NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2008

Each summer, B.C.-based military aircraft designed for anti-submarine warfare search the North Pacific for a type of fishnet that strip-mines the sea.

GUADALAJARA - Jailed Canadian Brenda Martin will be back in Canada before the end of the month even if she is found guilty by a Mexican court, her lawyer says.

Canada's army is stretched almost to the breaking point and replacement stocks of equipment for Afghanistan have been used up, warns the head of land force.

WINNIPEG - Most parents would find it highly unusual to hear from their offspring's boss, unless there were a serious problem.

HALIFAX -- Canada's top soldier is praising military families for their understanding and support as the warship HMCS Iroquois sails toward the Arabian Sea as part of a six-month deployment.

PANJWAII DISTRICT, Afghanistan - In a makeshift gymnasium at an outpost in the heart of Afghanistan's dusty Panjwaii district, a local police officer grabs a set of cables as he tries to emulate his brawny Canadian mentors.

The NHL on TSN panel discusses Martin Brodeur not shaking Sean Avery's hand and Avery's classy post game comments

"The situation has to clarify," he said. "We've got to see how this plays out. Will it have an effect on election timing? That's for the leader to decide, not for me."

The proposed changes, which are included in a budget implementation bill, would allow the immigration minister to outline for department officials which skills are to be given priority when assessing immigrants' applications.

British Columbians are bracing for some cold temperatures this weekend, just one week after balmy temperatures sent almost everyone outside in droves.

Goaltender Henrik Lundqvist stopped John Madden on a penalty shot late in the third period and Brandon Dubinsky added an empty-net goal Friday for a 5-3 win, helping the New York Rangers eliminate the New Jersey Devils in five games in their Eastern Confe

CFB ESQUIMALT - The Canadian Forces will conduct random drug testing more frequently and without notice after testing by the Navy found roughly six per cent of the Pacific fleet members had used drugs, says the chief of the fleet in a letter obtained by T

Two pilots in a military training jet have safely ejected before their aircraft crashed at a base in Saskatchewan

Authorities raided the compound after receiving reports a 15-year-old girl had married a 50-year-old man and given birth to his child. Officials have not yet located the girl, now 16, who called authorities to say her husband abused her.

"If there was some kind of approach made during the course of the next three years ... by representatives of the city of Toronto saying, 'We have decided ourselves that it would be a good thing for us to have our public transit system declared essential

Squamish band members will likely protest at the 2010 Olympic Games despite the chief signing an agreement with the Vancouver Organizing Committee to support the event

PLAYA PUNTA NORTE, Argentina - The park ranger gestured forcefully, ordering me to throw myself down on the sand and stay quiet.

Canada's naval capabilities will diminish in the next several years and be severely reduced after the turn of the decade, limiting the military's ability to conduct maritime operations at home and abroad, the head of the navy says

HALIFAX -- Defence Minister Peter MacKay acknowledges the cost of the Afghan war has been eating into the budgets of the navy and air force, but he blames years of neglect by the former Liberal government.

The federal government is expected to designate bisphenol A as a dangerous chemical on Friday, a day after a string of major retailers pulled plastic products containing the substance off their shelves

WASHINGTON -- Planet Earth continues to run a fever. Last month was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the second warmest overall worldwide.

Denmark has invited the four other countries with Arctic coastal waters, including Canada, to a meeting in Greenland next month on northern territorial claims

PORTO ROTONDO, Sardinia - Russian President Vladimir Putin turned a reporter's question about his marriage into a discourse on female beauty, saying Friday that "I like all Russian women."

THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA -- The RCMP has decided to launch a full investigation into a car sale scandal at ICBC

MISSISSAUGA -- A couple say they've been living in fear since city officials wrongly alerted them their longtime home was a former marijuana grow-op that will be subjected to safety checks in two weeks.

OTTAWA - The Tories have blundered on the international stage once again with a Calgary MP's comments comparing the Beijing Olympics to the infamous Nazi Games of 1936, Liberal Bob Rae said Friday.

