NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2012

Scathing report finds that Enbridge overlooked warning signs for five years before 2010 spill that exposed 320 people to crude

The Department of National Defence is again under fire for using a military helicopter for a fishing trip in Labrador.

An investigation is underway after an Alberta RCMP officer shot and killed a man near Vegreville, 100 kilometres east of Edmonton.

One of the 12 people reportedly killed in a mass shooting at a screening of the latest Batman movie in Denver was at the Eaton Centre in Toronto on June 2 moments before a gunman opened fire in the mall's busy food court.

Updated at 6:25 a.m. ET: At least 14 people were killed early Friday when at least one gunman opened fire at a midnight screening of the summer blockbuster "The Dark Knight Rises" near Denver, authorities and witnesses said. Aurora po

67-year-old Faskens partner not an employee and must retire, appeal court says

Police say he was caught with his pants down in a porn theatre

Writedown for 2007 ad service led to $492-million loss in the quarter

Politicians in Ontario are urging the federal government to take action in the wake of a shooting at an east-end Toronto street party that left two dead and 23 others wounded.

Nashville Predators would have seven days to match offer that could be worth upwards of $100-million

Despite constitutional claims, audit finds two Vancouver clinics billed patients almost $500,000 for publicly insured medical services

Married officer dismissed from his command in Haiti amid allegations of an affair with his secretary is also suing fellow officers

No group claims responsibility in attack on tourist bus in Black Sea city of Burgas

Defence Department move to buy trucks for 86% more than authorized was shut down by the Harper government last week

60-year-old man contracted the rare disease while trying to take a mouse from the jaws of his choking cat

Troubled air ambulance service under criminal probe for financial irregularities

Attack comes ahead of UN vote on a new Syria resolution

As many as 60,000 people have died over the last six years in rising drug-related violence. Yet illicit drugs are getting cheaper, and thus more available

No arrests have been made

Wining and dining at Canada's embassies abroad escaped the axe as the rest of the federal government faced across-the-board budget cuts. Gordon Campbell, the high commissioner to the United Kingdom, tops all spenders so far this year.

Police say shooting occurred just before 11 p.m. at a house barbecue party on Danzig Street, near Morningside and Lawrence

Canada has landed near the bottom of the first international energy efficiency rating of 12 major economies.

The rare shooting not far from approaches to the Strait of Hormuz comes at a period of heightened tensions between the United States and nearby Iran

Psiphon encrypts Internet traffic that is securely funnelled through a server outside the country, allowing Syrian rebels unfettererd online access

Flexible, tactile screens, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, all born of the mobile-PC gold rush

Canadian researchers are reporting in that children who watch a lot of TV are more likely to have a larger waist circumference and be less likely to participate in sports

Canadian military leaders are taking up key command positions at the world's biggest maritime exercise for the first time in 40 years.

Mounties in New Hazleton, B.C., say a 26-year-old Ohio man has disappeared while filming a documentary in the area, police say he is not a seasoned hiker, so search and rescue crews were called in.

Only days after being hit by widespread flooding, people in the Edmonton area are dealing with more wet weather

Firefighters in Alberta appear to gradually be making progress in their battle against a number of out-of-control wildfires burning in the northern part of the province.

Seven weeks after she hanged herself, Mary Richardson Kennedy was reburied in a Cape Cod cemetery 210 metres from her original grave near other Kennedy family members.

A storm rapidly swept over an outdoor food festival in Whitby, Ont., leading to a sudden lightning strike that sent 17 people to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Northern skies may be noisier than usual this weekend, as military planes and helicopters start a tour of the Western arctic. The visit is officially a Royal Canadian Air Force training exercise.

Four American men hope to row 2,000 km from Inuvik, N.W.T., to Provideniya, Russia in an eight-metre-long boat.

Shoppers might see the price of produce go up, as much of Central and Eastern Canada experience near drought-like conditions coupled with extreme heat, which are taking their toll on crops.

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who will decide whether Ronald Smith is executed, says he sympathizes with the Alberta native but also has been told by the victims' families that they need the convicted murderer's death for closure.

A Calgary MP says members of his own party have tried to hush him up over his criticism of federal funding for a memorial to Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor considered a communist hero in China.

The Winnipeg Jets have re-signed forward Kyle Wellwood, the club announced Friday. Wellwood recorded a career-high 47 points (18 goals, 29 assists) in 77 games with the Jets last season.

A man whose prized sports car was stolen 42 years ago, recovered the vehicle after spotting it on eBay, authorities said Sunday.

Chinese navy ships safely removed one of the country's warships Sunday from a disputed shoal off the western Philippines where it had run aground while on a security patrol and sparked fears of another maritime standoff in the South China Sea.

The German government has stepped in to try to settle a controversy in the country over the right of some religious groups to practise ritual circumcision.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it now considers the conflict in Syria a civil war, meaning international humanitarian law applies throughout the country.

The Frontier Centre says in the first full year of the ban in Manitoba, collisions increased.

A Zimbabwean state-run newspaper reports a farmer is recovering after surviving a lioness attack in the remote northwest of the country.

