NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2011

Police in Gatineau are trying to piece together what happened at a home in the city's east end, where three bodies were found Friday evening.

In the six months since Japan was hit by the triple disaster of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, the Asian nation has been forced to confront an amorphous crisis that has unfolded on several fronts.

Slotback Geroy Simon had over 100 receiving yards, including a 33-yard touchdown catch, as the B.C. Lions said goodbye to Empire Field with a convincing 28-6 win over the Toronto Argonauts in CFL action Saturday.

Scientists have shown that the Earth's surface became enriched with precious metals by impacting meteorites.

The harvest moon is here, and she'll appear big and bright on Sunday night and early Monday morning.

WINNIPEG - Hugs and tears were shared on Friday at an air force base here as 24 military men and women returned to their families from a summer assisting a NATO mission in Libya.

Victoria police are warning the public to take caution after three unconfirmed cougar sightings along the southern tip of Vancouver Island.

An overcrowded ship carrying more than 600 people sank in deep sea near one of Tanzania's top tourist destinations on Saturday, leaving at least 189 people dead and 572 rescued so far.

NATO has carried out airstrikes on the Moammar Gadhafi stronghold city of Bani Walid, as fighters seeking to rout him retreated after heavy battles there overnight, reports from Libya said Saturday.

A new research group at Queen's University will examine Canadian soldiers who were physically or mentally injured in the field of battle.

Two Maritime soldiers are due to receive Medals of Military Valour.

A 56-year-old British Columbia grandmother has become the oldest reservist to graduate from basic training with the Canadian Forces, beating 20-somethings in the gruelling training process.

A small town on the B.C.-Alaska border is running out of food after torrential rain and floods cut off the only road into the northern community.

Utility crews brought electricity back to much of California, Arizona and Mexico on Friday, a day after a power outage left millions in the dark, paralyzed freeways and halted flights at San Diego's airport.

All three engines on a Russian jet that slammed into a riverbank were operating up until the moment of the crash and the plane's stabilizer and flaps were in a proper position for takeoff, Russian experts said Friday.

Canada should temporarily stop giving oil companies licences to drill in the Arctic because it is unprepared to handle any oil spill that may result, a new report says.

Quarterback Henry Burris ran for a touchdown and passed for another as the Stampeders avenged their Labour Day drubbing by Edmonton with a 30-20 victory over the Eskimos on Friday night.

Nine months after the U.S. State Department began probing how Canadian parts ended up in a Chinese attack helicopter, American officials were frustrated with Canada's lack of co-operation in the investigation, a leaked cable shows

The Royal Canadian Navy is struggling to keep its largest warships in operational condition, in particular its aging destroyers and supply vessels, says the commander of the Navy's East Coast maintenance yard.

OTTAWA � Talk of a potential party merger between the federal New Democrats and Liberals is getting a cool reception from Canadian voters, according to a new poll.

More than a dozen Canadians have told the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office in Toronto within the past year that they were blocked from entering the United States after their records of mental illness were shared with the U.S. Department of Homeland Sec

File sharing lawsuits involving the movie the Hurt Locker have been big news in the United States for months as tens of thousands of lawsuits have been filed. It now appears that the lawsuits are coming to Canada as the Federal Court of Canada has paved t

NASA says the 20-year-old satellite will probably fall sometime between late September and October. Pieces of it could land anywhere in the six inhabited continents in a worldwide swath from south of Juneau, Alaska, to just north of the tip of South Ameri

Police say a number of luxury vehicles used in alleged street race in Metro Vancouver could be confiscated by the B.C. provincial government.

The federal government will announce Friday that Sept. 11 will become a "national day of service" to inspire Canadians to show the kind of compassion and generosity that were in abundance following the attacks of 10 years ago.

A major outage knocked out power in a region of almost six million people in the U.S. southwest and Mexico on Thursday, bringing San Diego to a near-standstill and leaving people in the surrounding desert to swelter in late-summer heat.

Expected to peak in brightness Thursday and Friday, the exploding star is practically next door cosmically speaking, about 21 million light years away, or about 1,240 million-trillion miles. It was first spotted in telescopes Aug. 23. It is located in

Mr. Carpenter expects the government to implement its post-CWB strategy in the fall of 2012, and by his calculations, Viterra could realize an additional 6.5 to 9.5 per cent in earnings once the board is fully deregulated.

A northeast wind blew some massive, frozen beauties into White bay, western Newfoundland, a rare September treat for people in the community of Hampden

A pair of two-million-year-old fossils with a mish-mash of human and ape characteristics have changed the way scientists think human-like features evolved

Prime Minister Stephen Harper struck a familiar chord in an address to his Conservative caucus Thursday.