Opposition members are demanding Prime Minister Stephen Harper table in the House of Commons the search warrant that led to this week's raid on Conservative Party headquarters.

The Supreme Court of Canada has struck a blow against the so-called "two-beer" defence, in which defendants accused of drinking and driving claim that they did not consume enough to be drunk, despite failing a breathalyzer test

MONTREAL -- For the first time, the RCMP is set to charge a former federal Liberal official in the sponsorship scandal that helped to bring down Paul Martin's Liberal government.

A 10-year-old Ottawa boy admits to feeling scared when police showed up at his house with guns drawn in response to a noise complaint.

Gas prices have jumped again, surpassing the $1.20 a litre mark in most major cities across Canada.

When it comes to thinking of global warming as the single biggest threat to humankind, people from Atlantic Canada were followed by British Columbia at 63 per cent, Quebec at 61.7 per cent, Ontario at 61.1 per cent and the Prairies at 57.1 per cent.

OTTAWA - Opposition parties are slowly roasting Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier over his diplomatic blunder on Afghanistan.

Thousands of so-called "Lost Canadians" are another step closer to gaining citizenship they lost or never had due to little-known quirks in the Citizenship Act.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Patrick Marleau scored the tiebreaking goal late in the second period and Jonathan Cheechoo added two goals in the third that sent the San Jose Sharks to a 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night and a 3-2 lead in their fi

He is the president of a resurgent superpower. She is a rhythmic gymnast less than half his age.

CALGARY - Canada's retiring top soldier refused to talk about legacy Thursday, despite travelling to Calgary to promote the one-year anniversary of the Military Families Fund that he helped create.

The father suspected of killing his three children in Merritt, B.C., remained in hospital Thursday night with serious injuries, including severe frostbite in his feet.

INUVIK, N.W.T. - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean bid a teary farewell to the Arctic on Thursday as she ended a northern tour punctuated by a string of emotional encounters.

Carey Price is human after all. The Montreal Canadiens rookie goalie was far from his best Thursday night, as the Boston Bruins earned a 5-1 victory over the hometown Habs in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference quarter-final, exploding for four goals in

First Nations activists could target the 2010 Vancouver Olympics for protests similar to the pro-Tibetan demonstrations surrounding the upcoming Games in Beijing, AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine said Thursday.

The head of Canada's air force is warning that he will have to ground aircraft and reduce the flying time for other planes if he doesn't receive several hundred million dollars in additional funding for spare parts, repair work and fuel.

One Canadian soldier was slightly injured Thursday when a roadside bomb blast hit a convoy in southern Afghanistan, and at least 16 people died in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque, officials said

NEW YORK - Marc Staal scored his second straight game-winner. This time he did it into the right net. The rookie defenceman pushed the New York Rangers within a win of the second round with a good old slap shot. The timing couldn't have better.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Just a few days ago, the Detroit Red Wings were less than four minutes away grabbing a 3-0 lead in their Western Conference playoff series with the Nashville Predators.

MONTREAL - The head-on crash that killed Renee Bourbeau was much like many other drunk-driving accidents on Canadian roads - except for one horrible coincidence.

RCMP in Kimmirut, Nunavut, continue to talk with an armed man in a standoff that began its third day on Thursday. Police in the community, located 120 kilometres south of Iqaluit, say they are continuing to negotiate with the man and trying to resolve

A Manitoba chief is appealing to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for support in his fight to squeeze royalties out of two companies building oil pipelines through the province

The RCMP raid on the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa again dominated question period in the Commons on Wednesday, with the Liberals demanding answers.

CFB ESQUIMALT -- Hundreds of Canadian Navy personnel were targeted with a surprise, mandatory drug test at the home of the Pacific fleet in December but the results have not been released.

Karlheinz Schreiber was released on bail today and his lawyer says he fully expects the German-Canadian businessman will remain free until he testifies about his dealings with Brian Mulroney.

The trial of three former Canadian Forces reservists charged in the beating death of a homeless man in a park near Toronto's downtown armoury came to an abrupt halt Thursday, when the three accused agreed to plead guilty to lesser offences.