Park officials in Kamloops B.C. are turning to goats to help get a handle on invasive species, such as knotweed, that can quickly take over the natural landscape.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats won their first game of the season with a 36-27 victory over the Toronto Argonauts on Saturday night. Chris Williams caught a touchdown and added two more scores on returns, helping Hamilton to improve to 1-2.

Tristan Jackson returned a missed field goal 129 yards early in the fourth quarter and the Saskatchewan Roughriders became CFL's only unbeaten team with a 23-20 victory over the B.C. Lions.

Dozens of puppies from Labrador arrived at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport Saturday to be adopted.

A suicide bomber blew himself up among guests at a wedding hall in northern Afghanistan, killing 23 people including a prominent ex-Uzbek warlord turned lawmaker who was the father of the bride.

A new stadium, costing $278 million, will be built in Regina in time for the 2017 football season, government officials and the Saskatchewan Roughriders say.

Heavy rains in Japan have triggered the evacuation of a southwestern region, affecting a quarter of a million people.

Four thrill-seekers were treated for cuts and bruises but no one was gored as thousands of runners packed the streets of Pamplona for the San Fermin festival Saturday, eager to share in the adrenaline-fueled experience of this year's final running of the

Christine Sinclair and Diana Matheson each scored to lead Canada in a 2-0 victory over New Zealand on Saturday at the Match World Women's Cup. Sophie Schmidt was the player of the match, with assists on both Canadian goals at Stade de Lussy.

A solar storm that began with a massive flare on the sun's surface Thursday is due to slam into Earth's magnetic field Saturday morning, but scientists say it won't affect power grids or air traffic control.

Juvenile sockeye salmon likely didn't have enough food to survive as they travelled in poor conditions through British Columbia's Georgia Strait in 2007, resulting in abysmal returns to the Fraser River two years later, a new study suggests.

The sudden death in Hollywood of Sylvester Stallone's 36-year-old son Sage leaves the star "devastated and grief-stricken".

After scoring just one point against the Saskatchewan Roughriders last week, the Edmonton Eskimos finally produced some offence in a 42-10 romp over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Commonwealth Stadium on Friday.

Scientists studying how North America was first settled find stone spearheads and darts in Oregon, US, that date back more than 13,000 years.

American and British criticism of Canada's long and often bloody military efforts in Afghanistan has a ring of revisionism that ignores key facts, experts say.

Two dogs got married Thursday night at an extravaganza to benefit the Humane Society of New York in what is being billed as the most expensive pet wedding ever.

Toronto businesswoman, having travelled to Syria and become a face of the opposition, expelled from Free Syrian Army council

New details were revealed to WTVM about an adopted teenager who was allegedly kept in a chicken coop in Taylor County, GA.

Federal fishery officials have closed 63 of Newfoundland's 185 recreational salmon rivers because of low water levels and warm water temperatures.

Rookie fullback Patrick Lavoie caught a last-minute touchdown pass after a Jerald Brown interception as the Montreal Alouettes pulled out a 33-32 comeback victory over the Calgary Stampeders in CFL action on Thursday night.

Canadian and British scientists working at Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve in Newfoundland have discovered what they believe to be the first large grouping of baby rangeomorphs, 600-million-year-old, fern-shaped organisms thought to be the world's earli

A town in southwest Germany has drawn accusations of sexism after designating two particularly tricky parking spaces men only.

A climber trying to scale Mont Blanc may accidentally have caused a slab of ice to snap off Thursday high in the French Alps, sparking an avalanche that swept nine European climbers to their deaths, authorities say.

A thunderstorm Thursday morning flooded Edmonton streets, basements and construction sites.

Air Canada has apologized to a Winnipeg mother for not having staff escort her daughter from a plane to a waiting relative at the Edmonton airport.

Over 200 descendants of a fugitive slave will be reuniting in Hamilton this weekend, as a return to the city where their family first gained freedom.

Spearheads and DNA found at the Paisley Caves in Oregon suggest that a separate group of people using different hunting tools arrived in North America several hundred years prior to the Clovis culture.

Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing the former assistant football coach to prey on other youngsters, a new report says.

Emergency officials say four people are still unaccounted for after a large landslide Thursday morning, severely impacting three homes in southeastern B.C., though the officials are not certain if anyone was in the homes when the slide occurred.

Calgary Stampede officials have confirmed three horses are dead and one is injured following a chuckwagon crash during a Thursday night race.

A disturbingly large number of Ontario parents say they have nodded off behind the wheel while on family road trips, finds a new survey that comes just as the busy summer driving season gets under way.

Quebec organizers of the biggest student strike in Canadian history are taking their message to Ontario with a nine-city tour of the province beginning Thursday.

Las Vegas police say they had no choice but to kill one chimpanzee and tranquilize another after the agitated animals escaped a home and headed toward families in a neighbourhood.

The Rolling Stones celebrated the band's enduring, half-century career in London on Thursday with a nostalgic look back while offering a hint about the future.

