NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2008

Messages of support have poured in for an Owen Sound woman laid off without pay from her job as a waitress because of the way she looked after her head was shaved in a cancer fundraiser.

Contrary to published reports, CBC Sports hasn't yet pulled the plug on the Hockey Night in Canada theme song.

Wow this year is flying by, its June already! That means Canada Day is less than a month away and to celebrate our great country CKA is going to have a large Canada Day contest!

catastrophic water shortage could prove an even bigger threat to mankind this century than soaring food prices and the relentless exhaustion of energy reserves, according to a panel of global experts at the Goldman Sachs "Top Five Risks" conference.

SAQQARA, Egypt - Egypt unveiled Thursday a 4,000-year-old "missing pyramid" that is believed to have been discovered by an archeologist almost 200 years ago and never seen again.

Summer officially arrives in just over two weeks, but that may be little comfort to people in the Southern Interior of B.C. this weekend

Contrary to published reports, CBC Sports hasn't yet pulled the plug on the Hockey Night in Canada theme song.

Environmental activists are warning U.S. lawmakers and consumers that the Canadian oilsands sector is an environmental disaster that is poisoning U.S refineries.

Proposal would see American general taking Canada's place in NATO's regional rotation in 2010

Effective immediately following the last playoff game of this season the CBC will cease using the Hockey Night in Canada Theme.

A sentencing hearing for a former B.C. prison guard who helped an inmate escape has been held over until August.

TORONTO -- The practice of cooling children with severe head injuries to prevent potentially fatal brain swelling should be undertaken with caution, say researchers, who found the treatment fails to alter the neurological outcome of patients and may actua

A judge has decided the public will see a videotaped interview between police and convicted schoolgirl killer Paul Bernardo.

GATINEAU, Que. -- The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says 43,000 wheel sets used by Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP), Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR) and other North American railroads "have a high susceptibility to loosen" and should be rep

The U.S. State Department says Canada should be doing a lot more to mitigate human trafficking in the country.

Most of the time, a kiss is just a kiss in the stands at Seattle Mariners games. The crowd hardly even pays attention when fans smooch. But then last week, a lesbian complained that an usher at Safeco Field asked her to stop kissing her date because it wa

The head of the Canadian Auto Workers said Thursday that the union is still considering the possibility of a strike to protest a decision by General Motors to close their truck plant in Oshawa, Ont.

The celebrations were still underway early Thursday morning in Harbour Grace, N.L., after one of their own hoisted the Stanley Cup over his head Wednesday night when the Detroit Red Wings beat the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Conrad Black's lawyers' are hoping to persuade an appeals court that the much-maligned former media baron doesn't belong in jail.

The Tories are trying to bring the Chuck Cadman affair back into the spotlight in an effort to change the channel on the controversy surrounding the resignation of former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier, say the Opposition Liberals.

The Canadian Grand Prix weekend means big business for Montreal's sex trade as partying race fans roar into the city on their annual pilgrimage.

OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean announced Wednesday that 12 members of the Canadian Forces will receive the Medal of Military Valour for their actions in Afghanistan. The medal is the third-highest award available to Canadian troops, and is given for "

OTTAWA - The House of Commons has given its final approval to a controversial climate-change bill that would require the government to drastically cut greenhouse gases.

OTTAWA - For the next year and a half, Canada's Navy will have only one submarine at sea from its small fleet of four troubled, second-hand Victoria Class boats, Canwest News Service has learned

QUEBEC - Quebec is considering opening safe-injection sites for drug addicts, following in the footsteps of a controversial Vancouver initiative that the federal government is trying to shut down.

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - A group of volunteers has freed a juvenile humpback whale that had become entangled in fishing gear and was nearing death in Clayoquot Sound.

On June 3, 2008, in a ceremony held aboard the French Navy replenishment ship and flagship Marne, Rear Admiral Jean-Louis Kerignard of France handed over command of Combined Task Force (CTF) 150 to Commodore Bob Davidson of Canada

The Detroit Red Wings held off a last-gasp rally by the Pittsburgh Penguins late in the third period of Game 6 to capture the 11th Stanley Cup in franchise history on Wednesday night.

