NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2008

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that a provision in Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act is unconstitutional for forcing young offenders to prove why they should not be punished as adults for serious crimes.

A Quebec cabinet minister's aide is believed to have been kidnapped early Friday from her home about 120 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.

An appeal court has ruled the widow of a slain Mountie can have her husband's remains moved from a northern Alberta cemetery to the national RCMP cemetery in Regina, despite his parents' opposition.

Sen. Edward Kennedy was rushed to a hospital in Massachusetts Saturday morning, a well-informed, prominent Democratic source in that state told CNN. The source said the 76-year-old senator had "symptoms of a stroke" at the Kennedy family compound in

A Canadian military plane loaded with 40 tonnes of relief supplies destined for survivor's of Burma's cyclone disaster has arrived in Bangkok, Thailand.

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Sterling Sanderman told Mark Horning, 23, a 15-year prison term would have been fit for the "revolting" crime, but knocked it down to 11 years because he had arranged for the family of Timothy Salsman to get back some of

This week, the giant planet Jupiter, poised against the stars of Sagittarius, looms up into view low in the southeast in the middle of the night. It rises around 11:30 p.m. local daylight time, and is best seen in telescopes just before morning twilight,

Washington -- The El Nino phenomenon that has puzzled climate scientists in recent decades may have assisted the first trip around the world nearly 500 years ago.

Metro Vancouver's transit police have changed their policy on using Tasers after it was revealed that several passengers had been zapped with the stun guns because they didn't pay the fare and tried to run away

53-year-old man in Saanich, B.C., managed to drive to safety after a grizzly bear mauled his head and tossed him to the ground in the woods near Bella Coola

A state of emergency has been declared for a town in northern Alberta where a large wildfire is raging out of control and threatening homes.

As the casket carrying Corporal Michael Starker left the Round Up Centre, up to 3,000 people lined the streets to pay tribute to his sacrifice. The Route of Valour was filled with people, of all ages, holding Canadian flags handed out by Calgary param

CALGARY -- Thousands turned out Friday to say farewell to a paramedic and reservist killed in Afghanistan with a service that mirrored his life -- quiet and dignified

The Conservative government's much-touted 20-year defence plan is raising questions about its actual cost.

OTTAWA - Canada must consider that different groupings of polar bears face vastly different threats as it decides whether or not to list the species as a threatened, the World Wildlife Federation says

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. has decided to scrap the development of its two new MAPLE medical-isotope reactors at its Chalk River, Ont. laboratories after pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the project.

It has been 15 years since a Russian team has won the world hockey championships, and for those of a certain age who grew up watching the dominant clubs of the former Soviet Union, that comes as a bit of a shock

Mike Green scored a goal and two assists on Friday as Canada defeated Sweden 5-4 in Quebec City to advance to the final of the world hockey championship.

TORONTO - Eye tracker technology used to study two groups of babies - either at high or low risk of developing autism - shows differences between the groups at nine months of age, researchers said Thursday.

The CRTC has launched a major review of the impact that the Internet is having on Canadian broadcasting and whether it should try to govern content on new digital media.

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. said Friday that it's stopping development of its two MAPLE reactors at its laboratories in Chalk River, Ont.

The RCMP have ended their probe into the Chuck Cadman affair and say no charges will be laid.

For humans, it's an itchy, embarrassing annoyance. For local fish, it's a lethal infection.

YANGON, Myanmar - The official death toll from Myanmar's devastating May 2-3 cyclone has jumped to nearly 78,000, state television reported Friday, marking an increase of about 35,000 over just a day earlier.

BEICHUAN, China - A strong aftershock sparked landslides Friday near the epicentre of this week's powerful earthquake, while some survivors were pulled from rubble after being buried for four days.

The suicide bomber who killed an Afghan soldier and wounded two Canadian soldiers Friday was a young boy, CTV News has learned.

Try as they might, reporters at the world men's hockey championship in Quebec City couldn't coax any Canadian or Swedish player into a war of words leading into Friday's semifinal.

Two Canadian soldiers were slightly wounded Friday in a suicide bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, while two Afghan soldiers were also injured.