A Jewish rights group is concerned about advertisements for a show at this year's Just for Laughs festival that features a baby sporting the recognizable mustache of Adolf Hitler.

A tanker truck caught fire and exploded in Nigeria on Thursday shortly after breaking down, killing at least 95 people who had rushed to the scene to scoop fuel, an official said.

The Bank of Canada says its new $50 and $100 polymer bank notes will last much longer than the old paper-based versions. But that doesn't mean they're indestructible. Several reports have appeared about the new bills melting, crinkling or otherwise shrive

A giant solar flare shot out of a sunspot today, hitting Earth with a powerful burst of x-ray and ultraviolet radiation. Solar researchers expect a small geomagnetic storm to follow and strike Earth this weekend, causing minor technical malfunctions and m

A respected climber was among three Britons killed in an avalanche near the French ski resort of Chamonix, which left a total of nine dead.

The 42-year-old will embark on his 20th NHL season this fall

A reconstruction of the past 2,000 years of northern Europe's climate has shown that up until very recently, the broad trend was a steady cooling

The biggest survey of Native American DNA has concluded that the New World was settled in three major waves.

The Supreme Court has scrapped a royalty paid to songwriters and music publishers for downloading music, but maintained the tariff for streaming music over the internet.

The federal government has slammed on the brakes on a multimillion-dollar program to replace the military's aging trucks.

A pair of young Canadian engineers is hoping to make aviation history once again by successfully flying a human-powered helicopter.

Many people who abused the painkiller OxyContin by inhaling or injecting it switched to heroin when the prescription's formula changed, U.S. researchers found.

Economic woes in the U.S. are driving Americans across the northern border in near-record numbers as they seek better job opportunities and cheaper education in Canada, according to the latest federal government figures obtained by CTV News.

Baseball card collectors and experts are stunned by the accidental discovery of a priceless set of century-old baseball cards by a family in Ohio.

'Temporarily relief' as federal judge extends barrier on enforcement of law that would shutter state's only abortion clinic

Highly religious soldiers could refuse orders to remove Jews from settlements

The Kluane Lake research station is adjacent to the world's largest non-polar icefield and has amassed 50 years of unique research into climate change. Its scientists have won a brief reprieve from federal cuts and are hoping for something more lasting.

When the Conservative government passed its controversial omnibus budget bill last month, it included new powers for certain U.S. law enforcement agents that critics say could have ramifications for Canadian sovereignty.

UK armed forces are on standby to provide an additional 3,500 troops for Olympic security, amid fears G4S will be unable to provide enough staff, the BBC learns.

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a fifth moon circling the dwarf planet Pluto.

Fifty years ago, you could have watched the first live TV programs transmitted by satellite. That satellite was Telstar.

A Sudbury teenager is taking to the skies in an attempt to set a record for a cross-country flight.

Another hot day on tap today for Alberta, where high temperatures have strained the electrical grid and resulted in some rolling blackouts, is prompting warnings to stay in cool settings and limit outdoor activity.

Twenty-three bison carcasses have been found near Fort Providence, N.W.T., making a total of 151 bison that are suspected to have died from an anthrax outbreak.

Thousands of leatherback turtle eggs and hatchlings have been crushed by heavy machinery along a Trinidad beach regarded as the world's densest nesting area for the endangered species, the largest living sea turtle.

Vancouver is the worst city in Canada for traffic congestion and the second worst in North America, according to a European GPS manufacturer.

Drifting smoke from massive wildfires in Russia has pushed the ozone rating to never-before levels in parts of B.C., the provincial environment ministry says.

A kayaker is counting his lucky stars after a close encounter with a great white shark at a popular US holiday resort.

A teenager's right arm is bitten off during a vicious alligator attack while swimming in a Florida river.

Residents lose their High Court battle to prevent surface-to-air missiles being stationed on the roof of their tower block during the Olympics.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay called Canada's deal to buy Sikorsky naval helicopters, the worst procurement in the history of Canada, at a press conference at the Irving Shipyard in Halifax Tuesday.

Barely a week after accusing Iran of supplying arms for Syria's bloody crackdown on democracy-minded rebels, the UN has given Tehran a key seat at negotiations for a global arms treaty.

He belonged to the Ahmadi sect, which has been persecuted by the government and targeted by Taliban militants who view its members as heretics," explains the Associated Press' Sebastian Abbot.

Police name a man they are seeking over the killing of an off-duty constable and the wounding of another man in an Essex seaside town.

Scientists to march through Ottawa in white lab coats in protest at cuts to research and environmental damage

Celebrity chef Anthony Sedlak's family has released a statement saying he collapsed Friday, July 6, from an undiagnosed medical condition and his body was found later that day in his North Vancouver apartment.

At least 42 people die over several days, as a heatwave brings record-breaking temperatures to swathes of the central and eastern US.

Six Nato service members are killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, the Western military alliance says.

Noel Prefontaine's 28-yard field goal on the final play of the game gave the Toronto Argonauts an exciting 39-36, home-opening win over the Calgary Stampeders on Saturday afternoon.