With the world's spotlight on Russia's airline industry following a horrific crash that killed 43 people on Wednesday, President Dmitry Medvedev is calling for major changes to safety procedures.

Retirement will be postponed for many Canadians according to a new study that says some 40 per cent of us are living too "close to the line" to save for one's golden years

A week-long recall of walnuts that might be contaminated with E. coli has been expanded again, as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency continues its investigation.

It's almost become a national sport in Canada to fret about how the world, particularly Americans, view the great white North. A new poll from social-networking site Badoo has some bad news for image-conscious Canadians: the results say the world ranks us

Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby broke his four-month silence on Wednesday, to tell his fans he's not leaving the game he loves. But he also made it clear he believes the NHL has to change.

A Washington, D.C.,-based technology company announced plans Tuesday to build the state's newest ghost town, a 50-square-kilometre model metropolis that will be used to test everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems, next

The CBC's Rick Mercer Report has been named best comedy, while international co-production The Borgias has won for best drama at the 26th annual Gemini Awards.

An Edmonton man who was convicted of killing and dismembering his wife received an automatic life sentence and will have to serve at least 17 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole.

San Diego police say surveillance tape shows a person dressed like Gumby telling a convenience store clerk he is being robbed, fumbling inside the costume as if to pull a gun, dropping 27 cents and leaving.

Heavy rain on B.C.'s North Coast has triggered mudslides and flooding, closing several routes and cutting off two remote communities on Wednesday morning.

On Monday night, a woman and two family members were driving along Highway 2 near Stewiacke when a white pickup truck pulled up alongside the vehicle and those inside started to gesture to their car.

Government documents obtained by CBC News reveal the Canadian diplomatic efforts to placate Moammar Gadhafi after he became incensed that he would be lectured by officials during his planned stopover in Newfoundland in 2009.

Officials say the $563-million BC Place renovation is on time and on budget. The facility is set to reopen on Sept. 30.

RCMP in southeastern B.C. are searching for a three-year-old boy who was reported missing from his family's home in Sparwood on Wednesday morning.

A McFadyen government would expand the use of electronic monitoring by attaching the high-tech anklets to dangerous sex offenders.

The measures allowed for the detention of suspects without charges for up to 72 hours and for judges to compel witnesses to testify at trial. They were first introduced in 2001 following the September 11 attacks in the United States, but opposition par

Mounties have connected a series of apparently unconnected arsons and shootings to a plot targeting people connected to the Justice Institute of B.C.

Prices for crops and livestock are up double digits this year, and farmers are hoping it's a signal of the end of a decade-long slump in prices.

Giant king crabs are invading the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula, which are warming with climate change, say researchers.

A Russian jet carrying a local ice hockey team crashed Wednesday while taking off in western Russia, killing 36 people and leaving one critically injured, officials said.

The Vancouver Police Department is recommending an end to large public events that attract the "hooligan demographic" in the wake of the Stanley Cup riot.

After handing out a generic NHL jersey to their draft picks in June -- and a straight up blank one if you're Carl Klingberg(notes) at the NHL Rookie Showcase last month -- and releasing the team logos in July, the Winnipeg Jets finally unveiled their new

A protest movement against the awarding of the Order of B.C. to former premier Gordon Campbell appears to be gaining momentum.

A cloud of uncertainty hangs over B.C. students as they head back to school Tuesday. Students won't be greeted by picket lines, but teachers will not be supervising those playgrounds or doing many of the other jobs they normally do above teaching as a for

McGill University and the University of Toronto have once again topped the list of Canadian universities that made the international 300 ranking.

McMaster University researchers have discovered that a key gene may explain why some people are energetic and others find it hard to get moving.

The British Columbia Coastal Fire centre is concerned the public may be lulled into complacency by the low number of fires this year at a time when the risk might be increasing.

The Edmonton Eskimos vaulted into first place in the CFL's West Division with a 35-7 win over the Calgary Stampeders in Monday's Labour Day game.

New pictures have revealed the extent to which a huge glacier in northern Greenland has broken up in just two years, claims a glaciologist.

The motor, made from a single molecule just a billionth of a metre across, is reported in Nature Nanotechnology.

After 10 days of sleeping in shifts and crying from pain, a group of B.C. women has broken the record for the longest hockey game ever played.

Dupuis, an Edmonton website developer and creator of iparklikeanass.com, has been posting photos and tagging all types of bad parking jobs on his website for more than a year.