The B.C. River Forest Centre is warning campers not to pitch their tents near creeks and streams this long weekend because of the rapid thawing of snow on local mountains.

You can leave those blinding white sneakers out of your summer vacation suitcase: Comfortable walking shoes are a fashion dilemma no more.

What would your computer look like if it were invented more than 100 years ago? Quirky subculture's devotees dare to imagine

Smitherman says surgery for `very serious medical condition' will cost health plan $200,000 yearly

Nabbed motorists offered a choice: Get a ticket or get lecture from a teen

NEW YORK - Osama bin Laden, who has threatened to extend al-Qaida's terror to Israel, will release a new Internet message dealing with Israelis and Palestinians, a terrorism monitoring group said Thursday.

PHILADELPHIA - The Pittsburgh Penguins will have to wait at least a few more days to make their travel plans for the Stanley Cup final.

Award-winning Canadian music star Shania Twain is splitting from her music- producer husband Robert (Mutt) Lange, a representative for the singer revealed Thursday. The couple "are separating after 14 years of marriage," spokesman Jason Owen said in

A jury at a civil trial awarded a teenager $60,000 for being mistreated while in the custody of the Victoria police.

The B.C. government will put a retractable roof on the BC Place Stadium but construction will not be complete before the 2010 Vancouver Games, CBC News has learned.

The polar bear just got listed as a threatened species, but veteran polar explorer Will Steger and the team he's leading in the Canadian Arctic found themselves threatened - by the bears.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - NATO has quietly disbanded the Afghan auxiliary police force, a ragtag bunch of part-time cops believed by some to have contributed more to the insurgency and tribal tensions than they took away.

OTTAWA - Senator Romeo Dallaire is defending controversial remarks he made about the Omar Khadr case, but says he never intended to equate the Canadian government with terrorists.

TORONTO -- After a dramatic spike in reports of lost and stolen passports over the past two years, Passport Canada is giving additional scrutiny to passport applications across the country and warning travellers to protect their travel documents.

BEIJING - Feng Shui master Raymond Lo says animal astrology could explain why China is off to a terrible start in 2008 - the long anticipated year of the Beijing Olympics

Andretti Green Racing has scheduled a press conference for 3 p.m. ET Thursday in Indianapolis where it's expected to announce an agreement to purchase the rights to Toronto's annual race.

Condemnation came swiftly from Canada's North to Wednesday's decision by the U.S. government to list polar bears as a threatened species, as Inuit groups and northern politicians denounced the bears' new status.

The Canadian military is studying whether the lifespan of its fleet of 40-year-old Sea King helicopters can be extended again, Defence Minister Peter MacKay has confirmed

A profile of notorious child killer Clifford Olson on the social networking website MySpace has been taken down, but there are still unanswered questions about how new pictures of the murderer came to be posted online.

HUSAVIK, Iceland - Sigurdur Hjartarson is missing a human penis. But he's not worried: four men have promised to donate theirs to him when they die.

BEX, Switzerland -- A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Alps.

A vast array of physical and biological systems -- from polar bears in the Arctic to tiny krill in the Southern Ocean -- are showing the effect of the world's rising temperature, say scientists who analyzed more than 30,000 sets of data stretching back t

OTTAWA -- The federal government boosted its bid Wednesday to claim millions of square kilometres of Arctic and Atlantic Ocean seabed

The provincial government is scrambling to deal with the deaths of 53 ducks at an oil-extraction site west of Saskatoon.

Halifax (eCanadaNow) - After more than two years of adjusting, a new $30 billion dollar plan to re-equip the Canadian Forces was announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper yesterday.

David Cronenberg, one of Canada's most famous and successful movie directors, told a Senate committee Wednesday that checking film tax credits against a public policy test could be disastrous for the industry.

A Canadian C17 Globemaster cargo plane loaded with 2,000 emergency shelter kits is headed for the victims of cyclone-ravaged Burma.

VANCOUVER -- Corrections Canada has launched an internal investigation to find out how prison pictures of notorious child killer Clifford Olson made their way onto the social networking website MySpace.

The foreign worker program is causing big headaches, says one Calgary employer, who complains that 20 of his employees pulled a disappearing act soon after arriving in the country.

