Vancouver-area doorsteps.

The top-seeded Vancouver Canucks will try to grab a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference semifinals tonight, when they visit the Nashville Predators for Game 4 at Bridgestone Arena.

Injured Vancouver Canucks defenceman Sami Salo is a possibility for Game 4 against the Nashville Predators on Thursday.

Predators coach Barry Trotz says the Vancouver Canucks are playing games to draw penalties that just aren't fouls, so he's going on the offensive.

Speculation in the UK that the introduction of preferential voting led to compulsory voting has been a mystery to Australian observers; the theory is completely absent from eight decades of writing on the subject.

The NDP respects sovereignty in Quebec. This according to the youngest MP in Canadian history, 19-year-old Pierre-Luc Dusseault, who, as of Monday, represents the Sherbrooke riding in Quebec.

A Texas high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave following an incident where he allegedly told a 9th grade Muslim girl in his algebra class "I bet that you're grieving" on Monday following the death of Osama bin Laden.

Nasa's Gravity Probe B has produced remarkable new confirmation of some key predictions by Albert Einstein.

Former US child star Jackie Cooper, who went on to work as a TV producer, film director and feature in four Superman movies, has died at the age of 88.

The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude Stanley Choules, has died in Australia aged 110.

A rare sight occurred in Walton, N.S., on Wednesday as a century-old church was ferried down the Minas Basin on a vessel captained by a man named Lord.

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Devin Setoguchi completed a hat-trick and gave the Sharks a 3-0 series lead against the Detroit Red Wings as San Jose won 4-3 on Wednesday in Game 3.

If Vancouver Canucks general manager Mike Gillis can complain about the officiating in the Stanley Cup playoffs than Nashville Predators head coach Barry Trotz felt completely comfortable discussing a couple of questionable calls from Game 3.

Sean Bergenheim scored two goals and Dwayne Roloson stopped 33 shots as the surging Tampa Bay Lightning completed a series sweep of the top-seeded Washington Capitals with a 5-3 victory in Game 4 on Wednesday night.

Zdeno Chara and David Krejci scored in the opening 63 seconds, and the Bruins added two more goals in a 95-second span in the second period on Wednesday night to beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-1 and take a 3-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.