The father suspected of fatally stabbing his three children in Merritt, B.C., is yet to be charged and has been moved to an undisclosed hospital, an RCMP spokesperson confirmed Thursday.

Fifty-five per cent of Canadians living in large cities said Canada was making too many accommodations for visible minorities in comparison to 71 per cent in communities of less than 30,000.

We always knew this day was coming, that this outcome was possible. It was ownership's first test. You be the judge whether Francesco Aquilini and his brothers passed or failed.

Lt.-Gen. Walt Natynczyk, vice-chief of defence staff, is one of a handful of candidates on the shortlist to take over the job as Canada's military chief.

It's all about the money, environmental crusader told CBC's Barbara Frum

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators\' 2007/2008 season came to an official, if not also ignominious, end Wednesday night when the Pittsburgh Penguins swept them with a 3-1 win.

THERE are so many satellites jostling for position above us that a snapshot from outer space would appear to show the Earth enveloped in a swarm of gnats.

HMCS Charlottetown, the first Canadian warship to visit Israel since 1995, is floating evidence of a closer relationship between the two countries, the CBC's Peter Armstrong reports from Haifa.

It's an amazing story: a 13-year-old German boy's science fair entry spots a miscalculation in NASA's estimates on an asteroid colliding with Earth, forcing the space agency to change its prediction

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canadian soldiers at Kandahar Airfield marked a "dark day" Wednesday as they awoke to news that Gen. Rick Hillier, the popular, populist leader many consider the principal architect of Canada's mission in Afghanistan, was steppi

Polar ice researchers who teamed up with Canadian Rangers on a patrol around Ellesmere Island this month say they've found that cracks in ice shelves are worse than they originally thought

RCMP have arrested a father suspected of stabbing to death his three young children, after a lengthy manhunt around the B.C. community of Merritt.

On Friday night, Janet Dalziel did what thousands of Torontonians do every day: she picked up the phone and called 967-1111.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The loved ones of five fallen soldiers placed wreaths atop a marble cenotaph honouring Canada's war dead Wednesday to cap an emotional 24-hour visit to the region where their husbands, brothers and sons gave their lives in servic

OTTAWA -- The Mohawk protester who helped shut down a stretch of Ontario's busiest highway last June says Canadians can expect more disruption on May 29.

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams cited Prime Minister Stephen Harper's governing style Tuesday while commenting on the chief of defence staff's resignation. Gen. Rick Hillier, a Newfoundlander, announced he will step down in July as C

NEW YORK -- We're the YouTube Generation, living in the YouTube Era, in a YouTube World. And now we apparently have a YouTube Divorce.

NEW YORK -- Oil prices are surging to record highs as the weakening U.S. dollar drives investors to dump money into commodities.

A small plane carrying two passengers has been circling over Toronto's Lake Ontario with landing gear problems.

Gen. Rick Hillier says his decision to step down as Canada's chief of defence staff this summer has nothing to do with perceived tensions with the PMO -- it's simply the right time to go.

"The only thing that makes it special is that we only won by one," Price, 20, said of his 27-save performance. "But it wasn't only me out there. I thought everybody deserved a goose egg tonight. I wish a shutout like that can be under everybody's col

The series goes back to Minnesota for Game 5 on Thursday night, and it should be interesting - this game featured a whole lot of fighting, including some fisticuffs after the final horn sounded.

"Danny had a twinkle in his eye," Flyers coach John Stevens said. "He looked like a player who was going to play the way he did."

After several warnings to the subject to stop resisting arrest and the subject failing to comply with the officers' commands, the taser was deployed and the subject was taken into control," said the report provided by TransLink, the region's transit au

n the Commons, Harper linked the raid to the ongoing civil lawsuit launched by the Conservatives against Elections Canada's interpretation of the 2006 campaign advertising financing rules, and an alleged $1.2 million in campaign overspending.

Joe Thornton pulled the San Jose Sharks even with the Calgary Flames with a timely tip of the stick.