Most Reginans would draw a blank if asked to name even one successful male model. That's about to change.

A 76-year-old man has agreed to give up his cache of weapons and pay a $1,000 fine on three firearms-related charges.

Late on a recent weeknight, Jessica Castillo fell asleep after talking with her boyfriend. The next morning, Castillo, 24, of Italy, Texas, was surprised to learn she had sent her boyfriend two multimedia text messages, apparently while asleep.

VANCOUVER -- The coaching fate of the Vancouver Canucks' Alain Vigneault will be determined by the end of this week in the most ironic of locations -- the gambling heartland of Las Vegas.

Determined to play with desperation, the Dallas Stars did just that as they avoided being swept from the Stanley Cup playoffs Wednesday night

Conservative MP Jason Kenney continued to lash out at Liberal Senator Romeo Dallaire today, demanding an apology for his statement that likened the handling of the Khadr case by the U.S. and Canada to the actions of terrorists.

The federal Conservative government announced plans yesterday to spend more than $500 million this year on new transport aircraft for the military and $120 million to improve the safety and security of the Chalk River Laboratories.

Military and civilian rescue teams in China's earthquake-devastated Sichuan province raced against time Wednesday to reach tens of thousands of people trapped in rubble, while troops were sent to repair a cracked dam upstream from one of the worst-hit ci

OTTAWA - A giant, Canadian Forces C-17 Globemaster plane took off Wednesday bound for Thailand with a cargo of relief supplies for victims of the Myanmar cyclone.

Canada's nuclear safety watchdog warned last month that it was concerned about an "erosion of safety margins" at the Pickering B nuclear station near Toronto.

The case of a pregnant woman who was fired from a Tim Hortons store in Toronto for allegedly stealing a toonie will go to the Ontario Court of Appeal on Wednesday.

The U.S. government has decided to list polar bears as a threatened species under its Endangered Species Act because of the effects of global warming

Only one of seven nesting pairs spotted in the area of the Ellis Bird Farm by biologist Myrna Pearman just before the late-April storm and cold spell is still around, she said on Tuesday.

Call it the anti-White Paper. The "Canada First" vision for our nation's Armed Forces articulated -- sort of -- by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Halifax on Monday is the polar opposite of the county's last major military blueprint, the 1994 White P

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When the high definition format war ended in February and Blu-ray became the victor, most analysts said we would see a big spike in the sale of Blu-ray disc players.

Two area church groups heading to New Orleans on recent separate volunteer missions got off to a discouraging start after members were fingerprinted, photographed and given the third degree for hours at the American border.

LAC SIMON - Quebec police enlisted a tow truck today to pull the twisted wreck of a seaplane from Lac Simon, where it had rested since crashing into the lake more than 50 years ago.

Calgary Zoo officials say the sudden deaths of 35 stingrays early this week was likely caused by a poison in the tank

Canadian law enforcement agencies have swallowed the propaganda of the company that manufactures Tasers, an expert testified Tuesday at a public inquiry in Vancouver examining police use of the weapons.

A Canadian was honoured Tuesday for risking his life to rescue two hikers who were lost on Washington's highest mountain.

A group of five students from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia have filed an American patent application after inventing a backpack that reduces stress on the body.

TORONTO -- Royal Bank of Canada disclosed Wednesday that its results for the February-April quarter will be hit by $855 million in writedowns "relating to market conditions.''

OTTAWA -- A new study has found that nearly a fifth of the country's overworked and over-stretched nurses acknowledged making mistakes in medicating patients "occasionally'' or "frequently.''

A new poll suggests 57 per cent of Canadians want Ottawa to lower its gas tax -- even if that would result in the federal government running a deficit.

Afghanistan's police force is about three years beyond the Afghan National Army in its development, and that poses a problem, says Canada's outgoing commander in Afghanistan.

Officials were on the scene of a deadly B.C. helicopter crash at first light Wednesday to continue their investigation into what caused the tragedy.

Her life has touched three centuries. But, when asked to offer a few words of wisdom to mark her 109th birthday, all Gladys Powers can say is: "It's been a long time."