The memory of Jack Layton loomed large at Toronto's Labour Day parade Monday, with his name or picture on banners, placards, orange T-shirts and orange scarves.

A roaring wildfire raced unchecked Monday through rain-starved farm and ranchland in central Texas, destroying nearly 500 homes during a rapid advance fanned in part by howling winds from the remnants of tropical storm Lee.

Avon Cobourne rushed for 102 yards and two touchdowns and the Hamilton defence held Montreal's offence to just seven points as the Tiger-Cats hammered the Alouettes 44-21 on Monday afternoon.

Another person has been fatally shot on the Hobbema reserve southeast of Edmonton.

Julian Assange could face prosecution in Australia after publishing sensitive information about government officials amongst the 251,000 unredacted cables released this week.

Chris Getzlaf caught two of Darian Durant's three touchdown passes as the Canadian Football League-worst Roughriders snapped a four-game losing streak with a 27-7 victory Sunday over the league-best Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

The deaths of NHL enforcers Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien and Wade Belak during the past four months are raising questions whether there is some link that explains those tragic events

Hundreds of British Columbians don't want to see former premier Gordon Campbell receive one of the province's highest honours and now they're taking their protests online.

Ottawa wants to resolve a simmering dispute with Nunavut communities over the export of Narwhal ivory, the federal fisheries minister said.

NDP MP Olivia Chow has ruled out a bid to succeed her late husband Jack Layton as head of the New Democratic Party, saying the role of Official Leader of the Opposition is "not for me."

All 44 passengers are safe after an American passenger plane went off the runway at Ottawa International Airport, officials say.

The B.C. Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre said the man was sailing from Bella Coola on the province's central coast to Bella Bella, approximately 100 kilometres away on an island to the west.

A saucy sign touting the Edmonton Eskimos and erected on Calgary turf was vandalized Friday outside McMahon Stadium. Calgary cops are investigating the crime

One of the glacial rivers feeding a large lake straddling the Yukon-British Columbia border has dried up, hikers say, turning a normally fast-running watercourse into a muddy field strewn with house-sized icebergs.

A freshly revealed diplomatic cable from Washington suggests that Stephen Harper was chiefly concerned about vanquishing political foes at home and turning his Conservatives into the nation's natural governing party at the beginning of 2010

The FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about al-Qaida threats to small airplanes, just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

If you've ever called in sick to get out of work, you're not alone

Close to 300 baby Pacific octopuses can be found floating around in a tank at the Vancouver Aquarium after they hatched there earlier this week but their chances of survival are slim.

The economy failed to add new jobs in August, the first time there has been no increase in net jobs in the United States in 11 months.

Hospitalizations for stroke increased among children and young adults in the U.S. over 14 years, researchers have found

Police in Prince George, B.C. say they've noticed a disturbing trend: desperate people resorting to stealing hairspray to get drunk.

The secret airlift of terrorism suspects and American intelligence officials to CIA-operated overseas prisons via luxury jets was mounted by a hidden network of U.S. companies and coordinated by a prominent defense contractor, newly disclosed documents sh

A Chinese official said security forces defused several plots to sabotage an international trade fair in the turbulent region of Xinjiang, though he provided few details.

"Dancing With the Stars" executive producer Conrad Green says despite controversy over the casting of its first transgender contestant, "Dancing" remains a family show and viewers should check out the new season before passing judgment.

Thirty-five Iraqi terror suspects tunneled their way out of a prison on Thursday and most were quickly recaptured, officials said.

The public is being warned not to eat certain President's Choice and Reddi Snack raw walnuts, because they may contain E. coli.

Space junk has made such a mess of Earth's orbit that experts say we may need to finally think about cleaning it up

Just one day after Blockbuster Canada announced it's closing its remaining movie rental outlets, Google quietly launched a Canadian version of YouTube Movies, its popular online movie rental service

Gen. Walt Natynczyk, chief of the defence staff, said Thursday that the Canadian Forces has already started to implement some of the recommendations in a department of national defence report that outlined how to save $1 billion a year.

Foul play is not suspected in the case of the latest foot to wash ashore in B.C., the provincial Coroners Service says.

Cougars prowling a tiny village in the southeastern Interior of B.C. are attacking pets and terrifying the people who live there.

Canadians on the West Coast and in parts of Atlantic Canada may be in for a cooler than normal autumn, Environment Canada said Thursday as it unveiled its outlook for the next three months.

New Delhi: The Indian and Chinese navies were involved in a face-off in the disputed South China Sea. A Chinese warship confronted an Indian naval vessel as it left Vietnamese waters in July but the Indian Navy has denied the reports.