"The Liberal Party has been caught using a doctored tape to make serious criminal accusations against the Prime Minister of Canada on the eve of an expected election campaign," said Tory MP James Moore.

An intensive care specialist has resigned from a Winnipeg hospital rather than obey a court order to continue treating an elderly man on life support.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - An Afghan child has been injured today after a suicide bomber targeted a Canadian military convoy near the country's border with Pakistan.

Here's one vomit comet you didn't want to be on.

Pearson International Airport's newest runway lacks proper safety margins and falls short of international standards, Air France alleges in a lawsuit following the dramatic 2005 crash of one of its jets at the site.

EDMONTON - For the first time in over a century there are more than 500 whooping cranes in North America

TSN and the NHL have agreed to a new six-year broadcast and digital rights deal that provides the NHL on TSN with more coverage of Canadian teams than ever before.

Barack Obama won enough delegates on Tuesday to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, according to several U.S. media projections, while his rival Hillary Clinton said she would not make an immediate decision on what course her campaign would tak

DETROIT -- Vancouver Canucks general manager Mike Gillis missed his first GMs meeting here, having attended the funeral for Luc Bourdon instead, so he will have to wait until the Board of Governors meeting in June to make his NHL debut at one of these tur

Canadian Forces patrolling near Somalia have saved a commercial vessel from a pirate attack

The Tampa Bay Lightning announced Tuesday John Tortorella will not return next season as the team's head coach. The decision comes after the Lightning finished last in the Southeast Division at 31-42-9, missing the postseason for the first time in fi

Naked men and women have posed in a Sydney park to launch Animal Liberation's winter campaign against fur.

18-year-old Leanna Elizalde knows she's behind in her classes. Since December she had two cancer surgeries and faced weeks of radiation therapy that left her with at least one english class she has to finish in order to graduate on Saturday. "I was fal

A Helix High teacher is set to appear before a judge Tuesday afternoon. Gary Wilcox is accused of having sex with a girl who is now 18. She is a student at Helix High.

A healthy diet is crucial to having a healthy pregnancy. Good nutrition is essential to ensuring that a mother's body can give the unborn baby the nourishment she or he requires to develop and grow.

uan Campos was apparently drunk and had fallen asleep at the wheel before crashing into the race in Monterrey, Mexico, police investigator Jose Alfredo Rodriguez said.

A PUB promotion involving a bare-chested and top-hatted dwarf walking the length of a bar pouring free booze down the throats of patrons has drawn protests from alcohol education campaigners.

With Guitar Hero: Aerosmith just weeks away from release, the much-rumoured Metallica version of the game appears imminent. An analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities found reference to the upcoming, but currently unannounced, game in a recent SEC filing by

Women the world over can look in their closets and see the threads of the designer's bold style

A Canadian platoon commander was shot and killed this morning during a firefight with insurgents in the Panjwayi District of southern Afghanistan.

Phillips, 54, currently lives in west London with her son Charles, 19, and her daughter Melissa, 23. She moves to Doha to take up her now role this month.

Rapper 50 Cent has been accused of trying to kill his son and ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins in an arson attack at the home Shaniqua lives in.

Rows of Liberal benches remained vacant in a series of votes on controversial immigration reforms that are part of a larger budget-implementation bill.

"It doesn't sound like an apprenticeship program, it sounds like an incentive program," said MPP Rosario Marchese, the NDP critic for Training, Colleges and Universities.

Barack Obama was today within striking distance of becoming the first black presidential candidate for any major US political party, as tonight's final two primaries promised to bring an end to the 15-month battle for the Democratic nomination.

PARIS, June 2 (Reuters) - The head of Air France KLM (AIRF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) said the French-Dutch airline was trying to persuade Airbus to make longer aircraft that could carry large numbers of passengers in light of high oil prices.

Petr Sykora of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored a power-play goal at 9:57 of the third overtime period to shock the Detroit Red Wings and their fans in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final on Monday night.

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee will ask Prime Minister Stephen Harper to testify before it as part of an investigation into how Maxime Bernier came to leave secret government documents at his ex-girlfriend's house.