The idea of weak American suds is being laid to rest by the boom in indie ales, stouts and pilsners

You realize that, if Julie Couillard had worn that handkerchief hem dress to a Montreal political function instead of last summer's federal cabinet swearing-in ceremony, nobody would have batted an eye, except in an admiring way.

Many experts think low-cut necklines on well-endowed women are plain distracting

A young woman and man are dead and eight others were rushed to area hospitals last night after a car speeding at more than 100 km/h on a stretch of Eglinton Ave. E. set off a chain of collisions

A former Toronto man who made more than $400,000 selling two young girls for sex has pleaded guilty to two counts of human trafficking.

Another cownosed stringray has died at the Calgary Zoo, bringing the total number of stingray deaths at the zoo since Sunday to 35.

Four people have died in a helicopter crash in Cranbrook, B.C., a small community about 840 kilometres east of Vancouver.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Iconic singer and songwriter Neil Young has had an honour bestowed upon him that is not received by many musicians -- his own spider.

Steve Yzerman and Lennox Lewis headline the newest inductees to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. Yzerman and Lewis will be joined by the 4x100 relay team of Donovan Bailey, Bruny Surin, Glenroy Gilbert and Robert Esmie, swimmer Nancy Garapick and shor

The WHO secretariat and China signed in 2005 a secret memorandum of understanding stipulating that the WHO must receive clearance from Beijing before engaging in any interaction with Taiwan. Undeniably, this agreement seriously hampers disease prevention

General Motors keeps cutting jobs after getting $235 million in taxpayers' money to boost Ontario operations, Premier Dalton McGuinty acknowledges.

A Detroit-based group hopes to use empty shipping containers to build a $1.8 million, 17-unit condominium project.

Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. soared nearly 7 per cent yesterday after the wireless email pioneer took the wrap off a new BlackBerry device that had been the subject of leaks and speculation for weeks

The female ideal pushed by laddie magazines has become as smooth and lifeless as an iPhone

Maple Flag (MF) 41, the annual international air force exercise, ramped up last week at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alta. It began with a general exercise briefing in the Air Force Tactical Training Center (AFTTC) theatre and other briefings on range safety and mis

Pavel Datsyuk scored a hat trick Monday night as the Detroit Red Wings took a commanding 3-0 lead over the Dallas Stars in the Western Conference final.

The San Jose Sharks have fired head coach Ron Wilson. The Sharks announced Monday that Wilson's tenure with the club was over and that they would start looking for a replacement immediately.

Team Canada didn't disappoint in front of a crowd at the Halifax Metro Centre on Monday that included Prime Minister Stephen Harper, cruising to the quarter-finals of the world hockey championships with an unbeaten mark intact.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon harshly criticized Burma's military regime Monday, describing its response to the devastating cyclone that hit the country 10 days ago as "unacceptably slow."

Franz Stigler's death in Surrey, B.C., received little notice in the local press, but friends knew a remarkable story about the man -- he had been a decorated German fighter pilot who saved the lives of a U.S. bomber crew.

The Defence Department will upgrade the radios and other avionics equipment on its aging Buffalo search-and-rescue planes to keep them flying until at least 2015, five years past when they were supposed to be retired.

Nevertheless, when respondents were given details of British Columbia's recent carbon tax plan as one way to tackle the problem, support dropped dramatically. According to the insider, the poll found 30 per cent strongly opposed to the idea and 12 per ce

A blood clot caused the death of a South African woman on board a Via Rail train last week in an incident that sparked a full-scale health scare.

As much as fans at the Halifax Metro Centre enjoyed Canada's last-minute victory over the United States on May 6, the players would probably prefer an easier ride next time.

More than 8,500 people died after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern China on Monday, trapping adults and children under the rubble of collapsed schools and office buildings, and causing ammonia spills at two chemical plants, the state news ag

The Tory government announced a multi-billion-dollar 20-year plan to strengthen Canada's military, which includes the purchase of new aircraft, armoured vehicles, ships and helicopters and a goal to expand the Forces to 100,000.

A controverisal goal by Ville Koistinen sparked a huge comeback as Team Finland rallied with three unanswered goals in the third period to edge the United States 3-2 in the qualifying round at the 2008 IIHF World Championship.