Since becoming Canada's top soldier in February 2005, Gen. Rick Hillier has been fighting two battles, each with his trademark passion and urgency.

If you were hoping for a concrete answer from Vancouver Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini as to why he fired the team's general manager, it didn't come Tuesday morning.

More grizzly bears were killed in B.C. last year than in any other year on record, according to new statistics released by environmental organizations.

A record number of whooping cranes are winging their way back to Canada's North, having survived the winter in the southern United States.

BPA is widely used by industry and it's in a lot of products - including baby bottles. That has left many parents worried about the potential harmful effect on their infants and Health Canada has heard their concerns.

As "Corner Gas" revs up for its final season, the show is still racking up its award wins

A passenger jet crashed into a residential neighbourhood in the eastern region of Congo on Tuesday, killing at least 79 people, officials said

Canadian pilots are now receiving training on Chinook helicopters and should be ready for operations in Afghanistan by the fall.

California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said in the first statewide temblor forecast.

He said he's been reaching out to parts of the Jewish community to establish a dialogue since making the comment during an appearance on a Quebec talk show, Tout le monde en parle.

RCMP are searching Conservative party headquarters in Ottawa on Tuesday at the request of Elections Canada.

An exclusive stage deal means big shows return to Toronto Centre for the Arts in North York

20-year-old pleads guilty in hero trucker's death on Hwy. 400 last June, tells family he's a 'murderer'

A 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for $1.5 million, says the broker of the deal.

DENVER - The Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche are so evenly matched that neither team can win in regulation, and what keeps separating them in overtime is a funny bounce.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Predators are back in the series. The Detroit Red Wings are searching for their lost momentum.

One of two men from Barrhead, Alta., charged in connection with the 2005 killings of four RCMP officers was granted bail Monday.

The premiers of Nunavut and Newfoundland and Labrador called on the federal government Tuesday to ban the use of long, hooked clubs that they say threatens the seal industry.

Five fishermen who jumped on a pan of ice before their ship burned to the waterline say they are alive because of an emergency beacon and a dedicated search and rescue crew.

WINNIPEG -- Justice officials in Manitoba have dropped charges against nearly two dozen Chinese migrants found working in a massive marijuana grow operation

A teen and a young offender are facing more than a dozen charges each in connection with the drive-by shooting of a toddler on the Samson Cree Nation reserve in Alberta.

OTTAWA -- The RCMP continues to withhold crucial details of injuries to the people they stun with Tasers after coming under fire for being too secretive.

Gen. Rick Hillier, Canada's high-profile chief of defence staff, will be stepping down, CTV News has learned.

Oil prices hit an intraday trading record Tuesday, nearing US$114 a barrel.

Police are investigating the apparent poisoning of at least seven pets in a Calgary neighbourhood.

En route to the U.S. for his first American visit since being elected, Pope Benedict said he is "deeply ashamed" of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Roman Catholic church in 2002.

A former Quebec resident being held in an Ohio prison, accused of killing his wife and children last January, was found dead in his cell Tuesday morning.

The Conservatives' nationwide lead over the Liberals has slightly narrowed to six points, partly because of a surge in support among Ontario voters for Stephane Dion's party, according to a new poll.

Sidney Crosby and Jordan Staal scored just 78 seconds apart early in the third period Monday to help give Pittsburgh a 4-1 win over the Ottawa Senators, putting the Penguins just one game away from advancing to the second round of the NHL playoffs.

The Vancouver Canucks have fired Dave Nonis after three seasons as the team's general manager.

In the sordid tradition of peddling raunchy video footage of celebrities a la Paris Hilton, a long-buried sex movie of Marilyn Monroe recently hit the market

Mayors in northern B.C. near the Alberta border are concerned they haven't yet been consulted about the possibility a nuclear power plant could be built in their "backyard."

A monument commemorating the 1903 Stanley Cup victory by the original Ottawa Senators has been smashed to pieces.

Sean Avery no longer will be waving his stick in the faces of goalies at a National Hockey League arena near you.