OTTAWA - Their boss always said the heart and soul of the Canadian Forces was its people, and two of the officers most likely to succeed Gen. Rick Hillier as defence chief lamented Monday the continuing shortage of skilled professionals

In their first public statement, the family of Joshua Lall thanked Calgarians for their caring, and acknowledged they may never know what led him to fatally stab his wife, two of his daughters, a tenant, then himself.

Of course there is more to life than being cool -- at least that's what our parents said when nobody would invite us to parties in high school.

Of all the drugs young people can use at clubs, the latest trend in New York may be the least hip among all circles: Preparation H.

Could a culture obsessed with Abercrombie gods and Victoria's Secret bombshells learn to love their own merely mortal physiques?

In spite of the mitigating effects of Manolos and martinis, being single in the city isn't always easy.

Think you speak English? Try this test.

Dr. Sheela Basrur, whose calm demeanour in the face of a terrifying crisis made her a trusted public figure during the deadly SARS outbreak in Toronto five years ago, has died after battling a rare form of cancer, a family spokesperson said Monday.

"We are suffering from a lot of structural problems within our own industry," he told CTV Newsnet on Monday. "We've been blaming all these external influences for the challenges of our tourism industry and we've got to put that behind us.

BEIJING - Foreigners attending the Beijing Olympics better behave - or else. The Beijing Olympic organizing committee issued a stern, nine-page document - covering 57 topics - on Monday. Written only in Chinese and posted of the organizers' official we

Archaeologists in France excavating the suspected mass grave of hundreds of British and Australian World War I soldiers have found human remains.

Canada turned down a United Nations request to take command of the peacekeeping mission in Congo and will instead devote its resources to Afghanistan.

TORONTO -- Following a five-year roasting by animal-rights activists, KFC Canada is promising improved welfare for the chickens it buys for its fast-food outlets in exchange for an end to a boycott campaign that will continue in the U.S. and elsewhere.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Rock pioneer Bo Diddley has died. He was 79.

The issue is all the more sensitive for Clark because his father, a 10-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, died suddenly less than two weeks ago after receiving a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis just a few months before.

Ryan Sawchuk and Alicia Bateman had planned to marry, now both are dead by his hand

Canadian actress Ellen Page of Halifax won best female performance for "Juno."

NEW YORK -- Police say Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O'Neal has been arrested after buying crack cocaine near her home in Manhattan.

"Ordinary Quebecers don't seem to see this as really a hit on the government. Obviously, they see this as a hit personally for Maxime Bernier. Obviously, he's not a Cabinet minister anymore.

A CROP survey in La Presse showed the Liberals trailing the Bloc Quebecois, the Conservatives and now even the NDP.

SHIPPAGAN, N.B. - A small-town New Brunswick arena was transformed into a makeshift chapel on Sunday as thousands paid their respects to Luc Bourdon

TOKYO -- Japan is considering whether to send its first troops to Afghanistan on a reconstruction mission, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Sunday.

The federal scientist leading Canada's quest to secure thousands of square kilometres of seabed territory in the Arctic Ocean says the country's grasp for potential undersea oil and other submerged resources could reach beyond the North Pole

It's been a big year for Canada's movie up-and-comers. Vancouver actor Seth Rogan catapulted into the limelight with 2007's "Knocked Up" and "Superbad," which he co-wrote. Halifax-born Ellen Page morphed into a media darling thanks to a breakout pe

When NASA officials asked Gregory Chamitoff what food item he wanted to bring aboard Discovery for a 14-day flight into space, he thought of something special from the Canadian city of his birth.

A MAN was operated on in Hornsby Hospital early today to remove 16 stainless steel washers from his penis.

A large fire on Sunday at Universal Studios, which destroyed several movie sets, is under control and should be out within hours, say fire officials in Los Angeles

Friends, relatives and fans of Luc Bourdon will attend a public visitation Sunday in the arena in his hometown of Shippagan, N.B., to remember the 21-year-old Vancouver Canucks defenceman who was killed in a motorcycle accident last week.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - U.S. marines clawed their way south along the Helmand River valley over the weekend in an ongoing push that the commander of the battle-hardened assault force hopes is easing the pressure on the Canadians in neighbouring Kandahar.